The trouble with leveling the individual patches is that some patches when adjusted full ( midi volume 127) still arent anywhere equal to most of the other patches. level all the combinations that you use while performing unless you want to have a "take a solo" combination and dont use a volume pedal #1 - make all patches equal volume - can't work if you use dense combinations involving many patches silly but if you must do so to avoid accidentally hitting or engaging it one could tape a small 5 sided box if you will ( a lego block ? ) over the patch button if need be. In a band, i'll use white out to underline or circle the combination switch and or numeric select pad to see it better. synth designers should have the patch and combination buttons distanced so this cant accidentally happen. Level all your combinations equal but there still is the danger of hitting the patch switch enabling a patch sound which is usually louder than your combinations. synthesisers typically allow combining these patches ( patches, for our use here) to make a layered or blended sound called a COMBINATION or performance or other things ( combination for our uses here ).ĬOMBINATION could be piano, string, and french horn some companies call a single sound like piano a PATCH, or a program and other things. the leveling of the different sounds should be done by ear at home through a full range system ( 15 inch cone to horn type style cabinet ) so it is somewhat similar in frequency response to your mains or f.o.h.Ĭonsider the ingredients of sound a synth offers: a patch, a combination. I have done years of synth programing and change many sounds nightly. That should be less of a problem for you with someone out front. He ended up having to save those as new saves/programme after editing, labeling them in some cases, as the song name.Įven with that done, it still relies on him using the same master volume setting gig to gig, and not getting excited and turning that up. He struggled for a bit, because it always sounded fine at home. In order to hear the quieter split when playing live he would turn up the master volume. One of the most problematic areas was when he used split sounds, with variance in the two splits. It took a few goes and some prompting to get it more level across all the sounds he uses. IIRC he did it with headphones, ie by ears, but at least with headphones if something is "a little bit louder" it will be a tad more obvious. Our keyboard player manually adjusted his output settings on each sound (using the manual) so they all became similar in volume, one sound to the next. We had/have the same problem, just not sure exactly what he uses. It's not possible to have the keyboardist adjust his own volume level for the PA output song to song, despite us trying a gazillion ways to overcome his volume problems. Have any of you had to do this? If so, how did yo go about it to set the levels? We have manuals so the process of saving will be no problem, it's just more the mechanics of how the overall level range was set - in other words did you use an amp, condenser mike and RTA or did you just use your ears. This means that we will have to adjust all his KB patches so that the relative levels will be on average what we'd expect them to be during the various songs, say 3 - 6 db max difference over the entire range from strings to brass ( instead of the HUGE difference we have now at the same volume setting on the KB ) The keyboardist will be able to adjust his keys level in his monitor via the mixer. We are also overcoming problems with his in ear monitor mixer which I don't want to go into details about here, and so it would be an ideal situation if we set his keys output level to the PA at one setting and let our sound man ( yes we have a sound tech at every gig now ) make the minor volume level adjustments during the gig. He uses a huge range of patches and each of these patches have factory settings whereby some are extremely quiet compared to others which can be REALLY LOUD. Our keyboardist has a Roland RD700SX and Yamaha PSR8000 keyboard.
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