Document Outline

• Table of Contents
• 1. Introduction
  • Main features
    • Saving your data on the ESX-1
    • About the vacuum tubes
• 2. Parts and their functions
  • Top panel
    • Common section
    • Edit section
    • Part select section
    • Step key section
    • Arpeggiator section
  • Rear panel
  • Front panel
    • Card section
  • Items and functions in the display
• 3. Basic operation
  • Preparations
    • Connections
    • Turning the power on/off
      • To turn the power on
      • To turn the power off
  • Playing a Demo song
    • To pause playback
    • To resume playback
    • To stop playback
    • Demo Song List
• 4. Sample mode
  • Sampling procedure on the ESX-1
    • 1. Audition the existing samples (+p.20)
    • 2. Record a new sample (+p.21)
    • 3. Edit a sample (+p.23)
    • 4. Save a sample (+p.32)
    • 5. Assign the sample to a part
  • Auditioning samples
    • What is a sample?
  • Recording a new sample
    • Sampling
      • Preparations for sampling
      • Sampling mode settings
      • Recording the sample
      • Using the external input sound to trigger sampling
      • If sampling does not start when you begin playback
  • Editing a sample
    • Setting the start point
    • Setting the end point
    • Setting the loop location
    • Adjusting the pitch of the sample
  • Directly sampling the sound of the ESX-1 (Resampling)
    • Resampling from the beginning of a pattern or song
    • Resampling from the middle of a pattern or song
    • Resampling just one note of a part
  • Slice
    • What is “Slice”?
    • Creating a slice sample (TIME SLICE)
      • If you were not successful in creating a slice sample
      • Try changing the slice step setting (step 3, above)
      • Manually turning slices on/off while you adjust the sensitivity (paragraph 6, above)
      • Using individual sample slices
      • Using a slice sample in a pattern that has a different beat
      • If a Last Step is specified for the pattern
  • Stretch
    • What is “Stretch”?
    • Creating a stretch sample
  • Convenient sample-editing functions
    • Normalize
    • Truncate
  • Saving a sample
    • Saving a sample under a different name
    • Deleting a sample
    • Checking the remaining amount of sampling area
• 5. Pattern mode
  • Playing patterns
    • What is a Pattern?
    • Playing a pattern
      • To start playback
      • To pause playback
      • To resume playback
      • To stop playback
    • Selecting a pattern
      • To check which pattern is playing
      • To force playback to restart at the beginning of the pattern
      • About the timing of changing patterns
    • Setting the playback tempo
      • Using the dial to set the tempo.
      • To set the tempo more precisely
      • Using the TAP key to set the tempo
      • Auto BPM Scanning
      • Keeping a constant tempo as you change patterns (TEMPO LOCK)
  • Playing the sound of a part
    • What is a Part?
    • — Drum parts (1–5, 6A-B, 7A-B)
    • — Keyboard parts (1, 2)
    • — Accent part
    • — Stretch parts (1, 2)
    • — Slice part
    • — Audio In part
    • Listening to the sound of a part
      • Listening to the sound of a drum part
      • Listening to the sound of a keyboard part (the Keyboard function)
    • Selecting a part
      • Drum part, stretch part, slice part, audio in part
      • To select a part during playback without causing it to sound
      • Keyboard part
      • Accent part
    • Muting a part
    • Soloing a part
    • Adding accents to a part
      • Specifying the accent locations and strength
      • Specifying the parts that will be accented
    • Transposing a phrase (Transpose)
    • Adding “swing” to a pattern
      • Specifying the amount of swing
      • Specifying the parts that will swing
    • Applying a roll to a part
      • Selecting a part and turning on the roll effect
      • Setting the roll type
    • Assigning the output of each part
    • Adding the Valve-Force effect to increase the impact of the sound
    • Connecting various devices to Audio In
  • Using the arpeggiator
    • Performing with the arpeggiator
      • To arpeggiate a drum part, Stretch part
      • To play the slice part
      • To play the audio in part
      • To arpeggiate a keyboard part
      • Specifying the center note
      • Changing the scale of the arpeggiator
      • ARPEGGIO SCALE List
  • Editing sounds
    • Assigning a sample to a part
      • Assigning individual slices of a slice sample
    • Editing the sound of a part
      • Editing the Part Common parameters
      • Modulation
      • Filter
  • Effects
    • Using the effects
      • To apply an effect
      • To edit an effect
    • Effect types
      • 1. Stereo
      • 2. Mono mix
      • 3. Stereo cross
  • Effect parameters
  • Recording a phrase
    • Realtime recording
    • Step recording
    • Recording a phrase during playback (Realtime Recording)
      • To record a drum part
      • To record a keyboard part
      • To record the audio-in part
      • To record during playback
      • To erase unwanted triggers during playback (Erase)
    • Step recording
      • To record a rhythm for a drum part, slice part, stretch part, accent part
      • To record a phrase for a keyboard part
      • To input a rest or tie
      • To move the target step
  • Editing pattern sequence data
    • Editing a phrase pattern (Note Edit)
      • Selecting the step you want to edit
      • Editing the trigger locations (the location of the notes)
      • Editing the note number (pitch)
      • Editing the gate time
    • Specifying the length and time signature of a pattern
      • To check the length and beat
      • Setting the length
      • Setting the beat
      • Setting the last step
    • Moving data within a pattern
      • To move data
      • To copy data repeatedly
      • To move data randomly
    • Copying a part
    • Copying only the sound of a part
    • Erasing the sequence data of a part
      • To erase all of a part’s performance data
      • To erase trigger data while recording or playing back
    • Erasing all data from a pattern
    • Comparing the currently-edited pattern with the saved pattern (COMPARE)
  • Motion sequence
    • What is a motion sequence?
    • Recording a motion sequence
    • Playing a motion sequence
    • Checking motion sequence data
    • Editing motion sequence data
      • Selecting the motion sequence that you want to edit
      • Editing motion sequence parameter values
    • Erasing a motion sequence for a part or effect
  • Pattern Set
    • What is Pattern Set?
    • Performing with a Pattern Set
    • Using Chain Play with Pattern Set
    • Assigning a pattern to a Pattern Set
  • Saving a pattern
    • If you decide not to save a pattern you create
    • Saving by overwriting an existing pattern
      • To overwrite onto a different pattern
    • Saving a pattern under a different name
• 6. Song mode
  • What is a Song?
  • What is Position?
  • Playing a song
    • To pause playback
    • To resume playback
    • To stop playback
    • Fast-forwarding or rewinding the playback
    • Selecting a song
      • Switching songs
      • To play back from the beginning of the position or song
      • To continue playing another a song
    • Setting the playback tempo
      • Using the dial to set the tempo
      • Using the tap tempo key to set the tempo
      • Locking the tempo of a song
  • Creating a song
    • Specifying a pattern for each position
      • To play back the completed song from the beginning
    • Transposing the pitch of a Pattern for a specific Position
  • Editing a song
    • Inserting a pattern
    • Deleting a pattern
    • Erasing data from a song
      • If you erase song data by accident
    • Changing the pattern in a specific position
    • Maintaining the part mute settings even when the pattern changes
    • Playing back songs in succession
  • Event recording
    • Recording song event data
      • To record using Event Recording
      • To erase event data from a song
      • To check the event data in a song
  • Saving a song
    • To simply save the song
    • To overwrite onto a different song
    • To rename and save the song
• 7. Global mode
  • Setting the metronome
  • Setting the input jack to mono/stereo
  • Exchangeing the arpeggiator functions
  • Protecting the data in memory
  • Saving your Global mode settings
  • Using SmartMedia™
    • About cards
    • Handling precautions
    • Formatting SmartMedia
    • Saving data to SmartMedia (Save All)
    • Loading all data from SmartMedia into the ESX-1
    • Loading a single pattern from SmartMedia (Load Pattern)
    • Saving just a single sample on SmartMedia
    • Loading just a single sample from SmartMedia
      • Loading a WAV or AIFF file
      • Loading from an ES (ESX-1 or ES-1) file
    • Deleting an ESX-1 file from SmartMedia (Delete File)
    • Deleting a WAVE or AIFF file from SmartMedia
    • About WAV/AIFF file formats
      • WAV files (Import/Export)
      • AIFF files (Import only)
  • About MIDI
    • About MIDI channels
    • Using the ESX-1 as a sound module
      • If you connect a multi-track MIDI sequencer to the ESX-1
    • Setting the MIDI channel of each part
  • MIDI Utility
    • Making MIDI filter settings
    • Assigning the drum note numbers
      • About note-on/note-off
    • Assigning a MIDI Control Change Number to a knob
  • Transmitting sound settings and other data
    • Transmitting/receiving a data dump
      • Transmitting
      • Receiving
    • Switching patterns
    • Setting the pitch bend range
      • To set the pitch bend range
  • Synchronizing playback with an external MIDI device
    • To use the ESX-1 as the master, and synchronize an external MIDI device to it
    • To use the external MIDI device as the master, and synchronize the ESX-1 to it
    • Playing back in sync with other Electribe models
      • To make the ES-1 play in synchronization to the tempo of the ESX-1
      • To make the ESX-1 and ES-1 play back the identically-numbered pattern in synchronization
    • About the MIDI messages used for synchronization
      • Timing Clock
      • Start
      • Continue, Stop
    • About synchronization in Song mode
      • Song Select
      • Song Position Pointer
  • Editing sounds
    • Editing via NRPN
    • About system exclusive messages
      • Universal system exclusive messages
• 8. Appendix
  • Troubleshooting
  • Error messages
  • Specifications
  • Pattrn name list
  • Sample name list
  • Knob/Sw - MIDI List
  • Block diagram
  • INDEX