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1. Abacus Verona Vegas User Manual Edition 18 02 2011 V I Users Manual OAS Software Version 7 WERSI Direct www wersidirect com We reserve the right to make technical modifications to the hardware and software of the OAS instrument line without prior notice We disclaim any liability for differences between the features of a shipped OAS instrument and the fea tures described within this manual Legal Notes Copyright Notice Your WERSI keyboard organ is an instrument belonging to the new WERSI OAS series APC running under the operation system Windows XP amp Windows 7 provides the central control of all its functions WERSI or third parties ship the instrument with various computer programs You will receive these programs with the right to run them on your instrument Running these programs software on any other computer instrument or device is a breach of the software agreement The End User Agreement for the operation system Windows is part of Microsofts original documentation that is shipped with your instrument Copyrights on music Please respect the copyright rules concerning the public reproduction of music The applies to music that you play yourself as well as to music that is reproduced from Audio CD s from a Wave or MIDI file Warranty In accordance to the applicable legal regulations we guarantee the functionality of your instrument in the original hardware and software configuration as shipped from our
2. Deleting A Stereo Chorus Preset Deleting a Stereo Chorus Preset is identical to saving a Reverb preset in the previous section Please see Deleting a Reverb Preset Setting A Stereo Chorus As The Standard Preset Setting the Stereo Chorus Reverb Preset as the Standard Preset is identical to the process for setting the Reverb preset as standard already explained on the previous page Please see Setting A Reverb Preset As The Standard Preset STD 22 3 Studio Stereo Delay On the Main Effects display to the right of the display is a column for the Other Effects Press the button Delay Main Selectors Acc Mixer Outputs Effects Settings stereo Delay Delay Settings Aus The Stereo Delay is naturally a Stereo effect Therefore there are separate controls for both the Left and Right chan nels The Stereo Delay main De lay Settings controls allow you to set the note length of the Delay Echoes that you hear The resolution of these note values range from 1 8 full note length to 1 64 of a full note length Use the Data Tempo Wheel to cycle through the values available a The T buttons decrease the lengths of the delay resolution according to a Triplet value CP The P buttons increase the lengths of the delay resolution according to a Punctuated note Additional Settings The Additional Settings section of the Ste
3. Effects display to the right of the display is a column for the Other Effects Press the button Chorus RE EE The Stereo Chorus effect is a more comprehensive effect that the normal WERSI Chorus effect There are several Factory Presets that you can choose from or use as a starting point to create your own Stereo Chorus effects Stereo Chorus Chorus Settings The Volume Slider to the left con trols the overall volume of the Stereo Studio Chorus effect In the centre of the display are four Data Value boxes and an On Off button to control the characteristics of the Chorus effect Modulation Depth This allows you to control how deep the Modulation of the Chorus effect is Speed Adjusts the refresh scanner speed of the Chorus effect signal Phase Adjusts the Phasing of the effect This is similar to a filter or Phaser effect except for it is apart of the Chorus effect component The Phase setting is quite useful for a modern sweepy type effect that can be heard with very strong Chorus effect Crossfade Turning this button On allows the Chorus effect to Crossfade between the stereo spectrum Left to Right Feedback Adjusts the amount of Feedback for the Chorus effect Stereo Chorus Saving A Stereo Chorus Reverb Preset Saving a Stereo Chorus Preset is identical to saving a Reverb preset in the previous section Please see Saving a Reverb Preset
4. Once you have finished adjusting the parameters within the Sound Control display you can then save the adjustments as part of a new Total Preset simply follow the Total Preset save procedure Using Sound Control Quick Guide Below is a diagram of the Sound Control display On the far left you can see an overview of the Upper Manual Upp1 Upp2 and Upp3 Sound Control parameter boxes We will now provide an easy to follow guide to allow you to under stand the simplicity of Sound Control Outputs Effects Sub Presets fey Upper 1 Sound Controls Upper Sound 1 has a Classical String Ensemble Sound Assigned to it You can see the six different parameters to the left Release Controls the Release part ofthe Sound Envelope Treble An EQ effect to in crease or decrease the Treble frequencies of the sounds Bass An EQ effect to increase or decrease the Bass frequen cies of the sounds Violins Increase or Decrease the volumes of the Violin Samples in the Sound Celli Increase or Decrease the volumes of the Cello Celli Samples in the Sound Contrabass Increase or De crease the volumes of the Con trabass Samples in the Sound Upper 2 Sound Controls Upper Sound 1 has a Flute Solo Sound Assigned to it You can see the six dif ferent parameters to the left Release Controls the Release part of the Sound Envelope Attack Adjusts the attack start of the sample Reso Adjusts the V
5. Sound Control display Main Selectors Mixer Outputs Effects Settings Sound Control is laid out in the same order as the Selector Controls Standard Set Std Advanced Sub Presets Sound Controls To the far left of the screen in Blue is the Sound Control section for the Release Pedals Release Release T In the middle in Red is the Sound ack Treble per Fe Inst Inst Control section for the Lower Manual To the Right in a Light Yellow is the Sound Control section for the Upper Manual Bass Reso Bass Ka Ea Wiolins E der At the bottom of the Screen the sec elocity tions are clearly labelled by name Celli Attack Celli ia Contrab velo Contrab ity ass Amp ass To change any of the Sound Control settings simply press the Box that you wish to adjust and use the Data Tempo wheel to make the adjustments The values that can be adjusted are from 0 to 127 0 being that the intensity of the setting is at it s lowest parameter Think of it as practically being turned off in most cases whereas 127 is the maxi mum value and is quite intense PLEASE NOTE There are literally hundreds of changeable settings built into the OAS system and WERSI have pre set the six Sound Controls per sound Please remember that often Less is more in terms of adjust ments to sound values Subtle changes are often advised over large alterations Naturally though we encour age you to experiment
6. Volume Drawbars The grey volume drawbars to the left ofthe TFT display and directly under the Total Preset Sound Selector push but ton groups control the volumes of the various sections of your OAS instrument Accompaniment Volumes Lower VolumesUpper Volumes Song Drums Bass Acc 1 Acc 2 Acc 3 ACC 4 Lower1 Lower2 Upperi Upper2 Upper3 The Volume Drawbars starting from Left to Right Song Volume Drawbar Controls the volume of Sequences and Overall volumes of all Accompaniment Digital Input Drums Volume Drawbar Controls the volume of the OAS Drums and Auto Accompaniment Drum Tracks 1 and 2 PLEASE NOTE Controls Both Digital Sample Drums amp Realdrums Bass Volume Drawbar Controls the volume of both the BASS PEDALS amp Auto Accompaniment Auto Bass Acc 1 Volume Drawbar Controls the volume of Track 1 of the Auto Accompaniment Acc 2 Volume Drawbar Controls the volume of Track 2 of the Auto Accompaniment Acc 3 Volume Drawbar Controls the volume of Track 3 of the Auto Accompaniment Acc 4 Volume Drawbar Controls the volume of Tracks 4 and 5 of the Auto Accompaniment Lower 1 Volume Drawbar Controls the volume of Selector Sound 1 ofthe Lower Manual Lower 2 Volume Drawbar Controls the volume of Selector Sound 2 ofthe Lower Manual Upper 1 Volume Drawbar Controls the volume of Selector Sound 1 ofthe Upper Manual Upper 2 Volume Drawbar Controls the volume of Selector Sound 2 of the Upper Manual Upper 3 Volume D
7. Below the Style Rhythm panel on the left hand side you will also find the instruments Rhythm Control Push Buttons To the right of the main display you will find the Transposer push buttons and then finally the Sound Groups push buttons and also on the far right the Power On Off push button Each push button has an integrated LED In order to turn on a specific function or choose a setting hold down the cor responding push button for a moment In most cases when an LED is on this indicates that the function associated with the push button is active By pressing the button again the function is normally deactivated Overview The Right Control Panel The push buttons on the right control panel are assigned to the following groups PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE BRASS TRADITIONAL SYNTHESIZER and PEDAL They are used to select sounds and are linked with virtual but tons on the TFT display Another group of push buttons allows the control of the Tonewheel sounds ORGAN Data Tempo Wheel To the right of the TFT display you will also find the data wheel Tempo Data for setting the Rhythm tempo and for changing various parameters described in the following sections of this manual Drawbars Tonewheel Upper Lower Below the right control panel are the drawbars for setting the Tone Wheel sounds The right group Tonewheel Lower Manual determine the sound for the Lower Manual whilst the left group T
8. Select Std ACC Oniot ET BE 2 z LM Hold Manual ii Suw Drums 2 Bass off zZ j Auto Man Rhythm Variation Auto Bass ae Styleplayer Easy Chord 1 1 n re Play Breaks A Sync Start DRE Std Be Jukebox Endings without Sync a Ext P et 9 StartStopp eta Satan Function Effsounds ve Pe fe Pe fe EI LA FR Off The many functions of the Accompaniment screen are relatively straight forward With the exception of the Accomp Volume data value boxes at the bottom of the Acc screen all boxes are check tick boxes PLEASE NOTE Many of the options here are virtual duplicates of the physical controls Instruments such as EX 1 Xenios and Ikarus do not have many of the physical controls and are controlled virtually from this display ACC On Off Activating this box will turn the Auto Accompaniment on or off When it is checked ticked the accompaniment is on Bass Off Activating this box will turn the Accompaniment Bass Line Off This is an Bass off option popular with people playing bass pedals who want to play the bass line ACC 1 5 Aus Off Activating this box will turn the Auto Accompaniment tracks 1 5 Acc15 Aus off When it is checked ticked the accompaniment is turned off Memory Off Activating this box will Tempomat Activating this box means that when any accomp
9. and also the Total Preset Names Using the Bank Up and Down buttons just under the ten Total Preset display buttons to the right of the display and in our example you can see Three banks Klangfarben 1 Klangfarben 2 and Klangfarben 3 To the left of the Bank Names you will see two buttons These are the Up and Down buttons to navigate through the Total Preset banks To select a Total Preset simply select one of the ten Total Presets on the Easy Preset Main Display The instrument will instantly change all settings to those stored within the Total Preset At the top of the screen there is a button called Hold To Hold the screen simply press the Hold button A tick will appear in the Hold button Press the Back button to exit There are also Easy access links to features on the Main Display CD Player This will launch the CD Player function Karaoke This will launch the Karaoke Lyrics On Screen function 14 1 The Playlist Function Playlist Press the Playlist button By pressing this button the Playlist function will open The Playlist option allows users to create a Playlist of Total Creating Playlists Presets Available Playlists Playlist AVC On the Left hand of the screen you will see a drop down 2 x Concert Grands Virtuoso chris U203 Alejhandro 1 menu of all Total Presets 80s Guitar Boys Summer Use all U204 Alejhandro 2 presets in list U205 Alejhandro 3
10. channel strip opens the display shown below Selectors Outputs Effects Settings This display shows two separate col umns To the left is the WERSI Soundgenera tor This column allows users to access Wersi other Soundgenera soundgenera the effects that affect the OAS sounds manuals drums accompaniment and Microphones sequences Audio Inputs OX7 The column to the right controls the separate Studio Effects for Mi crohpoen inputs External Audio Inputs OX7 and OAS Drawbars 21 1 Reverb Settings Reverb 1 and Reverb 2 There are two Reverb buttons in the left column Reverb 1 and Reverb 2 The OAS system allows two Reverb set tings for all manuals and Longwave sounds For example you may want to have a Long Reverb on one sound but only a Short Reverb on a different sound The two different reverbs clearly show how versatile OAS instruments are The settings controls and Factory Reverb Presets for both Reverb 1 and Reverb 2 are identical The following explanation applies to both Selectors _ Outputs Effects Settings When you open up the display for Re verb 1 and Reverb 2 you will see that Wersi Reverb 1 there is a drop down menu Here you can select the factory Reverb Settings Dele l There are further boxes in the Teal Blue area on the display showing fur ther data value boxes that allow you to make further refinements to the R
11. push button from the Percussion group and guitar Nylon from the Main Display Now you must activate the Upper 3 On push button to make the sound audible Use the Upper 3 grey volume drawbar to adjust the volume You now have assigned three different sounds to the three sound levels of the Upper Manual When the push buttons Upper 2 on and Upper 3 On are active you can hear all three sounds at the same time as you play on the upper manual and you may use the Upper 1 Upper 2 and Upper 3 drawbars to adjust the volume levels Being able to turn sound levels 2 and 3 on or off allows you to quickly change the sound while playing Sound level 1 cannot be turned off it is used as the Basic Sound If necessary you may move the Upper 1 volume drawbar to its Zero Position in order to turn that sound off Selecting Sounds For The Lower Manual And The Pedals Selecting sounds for these areas is similar to the methods described for the Upper Manual with the exception that the Lower Manual has two sound levels and the pedals has just one sound level You will find the Selector Push Buttons in the Lower and Pedal groups in the left control panel The volumes for the Lower Manual and the Pedal are adjusted with the Lower 1 and Lower 2 grey volume drawbars in the Lower Volumes group and with the Bass Drawbar in the Accompaniment Volumes group In theory you may assign any sound to any target So it is possible to assign a
12. tion is 0598 and titled RN Roman en Accomp tic Orchestra 0680 0598 RN Romantic Orchestra Volumes Volumes 060 0599 RN Hern Section 1 If you want to give your Total Pre 060 0600 RM Horn Section 2 Transposer VE Splitpoint W set a new name press the large 061 0601 Cathederal Choir 1 l long dark button called Change Microphone v Footswitches lv 061 0602 Cathederal Choir 2 Name at the top of the screen A 061 0603 Soprano Choir Tenor amp Boys i i virtual type writer will open allow 061 0504 Boys Choir London Chorale ing you to rename the Total Preset 0617 0605 Boys Choir Light Tenors to your liking 0617 0606 Boys Choir Natural Chorale N we 061 0607 Mens assical Choir This also makes it easier to find Sound effects a Harmonizer a the Total Preset at a later date Preset Groups User Groups You can also assign the Total Preset to a Preset Group or User Group Simply select the desired groups from the drop down menus Save Total Preset PLEASE NOTE The first 500 Total Preset IDs are write protected If they do not currently contain Total Pre sets they are reserved for future software updates If you want to modify any of the Factory Total Presets you must save them as a User Preset in the same way described on the previous page You can store any of your Total Presets into any of the available slots that are designated as Free Naturally you can also over write your own User To
13. to deactivate the Split Point on the Upper Manual press the Upper Split button and then press the Lowest C note First note to the far left on the Keyboard Manual The split point is now cancelled deactivated Follow this same process for the Lower Manual PLEASE NOTE To exit from the Split Settings Screen without making any alterations to the Split Point or Dis tribution simply press the Back button to exit back to the Main Display The Middle Display Bar Total Presets amp Accompaniment Data Display The central display bar shows the current Total Preset data Accompaniment Overview and several Virtual buttons for easy access to various functions Total Preset Number Total Preset Total Preset Name Style Real Chord in the OAS Database Bank Number drum Variation Harmony Atlantis Rob Li P Preset Bank Preset Name Variation Harmony Tempo Style Accompaniment Accompaniment Beat LED Chain Transpose Key Transpose Tempo Time Name and Acc Definition Count In LED Chain Shows the current Key Signature that the Transposer is off set to e Total Preset Number This in our example U 351 shows the Total Preset Location in the OAS Database Please also note that User Total Presets are defined by a capital U while Factory Total Presets are defined by a capital F So a User Total Preset looks like U 351 while a Factory Total Preset looks like F 351 e Total Preset Bank Number Because of the ten
14. 1 2 Mellow 2 3 Bright 1 4 Z Bright 2 The Output Mixer Preset List shows all available Out put Presets Main Output The Edit button at the top of the Main channel strip opens the display shown below Selectors Outputs Effects Settings To the far left there is a replica of the Main Output volume control _ Main Output Stereo At the very top is a button marked Stereo This button changes the output signal from Stereo to Mono When active the button changes to display the word Mono and is Red in colour T10Hz O 4kHz 2 GKHz kHz Mute Below the Stereo Mono button is the Mute button Press this button to silence the channel Reset Above the Volume Slider you will see the peak value in dB There is a reset button to reset the value General Volume Turning the General Volume button On determines if the specific Output channel is controlled by the physical Gen eral Volume potentiometer control on your instruments control panels or not For example you can activate the potentiometer control for the Main Output channel only and de activate it for Grp1 and Grp 2 When you connect external amplifiers speakers to Output 1 and or Output 2 the General Volume can be used to control the volume of the internal speakers that then act as Monitors without changing the volumes of the external amplifiers Equalizer The four band Equalizer w
15. 31 Reverb Mic 1 On Off Turns the Reverb effect for Microphone 1 On and Off 32 Reverb Mic 2 On Off Turns the Reverb effect for Microphone 2 On and Off 33 Reverb Voc Harm On Off Turns the Reverb effect for the Harmoniser On and Off 34 Rotor Slow Fast Turns the Rotor Slow Fast effect on and off 35 Sostenuto Lower Piano Sostenuto effect for the Lower Manual 36 Sostenuto Solo Piano Sostenuto effect for the Solo Manual WERSI Louvre GS1000 Only 37 Sostenuto Upper Piano Sostenuto effect for the Upper Manual 38 Sound Down This function allows you to move to the next Sound down in the Selected Sound Group 39 Sound Up This function allows you to move to the next Sound Up in the Selected Sound Group 40 Start Stop Triggers the Start and Stop of the Accompaniment section 41 Start Stop Rhythm Designer Triggers the Rythm Designer Accompaniment Rhythm Designer is optional 42 Sustain Lower Piano Sustain for the Lower Manual 43 Sustain Solo Piano Sustain for the Solo Manual WERSI Louvre GS1000 Only 44 Sustain Upper Piano Sustain for the Upper Manual 45 Sustain Upper amp Solo Piano Sustain for the Upper and Solo Manual 46 Sync Start On Off Triggers the Sync Start On Off function for the Accompaniment 47 Tempo Down Decreases the current set Tempo 48 Tempo Up Increases the current set Tempo 49 Transpose Down Changes the Transposition of the instrument down one key 50
16. Honky Tonk type Piano for ex ample or to Widen Thicken sounds The Chorus effect can also be set in the Selector Settings on the Main Display LM Hold Lower Selector Push Button When you activate the Hold Lower Push Button in the Selector Settings group all note that you play on the Lower Manual are Held even after you release the keys of the Lower Manual Of course if you play another chord or the accompaniment stops the Held keys are released WERSI Chord Upper Manual Selector Controls If the function WERSI Chord push button in the Upper Selector group is active a single note played on the Upper Manual will be harmonised depending on what chord you play on the Lower Manual Please note that the WERSI Chord takes effect only for the Upper 3 Sound Upper 1 amp Upper 2 still function as Solo Voices You can select the different type of WERSI Chord Harmony Types from the Selector Settings menu in the Main Dis play New with the OAS 7 Software are the WERSI Chord types Solo Voice and Fingered If you select the Solo Voice type and play chords in the Upper Manual the Highest note is played as a Solo Voice using the instrument assigned to Selector 3 ofthe Upper Manual The setting Fingered will add notes played on the Lower Manual Again this uses the sound assigned to Selector 3 of the Upper Manual 6 Arabic Tuning Another Function is the possibility of givi
17. Preset is identical to the process for setting the Reverb preset as standard already explained on the previous page Please see Setting A Reverb Preset As The Standard Preset STD 23 Digital Recording We have already briefly explained about the Digital and MIDI recorder All OpenArt System instruments allow the user the option to record their own digital audio recordings Dig Record allows users to make their own Wave files record their own performance When you press this button a small recording surface is displayed Selectors Outputs Effects Recording LL pr mac SLIDE Min Sec Strings1 Soft 4 TTT Pedalbass Strii C MLLILLLE LE LLE LE LE 1511851411 Classical arne amp Outputs Effects Recording SU gun C MULL Min Sec Strings1 Soft F ring CA VU OU UN UNE HU UE VUE VUE DOG 4 FC VU OU UN AN UE AU UE OU UE TMI 4 DI E Clacciral Small 4 Clacciral arne Multl Record Optional Settings CD Player Back Start Dig Record Midi Record Settings CD Player Back stop Dig Record Midi Record The audio Levels will be shown and there is a button marked Start Press the Start but ton to start recording Once you start recording the Start button changes to Stop Press the Stop button to stop recording A Yellow Save menu will be displayed so that you can Name your new audio recording and save it to the OAS Database Th
18. Set Std Advanced Sub Presets Sound Controls you can see the five red buttons Manuals Acc Seq Drums Micro OX7 and Addition als for various different sections of your instruments Simply press one of the buttons at the bottom of the screen to display the Drop Down menus for the respective different sections and then select the desired pre sets for each section that you wish to save into your Total Preset Acc Seq Drums Micro OX7 Additionals The first Button Manuals displays the following display Main Acc Mixer Outputs Effects Settings D 2 Sub Presets Effects Manuals Accompaniment Sub Presets Main Acc Mixer Outputs Effects Settings D Sub Presets Effects Accompaniments we lt Drums Sub Presets Main Acc Mixer Outputs Effects Settings LES CT Sub Presets Effects Drums Manuals Drums Micro OX7 Additionals The Manuals display shows the four Effect Sections 1 Reverb 1 2 Reverb 2 3 Chorus 4 Delay Open the Drop Down menus simply by press ing on the Yellow Downward Pointing Arrows A list of all Presets currently available in each section will be displayed You can select any of the Presets The Preset that is selected shall be saved into the Total Preset The Acc Seq display shows the four Effect Sections Similar to the above 1 Reverb 1 2 Reverb 2 3 Chorus 4 Delay
19. Split Only for Abacus KS 1 Keyboard Loops this is the optional Rhythm Designer When activated this button will load the Rhythm Designer software Contact WERSI Direct if you would like to trial or purchase the Rhythm Designer The next button is Arabic Tuning Arabic Tuning has already been covered in the previous chapter of the instrument This button loads the Arabic Tuning display The fourth button Hermode Tuning loads the Optional Hermode display to allow users to create perfect tuning s for specific sound genres Pop Classical amp Orchestra etc This option is no longer available to purchase and is a Legacy option for customers who purchased this option when it was available Naturally it remains available for those users and is not omitted from the OpenArt System 13 2 OAS Clock Date For good time keeping the Main Display features a Clock Data Combo This is especially helpful for timing songs or if you have a performance and need to know when to stop playing etc 13 3 CD Player Abspielen von Musik CD s CD Player By Touching the CD Player button the CD Player display will open to play Audio CDs Main Selectors Acc Mixer Outputs Effects Settings 13 4 Karaoke On Screen Lyrics Loops Aube Hemase Pier Karaoke Quick edit Karaoke lady _gaga bad_ romance If you have a MIDI File Sequence or a special Wave that inc
20. The Mixer will instantly be setup 0 Normal STD 0 Normal STD 1 Robert Concert 1 45 FL2 Edition 49 FL Std Normal The different Input sources Organ Micro Micro Audio1 Audio2 Digital There are six virtual mixer sliders with a VU meter assigned to each of them Organ This section adjusts the instrument voice volume General Volume The virtual slider adjusts the sounds generated by the keyboard manuals the pedals and accompaniments Micro 1 and Mirco 2 These controls adjust the volume of the two microphones that can be connected to the two microphone inputs These controls work in parallel to the two microphone physical volume controls located on the control panel When you turn the physical controls the virtual sliders will also be adjusted too Audio 1 and Audio 2 These controls adjust the volumes of the two audio inputs Digital This control adjusts the volume of digital audio signals that are fed into the optional SP DIF input This also control adjusts the volume of sound sources generates by the Windows operating system and the CD Player Sounds from the ASIO drivers can also be routed through the OpenArt System through this input Such as VST instru ments The Mute And Edit Buttons Of The Mixer Main Display Above each of the virtual mixer slider controls you can find buttons that are labelled with Mute Touch the Mute but tons to mute signal s
21. These are the Effects for the Accompani ment and Sequencer Open the Drop Down menus simply by press ing on the Yellow Downward Pointing Arrows A list of all Presets currently available in each section will be displayed You can select any of the Presets The Preset that is selected shall be saved into the Total Preset The Drums display shows the four Effect Sec tions Similar to the above 1 Reverb 1 2 Reverb 2 3 Chorus 4 Delay These are the Effects for the Drums Open the Drop Down menus simply by press ing on the Yellow Downward Pointing Arrows A list of all Presets currently available in each section will be displayed You can select any of the Presets The Preset that is selected shall be saved into the Total Preset Accompaniment Sub Presets nn rar era Standard Set Std o 9 c Sub Presets Effects Micro OX7 ASIO Manuals Acc Seq Drums Micro OX7 Additionals Additionals Sub Presets Settings LL Acc Mixer Outputs Effects Settings 7 s Standard _ Set Std nas Sons conos Sub Presets Sound Effects Mixer Harmonizer Arabic Tuning Preset Manuals Acc Seq Drums Micro OX7 Additionals Sub Preset Drop Down Menus By pressing on the Downward Pointing Arrow the full menu ap pears You will be able to view all Presets within the menu and use the Data Tempo When to move up and down through the menu if req
22. Ticking this box will store the Microphone 1 settings It also stores the Micro 1 effects e Split Points When you tick this box the active Split Points will be stored for both manuals When the preset is recalled the split points will re activate to the same settings as when you saved them e Footswitches When you select a Total Preset the footswitch functions will be set to the state they were when the Total Preset was saved If you do not wish to save the Footswitch settings the footswitch functions will assume default settings e Rotor Slow Fast This option allows you to save whether the Rotor Slow Fast function is actived or deactivated e Display Neigung WERSI Xenios XE 20 Only This check box allows you to store the motorized angle of the Xenios display e Mixer This option allows you to save the currently selected Mixer Preset e Reverb By ticking this box the currently selected Reverb Presets are saved into the Total Preset e Delay By ticking this box the currently selected Delay Echo Presets are saved into the Total Preset e Chorus By ticking this box the currently selected Chorus Presets are saved into the Total Preset e Sound Effects By ticking this box you can save the currently selected Sound Effect SFX Preset e Harmonizer By ticking this box the current Harmoniser Vocoder Preset is saved into the Total Preset After selecting the settings you want to save in your Total Preset
23. Total Preset Push Buttons to the left of the TFT Display Screen Total Presets are categorized into banks of ten Total Presets This information simply informs you of what Bank you are currently e Total Preset Name All Total Presets can be named This is where the name of the Preset is located for easy overview e Variation This display allows you to quickly see what variation the Style or Realdrum is currently using This overview allows you to quickly glance at the variation rather than having to look at the Rhythm Control panel to the far left e Chord Harmony This overview allows you to see what current Chord Harmony is being used In our example an A minor chord is being played e Tempo Time Signature The Tempo is displayed in the overview as naturally knowing the current tempo is im portant The Tempo can be changed with the Tempo Data wheel Also this section shows you the Time Signa ture of the accompaniment In our example the Time signature is 4 4 but naturally this will change is you used a waltz style for example In the case of a Waltz being used the time signature would change to 3 4 e Accompaniment Name Any Accompaniment that is loaded will display it s individual name to allow you know at all times which Accompaniment is in use Also above the accompaniment name is the type of Accompaniment definition In our example above you can see that it states Style above the accompaniment name Atlantis R
24. Transpose Up Changes the Transposition of the instrument Up one key 51 Upp 2 On Off This function turns the Upper 2 Sound Selector On and Off 52 Upp 3 On Off This function turns the Upper 3 Sound Selector On and Off 53 Upp 4 On Off This function turns the Upper 4 Sound Selector On and Off Scala Louvre and Selector Plus Only 54 Upper Split On Off This function turns the Upper Split point On and Off 55 Variation Down This triggers the next Variation Down 56 Variation Up This triggers the next Variation Up 57 Vocal Harmonizer On Off This function turns the Vocal Harmoniser On and Off 58 WERSI Chord On Off This function turns the WERSI Chord function On and Off 18 3 Accompaniment Mappings Press the button Mapping in the Accomp Settings screen To make adjustments to the Accompaniment mappings from this menu use the Drop Down menus to select the de sired Mappings We will now describe each section of this display Back Button Press to exit to the Selector Settings Menu Acc Mapping Existing Acc Mappings Selected Style Button Existing Acc Mappings Selected Style Button Factory Mappings Levels 1 5 Actual Style Acc button Mappings and User Mappings Levels 1 5 are assigned to The next section of the display allows you to navigate through the five levels of Mappings You can see that the but tons marked Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 etc are actual buttons Press any of the f
25. Upper i Switch 2 x u Switch 3 t Switch 3 Std 0 Info Lyrics tyr Expr Pedal Settings Sonstiges 0 0 0 pE Ea Drums Acc sq SE cig Wave sq Ofset XG Drums y Footswitch Settings Left and Right The Left and Right Footswitch Settings control the Foot Std Suctain Lower te switch functions of the Left and Right Footswitches of the Volume Expression pedal Std Sustain Upper Wi Touch the Downward Pointing Arrows to open the drop down menu Simply use the Data Tempo Wheel to navi gate up and down through the lists and select the function you wish to assign to the respective Footswitch m 4 Eh E ar ah Alam L switch 1 Std Start Stop Y Footswitch Settings Switches 1 5 Switches 1 5 Footswitch Settings control the Footswitch functions of the five Footswitch pistons on all new Verona Scala and Louvre instruments Some older models also included Footswitch Pistons as an optional extra Std Sustain Lower t Raper or Switct itch 4 Std Fill 2 Y Std Fill 1 yf Touch the Downward Pointing Arrows to open the drop down menu Simply use the Data Tempo Wheel to navi gate up and down through the lists and select the function you wish to assign to the respective Footswitch itch 5 Std Rotor Slow Fast Y Expr Pedal Settings Expression Pedal Settings The five settings for the Expression Pedal are located at the bottom of the
26. Volumes These data value boxes allow you to change the volumes of the respective Auto Accompaniment tracks EA ive ve Pon De ive oe They serve the same purpose as the Grey Accompaniment Volume Drawbars The Transpose Seq button to the far left when ticked allows you to Transpose the entire sequence with the Transposer buttons Sequencer Volume Over Drawbars The big button under the Sequencer Volume over Drawbars button triggers various options to control the 16 track MIDI sequencer track volumes Sequencer Button Modes Volumes Over Drawbars There are three different modes for the Sequencer Volume Over Drawbars button They are displayed below _ From Sequence E Standard Mode 1 The Standard mode works as fol lows Tracks 2 3 and 4 will be con trolled by Acc 2 Acc 3 and Acc4 grey volume drawbars Track 10 by the Drums volume Drawbar and all other tracks by the Acc 1 Volume Drawbar Mode 2 The From Sequence mode works as follows the individual setting that is stored with your Sequence will take effect How to make such settings is explained in the programmers guide MIDI Sequencer Mode 3 The Off mode turns this function off The volume of the Sequencer and the 16 MIDI tracks are returned to the Song drawbar Simple Saving the Accompaniment Settings as Standard Settings Main Selectors Acc Mixer Outputs Effects Settings Stand
27. activated When active you will hear the full auto accompaniment If there is no sound make sure that the grey accompaniment volume drawbars are not set to 0 IMPORTANT Please note that the ACC On Off push button also has a second function On rare occas sions the accompaniment section Tone Generator may need to be reset So ifthere is a loss of accompani ment sounds push the Acc On Off push button and hold down for approximately 5 10 seconds until a Blue notice box appears on the Main Display advising you that the WERSI Tone Generators have been re set e Piano Mode This push button allows you to quickly remove any split points from the Upper Manual This function was originally designed for the WERSI Abacus KS 1 single keyboard but also works well all OAS instruments e Auto Variation With this function active push button Auto Variation in the Rhythm Controls group variations automatically change whenever you trigger one of the two Fill patterns Fill 1 selects the next lower variation where Fill 2 selects the next higher variation e Auto Bass With this push button active the root of the currently played harmony will be played using the sound that has been selected for the Bass Auto Accompaniment no matter what chord inversion you play e Manual Drums When this push button is active the manual is turned into a drum kit Now each of the manual keys is assigned to a specific instrument of the drum kit e Fa
28. any of the changes for the Levels and for them to be assigned to the Total Preset wy press the Arrow button above the Level that you are work on to save assign the Mapping adjustments to the Total Preset Once you are finished with allocating making adjustments to the Mappings for your Total Presets press the Back Button 19 The Digital Mixer Input Mixer Your OAS instruments comes with an integrated digital mixer that allows you to control the volume settings of the vari ous signal sources Depending on the type of sound source there are additional controls available for more settings that will be explained in detail below When you touch the Mixer button in the main display the Input Mixer surface will e displayed on the TFT Screen Mixer Inputs Organ Micro Micro Audio1 Audio Digital nde The different sections of the Mixer The Standard Button Allows you to set the settings as Stan dard bb U Reset Allows Delete Allows Mixer Preset This is a drop down menu that Save Allows you to Reset the you to Delete a contains all of the Factory and User Mixer Pre you to Save a peak displays Mixer Preset sets Mixer Preset Audio Meters To open the Mixer Preset Drop Down Menu simply press the Downward Pointing Arrow The list of Mixer Presets will now be displayed To select one of the Mixer Presets just press on the name of the Mixer Preset
29. button 1 2 3 A C B Shown as 1 2 3 in our example PLEASE NOTE Switching to a data type that holds many entries as with the factory shipped sound list hold ing over 1500 entries it may take a few seconds for the deplay to update The same applies to the opening of the Quickload centre function Depending on the selected data type the lower part of the display shows various buttons e Advanced Depending on the selected data type by operating the button Advanced you open one of the fol lowing displays With Total Presets Opens the Total Preset Manager With Styles Realdrums MIDI Files Waves Video Multimedia and MP3 Opens the Accompaniment Manager and with Sounds Opens the OAS Sound Database Manager e Pre Hearing If you wish to pre listen to an Accompaniment simply highlight the desired accompaniment in the left hand list and press the Pre Hearing button You can use the Rhythm Controls to move through Style Realdrum variations Fill Break push buttons etc Naturally the Start Stop button can be used to start stop the Pre Hearing You can also use the virtual button Pre Hearing to Start Stop accompaniments too Sounds For Pre Hearing of sounds simply highlight a sound in the left hand drop down menu The sound can then be played on the Upper Manual Please Note the Pre Hearing function does not work with Total Presets Explorer The WERSI Explorer will be displayed
30. do not contain an auto accompaniment Drum Solo for example MIDI Files For your accompaniment you can also use sequences saved as files that comply with the General MIDI standard These files usually contain complete played in pieces Depending on the piece you either play some of the voices yourself while the MIDI sequence is played back or you use your instrument as a Duke Box and let the instrument play on its own You can start the MIDI files with the Start Stop push button in the Rhythm Controls left hand side panel You can control the volume of the MIDI file with the grey volume Drawbar called Song The Sequencer also features a special function that allows you to use the Volume Drawbars to control the 16 MIDI Sequence Track Volumes See the Sequencer chapter in the programmers guide for more information Waves These add a new dimension to the kind of accompaniment sequence that you have been used to so far Waves may store any kind of sound events that you can imagine even acoustic instruments or vocals similar to a normal audio CD Use the Start Stop push button to control the playback and the Song Volume Drawbar to con trol the volume of the Wave You can record your own Waves using the Digi Record function on the Main Display or load them from CD USB Please note that the tempo of a Wave accompaniment cannot be changed MP3 are compressed Wave Files The compression is mainly accomplished by cutting the b
31. factory The main electronic unit used in the OAS instruments is a PC system that controls peripheral units like the touch screen display the hard drive CD and other drives The musical components and the operation of your instrument are supported by additional components like the DSP modules the control panels with push buttons and the drawbars etc The Operating System used in the OAS instruments runs within a special environment within a PC software WERSI uses Windows XP from Microsoft You may be familiar with the software if you use a PC Sometimes the media publish that Windows isn t a stable environment and that system crashes occur In most cases the problems are not created by the Windows software but by hardware and software components added later specifically so called driv ers that are not compatible with with the current version of Windows or are not written tot he specification guidelines outlined by Microsoft The Windows system on your instrument is configured in order to perfectly support the OAS software and the hard ware components of your instrument We want to explicitly point out that our guarantee covers only instruments in which the configuration of the instruments hardware and or software components and the Windows operating system was not changed from its original state at shipping Additional hardware or software not provided by our factory or explicitly authorised by us may cause unpre dictable malfun
32. for each Sound Selector per each manual and pedal e Reverb 1 Adjust the WERSI Reverb 1 intensity for each Sound Selector e Reverb 2 Adjust the WERSI Reverb 2 intensity for each Sound Selector e Chorus Adjust the intensity of the Chorus effect for each Sound Selector e Delay Adjust the intensity of the Delay Echo effect for each Sound Selector e Octave Allows you to manually set the octave between 2 and 2 octaves for each Selector Paul e Panorama Here you can adjust the panorama for the related man ual A value of O0 means you hear the sound assigned to this manual only from the left speaker A value of 127 means that you only hear the sound from the right speaker whereas with the value of 64 means you hear the sound equally from both left and right speakers So the lower the value of the Panorama the more to the left the sound is The higher the value the more the sound is to the right This allows you to really create a big space with your sounds This is especially good for re creating orchestral big band brass band and general band like sounds e Mono Pedal Only A special function only for the Pedals Switch Cr between Monophonic and Polyphonic 16 2 WERSI Chord WersiChord Here you select the different WERSI Chord types for harmonising music that you play WERSI Chord types 4 Way Close 1 Harmony 4 Way Close 2 Harmony BB Brass BigBand Brass Har
33. in a useful way for playing live When the Rhythm Style Accompaniment is playing by pressing the Synchron Start push button it activates a feature that stops the rhythm when you remove your hand from the Lower Manual As soon as you play a chord or note on the Lower Manual the Rhythm Accompaniment resumes 4 Selecting Sounds Getting Started To assign a specific sound to the Upper Lower Manual or Pedals you must first push a Select push button i e first you need to define the target for the sound as signment The Upper Manual can have three different sounds as signed to it and the Push Buttons Select 1 Select 2 and Select 3 in the Upper group are used to select one of these three targets Alternatively you can choose the target by touching one of the six selectors on the Main Display via the TFT screen Chorus I 2 3 The Lower Manual can be the target for two different sounds that are selected with the Select 1 and Select 2 push buttons in the Lower group ea 2 Select 1 Select 2 Dynamic The Pedals can only accept one sound Push the Select push button in the Pedal group to select the Pedal as the sound target Select 1 Select 2 Select 3 The Select 1 sounds assigned to both manuals and pedal are always active always on while the sounds assigned with Select 2 and Select 3 for the Upper Manual and Select 2 for the Lower Manual
34. not require any PC computer tech knowledge to operate your instrument The PC interface remains hidden from the player Windows can be accessed but it is not recommended to do so without professional knowledge or being competent at using the Windows program PLEASE NOTE The OpenArt System continually records an Error Log for WERSI service personnel to ac cess in case of malfunction In the event of a customer using Windows and causing a malfunction the Error Log will show the action of the user This may result in the warranty becoming void 2 Safety Notes General e If possible read the complete User s Manual or at least these safety notes before powering up your instrument for the first time e Check the voltage setting of your instrument matches the voltage of your local power outlets UK for example e Extreme changes in humidity and temperature may damage your instrument Setup your instrument in a way to guarantee proper ventilation e Don t turn on the instrument immediately after you have taken it from a cold environment into a heated room Moisture may condense inside of the instrument which can cause electrical shortages Wait until the instrument has reached room temperature before turning the instrument on Electrical Safety Due to the danger of electrical hazards the instrument may only be opened by a qualified WERSI Service Technician IMPORTANT If liquids are spilled over the instrument or items have fa
35. of the frequency selected The Volume slider acts as the Q control found on physical mixing desks Mid 2 Range You can change the Mid 2 range of frequencies with this Data Value box Use the Volume Slider below to increase or decrease the intensity of the frequency selected The Volume slider acts as the Q control found on physical mixing desks Mid 1 Range You can change the Mid 1 range of frequencies with this Data Value box Microphone 1 Input 24dB Use the Volume Slider below to increase or decrease the intensity of the frequency selected The Volume slider acts as the Q control found on physical mixing desks Treble Range You can change the Treble range of frequencies with this Data Value box Use the Volume Slider below to increase or decrease the intensity of the frequency selected The Volume slider acts as the Q control found on physical mixing desks Panorama The Panorama Control allows you to move the Microphone Input between the Left and Right Stereo Output Channels Aux The Auxiliary section for the Microphone Inputs allow you to set the Effects for the Microphones Input There are three volume sliders that control the amount of Reverb Delay and Chorus In the top right corner of the Aux section is an On Off button that allows you to acti vate or deactivate the effects Please note that the Microphone Inp
36. of the main display IMPORTANT If you have an expression pedal connected you may have to slightly accelerate in order to reach an audible volume level ATTENTION In the first minute after starting different program modules are still loading During this time different functions may proceed with delays Please have some patience before beginning to perform The loading process is complete when the Selectors amp Accompaniment tab buttons appear in the Blue Menu at the top of the TFT display Power Off If you are only running the instrument software The OAS Program as is the case when just starting your instrument in the normal way you may turn off your instrument simply by pressing the POWER ON OFF button If you are a PC user you know that a computer usually should perform a shut down sequence before the power is actually turned off This allows programs still running to save any changes to hard disk The OAS software has been designed to save any pending changes before shutting down the system when you press the POWER ON OFF push button For your safety the software will display a Blue message box asking you to confirm the shut down of your OAS instru ment This ensures that you do not loose settings that you have not saved or shut down the instrument unintentionally while performing should you hit the POWER OFF button unintentionally Overview First Orientation There are various devices available to op
37. simply connect the Power Cable To open the rear panel push the clasps on the read panel toward the middle and open the panel There are openings for the cables to the left and right of the underside of the rear panel On the left side you will see the power plug Pass the power cable through the left opening and connect it to a prop erly installed AC power outlet and close the rear panel again You can obtain more information about the various connections that can be made to your instruments in the Connections of the OAS Instrument chapter Power On Locate the POWER ON OFF on the far lower right of the control panel Press the button briefly to switch on the instru ment The button s red LED should now be on Due to the new OpenArt System it takes longer to switch on than you be used to with other instruments While start ing up the PC s operating system Windows XP Windows 7 Apollo Pegasus Wing the various sounds effect settings and much more is loaded Watch the colour TFT display in the middle of the control panel and the LEDS in the various push buttons on the control panel If the Main Display is visible on the TFT screen and the LEDs in some of the push buttons light up your instrument is ready to go If you press some manual keys you hear the sounds that have been automatically selected when you switch on If this is not the case make sure that the grey volume drawbars are pulled out on the left hand side
38. sound has been selected Naturally when you select the sounds or accompaniment the corresponding Selector in the Main Display shows the new sound assignment This is also true of the accompaniment The accompaniment name will change to show the newly selected accompaniment in the Accompaniment Overview bar in the centre of the Main Display Virtual Selection Levels and Acc Sounds Special Selection Areas ACC Sounds Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Each Accompaniment and Sound group push button on the left and right control panels house five levels of sound selections Not all push buttons will have five levels Factory Preset but it is possible map up to five levels of sounds to the Sound group push buttons and up to five levels of accompaniments to the Accompaniment group push buttons To navigate through the levels there are two ways to do this Either simply touch the Level that you desire for exam ple Level 3 and the sounds of the accompaniments mapped to this level will be displayed The 2nd method of navigating through the levels has already been explained in an earlier part of the manual but we will repeat the process here Simply press the push button that you wish to select either a sound from or an accompa niment from by repeatedly pressing the same push button you can navigate through the levels mapped to the push button Using the Strings 1 push button in the Ensemble sound group on the control pane
39. the Chorus button in the left hand column to open the Chorus setting display The Chorus effect is a spacey or detuned doubling effect used to thicken up sounds Stage Pianos vocal sounds and other en semble sounds can use this effect to great effect pardon the pun Selectors Outputs Effects Settings Wersi Chorus Standard Back The Chorus Effect is easy to control Naturally there are Factory Chorus effects in the drop down menu at the top of the display and the Teal Blue main settings area is home to the different Data Value input boxes that can be adjusted to allow you to change the various aspects of the Chorus effect Depth Adjusts the Depth of the doubling effect Rate Adjusts the spacey rotor effect Predelay Adjusts the amount of time before the Chorus effect takes place Tone Adjusts the Tone as in brightness darkness of the Chorus effect Feedback Adjusts the Feedback of the Chorus effect The Manuale Accomp and Drums Buttons OAS instruments allow you to assign different Chorus Settings to not just the sounds of the manuals and pedals but also to the Accompaniment and also the Drums When you select one of the three buttons at the bottom of the display the display changes to allow you to select Cho rus presets or make specific changes for the relevant section of the instrument The instrument section you are adjusting
40. will appear Selectors Outputs Effects Settings Use this mixer setting as standard Do you want to use this mixer setting as standard It will then Digital be used in all total presets where you did not ecplicitly select another mixer setting Press the Yes button to set the selected Mixer Preset as the Standard Mixer Preset If you do not wish to continue you can press the No button 20 The Output Mixer While the previously described input mixer allows controlling volumes and effect settings of the different signal sourc es the Output Mixer is used to adjust the sum signal parameters for the three output channels The three Output Channels are Main Main Master Output Group 1 Audio Line Outputs 1 Stereo Jacks and Group 2 Audio Line Outputs 2 Stereo Jacks Touch the Output button in the menu bar at the top of the screen to open the window below Main Selectors Mixer Outputs Main Grp1 The Output Mixer is very similar to the Input Mixer There are three Channel strips for the three different outputs Each Channel has an Edit button that allows you to open an additional settings window where settings can be ad justed The top of the Output Mixer window contains the Output Mixer Preset Drop Down Menu Reset Delete and Save but tons The functions of these buttons work in exactly the same way as previously described for the Input Mixer Main Grp1 elida 7 Mellow
41. will only be audible when the push buttons Upper 2 On Upper 3 On and or Lower 2 On are active If a sound is active you will see small Piano Manuals in the corresponding fields on the Main Display indicating the playable manual section of this selector while these will be missing from the Main Display when the section is inactive After you have selected a target for a sound assignment with one of the SELECT push buttons you should press one of the Sound Buttons in the right hand control panel to the right of the TFT Display i e a push button in the OR GAN PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE BRASS TRADITIONAL SYNTHESIZER or PEDAL groups Once you have pressed one of the Sound Groups on the Main Display will show the first nine sounds housed in the Sound Group button In our example Strings Mantovani Strings Sustain we have pressed the Strings 1 push button in the Ensemble sound group Begleit Kl nge Ebene 1 Ebene Strings Vocal Strings Harp Strings Tremolo Bell Strings Synthe Strings 1 Synthe Strings 2 The first sound is automatically selected for you To select any of the sounds located in this sound group simply press one of the Yellow Virtual Buttons the Button will change colour to highlight the selected sound PLEASE NOTE Sounds marked with an Asterisk are called Longwave Sounds The Instrument s DSP hardware generates these very high quality
42. Accompa niment Advanced screen The Expression Pedal can be used to control the volume of the Accompaniment The above Data Value box can be changed from values 0 to 100 The value of 0 being that the Accompaniment vol ume is not affected by the Expression Pedal settings The value of 127 being that the Accompaniment volume is fully affected by the Expression Pedal settings Drums This Data Value box affects the Drum track of your Accompaniment Style Acc This Data Value box affects the Acc tracks Bass and Acc tracks 1 5 of your Accompaniment Style Seq This Data Value box affects the volume of MIDI file playback Wave This Data Value box affects the volume of Wave and MP3 playback Offset Using the setting Offset you can determine if there is any volume when the expression pedal is pulled right back All above values have a range of 0 to 100 Turn the value to beyond the Maximum or the Minimum in order to set the value to the standard setting Sonstiges Other Misc Settings This Data Value box activates the XG Drum standard within the Accompaniment section Styles and Accompaniments of the OpenArt System take advantage of the XG format XG is an expanded General MIDI compliance format that offers a a bigger sound and drum sound palette than the standard General MIDI format offers Std The OpenArt System offers both standard Drum Kits and XG format versions Older instru ments used to use a special XG Sound
43. Blue Virtual Typewriter will load You can then use the keyboard to input your new Mixer Preset Name When you are finished press the Enter button to return to the Yellow Display Press the large Save button at the bottom of the display to save the new Mixer Preset 19 2 Deleting A Mixer Preset You can also delete User Mixer Presets Open the Drop Down menu in the centre of the display Mixer Inputs 0 Normal STD 0 Normal STD Organ Micro i Robert Concert 1 Digital it 43 FL2 Edition 49 FL Std Normal Now you can see all Mixer Presets that are currently stored in your OAS instrument To delete a User Preset simply touch the name of the Mixer Preset that you wish to delete and then press the Delete button The Mixer Preset will then be deleted from the OAS Database PLEASE NOTE Factory Mixer Presets cannot be deleted 19 3 Setting A Mixer Preset As The Standard Preset STD If you do not want to use the Factory Standard Mixer Preset Normal you can of course designate any of your User Mixer Presets as the Standard Mixer Preset In the Mixer Preset Drop Down Menu you will see all of the Mixer Presets that you have saved Simply select the Mixer Preset that you wish to set as Standard Touch the name of the Mixer Preset so that it is high lighted in Red Then press the button Standard Just above the Save button to the right of the screen A Blue popup window
44. Card but this card is no longer required and is not used by WERSI in new instruments Only the XG standard is retained naturally only using WERSI sounds and WERSI Drum sample sounds Select Lyrics You can assign yext to every Total Preset This could be a lyric chords or any other text that you would like to include To use a text you must import it into the OAS Database Please refer to the OAS Programmers Manual Total Preset Manager Using the drop down menu shown above you can choose Text from the OAS database and assign it your currently loaded Total Preset In order to save this setting you must check the option Accomp in the Total Preset Save screen when you save the Total Preset 18 2 Index of all Footswitch Functions that can be assigned to a Footswitch Foot Piston Acc Down This function allows you to move to the next Accompaniment down in the Selected Acc Group Acc On Off This function turns the Auto Accompaniment On and Off Acc Up This function allows you to move to the next Accompaniment Up in the Selected Acc Group Effect 1 Triggers the SFX Sound Effect for SFX Button 1 Effect 10 Triggers the SFX Sound Effect for SFX Button 10 Effect 2 Triggers the SFX Sound Effect for SFX Button 2 Effect 3 Triggers the SFX Sound Effect for SFX Button 3 Effect 4 Triggers the SFX Sound Effect for SFX Button 4 Effect 5 Triggers the SFX Sound Effect for SFX Button 5 10 Effec
45. Save button in the normal manner User Notes User Notes User Notes User Notes User Notes User Notes User Notes User Notes D WERSI www wersidirect com info wersidirect com
46. Treble Frequencies Equalizer Sliders For Frequency Intensity of the Bass and Treble Frequencies Drums Set the Volume of the Longwave Drum kits for use in all Styles and MIDI Sequences ra Back to exit from this screen and return to the main Mixer display simply press the Back button Realdrums Touch the Realdrums button to open the Mixer settings for the Realdrums Main Selectors Acc Mixer Outputs Effects Settings Realdrum Input Wave MP3 This display is similar to the OX7 Drawbars and OAS Draw bars display All settings work in the same way In the Aux section there is a Reverb Slider to control the Reverb effect for the Realdrum Audio Accompaniment The Reverb can be turned both On and Off The Equalizer works in the same way as previously de scribed for the Drawbars It too can be turned On and Off Press the Back button to return to the Main Mixer display Touch the Wav MP3 button to open the Mixer settings for Waves and MP3s Selectors Mixer Outputs Effects Settings l a u _ Wave MP3 Input ASIO 1 ASIO 2 ASIO 3 and ASIO 4 This display is similar to the OX7 Drawbars and OAS Draw bars display All settings work in the same way In the Aux section there is a Reverb Slider to control the Reverb effect for the Wave and MP3 accompaniments The Reverb can be turned both On and Off The Equalizer works in the same wa
47. U203 Alejhandro 1 Select the Total Preset or Total Preset that you would like to have in your Total Preset Playlist and press the Use All By Myself Ballad 1 Selected Presets button in the centre of the display All By Myself Ballad 2 Factory All My Love Ballad Andes Panflute Ballad 12 3 The Total Presets will then be displayed in the Playlist on FRERE the right hand side of the display Reset List PLEASE NOTE You must import the Total Presets in Use Playlist the order that you wish to use them To the right is an example of high lighting several Total Presets at once and then importing them into the Playlist At the top of the screen you can also see in our example that the drop down menu at the top of the screen is open and displays an already made Playlist Saving A Playlist Once you have finished making your Playlist you can then save the Playlist Press the Save Button above the Playlist right hand side to save the Playlist into the OAS Database BRRHRRE ER AJ anho NB SUN Also if you wish to re name the Playlist Press the long button at the top of the screen The virtual typewriter will open Input the new name for the Playlist TPT TTT TTL ee Be Be 3530 5533 u 55 The Yellow Save screen will open Select the Save location and press the Save 3333535555555 Playlist button to save the Playlist and exit I de I DD em a Press the button Use Playlis
48. accompaniment you have selected Style Realdrum Wave or Video etc together with its name is shown in the Lower part of the Main Display on the right near the Quickload button Accompaniment 10 Playing With Styles amp Realdrums Use the push buttons in the Rhythm Controls group in the left control panel to operate Style and Realdrums These are the available functions e Start Stop This push button starts and stops the playback of Styles and Realdrums During playback the LED blinks Green on beat one and Red on the remaining beats You can also see the beat on the Main Display in the form of a flashing Virtual LED Chain e Var A B C and D Each Style and Realdrum patterns have four variations A B C and D Usually variation A offers a fairly basic rhythm and accompaniment pattern The variations B C amp D progress in their musical pattern complexity When you change between the different variations the next variation will start on the first beat of the next bar during the change over the Variation LED will blink e Intro 1 Ending 1 When the accompaniment is stopped the Intro 1 Ending 1 pushbutton starts playback with an intro and then continues playback with the currently selected variation While the accompaniment is running pushing this button will cause an ending to be played and finally stop the playback Both Intro 1 and Ending 1 have a lenght of up to two bars e Intro 2 Ending 2 When t
49. ake adjustments to the sound mappings from this menu use the Drop Down menus to select the desired Map pings We will now describe each section of this display Selector Section Name Back Button Displays which Selector the Mapping is for Press to exit to the Selector m Settings Menu Mapping for Upper 1 Back Existing Sound Mappings Selected Sound Button W Existing Sound Mappings Selected Sound Button Factory Mappings Levels 1 5 Actual Sound buttons Mappings and User Mappings Levels 1 5 are assigned to The next section of the display allows you to navigate through the five levels of Mappings You can see that the but tons marked Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 etc are actual buttons Press any of the five buttons to navigate to the desired level E QUES ERED SEN Level 1 Level Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 pe m pe The bottom of the screen shows what sound is currently assigned to the different levels The Previews of the selected Sound Level allows you a quick overview to easily gain an idea of the sounds in the selected Mapping that you want to save into your Total Preset An Example of the Level buttons 1 To change any of the mappings first select the Sound Button you wish to change the mapping for from the drop down menu In our example the Accordion 1 sound button Selected Sound Button 2 Then select the Level button In our example Level 1 This will th
50. alization which would end up drastically altering the tonal characteristic of the audio signal Feedback prevention An extreme case of excessive resonance is feedback which is the phenomenon of certain frequencies looping through an audio system though a microphone close to the speaker it is being sent to Parametric equalization for feedback cancellation typically uses a notch filter which cuts the frequency where feedback is occurring A notch filter uses an extremely narrow bandwidth and often attenuates the frequency feeding back 6 dB or more Correction All speakers have peaks and dips in their output at certain frequencies and can interact with the boundaries of the room in ways that make for uneven response Parametric equalization can be used to boost or cut these peaks and dips to flatten the frequency response How Parametric EQ Works Within The OpenArt System Although we ve already described the process for adjusting the Parametric EQ it is always helpful to understand why you should adjust these settings and what for The above information on EQ has already explained the applications and plus points of the Parametric EQ and the range of useful applications is virtually unlimited depending on your hearing room your instrument is in and your own personal taste Bass Range You can change the Bass range of frequencies with this Data Value box Use the Volume Slider below to increase or decrease the intensity
51. ame Status Bar for a few seconds Press and Hold for a few seconds over the Total Preset name in the Total Preset Status Bar U 351 36 Atlantis Rob Preset Bank Preset Name Variation Harmony The following Screen will appear Peeler Tata Preset You can either dial in the Total Preset number to find the desired Total Preset or scroll through the list of Total Presets Show groups 0000 In the bottom left corner the button marked 1 2 3 pee m 1 2 3 indicates that the Total Presets are listed in Cathederal Choir Cathederal Choir 2 numerical order ae 7 ciei ee Dair tae 5 g 7 8 When the button is marked as A B C the a 9 o Det Total Presets will be listed in alphabetical Grand Cathederal Choir Hall ord er Grand Cathederal Full Hall Grand Cathederal Full Expression USA Preacher Choir Solo eee Once you have found your Total Preset en memes Simply hit the large Select Preset button Another possibility is selecting the Total Presets by their groups or user defined groups In order to do this simply press the Show Groups button at the top of the display ECTS Press the Show Groups button shown here to the left A new display now shown See below showing the Preset Groups and User Groups 9 ee TAT Back If you select the desired groups in the drop down menu on the right the left drop down list will onl
52. an Only assign the OAS Drawbar Sounds to Selectors Upper 1 amp Lower 1 They will not work on any other Selectors As with the OX7 sounds you can use the Rotor Slow Fast button in the Rhythm Controls section to switch the Rotation Speed between Fast amp Slow However the other buttons in the Organ group have no effect on the OAS X1 Drawbars You can find other settings for your OAS X1 Drawbar sounds in the appropriate section in the Programmers Guide B4 Sounds Optional VST Virtual Instrument Using the optional B4 software module provided by Native Instruments you can generate the very authentic sounds of old Electro mechanical organs You control these sounds in the very same way as OAS X1 Drawbar Sounds VB3 Hammond Clone Virtual Instrument AVST Virtual Instrument for OAS VB3 Drawbars are controlled inexactly the same way as the OAS X1 B4 Draw bars PLEASE NOTE VB3 Was only available for a very limited time during 2009 It is not possible to buy this acti vation at this time The VB3 instructions are naturally included as many customers did purchase this limited edition VST during the period it was available XG Sounds Special Equipment Older OAS Instruments Production Models During 2001 2004 were equipped with an XG Soundcard you can assign these sounds as well as WERSI Longwave Sounds to any selector you may also assign them to any track of a MIDI file or Style accompaniment Please note that any accom
53. and you can pre listen to accompaniments which are located on your hard drive or an external data storage device before loading them into the OAS Database If you want to load such an accompaniment into a Total Preset you be able to save it permanently unless you import the ac companiment into the OAS database See the OAS Database chapter Floppy The WERSI Explorer opens also with this You can pre listen to accompaniments from your Floppy Discs For example the old WERSI Golden Gate Pegasus Style Disc Library CD Rom Opens the WERSI Explorer to pre listen to accompaniments contained on a CD Rom Load With Accompaniments The chosen accompaniment will be loaded into your Total Preset If you have se lected one of the nine storage places under Acc On your Main Display the ebenen will be loaded to this place If you did not select a storage place one of the nine Yellow buttons N the accompaniment will always be loaded to the first storage location in our NN example it is Rolandy If there is already an accompaniment in the storage ACC Sounds location it qill be over written For most people the above information will not be important they will just want to load the desired accompaniment and start to play Sometimes it is important to know how a process works but of course music making is always the first priority Load With Sounds This is the same as the above described accompaniment load Simply choose t
54. animent is loaded it Tempomat use its own factory preset tempo even if you have already set the tempo to a different value When unchecked all accompaniments default to the Tempo already specified Fade In Out p Fade In Out Activating this box will allow you to fade the accompaniment in and out LM Hold Lower Manual Hold checking this box allows you to hold the Lower Manual Even when your hand leaves the keys of the Lower Manual the notes will still sound Manual Drums checking this box turns the manual into a Drum Kit Man Rhythm checking this box turns the Manual Rhythm function on A snare drum is as signed to the lower manual and a ride swing type cymbal is assigned to the bass pedals Sync Start checking this box allows you to synchronize your accompaniment to start as soon as a note on the Lower Manual is pressed Sync Start Stop checking this box turns Sync Start Stop function on With this function ac tive the accompaniment will only play when a note chord is played on the Lower Manual Styleplayer This section allows you make adjustments to some important Style Player set tings Endings Without ACC Auto Fill Ext Panel Function checking this box will launch the OpenArt Arranger OAA external Style Player virtual panel The OpenArt Arranger is optional all new Instruments feature the OAA as standard Harmony Button Easy Chord 1 in o
55. ard SetStd Advanced Mapping l Edit a Standard Preset You are about to change standard presets that may have Continue anyway impact on all presets C 1 BE LL Bulk 0m off Main Selectors Acc Mixer Outputs Effects Settings Standard Set Std Advanced Mapping ay Press the button Standard in the Accompaniment Set tings display Top Left Corner The Blue Popup box will display with the following message You are about to change the Standard Presets that may have an im pact on all Presets Continue anyway Press the Yes button to change the Standard settings Selecting No will abort this function If you have pressed the Yes button the red background will ap pear as a last warning that the changes will take place To change any of the Accomp Settings Press the Advanced but tons to make changes here Press the Standard EEE button again to save the changes PLEASE NOTE Please bear in mind that changes you make in the Standard Preset mode affects all of your Total Presets However if you wish to return to the Factory Preset settings touch the Set Std button 18 1 Advanced Accompaniment Settings If you press the Advanced button a new window will appear where further settings can be adjusted Mixer Outputs Effects Settings Main Selectors Acc Advanced Settings Left IL er Y Right sra E
56. arely audible very high and very low frequencies Consequently MP3 files need less than a tenth of the memory a regular Wave file would use Music you find on the Internet is mainly MP3 format Use the Start Stop button to control the playback and the Song Volume Drawbar to adjust the volume Please note that the tempo of an MP3 cannot be changed Multimedia Multimedia files are audio and video files in various formats Basically you can use all types of multimedia files that will payback on a standard PC e g WMV MPG Divx etc Use the Start Stop push but ton to start or stop the playback of the Video and the Song Volume Drawbar to adjust the volume The tempo of a multimedia accompaniment cannot be changed Please note that large video files need a lot of storage space and therefore take some time to load 9 Selecting Accompaniments Rhythm Accompaniment P 5 You select Styles rhythms Realdrums MIDI files Waves MP3 s or Video files with the 14 push buttons of the Rhythm Accompan iment group on the left control panel As shipped by the factory the Factory Styles of your instrument ordered in groups are assigned to these buttons Of course you can change these assignments if you wish Each push button can activate up to nine different styles or Real drums MIDI files Waves MP3 or Video Multimedia in up to 5 levels You can select another accompaniment by touching one of the buttons The nature of the
57. at are currently stored in your OAS instrument To delete a User Preset simply touch the name of the Output Mixer Preset that you wish to delete and then press the Delete button The Output Mixer Preset will then be deleted from the OAS Database PLEASE NOTE Factory Output Mixer Presets cannot be deleted 20 3 Setting An Output Mixer Preset As The Standard Preset STD If you do not want to use the Factory Standard Out Mixer Preset Normal you can of course designate any of your User Output Mixer Presets as the Standard Mixer Preset In the Output Mixer Preset Drop Down Menu you will see all of the Output Mixer Presets that you have saved and all factory presets that are available Simply select the Output Mixer Preset that you wish to set as Standard Touch the name of the Output Mixer Preset so that it is high lighted in Red Then press the button Standard Just above the Save button to the right of the screen Blue popup window will appear Selectors Outputs Effects Settings Press the Yes button to set the selected Output Mixer Preset as the Standard Output Use this mixer setting as standard If you do not wish to continue you can press J z Do you want to use this mixer setting as standard It will then the No button Main Grp be used in all total presets sou did not ecplicitly select another mixer setting 21 Effects The Edit button at the top of the Main
58. ata Value box allows you to adjust the input gain signal of the Micro phone The buttons Main Grp1 and Grp2 correspond to the Main Output Group 1 Audio Output and Group 2 Output The Mute button silences the Microphone input channel When they are active they will be highlighted in Above the Volume slider is Red the Reset button This button displays the loudness peak in dB Using this button will reset the value displayed Equalizer The Microphone inputs have a four band Parametric EQ The EQ is split into 4 bands There are controls that can be adjusted for Bass Mid 1 Mid 2 and Treble Above the four volume sliders a box showing the volume of each band can be seen as well as a white Data Entry value box In this Data Value box you can choose which fre quency in that band is to be adjusted Use the Tempo Data Wheel to make the adjust ments What is EQ An equalizer or EQ allows for very precise control of a sound system Adjustments are made so that the speaker or performer can be understood while at the same time keeping the volume as high as needed without causing feed back What Is Parametric EQ Parametric equalizer or parametric EQ is an electronic multi band variable equalizer used in sound recording and live sound reinforcement Parametric equalizers allow audio engineers to control the three primary parameters of an internal band pass fi
59. base note The colours and placement of the Drawbars correspond with the arrangement that can be found on the classic Tonewheel organs Hammond B3 Organs for example IMPORTANT Moving the Tonewheel Drawbars while holding down the manual keys will immediately change the Tonewheel Drawbar sound You may use this to create the Wa Wah and other effects This is a new feature that was not available with older WERSI instruments Additional Push Buttons in the Organ sound group allow for more changes of the Tonewheel Drawbar sound they modify the sound of the manual section that is currently selected by the associated Selector push button e Percussion On adds 2 2 3 Percussion e Sustain On adds a Sustain effect i e after releasing a manual key the tone fades out softly ala organ Maestro Klaus Wunderlich Helios recordings e Rotor On this activates the famous sound of rotating speakers The Rotor Slow Fast push button in the Rhythm Controls group changes the speed of the Rotation between the Slow and Fast Please note the Speed up and Speed down effects when changing the speeds We have placed the Rotor Slow Fast push button on the left control panel to allow you to quickly push it with your left hand while playing e Vibrato On this push button activates the Scanner or Phase Vibrato well known from classic Tonewheel organs and also older WERSI instrument generations e Presets this push button activates nine T
60. based upon the WERSI OX7 Drawbar Tonewheel system ta Pe The Tonewheel Zugriegel German for Drawbars and Presets push buttons are located in the ORGAN group to the right of the TFT display screen Besides other sounds as described earlier you may also assign Tonewheel Drawbar sounds to any of the avail able Selectors of a manual section Keep in mind though that it does not make sense assigning Tonewheel Drawbar sound to more than one selector per manual section as this causes a neutralizing effect which may sound strange If you activate the Tonewheel Zugriegel button when a selector is active for the Upper Manual the Drawbar sound is assigned to the selected sound level You can vary this sound with the Black Brown and White Drawbars in the Tonewheel Upper Manual group Mixing pure Sine Waves of different frequencies where each of the sine drawbars generates the many different Tonewheel Drawbar sounds The 8 drawbar adjusts the volume of the base tone and the White 4 2 and 1 drawbars adjust the volumes of the Waves that are one two or three octaves above the base tone The Black 2 2 3 drawbar controls the volume of the fifth above the first octave and the 1 3 5 drawbar and the 1 1 3 drawbars adjust the volumes of the hird or the fifth respectively above the second octave The Brown 5 1 3 drawbar controls the volume of the and the 16 drawbar changes the volume of the octave below the
61. ctions and even damage installed components or the whole system Please contact us before installing Alien hardware or software It s also important not to change the file in the WERSI folder or any sub folder on the PC s hard disk This means you must neither delete files or folders nor move them or create new folders files As the structure of these folders and files is crucial for the functionality of the OAS software our warranty obligation becomes void when you make changes here except when being authorised by WERSI to do so e g When installing a new software update from WERSI Also do not change folder WINDOWS or any of its sub folders By doing so you might cause a breakdown of the operation system Please note that your instrument will come supplied with a genuine Windows XP installation disc and the supporting documentation It is illegal to install this disc onto any other computer machine other than your OAS instrument Also a special image disc is available from WERSI with the complete OAS configuration ready to be installed onto your hard disk Please note that if such a re installation is require any personal data such as Total Presets MIDI files and Waves will all be lost We recommend that users should backup their personal data to external media CD DVD and USB memory sticks for example IMPORTANT Microsoft s end user licensing agreement states that the original CD Rom and the booklet only grant yo
62. ctivated or deacti vated We will now talk you through the different settings of the Advanced Settings display e Keyboard Split This data box displays the current note that the General Keyboard Split is set to Feature for WERSI Abacus KS 1 WERSI Ikarus X1 and GigaPiano This is not applicable for Vegas Verona Scala or Lou vre e Keyboard Split On Off This data box is also for the General Keyboard Feature for WERSI Abacus KS 1 WERSI Ikarus X1 and GigaPiano Checking this box allows you to both activate when ticked or deactivate the Split function for Abacus Ikarus and GigaPiano This is not applicable for Vegas Verona Scala or Louvre e Upper Split This data box displays the Split Point note for the Upper Manual Naturally you can use the Tempo Data Wheel to adjust the note for which the Upper Split Point is set to any note you desire e Upper Split On Off Checking this box allows you to both activate when ticked or deactivate the Split function for the Upper Manual e Lower Split This data box displays the Split Point note for the Lower Manual Naturally you can use the Tempo Data Wheel to adjust the note for which the Lower Split Point is set to any note you desire e Lower Split On Off Checking this box allows you to both activate when ticked or deactivate the Split function for the Lower Manual e Upper Split Mode This data box allows you to cycle through the Upper Spl
63. d you would like to be affected by the Pitch Wheel e Piano Pedal Check this box if you would like any of the Selectors Sounds to respond to the Piano Pedal of the GigaPiano GP1000 Only WERSI GigaPiano If the box is checked the sound of the manual continues even after the keys are released as long as the piano pedal is pressed e Detune This Data Value box allows you to tune 50 cents in pitch and 50 cents in pitch for all Selectors Sounds e Expr Pedal This Data Value box allows you to change adjust the polarity of the Volume Expression pedal When the value is set to 100 the pedal works in the traditional way Accelerate for more volume When the pedal is set to 100 the pedal works in the opposite manner to how it usually works You accelerate to decrease the volume The values in between 100 and 100 naturally produce some very expressive effects and allow you to inter weave sounds in a natural way similar to how a real orchestra might perform an expressive musical pas sage for example e Dynamic Curve Change between the different Dynamic Curve settings There are several Dynamic Curves available from Soft Dynamics to Hard Dynamics e 0 No Dynamic e 1 Little Dynamic Old OAS Version 4 1 Dynamics e 2 Average Dynamic From OAS Version 4 1 Dynamics e 3 Normal Dynamics e 4 Soft Dynamics e 5 Hard Dynamics e 6 Restricted Dynamics e 7 Extreme
64. de In Out The Fade In Out automatically fades in accompaniment types Styles Realdrums and Waves etc If you activate this button when there is no accompaniment playing when you actually start the accompani ment it will Fade in When the accompaniment is playing by activating this function you will hear a gradual fade of the accompaniment and the accompaniment will automatically stop 12 Miscellaneous Controls The Transposer The two Transpose Buttons on your instrument have several functions When the Main y Display is displayed on the TFT screen Overview screen they have the normal l lt lt Normal Transpose function gt gt The Transposer allows you to increase the tuning of the instrument by six semi tone steps or to decrease it by five semitone steps Officially this function can be used to adapt the tuning to singers who have problems reaching high or low notes Unofficially this is an easy way to avoid the black notes and play songs in easy keys the Key of C for example and then transpose the instrument to match the original key Genius Naturally the Left button decreases the tuning by one semi tone while the Right button increases the tuning by one semi tone The centre button marked Normal allows you to quickly reset the tuning back to C normal position The current setting of the Transposer is indicated in the Main Display to the Far Right near the Accompaniment Over vie
65. e OpenArt System includes an eight track audio studio It is an optional extra and you should contact WERSI Direct Ltd to purchase this option or request a trial code to trial this option Please see the Programmers Manual for full instructions on using this Digital Recording Studio 24 MIDI Record Similar to the above Dig Record MIDI record allows users to record their performance as a MIDI file Selectors Outputs Effects Recording CCTM Size 1 KB Strings1 Soft u Cet MLLILLLE LE TIL LE otioti N Cet MLLILLLE LIL LE LE TIERE LE 14 Mlacciaal I arnie 4 nmm k Outputs Effects Recording Size 1 KB C 7 II DIE IE L LE LE L LE LE 14 141 4 nin 7 h Settings CD Plaver Back Start Dig Record Midi Record Settings CD Player Back Stop Dig Record Midi Record The benefits of this is that you can then load the MIDI file into the OAS Sequencer to change the sounds post performance or to edit correct any mistakes with the Se quencer Editor The operation for recording is identical to Dig Record Please note That instead of Audio Levels appearing on the MIDI Record surface a data counter appears showing the user how big the MIDI file is MIDI files take up a very very small amount of data usually less than 1MB When you press the Stop Button the MIDI Recording Save screen will appear Select a free slot re name the recording and press the
66. e the various aspects of the Delay effect Sync Value 127 means the Delay is 100 synched to the currently set Tempo of your instrument and is very rhythmic Value 0 produces an un synchronised Delay and the echoes can sound random Delay Adjusts the intensity of the Delays Feedback Adjusts the amount of Echoes that result in the feedback Balance Adjusts the Tone Balance for the Delay effect HF Damping Adjusts the ability to damped the High Frequencies of the Delay effect The Manuale Accomp and Drums Buttons OAS instruments allow you to assign different Delay Settings to not just the sounds of the manuals and pedals but also to the Accompaniment and also the Drums When you select one of the three buttons at the bottom of the display the display changes to allow you to select Delay presets or make specific changes for the relevant section of the instrument The instrument section you are adjusting will be highlighted in Green In our example the Delay is set for the Manu als Manuale Manuale Keyboard Manuals and Pedals Accomp Auto Accompaniment MIDI Sequences Drums Longwave Drum Kits Saving A Delay Preset Saving a Delay Preset is identical to saving a Reverb preset in the previous section Please see Saving a Reverb Preset Deleting A Delay Preset Deleting a Delay Preset is identical to saving a Reverb preset in the previous secti
67. ed of the key movement is used to control the Dynamic but this is almost proportional to the strength of a key hit You can hear the dynamic effect very clearly with Piano sounds but with other sounds such as Brass sounds for ex ample it may be more subtle or control different sound characteristics of the sound Tonewheel Drawbar sounds use the Dynamic control in a different way The Dynamic controls the loudness of the Percussion Naturally the Drawbar Percussion must be turned on Your OAS instrument has 14 different Dynamic types You can assign each of these Dynamic types to each manual Please refer to the Advanced Selectors chapter Octave Offset Push Button In the Selector Settings group is the Octave push button Press an Octave push button once to increase the tuning of the selected manual by one Octave When you press the push button again the tuning of that group is set another octave up The next push will set the tuning two octaves below normal another touch will set the tuning one octave below normal So the order of the Octave offset cycle is 1 2 2 1 0 When the LED in an octave push button is on this indicate an active octave shift in the selected manual selector The Chorus Effect Push Button Also in the Selector Settings group is the CHORUS button If this button is active a chorus effect is added to the sounds of the selected manual You may apply it to a piano sound in order to obtain a
68. en display the currently selected Mapping Factory 1 Factory 2 Factory 3 Factory 4 Factory 5 User 1 User 2 User 3 User 4 User 5 from the drop down menu at the top of the display to the left 3 Simply select the desired Existing Sound Mappings to allocate to the Mapping ey SUEED Level Level 1 2 3 4 and 5 that you are working on kid Main Selectors Acc Mixer Outputs Effects Settings Mouthorgan y User 1 User 2 User 3 User 4 User 5 Preview of the selected Sound Level Above is an example of the Factory Sound Mapping from the Existing Sound Mappings drop down menu relating to the Sound Button Mouthorgan To save any of the changes for the Levels and for them to be assigned to the Total Preset press the Arrow button above the Level that you are work on to save assign the Mapping nls adjustments to the Total Preset Once you are finished with allocating making adjustments to the Mappings for your Total Presets press the Back Button 17 Advanced Settings Main Selectors Mixer Outputs Effects Settings The Advanced Settings screen can be accessed by pressing the button Standard Set Std Advanced On Sub Presets Sound Controls on from the main Selector es creen Advanced Settings provide even more control and settings over your sounds manuals and pedals The display to the left shows the various available settings that can be adjusted a
69. erate your instrument and to display its current settings 1 Push Buttons 2 Drawbars 3 Controls amp Wheels Pitch amp Modulation Wheels 4 The Data Tempo Wheel Top Right near the TFT Screen 5 The TFT Display Screen The first four items correspond to buttons and controls that can be found on other instruments they are useful for quick changes or to adjust certain parameters while playing The TFT screen is combined with a Touch Screen i e it does not only display information but you may also touch buttons that are graphically displayed on the screen similar to clicking a button with a mouse on a PC Sometimes virtual controls like sliders are displayed on the screen that you can move by touching the screen Other such virtual controls include value boxes where you can touch them and use either the DATA TEMPO WHEEL or The TRANS POSE Buttons to change the values of the parameters NOTE As your instrument contains a PC it is actually possible to connect an external mouse in order to control actions with Mouse Clicks and Mouse Drags You can also connect a normal PC keyboard to your instrument too The push buttons are grouped on three panels according to their function To the left ofthe TFT Display are the Total Preset push buttons the Sound Selector push buttons for the Upper Lower amp Pedal sections as well as the Style Rhythm section buttons for choosing accompaniment types
70. ernal amplifier the inter nal speakers and the Main Output jacks Groups Grp 1 and Grp2 activate the out puts for the two Line Output 1 and Line Output 2 jacks When the outputs are active they have a Red background Equalizer The two sliders in the Equalizer group in the centre of the display are used to adjust the Bass and Treble frequencies components of the Output signal You can change the frequency of both the Bass and Treble by pressing on the respective boxes in our example the Treble shows 7 0Hz and the Bass shows 50Hz frequencies Once you have pressed the box you wish to change the frequency for use the Data tempo Wheel to move through the frequency range This allows you to adjust the entire spectrum of EQ frequencies To reduce or increase the selec ted frequency move the Slider directly beneath the frequency box up to accentuate the frequency and down to diminish the frequencies Advanced Organ Inputs The advanced organ inputs open up the specific sound source inputs Opening these sections will allow further set tings to be made to the specific sound sources also referred to as the different sound generators Drawbars This button opens the settings page for OX7 and OAS Drawbars Longwaves This button opens the settings page for the Longwave sample sounds Realdrums This button opens the settings page for the Realdrums Waves MP3 This button opens the settings page f
71. everb Effect Time How long the Reverb lasts for Damping Allows you to Dampen the ef fect Or control the overall Reverb Predelay How long before the Reverb effect is heard Low EQ Adjust the Reverb Low Shelf frequencies High EQ Adjust the Reverb High Shelf frequencies Size Adjust the size of the Reverb Cham ber Small room Church Cathederal etc And finally Shape adjust the shape of the Reverb settings For example a room with many walls and surfaces has only a small amount of Reverbations while a room with only 4 walls a floor and a ceiling will produce a more audible Reverb effect as the sound bounces off of the walls surfaces and reflect between each other The values of all Data Value boxes is 0 127 Reverb Volume The Reverb Volume Slider allows you to increase or decrease the overall volume or intensity as it is sometimes called of the Reverb effect The louder the setting is for this volume slider the louder the more audible the Reverb effect is overall WERSI and most professional recording studios believe that less is often more with Reverb effects Naturally you can adjust the setting to suit your own ears Manuale Accomp and Drums OAS instruments allow you to assign different Reverb Settings to not just the sounds of the manuals and pedals but also to the Accompaniment and also the Drums When you select one of the three buttons a
72. further restrict the selection by selecting groups or user groups in the drop down menus on the right hand side In the Sound option another drop down menu is displayed from which you can select the Sound Device The Sound Device simply put is the Tone Generator For ease of navigation we recommend to use the setting All Devices until you are more experienced at using the Quickload function or feel happy to refine your Quickload selections Quickload by its very nature is a quick access function so naturally WERSI created a second interface to make selec tion even easier depending on the selection preference of the user Instead of navigating via the Groups see previous page you can also use a numerical calculator to dial up any item in the Quickload menu To activate this function simply press the Show Keyboard button FA Preset ID Grand Piano Love Song 0000 Andes Panflute Ballad Whitneys Love Ballad q 2 is All My Love Ballad a Lady In Red Ballad iT iT 5 6 7 Lady In Blue Ballad 1 gt Lady In Blue Ballad 2 i i Leona Bleeding Ballad 1 3 9 Leona Bleeding Ballad 2 k Elton J Song For Guy Ballad gt I lt Angel In Blue Ballad 1 Show Groups You can sort the displayed items in the left drop down menu in alphabetical order or after their Save Location in ID numerical order Simply touch the
73. g on the MIDI Record surface a data counter appears showing the user how big the MIDI file is MIDI files take up a very very small amount of data usually less than 1MB 13 8 Lower Manual Hold LM Hold This button allows you to activate the Lower Manual Hold function When this function is active it allows you to change Total Presets without changing the sounds of the Lower Manual Pedals and Accompaniment Only the Upper Manual is changed To stop using the Lower Manual Hold simply press the LM Hold button to deactivate the feature 13 9 Manual Assignment Display Boos EI 2 CD Fairlight gu VUE HUE HE amet Pedal Selectors Lower Manual Selectors Upper Manual Selectors 2 CANNES 4 mm 4 CANNES 4 FL Pedalbass 77 FL Stage Piano CD Gal In this section of the Main Display you can see the Sound Assignment for the Right Upper Manual Left Lower Manual and the Pedals As well as the sounds that are displayed for each corresponding selector you can see at first glance which manual is audible and on which section it is playing The example above shows the Upper 1 selector that is selected has the sound CD Galaxy This is the currently selected selector and it is surrounded by a dark Blue rim border As previ ously stated the sound assigned to Upper Selector 1 is CD Galaxy and in our example it has a key range of C3 C6 You can see the key range of all selectors at any time When a
74. ggered Fill 1 will be triggered when you move up through the Variations and Fill 2 will be triggered when you move down through the Variations CL d Auto Variation checking this box activates the Auto Variation function Variations automatically change whenever you trigger one of the two Fill patterns Fill 1 selects the next lower variation where Fill 2 selects the next higher variation CL Auto Bass With this push button active the root of the currently played harmony will be played using the sound that has been selected for the Bass no matter what chord inversion you play Play Breaks When this function is active the fills will automatically play as full breaks This setting will only take effect if the setting isn t already active within the actual style in the OpenArt Arranger Or Style Editor when the OpenArt Arranger option isn t acti vated a Std sa se se ES Std aa Ea Jukebox Checking this box activates the continuous playback of of all MIDI files loaded into the Total Preset Quickload Acc Mapping area You can load up to nine MIDI files into the 9 Yellow ACC Quickload storage boxes Do not use this function with styles or Realdrums They are continuous and will play forever Cancel Effectsounds Checking this box effect sounds which have been triggered by pressing an effect button on the control panel can be stopped by pressing the same effect button once again Accomp
75. he accompaniment is stopped the Intro 2 Ending 2 pushbutton starts playback with an intro and then continues playback with the currently selected variation While the accompaniment is running pushing this button will cause an ending to be played and finally stop the playback Both Intro 2 and Ending 2 can be much longer than Intro 1 Ending 2 and may contain complete melody sequences So that you can see how long the selected intro is and come in at the right moment the beats still to be played are displayed as an LED chain in the Main Display e Sync Start lf no accompaniment is running and you press the pushbutton Sync Start the accompaniment will start automatically when a key on the Lower manual is pressed You can also use this button to start Fills amp Intros Just press the Sync Start button select the Intro or Fill button you desire and as soon as you press a key on the Lower manual the accompaniment pattern will start The harmonies played by Styles and Realdrums depend on the harmonies you play on the Lower Manual Your instru ment understands Single Finger playing as well as Full Harmonies There is no need to switch between different modes as your OAS instrument detects which mode you playing The Chord and Harmony type is displayed on the Main Display near the Tempo and Accompaniment type Changing Styles and Realdrums On The Fly A special feature of your OAS instrument if the possibility of cha
76. he lower part of the Arabic Tuning display are for setting the current detune value between minus 50 and plus 50 A value of 50 will tune the note down by a quarter note the value of 50 is one quarter note up Touch the choice field the background will turn Red when selected and set the desired value by turning the Tempo Data wheel Please note that the tuning takes effect only if the corresponding button on the surface is pressed You can reset all values to 0 by preset the button Reset Saving Arabic Tuning Presets If you want to store your settings press the Save button A new screen will be displayed with a Yellow background The Long Button Top Centre is for changing the name of the Preset When you press the Long Button a Blue Virtual Keyboard will appear so that you can name the Preset The list on the left hand side of the display serves for selecting a storage location for your new Arabic Tuning Preset You may overwrite existing presets as well as add a new preset to the list After making these settings you can add your new tuning to the OAS data base by pressing the button Save Preset Glan You can now recall the saved tuning at any time you wish If you press the Back button you will exit the Arabic Tuning Save screen without storing the preset IMPORTANT The Tuning only affects Longwave Sounds You cannot give your drawbar sounds another tun ing PLEASE NOTE You can also allocate othe
77. he sound you wish to load the sound will be loaded to the Sounds level Select one of the Nine Yellow buttons currently marked Free to save the sound Repeat the process and select a different yellow storage location button each time to load up to nine sounds for saving into your Total Preset Load With Total Presets The selected Total Preset will load and is immediately playable PLEASE NOTE The Back button will close the Quickload Centre 16 Selector Settings In the Selector Settings Selector Tab at the top of the Main Display you can carry out Advanced manual and sound specific settings In order to open the Selector Settings touch the button Selectors in the menu bar at the top of the Main Display Make sure that you have previously selected the Total Preset whose settings you want to change If you have just saved a Total Preset of course it will already be selected Main Selectors Acc Mixer Outputs Effects Settings Standard Set Std Sub Presets Sound Controls 3825 Std Normal On Off CL u 3 lt Volume Reverb tt 2 2 LA Reverb cz Chorus ue CL F i EEG Delay Le CL a CL jou CL ju CL Octave E Panorama Mapping At the very bottom of the display you can see the manuals and pedals available on your instrument which is from left to right Pedals Ped 1 Lower Manual Lo
78. his user guide OAS stands for OpenArt System This means that this new generation of instruments is capable of almost unlimited expansion Although we here at WERSI have always been proud of the fact that our instruments are capable of ex pansion we feel we have achieved special success in this respect with the OpenArt System A PC Personal Com puter which controls all functions of the central electronics is situated in the heart of OAS instruments It is key to the function of your instrument However a PC alone cannot provide the multiplicity of sound possibilities that the OAS instrument range offers For this purpose we have added additional high quality components For example several PCI cards with digital signal processors DSP s an additional option module for vocal harmonizing effects with which layered voices are possible and the proven famous OX7 Tonewheel Sound Generator The digital signal processors produce amongst other things the Longwave Sounds the Reverb system chorus and delay effects control the integrate digital mixer play the Realdrums and control the signal routes of all sound sources The bundle of high quality electronics built around a central PC offers ample reserves for expansion by activating available software soldering and DIY upgrades are things of the past while the loading of software via CD DVD Blu Ray or USB is the way forward Even though the OAS instrument range is built around a PC you do
79. ibrance of the Sound Tone Adjusts the Tone Value 0 Dull Tone Value 127 Bright Full Tone Velocity Attack Increase the sound Velocity Attack of the sound Velocity Amp Increase or Decrease the Velocity effect with the built in effect amplifier The examples above show just how easy it is to make quick and effective changes to sounds Remember that once you have made your adjustments you must save the adjustments into a Total Preset for instant recall PLEASE NOTE When a parameter box displays Inst it means that the sounds are the Instrument Standard and that the setting has not been adjusted from what has been pre set by the WERSI sound design team 16 5 Mappings Within your Total Presets you can save the Sound Button mappings as well as the special Sound Mapping level that is specific to your Total Preset We have briefly touched on this subject in the Saving A Total Preset chapter Main Selectors Acc Mixer Mapping for Upper 1 Existing Sound Mappings Outputs Effects Settings Simply press the button Mappings in the Selec tor Settings display shown at the bottom of the Back display and labelled to match the selectors Selected Sound Button Mapping Buttons The display to the left in our example it shows Mapping for Upper 1 selector This screen may look complicated but it actually quite simple to setup We will advise you how To m
80. if the dynamic A classical example is the Pianoforte it is named this way because you may play it soft piano or loud forte But almost all other instruments have some kind of dynamic that is not only limited to different volumes When you softly press down a Piano key the generated tone spectrum is very different from the spectrum you will hear when you hit the key with power or harder The same is true for a trumpet when it is blown softly or loudly and for almost all other musical instruments The Dynamic push button in the Upper group is used to turn the Dynamic touch ON or OFF for the Upper section and the Dynamic push button in the Pedal group turns this effect ON or OFF for the Pedal sound of your instrument The Lower group does not have its own push button and can be controlled only in the Virtual Selector Settings If you hit the push button the Dynamic is turned On or Off for the currently selected manual if this manual is part of the group where the push button is located Here is an example You have selected the push button Upper 2 Select and hit the button Dynamic in the Up per Selector group The Dynamic for Upper 2 will be turned on or off respectively depending on its previous state The LED associated with the push button will light up or turn off When Dynamic touch is active the volume and the tone spectrum of the generated sounds depend on how hard you hit amanual or pedal key Actually the spe
81. it Modes Split Setting ee Sl E _ Split Settings Back _ Split Setting Back Distribution of the sounds Distribution of the sounds Distribution of the sounds Left Right Left Right Left Right Change split distribution Change split distribution Change split distribution Split Mode 1 1 amp 2 3 4 Split Mode 2 1 2 amp 3 4 Split Mode 3 1 2 3 amp 4 Selector Plus Instruments Only e Vol Connect This area is for instruments with the Selector Plus options It allows you to con nect the additional selectors to the physical grey volume drawbars e Upp3 4 Check this box to connect the grey volume drawbar for Upper 3 to control the Upper 4 volume e Low2 3 Check this box to connect the grey volume drawbar for Lower 2 to control the Lower 3 volume e Ped1 2 Check this box to connect the grey volume drawbar for Pedal 1 to control the Pedal 2 volume The settings shown to the left are controlled by Tick check boxes that are simply pressed or by pressing the box and altering the value of the data box by using the Data Tempo wheel e Aftertouch Upper Manual Only Check this box to activate the Aftertouch effect for the Upper Manual Selec tors e Mod Wheel Upper Manual Only Check this box to set which Upper Manual Selector Sound you would like to be affected by the Modulation Wheel e Pitch Wheel Upper Manual Only Check this box to activate which Upper Manual Selector Soun
82. ive buttons to navigate to the desired level Mert nz Ven Vers Ue Level 1 Level Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 pe en J u The bottom of the screen shows what sound is currently assigned to the different levels The Previews of the selected Accompaniment Level allows you a quick overview to easily gain an idea of the Accompaniments in the selected Map ping that you want to save into your Total Preset An Example of the Level buttons 1 To change any of the mappings first select the Style Button you wish to change Selected Style Button the mapping for from the drop down menu In our example the 8 Beat style og button 2 Then select the Level button In our example Level 1 This will then display the currently selected Mapping Factory 1 Factory 2 Factory 3 Factory 4 Factory 5 User 1 User 2 User 3 User 4 User 5 from the drop down menu at the top of the display to the left ur Existing Acc Mappings 3 Simply select the desired Existing Acc Mappings to allocate to the Mapping Level Level 1 2 3 4 and 5 that you are working on User 1 2011 User 2 2011 User 3 2011 User 4 2011 User 5 2011 Preview ofthe selected ACC Mapping Level Above is an example of the Factory Accompaniment Mapping from the Existing Acc Mappings drop down menu relat ing to the Style Button 8 Beat 1 To save
83. l OpenArt Arranger styles Yamaha Tyros PSR styles and allnew WERSI OpenArt 2011 Styles Older styles from OAS 6 5 4 amp 3 do not contain the additional 4 fills but instead have 2 fills per Style Intro Rotor Ending 1 Ending 2 Slow Fast The middle row is home to the Intro 1 and Intro 2 push buttons The same buttons also trigger the Ending 1 and Ending 2 controls when pushed when a style is already playing Start Stop The last button to the right in the middle row of push buttons is the Rotor Slow Fast push button Although this is not a Rhythm Control it has been placed here as users playing with the Drawbars Tonewheel sounds will use this func tion to control the rotor and this is the easiest place to locate this important feature for live playing Finally the bottom row of push buttons control the Fill 1 and Fill 2 functions as well as the Sync Start and Start Stop button PLEASE NOTE The Fill 1 and Fill 2 buttons can also play Rhythm Breaks for a fuller Drum Fill See the Ac companiment Section chapter for details on how to change the function between Rhythm Fills amp Rhythm Breaks Also the Synchron Start push button can be used as a Tap Tempo function Simply push the button four times at the desired tempo and the Rhythm Style will automatically start at the tempo you have specified The Synchon Start push button can also be used to stop a style
84. l Preset ee Total Presets are great tools for live performances You can perfect your Sound Accompaniment Selectors Mixer Effects SFX Outputs and more for the performance of your life or simply for your own enjoyment at home ge 10 lt lt Bank gt gt Of course there are a number of Factory Total Presets already in stalled in your instrument to help you on your musical voyage through sUpper Volumes the OpenArt System pie Tre z PLEASE NOTE The maximum number of Total Presets is limited by the factory to 2000 If you want to use more Total Presets please contact WERSI Direct to increase this number by a change in the OAS registry Please consider that for a very large number of Total Presets 10 000 for example may result in a small delay when opening certain OAS aspects such as the OAS Preset Manager or selecting presets via Quickload 14 1 Selecting Total Presets The Total Presets are arranged in banks of ten presets each In order to select a specific Total Preset first choose a bank using the the two lt lt Bank gt gt push buttons located in the Total Presets group eejo lt lt Bank gt gt Push Buttons SS 10 a ee The number of the currently selected Bank and Total Preset is shown in the Main Display in the Accompaniment Overview Display U 351 36 Atlantis Rob Preset Bank Preset Name Push any of the push buttons 1 to 10 to select a specific Total Prese
85. l to the right of the TFT display screen if you press the String 1 push button just once Level 1 of the Strings 1 push button will be displayed If you press the same push button again you will navigate to Level 2 Each time you continue to press the button you will move through the Levels eventually coming back to Level 1 ACC Sounds Buttons acc Sounds These buttons are for slightly more advanced use and allow users to Map any Sounds and Accompaniment from the OAS database idirectly into a Total Preset without having to change any Mappings of the Sound group and Accompa niment push buttons More detailed information on this is presented in the Mappings chapter of the programming manual 14 Total Presets Total Presets Because in the user manual we often use the terms Presets and To tal Preset we want to explain these terms plainly A preset normally is an instruction that tells a certain part of the instrument what to do For example earlier in this user guide we talked about the Arabic Tuning presets These are specific data instruction assignments for that specific part of the instrument When we refer to a Total Preset we refer to a Global Preset that is capable of storing all Preset Data and custom settings set up across the instrument A Total Preset allows the user to instantly setup the entire instrument at a touch of a button recall of a Tota
86. lay Now you can see all Reverb Presets that are currently stored in your OAS instrument To delete a User Reverb Preset simply touch the name of the Reverb Preset that you wish to delete and then press the Delete button The Reverb Preset will then be deleted from the OAS Database PLEASE NOTE Factory Output Reverb Presets cannot be deleted 21 4 Setting A Reverb Preset As The Standard Preset STD If you do not want to use the Factory Standard Reverb Preset Normal you can of course designate any of your User Reverb Presets as the Standard Reverb Preset In the Reverb Preset Drop Down Menu you will see all of the Reverb Presets that you have saved and all factory presets that are available Simply select the Reverb Preset that you wish to set as Standard Touch the name of the Output Mixer Preset so that it is high lighted in Red Then press the button Standard Just above the Save button to the right of the screen A Blue popup window will appear Press the Yes button to set the se lected Reverb Preset as the Standard Reverb Preset Selectors Outputs Effects Settings Wersi Reverb 1 Standard If you do not wish to continue you can press the No button Use this mixer setting as standard Do you want to use this mixer setting as standard It will then be used in all total prese e you did not ecplicitly select another mixer setting Chorus WERSI Chorus Touch
87. llen inside immediately disconnect if from the power source It is not enough to turn it off Have your instrument checked by a qualified WERSI Service Technician before you use it again In order to disconnect the instrument from the power outlet always pull out the power plug and never pull the power cable from the instrument In order to avoid interference do not connect the instrument to power outlets for example to multiple outlets that sup ply other devices like motors dimmers lighting etc if there is another possibility When you use your instrument close to luminescent lamps TV sets and computer monitors as noise signals may be generated This is standard advice for any electronic musical instrument PLEASE NOTE Occasionally some of the screens and buttons within the OpenArt System contain German words names WERSI Direct have provided notes within this manual to advise you of the correct English translation for all German words Do not worry there are not many and you will soon become familiar with the odd German words that are present 3 Overview Connecting The connections of your instrument are elegantly hidden behind the rear panel so you won t see the connections even if you have cables plugged into them Naturally all connections will be in place For the WERSI Verona connec tions for the Main Power Lower Cabinet Speaker System Left amp Right Audio Bass Pedals amp Volume Expression Pedal For now
88. low Boxes on the main display This mode offers you the possibility of searching for other sounds while performing and activating them only when needed e Cancel Upper Sounds This check box turns off all Upper Manual Sounds Except Upper 1 if a new sound is selected for Upper 1 in effect creating a Solo Sound e Hawaii Length This data value box allows you to adjust the desired length of the Hawaii effect The possible value range is between 30 and 300 The Hawaii effect can be triggered by a footswitch and causes a semi tone detune of the note played on the Upper Manual This detune will gradually fade to normal similar to the effect of a Hawaiian Guitar The time it takes for the tuning to return to normal is what is actually determined by this setting Use the Data Tempo Wheel to adjust the setting 17 1 Sub Presets By pressing the button Sub Presets you can open another display where you can assign other Sub Presets to your Total Preset These are settings you have stored using other sections of the instruments The Sub Preset Menu allows you to quickly see what Preset is currently selected for each part of the instrument without physically having to visit each different section of the instrument Press the Sub Preset button The follow new screen will be displayed Man Selectors Acc Mixer Outputs O Effets Settings The Sub Presets Main Menu is a fairly spare display at the bottom of the display Standard
89. lter which are amplitude center frequency and bandwidth Bandwidth is typically labeled Q on the unit which stands for Q factor The amplitude of each band can be controlled and the center frequency can be shifted and widened or narrowed Parametric EQ Applications Tonal enhancement Parametric equalization is most often used to enhance frequencies which are not speaking well on a specific instru ment For example string instruments such as the double bass may have particular notes which cannot be produced at the same volume as the other notes on the instrument A subtle precise boost of the frequency which does not respond well may help to resolve this problem Resonance reduction Parametric equalizers can be used to precisely remove or enhance excessive resonance which can create a boomy or ringy sound In cases where instruments such as acoustic guitars or double basses have excessive boominess in some frequencies a parametric equalizer can be used to select the frequency band that is overly reso nant and reduce its volume Reducing extraneous noises Parametric equalization can also be used to reduce extraneous noises such as the sound of a guitar pick or the left hand fingers for string instruments or the creaking of a damper pedal of a piano These sounds often cannot be fully removed with parametric equalization due to the harmonic content of many of these sounds which would require extensive equ
90. ludes Karaoke Lyric E data you can push this button for on screen Qu lyrics A display is shown with the lyrics and as the song progresses the words are high REC Sounds EEE lighted so you know where you are 13 5 Quick Edit Quick edit l Quick Edit allows you to quickly edit either sequences or Styles Realdrums Depending on what accompaniment is loaded depends on whether you are taken to the Sequencer or the Style Editor 13 6 Dig Record Easy Record Dig Record Dig Record allows users to make their own Wave files record their own performance OAS naturally allows hard disk recording When you press this button a small recording surface is displayed The audio Levels will be shown and there is a button marked Start Press the Start button to start recording Once you start recording the Start button changes to Stop Press the Stop button to stop recording A Yellow Save menu will be displayed so that you can Name your new audio recording and save it to the OAS Database 13 7 MIDI Record Midi Record Similar to the above Dig Record MIDI record allows users to record their performance as a MIDI file The benefits of this is that you can then load the MIDI file into the OAS Sequencer to change the sounds post performance or to edit correct any mistakes with the Sequencer Editor The operation for recording is identical to Dig Record Please note That instead of Audio Levels appearin
91. ly Restricted Dynamics e 8 Like Dynamic 3 But Inverse Fading Out Sounds At Stronger Velocity e 9 Like Dynamic 4 But Inverse Fading Out Sounds At Stronger Velocity e 10 Cross Switch Full Sound From Value 110 0 Till 109 No Sound 110 127 Full Sound e 11 Cross Switch Normal Dynamic Up To Value 110 Value 111 to 127 No Sound e 12 Random 1 In Combination With Random 2 Crossfades Repeatedly Between Two Sounds e 13 Random 2 e 14 Linear Additional Settings in the Advanced Selector Settings The following four settings are are specific settings that are not related to the keyboard manuals as such but to the whole instrument and can be used for various control effects e Reset Controller Resets all sound specific settings For example when this check box is ticked if you change a sound all of the Selector Settings will change to the new sounds default settings e Direct Select This check box turns the Direct Select mode on or off With the Direct Select mode on the first sound displayed when a Sound Group push button is pressed the first sound the first of the nine displayed in the Yellow boxes on the main display is selected instantly The same also applies when selecting a different Level the first sound of that Level will automatically be selected If this mode is off the sounds of the Push Button have to be physically selected by the user by pressing one of the sounds in the Yel
92. mony BB Reeds BigBand Reeds Harmony Big Band Harmony Block Chord Harmony Country Harmony Duet 1 Harmony Duet 2 Harmony Fanfare Harmony Fingered Harmony Hymn Harmony Normal Harmony Solo Voice Theatre Harmony 16 3 Other Buttons In the Selector Menu There are three other buttons in the Selector Menu Advance Sub Presets Sound Controls e Advanced Opens the Advanced Selector Settings you can gain access to even more parameters for affecting the sounds and manuals e Sub Presets This button opens the Sub Preset Menu This is a quick access overview area that allows you to quickly see exactly what presets for all aspects of the instrument are currently selected rather than having to go into each sections own dedicated screen Naturally you can make change any of the Sub Preset selections at any time Please note that you can not make direct adjustments to any of the Sub Preset parameters from the Sub Presets Menu e Sound Control As the name suggest this is a Sound Control menu From the Sound Control display you can make adjustments to the sounds that you have selected without needing to use the Sound Editor or save any modifications to the sounds as a new User Sound 16 4 Sound Control Sound control is one of the most useful and easy to use Sound Editing tools in the OpenArt System Every factory sound has six changeable parameters assigned to them that can be quickly changed by opening the
93. mung fest Pop Jazz fest ACC Classica nonizer Barock Pa larmonizer Micro 1 with Effect 8 Accompaniments Accompaniment Types To enable you to add versatile accompaniments to your music your instrument offers various accompaniment meth ods Styles Realdrums MIDI Sequences General MIDI Wave amp MP3 files You can now also play back multimedia video files on your instruments Standard OAS Styles Styles are Rhythm with an automatic accompaniment Each Style consists of four Varia tions has two Intro Endings and two Fill patterns Older Styles from OAS 3 4 5 amp 6 OAA Styles The new standard for OAS Styles is the OAA OpenArt Arranger styles All new WERSI OAS instruments come with the OpenArt Arranger as standard OAA Styles are rhythms with an automatic accompani ment Each Style consists of four Variations has three Intro Endings four Fill patterns and two Break patterns Realdrums are high quality enhancements of Styles WERSI has developed a new technology that allows a Real Drummer to play in the rhythms with real percussive instruments Realdrum rhythms sound much more lifelike because you are listening to a recording or a real drummer without any modification by a computer system As with regular styles Realdrums have four Variations two Fill patterns and two Intro Ending Patterns Naturally an automatic accompaniment is standard with Realdrums Please note that some specialist Realdrums
94. n Display The Menu Tab Bar Main Selectors Acc Mixer Outputs Effects Settings At the top of the Main Display is the Menu Tab Bar It is Blue in colour and runs the length of the TFT display When you are on the Main Display the Tab Main is highlighted in a light Blue colour When you press this button the Main Display will instantly appear From Left to Right the next Tab button is Selectors This page will allow you make additional and comprehensive changes to the Sound Selectors The next Tab button is called Acc This is short for Accompaniment This page al lows you to make adjustments to the Accompaniment settings The next Tab button is Mixer and allows you to access the Digital Mixer that controls the OAS sound sources and audio digital inputs The next Tab button is Outputs and allows you to access and adjust settings related to the Outputs of your instrument The next Tab button is Effects The Effects Tab button allows you to access the WERSI Reverb 1 and 2 Delay amp Chorus effects Also the Stereo Studio Digital Reverb is also access from this Tab button The final Tab button is called Settings This tab allows the user to access the Settings Menu All aspects of the OAS system sounds styles and more can be edited changed from here 13 1 Main Display Special Function Buttons The group of buttons in this group are as follows Keyboard
95. nd such devices The USB bay conforms to the USB 2 0 standard for fast data transfer Floppy Disc Drive Older Instruments The Floppy Disc drive allows small amounts of data to be stored or saved The Floppy Disc drive can be replaced with a new USB hub at any time Contact your WERSI Direct Ltd to purchase a replacement USB bay 13 OpenArt System The Main Display The Main Display appears automatically after turning your instrument on and the OpenArt System has loaded It is used to display the most important instrument settings as well as to control instrument functions especially the ones you use in combination with the push buttons for sound and rhythm selection From here you can also access other user interfaces through which you can control the manifold functions of your OpenArt System Please note that depending on the hardware configuration of your instrument not all functions buttons shown below and described below may be available on your instrument Main Selectors Acc Mixer Outputs Effects Settings Arabic Hermode CD Player Karaoke 10 6 2010 Seo Lo _ 22 54 Quick edit EU CD Fairlighi Dig Record ENT Midi Record CD Galaxy LM Hold EE U 351 36 Atlantis Rob Quickload 1324 4 Atlantis Rob ACC Sounds Level Harmonizer Rolandy Cosmic Sawtooth Br Micro 1 Solo Vox x Chiff x Sth Saw x no Harmonizer Cb Fairlight Cb Galaxy Cb Theater Be Areas Of The Mai
96. nds by touching the Virtual Buttons in the Main Display and playing on the Upper Manual PLEASE NOTE If you cannot hear the sounds please check that the grey Upper 1 drawbar in the UPPER VOLUME group is not in position 0 Other reasons for a mute instrument may be the General Volume control or the Expression Pedal Turn both up in this instance PLEASE NOTE The current positions of the Volume Drawbars for the Three Sounds assigned to the Upper Manual the Two Sounds assigned to the Lower Manual and the Sound Assigned to the Pedal is indicated by Grey Bars at the bottoms of the associated Sound Display Fields in the Main Display See Hand Icons Below rer C 1 Ir ll gt 3 FL St gt Piano When you have a String sound you enjoy let s continue 3 Now push the Select 2 button in the Upper group to select the second sound level for the Upper manual Touch the TRUMPET button in the Brass group and select Trumpet from the Main Display or any other sound you like To hear the sound assigned to the second level it is necessary to activate the UPPER 2 ON push button in the Upper group Use the grey Upper 2 volume drawbar in the Upper Volumes Drawbar group left of the TFT Screen Adjust the volume of the sound You will also see the grey bar associated with the volume in the main display change too 4 Next push the Select 3 button in the Upper group to select the third level Then select the Acoustic Gui tar
97. ng to change between Short decays or Long Reverb tails Damp Allows you to adjust the Dampening of the Reverb Diffuse Adjusts Diffusion of the Reverb Change the Reverb from sounding Narrow or Wide Definition Allows you to adjust the Density of the Reverb Definition Form Adjusts the Shape Form of the Reverb and the Attack curve time of the Reverb effect Reverb to Delay This setting allows you to intensify or decrease the intensity of the Reverb feed to the Stereo Studio Delay generator Chorus This setting allows you to intensify or decrease the intensity of the Reverb feed to the Stereo Studio Chorus generator Reflections Left The top box to the Left allows you to adjust the delay of the Left Echo in Millisec onds The box below allows you to control the volume of the left Echo Right The top box to the Right allows you to adjust the delay of the Right Echo in Mil liseconds The box below allows you to control the volume of the Right Echo Input EQ Bass The Left box labelled Bass allows you to adjust the EQ Frequency control for the Reverb Effect Bass frequencies Treble The Right box labelled Treble allows you to adjust the EQ Frequency control for the Reverb Effect Treble frequencies Use the Data Tempo wheel to cycle through the frequency range for both Bass and Treble Re
98. ng your instrument different tunings This will allow you to play for example Oriental Music If you touch the button Arabic Tuning in the Main Display a new virtual surface will open where you can make these settings At the top of the Arabic Tuning display there is a box with a down pointing arrow This is a Drop Down menu listing all of TE a the available preset tuning s for your instrument phon Alan Hermode Player ze nn ee Open the list by simply touching the down pointing arrow and vis select the desired tuning by gently touching the associated line The selected tuning is immediately activated If ou choose any Arable a 35Cent other tuning than normal 0 the Arabic Tuning button the Main Display will turn red in colour Banc Up You can use the buttons Presets to the right for switching quickly between different tuning which happens quite often in Oriental EREE zmnmmmen music Please note WERSI has already assigned a series of different tuning presets to the presets You can use the Banc Bank Down or Banc Bank Up to navigate quickly through all of the quick access presets Using the 12 keys of the keyboard shown in the display you can determine for which notes a detuning shall take effect on The option Multi On in the lower right hand of the display determines if the tuning applies to just one or several keys The choice fields in t
99. nging Styles or Realdrums on the fly meaning while they are running playing Simply select the next accompaniment Style or Realdrum while the original accompani ment is playing You ll notice that the LED will start blinking and the accompaniment will change on the first beat of the next bar to the newly selected accompaniment Style or Realdrum PLEASE NOTE The Tempo of the new Style or Realdrum will change if the Tempo Mat option is activated ticked in the Virtual Acc options tab found at the top of the Main Display Third Tab Button Called Acc Tempo Mat allows users to decide whether they want to Main Selectors Acc load a Style or Realdrum with the Factory Pre Set Tempo or whether they would like to use the Style or Realdrum at Keyboard Arabi the tempo already specified by the User See the Accompaniment Chapter for more information 0 und a SD BD u _ nr LE Swe 11 Additional Rhythm Controls Rhythm C When playing with styles and Realdrums you should remember that there are other special Rhythm controls to help you along the way On Off Mode v zA c Bass gt Ce These push buttons can be found directly under the Accompaniment group Accompaniment The buttons of the additional Rhythm Controls e ACC On Off This push button actives the Auto Accompaniment for all Styles amp Realdrums The push button LED will light up RED when it is
100. ob If you load a Realdrum or a Wave for example the Definition will change to reflect the Accompaniment type in use e Beat LED Chain Under the wording Preset Name you will see a Yellow and Green LED chain made up from 4 LEDS in our example This chain counts the beat of the style while the longer LED chain below shows the overall length of the Accompaniment pattern being played This could be an 8 bar ending for example This LED chain changes to show the player the length of any accompaniment pattern to allow them to come in and play at the right moment or of course stop playing at the correct moment e Transpose This overview allows you to quickly see what key your OAS instrument is offset to In our example the Key is C so there is no Transpose Offset in place When there is the key that the instrument is offset to is displayed 13 12 Easy Preset The Easy Preset button opens a menu of easy to view presets A bank of 10 Total Presets is shown on the Main Display The Total Preset Bank Menu is also available from the Easy Preset menu too allowing you to easily move through the banks of Total Presets 13 13 Quickload Quickload Quickload allows fast access to all Total Presets Styles Realdrums Waves MP3 Videos and Sounds You can in stantly select one of the fore mentioned items and instantly load them Also the OAS Database can be accessed via the Quickload menu From the OAS Database organizing
101. octaves down Other functions for the Lower Manual include the Hold Lower push button This function allows the user the play a chord or single note on the Lower Manual and when the user lifts their hand away from the manual the sound still holds plays Other functions for the Upper Manual include the Dynamics push button This actives the function sometimes re ferred to as Touch Sensitivity Finally for the Upper Manual the push button to the far right on the top row is the push button to activate the WERSI Chord function WERSI Chord is an auto harmony There are 14 types to choose from from Big Band harmonies to Hymn Harmonies The WERSI Chord auto harmony is activated when the push button is activated and the Lower Manual is played at the same time as the Upper Manual The Rhythm Accompaniment Group This group contains the push buttons for selecting the Rhythm Styles Each Push Button contains nine Virtual Buttons that each display a rhythm style Further more each button has five levels Each level can house up to 9 Rhythm Styles and Accompaniments such as MP3 MIDI amp WAV The SFX Push Button Group All OAS instruments contain SFX Sound Effects buttons The WERSI Abacus Vegas and Verona feature 6 buttons for instant replay of an Audio SFX SFX can be freely assigned to the push buttons See the OAS Programmers Manual for information on how to assign SFX to the SFX buttons Overview
102. of all OAS multimedia and aspects is possible 13 14 Vocalist Harmonizer Button Microphone Controls Harmonizer rer The Harmonizer Harmoniser button allows you to access the Vocal Preset Editor for the optional Vocoder Presets can be edited and Saved as User Presets Micro 1 nel bern ondeer Micro 1 This button allows you to connect the Microphone 1 input to the Harmoniser Simply press the button to connect it to the Harmoniser or Press it again to Micro 1 disconnect from the Harmoniser with Effect Micro 1 With Effect This button is used to switch Reverb Chorus and Delay Echo on or off When the function is deactivated the button is grey in colour Naturally both functions can be stored in a Total Preset When saving a Total Preset make sure you Tick the Harmonizer option box in order to save the Harmoniser Vocalist functions 13 15 Virtual Selection Display The final part of the Main Display is the Selection Area When you press a push button in a sound group nine sounds will be displayed for you to select This is also true of the Accompaniment If you press a push button in the accom paniment selection group nine accompaniments will be displayed To select the style simply press one of the nine Yellow buttons The selected sound or accompaniment will then be highlighted in a pale grey pink colour ACC Sounds Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Here you can see that the CD Galaxy
103. on Please see Deleting a Reverb Preset Setting A DelayPreset As The Standard Preset Setting the Delay Preset as the Standard Preset is identical to the process for setting the Reverb preset as standard already explained on the previous page Please see Setting A Reverb Preset As The Standard Preset STD 22 Stereo Studio Reverb On the Main Effects display to the right of the display is a column for the Other Effects Press the button Reverb Selectors Mixer Outputs Effects Settings 1 7 Normal STD Reverb Settings 1 20 40 60 80 iL 40 2 7 OkHz 127 BEZ T Independent of the previously explained effects for the OAS Sounds Manuals Accompaniment and Drums the Stereo Studio Reverb of the OpenArt System is the studio effects system for the Drawbars Microphones Audio Inputs and Digital Inputs The professional Stereo Studio Reverb offers a complex and very beautiful studio reverb All aspects of the Stereo Studio Reverb can be adjusted to produce the perfect Reverb Selectors Outputs Effects Settings Stereo Studio Reverb Standard Zur ck 1 Normal STD The top of the display features the standard buttons seen on nearly all screens The Delete button The Drop Down Menu containing the Stereo Studio Reverb Presets The Save button The Standard button and the Back button Marked Zuruck in this screen All of these functions work in the exac
104. onewheel Drawbar Sound Presets that can be selected by touching one of the nine Yellow Virtual Sound buttons in the Main Display You may then adjust the sounds using the Tone wheel Drawbars except when the sound is marked with an Asterisk because the sound is a Longwave sample sound IMPORTANT Please note that the Modulation wheel is used with OX7 sounds to produce the artificial distor tion such as you got from old tube amplifiers So if you hear a distorted Tonewheel sound it does not mean that your instrument is defective simply that you have the Modulation wheel set to the maximum setting and the Distortion effect is active Simply roll the Modulation wheel back towards the Rhythm Controls to deacti vate the Distortion effect OAS X1 Drawbar Sounds Typical of our nature at WERSI why settle for one Drawbar Tone Generation when you can have more than one OAS makes this possible The new OAS X 1 Drawbar is a new sound device within OAS and works in the same way as the OX7 drawbars OAS X1 Drawbars Listed in the Settings Screen as just OAS Drawbars works on the same basis of mixing together Sine waves Vibrations of different frequency positions whose volumes can be set individually with the Drawbars IMPORTANT Please note that you can only change the sound with the Drawbars if the instrument was saved with the parameters Drawbars Free See the OAS Drawbar Editor chapter in the Programmers Guide PLEASE NOTE You c
105. onewheel Upper Manual determine the sound for the Upper Manual Tonewheel Upper Manual Tonewheel Lower Manual ToneWheel Upper Manual ToneWheel Lower Manual 7 Lhullullde _ Fo Le le Con ci 7 ee A i ij h a EZ Li PA m enge LL je j ie ee de el DU ha bei luad oe een ta a 7 FA 2 ES CRE Su saf e 4 Po 2 aan 1 The Left Control Panel To the immediate left of the TFT Display Touch Screen is the group of push buttons for the TOTAL PRESETS There are ten push buttons for the Total Presets and two Bank Up Down push buttons to cycle through the Total Preset banks In total there are more than 2000 Total Presets available at any one time The Sound Selector Controls To the left of the Total Presets push buttons are the push button groups for Upper Lower amp Pedals Along the bottom row each group has a button that corresponds to each sound Selector 1 Selector 2 Selector 3 for example In the middle row of the Selector push buttons special controls for turning on various functions such as Dynamics for Pedals Chorus effect for Lower amp Upper Selectors Turning Selector 2 on the Lower Manual On and also Selectors 2 and 3 on the Upper Manual On The top row of push buttons features the Octave Shift push button This function can be used with every selector and allows the user to change the sound either two octaves up or two
106. or the Wave and MP3 Players ASIO 1 This button opens the settings page for the VST 1 Instrument Slot ASIO 2 This button opens the settings page for the VST 2 Instrument Slot ASIO 3 This button opens the settings page for the VST 3 Instrument Slot ASIO 4 This button opens the settings page for the VST 4 Instrument Slot Drawbars Selectors Mixer Outputs Effects Settings Here you can adjust the Volume Treble and Bass frequencies for the OX7 and OAS draw _ OX7 Eingang _ Back bars Aux In addition you can set the intensity of Reverb Delay and Chorus There are three sliders that control the effect intensity You can turn the effects off by pressing the On Off button in the Aux section where the effects are located on the display Equalizer In the centre of the display is the Equalizer This works in the same manner as the Equalizer on the main display Like the effects you can turn the Equalizer on and off by using the On Off button Drawbar Volume The Volume Slider Control to the left of the display controls the overall volume of the Drawbar generators This overall volume slider affects all OAS and OX7 Drawbar sounds in all Total Presets The standard setting is O dB Stereo Width The Stereo Width button can be turned either On or Off The Stereo Width function activates a virtual stereo im pression of the Drawbar sound Next to the On Off button is a Data Value field that all
107. orks in the same way as described for the Microphone Inputs 1 and 2 in the Input Mixer section There are controls that can be adjusted for Bass Mid 1 Mid 2 and Treble Above the four volume sliders a box showing the volume of each band can be seen as well as a white Data Entry value box In this Data Value box you can choose which frequency in that band is to be adjusted Use the Tempo Data Wheel to make the adjustments As usual the Back button will bring you back to the main surface of the Output Mixer PLEASE NOTE The above settings shown are identical in all Output Channel windows Main Output Grp 1 and Grp 2 open their own respective setting screens but all settings are as above 20 1 Saving an Output Mixer Preset Saving the Output Mixer Presets is identical to saving a preset for the Input Mixer 1 Press the Save button 2 The Yellow Save window will now be displayed 3 Select a Free Slot to save your Output Mixer Preset 4 You can rename the preset by pressing on the dark long button near the top of the screen 5 The Blue virtual typewriter will now be displayed where you can input a new name for your Output Mixer Preset Press the Enter button 6 Press the large Save button at the bottom of the screen 20 2 Deleting An Output Mixer Preset You can also delete User Output Mixer Presets Open the Drop Down menu in the centre of the display Now you can see all Output Mixer Presets th
108. ources the background of the button will turn Blue and touch them once more to activate the sources again Another sex buttons labelled Edit are located just above the six Mute buttons By touching one of these you can ac cess the sound and effect controls for the corresponding mixer input Organ Micro1 Micro Audio1 Audio Digital Below each slider a numerical value is displayed This indicates the peak volumes recorded so far of each channel in dB Decibel where maximum volume means 0 dB In case a value greater than 0 dB is displayed the channel signal was too loud To avoid distortions pull back the associated slider a little bit The Reset button on the upper left is used to reset the peak displays Editing the Organ Input To edit any of the six channels simply press the Edit button In this instance we are going to look at the Organ input In the Organ channel strip press the Edit button new window will appear Se The virtual volume slider to the far left is a copy of the Input Mixers volume slider on the Main Display Effects a m ee Main Selectors Acc M ixer l Outputs f 22 Fr he ss Organ Inputs Outputs The three buttons labelled Outputs are Main and Grp1 and Grp2 This deter mines which output channels the organ signal will be sent to Main activates the _Realdrums output via the int
109. ows you to change the delay between Left and Right channels Simply press the white data value button and change the value with the ce Tempo Data Wheel The Values can be changed from 0 to 100 ms Milliseconds Longwaves Touch the LongWaves button to open the Mixer settings for the Longwaves Main _ Selectors Acc Mixer Outputs Effects 8 ettings Input Manuals ACC Sequencer Drums Manuals Acc Sequencer Organ Organ 110Hz 6KHZ OKHZ All sections of the instrument that utilise the Longwave Samples have their own individual sections The sections are Manuals Acc Accompaniment Sequencer and Drums Manuals Manuals Outputs Main Organ Group Group 1 and Group 2 Equalizer Setting Boxes Bass and Treble Frequencies Equalizer Sliders For Frequency Intensity of the Bass and Treble Frequencies Manual Volume Slider Set the Volume of the Longwaves for the Keyboard Manuals and Pedals Acc Sequencer Acc Sequencer E Outputs Main Organ Group Group 1 and Group 2 50Hz E Equalizer Setting Boxes Bass and Treble Frequencies Equalizer Sliders For Frequency Intensity of the Bass and Treble Frequencies Accompaniment Sequencer Volume Slider Set the Volume of the Accompaniment and Sequences Styles Auto Accompaniment and MIDI Sequences Drums Outputs Main Organ Group Group 1 and Group 2 Equalizer Setting Boxes Bass and
110. paniments modified with XG sounds can only be played back on OAS instruments equipped with the XG Sound Card IMPORTANT Allnew OAS instruments and all OAS instruments manufactured post 2004 do not have an XG Sound Card as the new OAS 7 Longwave amp Advanced sound library is superior in sound quality and therefore the XG sounds are redundant We advise all customers who purchased their instruments post 2004 to disre gard any details relating to XG Sounds The information is only included to cover all details of the entire OAS instrument range from the past ten years AKAI Sounds The WERSI OAS instrument range is the only instrument sophisticated to allow users to load the AKAI Sound Sample library There are literally thousands of sample libraries available via third parties that will work with your OAS instru ment At the turn of the Millennium it was estimated that AKAI had the largest sample library in the world PLEASE NOTE OAS is compatible with all AKAI S 1000 S 2000 amp S 3000 Sample Libraries Internal MIDI Sounds Windows Sounds in the OAS system allow you to use internal programs that may be installed on your instrument These are not real sounds but internal MIDI sounds You can assign these sounds to the Selectors in the same way that you would a normal sound External Sounds MIDI Sounds are not real sounds but rather MIDI Information which can be interpreted by other programs that may be installed on your instrument Yo
111. r instrument tuning s to your Total Presets in the Selector Settings via the Main Display 7 Hermode Tuning Hermode Tuning is a professional Tuning Solution from the professional audio science haus Hermode in Germany This function was only available between 2006 and 2009 Hermode Tuning simply allows users to realistically tune the different sounds as an Orchestra Classical section or Pop band would The changes can only be heard by the most trained ear or players with perfect pitch who prefer the purest tuning and characteristics and imbres that play between different instruments The OAS 7 tuning feature built into the Advanced Selector Settings means that the same effect can be achieved with the native OAS system The different Hermode Tunings are i Outputs eE STE CD Player Temperiete Stimmung Natrual tuning m Ben BA Referenzstimmung Note Reference tunning F 7 nek raoke Pop Jazz Popular Music Jazz Style tuning Kedit Klassik Alt An old Classical Music tunning Klassik Tuning for Classical Music 7 u Referenzstimmung Sest Large Reference 1 Pl Referenzstimmung tuning for a large band for example Pop Jazz Fest Large Popular Music Jazz Style tuning for many musicians sounds etc cuspe Klassik alt Barock A historical European music period tuning Temperierte Stimmung Record i Record Pop Jazz eee 00 N 9 O1 ND Quicklo Klassik Referenzstim
112. rawbar Controls the volume of Selector Sound 3 of the Upper Manual Left Side Panel Near the manual on the left are the Volume Controls Here you can adjust the instrument s overall volume General Volume and the volumes for two connected Microphones Volume Microphone 1 Volume Microphone 2 amp Volume Headphones There is a Jack Input for connecting Headphones next to the Volume Controls Left Control Panel On the left hand side of your instrument you will find the RHYTHM CONTROLS These are frequently used when playing You can control the Rhythm Style Start Stop select Fills Breaks and more from this control panel As well as the Rhythm Controls there are two controls for Pitch amp Modulation These two controls are Wheels The Pitch wheel can be used to glide the pitch of the sound up and down The Pitch Wheel automatically pitches back to it s original central position after you have finished using it Wheels Modulation Pitch Modulation OAS Rhythm Controls Rhythm Controls The Rhythm Controls are an important part of the OAS control interface The top row of push buttons show the rhythm variations A B C and D push buttons All OAS Styles and Realdrums each have four different variations Simply pressing one of these buttons will change between the different Rhythm Style variations PLEASE NOTE The A B C and D push buttons can also be used to trigger fills for al
113. reo Delay section al lows you to control additional parameters of the Delay effect Feedback This allows you to adjust the amount of Feedback be tween the Left and Right Delay channels Less is more very often with Stereo Delay Damp This allows you to choose the frequency that you would like to Dampen Crossface On Off Aus in our example This button allows you to turn the Crossfade of the Left and Right Delays On or Off Cross fade is likened to bouncing between the Left and Right channels Tempo to Echo Tempo This area shows the currently set tempo of your instrument You can change the tempo here On Off Ein Aus Aus in our example This button allows you to turn the Tempo Synch effect On or Off When on the Stereo Delay will be perfectly synched to the Ac companiment unit of your instrument Volume The Volume Slider allows you to control the overall volume of the Stereo Delay effect Stereo Delay Saving A Stereo Delay Reverb Preset Saving a Stereo Delay Preset is identical to saving a Reverb preset in the previous section Please see Saving a Reverb Preset Deleting A Stereo Delay Preset Deleting a Stereo Delay Preset is identical to saving a Reverb preset in the previous section Please see Deleting a Reverb Preset Setting A Stereo Delay As The Standard Preset Setting the Stereo Delay Reverb Preset as the Standard
114. s In the Aux section there are Sliders to control the Reverb Delay and Chorus ef fect for the ASIO VST Instrument input The effects can be turned both On and Off S0Hz Z The Equalizer works in the same way as previously described for the other sec tions of the mixer and is shown in a more compact section to make room for the SP DIF and Wave 1 Digital Inputs The Panorama Slider allows you to change the stereo position of the Audio Input between the Left and Right chan nels Press the Back button to return to the Main Mixer display 19 1 Saving A Mixer Preset Naturally once you have made adjustments to the Mixer you may wish to save the new settings This is how Selectors Outputs Effects Settings Mixer Inputs 0 Normal STD Organ Micro1 Micro2 Audio 1 Audio2 Digital Back Save Mixer Input Presets Back insert new name se u u oe a u a De ae De a I 003000330000 dr DD Dr de De De Du 0 oe To save a Mixer Preset you must return to the Main Mixer Display On the Right hand side near the top there is a button marked Save Press the Save button The Yellow Save screen will appear Choose the Slot Marked Free that you would like to Save your new Mixer Preset under You can change the name of the Mixer Preset by pressing the long dark button near the top The button is marked Normal in our example The
115. s Distribution of the sounds cz Left Right For example you can have 1 sound below the split point and 2 sounds above the split point or a combination of varying possibilities To change any of the split modes combinations simply press the Change Split Distribution button Da nn You can cycle through the different distribution modes simply by repeatedly pressing the Change Split Distribution button Eventually it cycles back to the first distribution option This process is the same for the Lower Manual Split Distribution too 13 11 Setting The Split Point To set the Split Point on the Upper and Lower Manuals simply press the Split button and then play the key on the actual keyboard Manual to define the actual Split Point PLEASE NOTE Remember that the Upper Manual has its own Split button ur 4 T a ua and that the Lower Manual also has its own Split button You must Press the Upper Split button to set the Split of the Upper Manual and you must Oniy the Upper Split button can change the Press the Lower Split button to set the split of the Lower Manual Upper Manual Split Settings Tower Manual Deactivating The Split Point Only the Lower Split button can change the Lower Manual Split Settings To deactivate the split point simply press the Split button for the manual that you wish to deactivate the Split Point for and press the last key to the left on the relevant Manual For example
116. selector is turned off it will not display a keyboard manual See Upper 3 Selector with the assigned sound CD FM 1 2 for an example PLEASE NOTE The Manual Assignment Display show the Upper Manual Selectors 1 2 amp 3 on the right hand side of the display the Lower Manual Selectors 1 amp 2 are in the middle and finally the Pedal Selector is on the far Right An Up Close Look At The Manual Assignments And The Data They Contain Outter Blue Rim Indicates which Selector is active Key Range Showing Manual Split j CSU AN A CD Galaxy Sound Name The Volume of the Selector Grey Bar The name of the sound Indicated the current volume of the currently assigned to the Selector Total Preset the Selector The Selector Selector 1 Upper Manual in our example 13 10 The Manual Split Buttons Pedal _ Split I Lower Manual Split Upper Manual In the middle just below the Manual Assignment Display you can see the above buttons These buttons allow you to split the manuals Upper and Lower Manuals The Pedals can not be split PLEASE NOTE Make sure that you do not have the Piano Mode active as this will cancel any Splits you wish to assign to the Manuals To Split the Upper Manual for example touch the button called ENT TE me Split next to the Upper Manual surface A new small display will appear called Split Settings In this display you can choose how you wish to split your sound
117. sound from the Pedal group to the Upper manual or a trumpet sound to the pedal although this may not always make sense from a musical viewpoint However you might belong to the group of musicians who like play the Tico Tico melody on the pedal We know of at least one artist who can do it to perfection 5 The Different Sound Generators An Overview Longwave Sounds Longwave sounds are high quality sample sounds generated by the DSP SG 12 hardware of your WERSI OAS in strument The Longwave sounds are as their name suggest a Long Wave In older instruments using digital samples they would use a sample that was perhaps only 1 second long and then digitally manipulated to make the sound With the WERSI OAS Longwaves the sounds are real recordings in their entirety For example the Grand Piano samples last from between 3 seconds to 15 seconds per sample Choir samples string samples can last up to 30 seconds for example No digital manipulation is required to then synthesise a sound Longwave sounds are pure samples con structed into a usable sound of the highest quality You can recognise a Longwave sound by the small Asterisk next to its name You can assign all Longwave sounds to any Sound Selector All Longwave Sounds can also be assigned to any track within any Style or MIDI accompani ment OX7 Sounds Ox To generate the famous Tonewheel sounds your instrument is equipped with a separate sound generating system
118. sounds Besides the sounds you can access by pressing the Sound Push Button Strings 1 push button in our example you can use more sounds through changing the mapping level of your Sound Button if you press a Sound Button you always access the first level of the sound Mappings stored in your Total Preset You can see in the screen shot to the right that the ACC Sounds Level1 Level2 Level3 Level4 sound family displays nine sounds Above the Yellow buttons there are several buttons called Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 etc Press the desired Level button to access even more sounds CD Galaxy TIP To quickly access the other sound levels of a Sound Push button you can simply press the Sound Push button several times to access the different sound levels For example Press the Strings 1 just once to see Level 1 Press the button Twice to access Level 2 Press the button Three times to access Level 3 and so on Example Of Selecting A Sound For The Upper Manual Let us go through an example of selecting sounds for the Upper Manual The principle is the same for both Upper and Lower Manuals and naturally the Pedals too 1 Push the Select 1 Button in the UPPER group to activate the first sound target for the Upper Manual 2 Now Push the Strings 1 push button in the ENSEMBLE group The Main Display now shows sounds names like Strings 1 Soft Strings Mantovani Strings Sustain etc You may try the various String sou
119. t at the bottom right of the Playlist screen Use Playlist The Playlist screen will close and the display returns to the Easy Preset menu You will see the Total Presets displayed from your Playlist Also please note that El a ee the Bank now displays the name of your Playlist In our example it is Alejandro 1 ET Banc reset ickload Tempo MP3 Alejandro 1 15 Quickload The Quickload centre page gives you n easy to handle function to pre listen to your accompaniments Styles Re aldrums Waves MIDI files Multimedia Files and MP3 files or to load them into your Total Preset Additionally you can pre listen to any sound in the OAS sound library You can also choose sounds for Total Presets or even load Total Presets from the OAS Database Sounds 01 Spectra Kit 1 01 Standard 1 Vol 01 Standard 1 4G 02 Standard 2 XG 03 Standard GM 030 Vintage Road Wurli 04 Traditional XG 05 Standard 3 XG Acoustic Guitars Acoustic Plano Claunct Contemporary Kits Contemporary Percus Drum Loops Drum Akenus 09 Room XG Electric Guitars leo 1 Finger Plucker Electric Guitars bet 1 Finger Plucker 2 anced _ k Fi On the upper part of the screen you see eight buttons By using them you can select the data type you want to work with The big drop down list on the left side displays all entries all entries in your OAS database which fit the selecte data type You can
120. t 6 Triggers the SFX Sound Effect for SFX Button 6 eon eae YS 11 Effect 7 Triggers the SFX Sound Effect for SFX Button 7 12 Effect 8 Triggers the SFX Sound Effect for SFX Button 8 13 Effect 9 Triggers the SFX Sound Effect for SFX Button 9 14 Fade In Out Triggers the Fade In Out function 15 Fill 1 Triggers Fill 1 16 Fill 1 VarDown Triggers Fill 1 and jumps to the next Variation down 17 Fill 1 VarUp Triggers Fill 1 and jumps to the next Variation up 18 Fill 2 Triggers Fill 2 19 Fill 2 Var Down Triggers Fill 2 and jumps to the next Variation down 20 Fill 2 VarUp Triggers Fill 2 and jumps to the next Variation up 21 Hawaii Triggers the Hawaiian glide effect 22 Intro Ending 1 Triggers Intro 1 when no accompaniment is playing Triggers Ending 1 when the Acc is playing 23 Intro Ending 2 Triggers Intro w when no accompaniment is playing Triggers Ending 2 when the Acc is playing 24 Keyboard Split On Off Abacus amp Ikarus Only Turns the Generic Single Keyboard Split On and Off 25 Lower Split On Off Turns the Lower Split point On or Off 26 Piano Soft Piano Soft function Generic Effect 27 Piano Soft Lower Piano Soft function for the Lower Manual 28 Piano Soft Solo Piano Soft function for the Solo Manual For WERSI Louvre GS1000 only 29 Preset Down Selects the next Total Preset Down 30 Preset Up Selects the next Total Preset Up
121. t in the current bank The Total Preset name and the number of the selected Total Preset from 1 to the limit set in the registry but the limit is 2000 from the Factory appear in the centre of the Main Display near the bank number The Main Display s sound area shows the Sounds that the preset has assigned to the manuals and to the pedals PLEASE NOTE The first 500 storage places for Total Presets are reserved for existing and future factory Total Presets When you change a Total Preset while playing the new sound will become active only after released the note you are playing and play the next note or touch the next note In this way you can prepare for a sound change while playing in a fegato style When you are playing and wish to change a Total Preset Bank you must also press one of the ten Total Preset but tons to activate the sound Changing Bank alone will not physically change the Total Preset merely the Bank of Total Presets is changed and the user must then select a new Total Preset within the new Bank 14 2 Direct Selection Of Total Presets As an alternative to selecting Total Presets as described above you may select Total Presets by directly entering their number of choose them from the list of all Total Presets in the OAS Total Presets Database In order to do this touch the Preset Name Status Bar Where you see the Total Preset name in the Main Display Press your finger on the Total Preset n
122. t manner as described for all other effects and mixers Sterenstudioreverh Standard Sante The Drop Down Menu for the Stereo Studio Reverb Presets Select any of the Factory Presets for instant setup of the Stereo Studio Reverb Choose from Short Reverbs to Church Reverbs AT SENTE 2 Long 20 40 6D 80 100 0 103 Short abi 4 Reverb Mellow 5 Reverb Bright 6 Church 1 7 Church 2 Reverb Settings Of the Stereo Studio Reverb The Reverb Settings allow you to change the main characteristics of the Reverb In short you can Design your per fect Stereo Studio Reverb Effect Reverb Settings At the top of the Reverb Settings section is the Reverb Graphical Display It shows us the shape of the Reverb including how intense it is and how it trails off The display changes in Realtime as you adjust the settings so you can see for yourself how each adjustment affects the Reverb effect Below the graphical display are the key components of the Studio Re verb effect Room Size This setting allows you to adjust the size of the Effect from a Small Room to a Large Hall Predelay Adjusts the amount of time before the effect takes place in millisec onds A value of Oms means the effect is immediate while a higher value of 25ms means there is a 25 millisecond wait before the effect starts Time Adjusts the length of decay of the Reverb effect tail Use this setti
123. t the bottom of the display the display changes to allow you to select Re verb presets or make specific changes for the relevant section of the instrument The instrument section you are adjusting will be highlighted in Green In our example the Reverb is set for the Manuals Manuale Manuale Keyboard Manuals and Pedals Accomp Auto Accompaniment MIDI Sequences Drums Longwave Drum Kits Main Selectors Acc Mixer Outputs Effects Settings EX Back ge nl Wersi Reverb 1 Wersi Reverb 1 Back Example 1 Manual Display For The Example 2 Accomp Display For The Example 3 Drums Display For The Keyboard and Sound Reverb Effect Auto Acc MID Seq Reverb Effect Longwave Drum kit Drum Sample Reverb Effect 21 2 Saving A Reverb Preset see Saving your own Reverb Presets is identical to saving any other preset 1 Press the Save button 2 The Yellow Save window will now be displayed 3 Select a Free Slot to save your new Reverb Preset 4 You can rename the Reverb Preset by pressing on the dark long button near the top of the screen 5 The Blue virtual typewriter will now be displayed where you can input a new name for your Reverb Preset Press the Enter button 6 Press the large Save button at the bottom of the screen 21 3 Deleting A Reverb Preset You can also delete User Reverb Presets Open the Drop Down menu in the centre of the disp
124. tal Presets Please also be careful when you are saving Total Presets as to not overwrite any Total Preset that you wish to keep With the OpenArt System you can decide on what settings you wish to save into your Total Presets All that you have to do is simply press the Tick Box that corresponds to the relevant settings that you wish to save into your Total Pre set Simply by pressing one of the Boxes a tick will appear in the box All boxes displaying ticks will be saved into your new Total Preset The Different Settings That Can Be Saved Into A Total Preset e Sounds The sounds for all manuals and all sound related functions as Dynamics Panorama Chorus etc Also all other sound settings such as Arabic tuning Hermode tuning LM Hold the WERSI Chord settings the pedal mono settings and the direct selection options are also saved when ticking the Sounds box e Manual Volumes Directly below the Sounds tick box is the box marked Volumes By ticking this box the Total Preset will store all of the volumes for the sound selectors for all manuals and pedals e Accomp The currently selected accompaniment and accompaniment settings will be saved by ticking this box e Accompaniment Volumes By ticking this box all volumes relating to the accompaniment section will be saved e Transpose By ticking this box the current Transpose settings will be stored in the Total Preset e Microphone
125. ton The following Message will appear on the screen Main Selectors Mixer Outputs Effects Settings Press the Yes button to change the Standard settings Selecting No will abort this function Standard Set Std Advanced Sub Presets Sound Controls Edit a Standard Preset impact on all pres You are about to change standard presets that may have sets Continue anyway Manuals Acc Seq Drums Micro OX7 Additionals Main Selectors Mixer Outputs Effects Settings un If you have pressed the Yes button the red background will appear as a last warning that the changes will take place Standard Set Std Advanced Sub Presets Sound Controls WersiChord y BEE Change any of the Selector Settings Press the Advanced buttons and Sub Preset buttons to make changes here HEEEEEEERR EEEEEEER _EEEEEEER Press the Standard button again to save the changes PLEASE NOTE Please bear in mind that changes you make in the Standard Preset mode affects all of your Total Presets However if you wish to return to the Factory Preset settings touch the Set Std button 18 Accompaniment Acc Display When you press the Acc at the top of the Main Display in the blue menu bar the display shown below will appear The accompaniment display allows users to control the settings of the Accompaniment section Main Selectors Acc Mixer Outputs Effects Settings Advanced Mapping Direct Ea
126. u can connect your OAS instrument to external instruments DAWs Digital Audio Workstations MIDI expanders etc You can assign the MIDI sounds to Selectors in the same way as a normal sound VST Sounds The most modern musical instrument application is called VST Virtual Instruments WERSI OAS instruments allow you to use up to four VST s at any one time Naturally you can have many different VST instruments installed and you can combine the different VST instruments together The VST library is growing and Software developers such as Native Instruments for example have developed some very exciting and sophisticated instruments Virtual Real Steinway Pianos Virtual Studio Drummers are just an ex ample of what can be achieved with VST PLEASE NOTE If you wish to use VST instruments please consult WERSI to ensure that they are a recom mended or certified VST that is safe to use with the OAS Operating System Loading of any VST without checking and affecting the OAS drivers or altering the OAS program architecture could void your warranty RAM REQUIREMENTS We recommend for users wishing to use 4 VST instruments that they have the maxi mum RAM chips installed Allnew OAS instruments come with 2GB of RAM as standard older instruments may need topping up WERSI DIRECT Recommend 4GB of RAM for optimum performance when using the powerful VST feature Dynamic Touch Push Button One important characteristic of almost all musical instruments
127. u the right to use the Windows operating system on your OAS instrument It is illegal to use this CD Rom to install Windows on one or more additional PC systems 1 Getting Started Connecting The connections of your instrument are elegantly hidden behind the rear panel so you won t see the connections even if you have cables plugged into them Naturally all connections will be in place For the WERSI Verona Vegas amp Abacus keyboard connections for the Main Power Lower Cabinet Speaker System Left amp Right Audio Bass Pedals amp Volume Expression Pedal Connector Further along to the left of the instrument audio MIDI in out connections are further connection options for USB Motherboard USB ports Video Out For external monitors Digital Audio in out Motherboard Connections Introduction Congratulations on the purchase of your new WERSI OAS instrument We can well understand that you as the proud owner of an instrument from our new family of WERSI OAS instruments 2011 Plus Range do not want to wade through the long detailed information contained within the User Manual and Programmers Guide However we recommend to read the introduction chapters of this user manual to quickly learn familiarise yourself with the many functions of your OAS instrument If you have the time and are curious enough to want to get to know your instrument in detail we will happily guide you through the many parts of your instrument via t
128. uired Simply press the Preset you wish to select it will highlight in Red That Preset will immediately become active Reverb The Micro OX7 display shows the four Effect Sections Similar to the above 1 Reverb Studio Stereo Reverb 3 Chorus Studio Stereo Chorus 4 Delay Studio Stereo Delay These are the Effects for the Microphones OX7 Drawbars and VST ASIO Inputs Open the Drop Down menus simply by press ing on the Yellow Downward Pointing Arrows A list of all Presets currently available in each section will be displayed You can select any of the Presets The Preset that is selected shall be saved into the Total Preset The Additionals display shows the four Effect Sections Similar to the above 1 S Effects SFX Sound Effect Presets 2 Harmonizer Harmoniser Presets 3 Mixer Digital Mixer Presets 4 Output Output Presets 5 Arabic Arabic Tuning Presets 6 Chord Presets Chord Harmony Presets These are the Effects for the Sound Ef fects Harmoniser Mixer Outputs Arabic Tunings and Chord Presets Open the Drop Down menus simply by press ing on the Yellow Downward Pointing Arrows A list of all Presets currently available in each section will be displayed You can select any of the Presets The Preset that is selected shall be saved into the Total Preset PLEASE NOTE If you want to save all of the Sub Presets as Standard Simply press the Standard But
129. ur example This button will display the different harmony types for the Style Player When the large button is pressed the following window is opened Easy Chord 1 Selectors Harmony Types Le Bitte auswahlen Standard Advanced Easy Chord 1 Easy Chord 2 pm Single Finger Wersi m La Advanced Chords Easy Chord 1 Easy Chord 2 Single Finger WERSI Advanced Chords Bass to Lowest Interval Mode Piano Mode Pedal Harmony Organist Mode Bass To Lowest Interval Mode ra Ca ade ei l _Piano Mode a Pedal Harmony Organist Mode At the bottom of the screen is a dark grey but ton that shows the the Harmony Type that is currently set as standard TITLEN Endings ohne Acc Wk Meck BDA EA Ki EA a Below this is a check box Endings ohne Acc that can be activated to play the Auto Accom paniment when a style Realdrum ending is playing Simply select the Harmony that you would like to use The harmony will be selected in Blue IT is now ready to use To exit from the Harmony type display simply press the fq button to exit Direct Select checking this box allows you to change accompaniment automatically when a a new Accompaniment Group push button is pressed or anew Level is se lected Auto Fill checking this box activates the Auto Fill function When you change to the next Variation a fill is automatically tri
130. uts have the professional Studio Stereo effects Stereo Reverb Stereo Delay and Stereo Chorus inserted If you wish to adjust the Effects please edit the correct effect generator In the Effects screen these are the effects displayed on the right of the screen and are labelled Drawbars and Micro phones etc Audio Input 1 and 2 Audio Inputs 1 and 2 are identical screens and settings Touch the Edit button at the top of either of the Audio Input 1 and Audio Input 2 channels to open the Mixer settings for the Audio Input Mixer Settings This display is similar to the Drawbars P i i gt display All settings work in the same way Audio 2 Input In the Aux section there are Sliders to control the Reverb Delay and Chorus ef fect for the ASIO VST Instrument input The effects can be turned both On and Off The Equalizer works in the same way as previously described for the other sec tions of the mixer The Panorama Slider allows you to change the stereo position of the Audio Input between the Left and Right chan nels Press the Back button to return to the Main Mixer display Audio Input 1 and 2 Touch the Edit button at the top of either of the Audio Input 1 and Audio Input 2 channels to open the Mixer settings for the Audio Input Mixer Settings This display is also similar to the Draw mens ee bars display All settings work in the same way Digital Input
131. verb Reflec Reflection and General Volume To the very right of the display is a section in a Tan Brown colour This section con tains Volume Sliders The three Volume Sliders displayed control the Reverb Effect Intensity The volume of the Reverb Reflections and the General volume of the entire Reverb effect Reverb This slider allows you to control the master reverberation intensity The Mute Button above this volume slider mutes this control Reflect This slider allows you to determine the amount of Reflections The Mute Button above this volume slider mutes this control General This is the General Master volume control of the entire Stereo Studio Reverberation generator Saving A Stereo Studio Reverb Preset Saving a Stereo Studio Reverb Preset is identical to saving a Reverb preset in the previous section Please see Sav ing a Reverb Preset Deleting A Stereo Studio Reverb Preset Deleting a Stereo Studio Reverb Preset is identical to saving a Reverb preset in the previous section Please see Deleting a Reverb Preset Setting A Stereo Studio Reverb As The Standard Preset Setting the Stereo Studio Reverb Preset as the Standard Preset is identical to the process for setting the Reverb preset as standard already explained on the previous page Please see Setting A Reverb Preset As The Standard Preset STD 22 1 Studio Stereo Chorus On the Main
132. w PLEASE NOTE As previously mentioned the Transposer has more than one function When navigating through the TFT Display pages if there is a Drop Down menu for example you can use the Transposer to move up and down the data lists to select the desired setting To do this just Press on a line in the Drop Down menu then use the Left Transpose Button to move Down the list or the Right Transpose Button to move Up the list Also if there are Data Value boxes where the value can be changed you can also use the Transpose buttons to increase or decrease the value of the data box To do this simply Press the Data Value Box it will high light in Red Then use the Left Transpose Button to decrease the value or the Right Transpose Button to increase the value Data Storeage Input CD DVD amp Blu Ray Drive All new WERSI OAS Instruments Summer 2010 onwards are equipped with a new high speed CD DVD writer combo drive This allows loading of data as well as burning your own Audio CD s The new CD DVD drive is even more advanced now thanks to the implementation of the new Blu Ray standard A new innovation for future development High quality video audio help tutorials whole concert playback for example USB Bay On all new instruments the old Floppy Disc drive has been replaced by a USB Bay The new USB bay features four USB ports to connect external hard drives memory sticks a
133. w 1 and Low 2 and the Upper Manual Upp 1 Upp 2 and Upp 3 The currently selected manual is the is the one with the red background Above each of the selector buttons you can see choice fields or combined selection tick boxes Here you can make the settings listed on the right side of the screen The standard value for the setting is displayed if you exceed the of the value beyond the upper or lower limit by turning the Data Tempo wheel You will recognise the standard value by the letters Std below related values If you want to set all values to standard you can do this by pressing the button Set Std in the upper part of the display The Selector Menu will turn Red To set any of your settings as Standard simply press the Set Standard button Once you have made your change press the button Set Std to com plete the process A Blue popup box will appear to advise you that you are about to make a change to the Standard Settings Press Yes to accept or No to return to the Selector menu ain Si er ra m E Ea kad d AE ell Eu Hu Ei Heal gu a Heal Es ka EH ES DR El SL KE EH EE ES E m En FAES 16 1 Basic Settings Settings The following basic settings can be made for each manual and saved into every Total Preset Sound Controls e On Off Turns the sound of each Selector on and off When the box is ticked the Sound is on e Volume Adjust the volume
134. will be highlighted in Green In our example the Chorus is set for the Manuals Manuale Manuale Keyboard Manuals and Pedals Accomp Auto Accompaniment MIDI Sequences Drums Longwave Drum Kits Saving A Chorus Preset Saving a Chorus Preset is identical to saving a Reverb preset in the previous section Please see Saving a Reverb Preset Deleting A Chorus Preset Deleting a Chorus Preset is identical to saving a Reverb preset in the previous section Please see Deleting a Re verb Preset Setting A Chorus Preset As The Standard Preset Setting the Chorus Preset as the Standard Preset is identical to the process for setting the Reverb preset as stan dard already explained on the previous page Please see Setting A Reverb Preset As The Standard Preset STD Delay WERSI Delay Touch the Delay button in the left hand column to open the Delay setting display Sara Outputs Effects augen The Delay effect is sometimes referred to as Echo Echo is not a professional term Wersi Delay BL and as your OAS instrument is both profes sional and of a studio standard we use the correct name for this effect The Delay Effect is easy to control Natu rally there are Factory Delay effects in the drop down menu at the top of the display and the Teal Blue main settings area is home to the different Data Value input boxes that can be adjusted to allow you to chang
135. y only display the Total Presets that are assigned to these groups Grand Piano Love Song Andes Panflute Ballad Whitneys Love Ballad All My Love Ballad Lady In Red Ballad Lady In Blue Ballad 1 Your OAS software will always remember the current selections ensuring that you will find the All UserGroups Total Presets every time User Groups Concert Progr oo Once you have found the Total Preset you want to load confirm the selection by pressing the large Select Preset button Lady In Blue Ballad 2 Leona Bleeding Ballad 1 Leona Bleeding Ballad 2 Elton J Song For Guy Ballad Angel In Blue Ballad 1 Angel In Blue Ballad 2 Baby Can I Hold You Ballad Sacrafice Elton Ballad Fir Show Factory Presets 4 FranzLambert Galaxis The Total Preset will be loaded If you want to exit the display without loading a Total Preset press the Back button 14 3 Saving A Total Preset Saving a Total Preset is easy After assembling the Total Preset you want to save just hold down any of the Total Pre set buttons Buttons 1 10 in the Total Preset push button group and hold the button down for several seconds 2 3 seconds until the following window appears in the main display First select the location of where SaveTotal Preset Back you want to store your new Total 7 Preset on the left hand drop down _New group menu In our example the loca
136. y as previously de scribed for the Drawbars It too can be turned On and Off Press the Back button to return to the Main Mixer display Touch the Wav MP3 button to open the Mixer settings for Waves and MP3s Main Selectors Acc l Mixer Outputs Effects Settings Vst 1 Input This display is similar to the OX7 Drawbars and OAS Draw bars display All settings work in the same way In the Aux section there are Sliders to control the Reverb Delay and Chorus effect for the ASIO VST Instrument input The effects can be turned both On and Off The Equalizer works in the same way as previously de scribed for the Drawbars Waves MP3 and Realdrums It too can be turned On and Off Press the Back button to return to the Main Mixer display ASIO 1 and ASIO 2 control the B4 VST and the VB3 VST When Activated Micro 1 and Micro 2 Microphone Audio Settings Back in the Main Mixer Display you can edit the Micro 1 and Micro 2 audio settings Touch the Edit button at the top of either of the Micro 1 or Micro 2 sliders A new display will be open The Microphone Input displays the various different settings p that can be adjusted for the Microphone 1 Input Back Microphone inputs Micro 1 and Micro 2 displays and settings are identical Main Selectors err 1 4kHz 3 9KHz G OKHz Gain and Volume Slider Output Channels The Gain D
137. you can press the button Save Total Preset The current settings and registrations will be saved at the selected Total Preset ID number Save location The newly saved Total Preset then becomes the active Total Preset and the Save Total Preset window will close PLEASE NOTE Using the Back button will close the Save Total Preset window without saving a Total Pre set 14 The Easy Preset Display You can open the Easy Preset display in order to even further simplify the selection your Total Presets Just press the button Easy Preset in the Main Display Easy Preset Once the Easy Preset button is pressed the following window is displayed l IIA a TT alr lad ee Trifor F n LIT ELT Pressel LE EC I Preset F11 Preset F16 ZR B3 Gerade Rotor ZR Trompete Preset F12 Preset F17 ZR B3 2nd Rotor Trumpet Trombone bright Preset F13 Preset F18 ZR Spectra Gerade Rotor Big Band Brass Preset F14 Preset F19 ZR Helios Perc Mouth Organ Preset F15 Preset F20 l n ZR Trombone JazzGuitar Strings Klangfarben 13 Klangfarben 12 Klangfarben f 1 Playlist 2 U 598 RN Rich Classical Strings Hold Lowe Banc Preset Preset Name Variation Harmony Transpose With Easy Preset you can quickly access the Total Presets Instead of having to use the ten physical push buttons to the left of the TFT display you can see the ten Total Presets on the Main Display

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