Document Outline

• Contents
• 1. Introduction
  • Main features
    • About the data you create on the EA-1mkII
  • Make connections and play!
    • Example connections
    • Preparing to play
• 2. Front and rear panel
  • Common section
  • Synthesizer section
  • Sequence Control section
  • Step Key section
  • Connector section
• 3. Basic operation (Quick Start)
  • Conceptual diagram of the EA-1mkII
  • Listening to a Song
  • Listening to Patterns
  • Trying out the functions
    • Changing the tempo of a song or pattern
      • • Using the dial to change the tempo
      • • Using the Tap Tempo key to change the tempo
    • Striking keys to play sounds (Keyboard function)
    • Modifying (editing) the sound
    • Playing the sound of a part along with a song or pattern
    • Modify (edit) the sound along with a song or pattern
    • Modifying (editing) a phrase pattern
      • • Realtime Recording (using the Keyboard function to create a phrase)
      • • Step Recording (using the Step keys to create a phrase)
    • Saving a pattern that you create
    • Using a Motion Sequence
    • Connecting various sources to the audio input
    • Playing with Pattern Set
    • Using the EA-1mkII as a tone generator module
    • Synchronized playback with the ER-1mkII
• 4. Pattern mode
  • Selecting a pattern
  • Setting the playback tempo
    • • Using the dial to change the tempo
    • • Using the Tap Tempo key to change the tempo
  • Playing a pattern (Pattern Play)
    • The timing at which patterns will change
    • Playing from the beginning of a pattern (Reset & Play)
    • About the tempo when the pattern is changed
    • Selecting a pattern
  • Creating a pattern
    • Editing the sound of a part
    • Synthesizer parameters
      • OSCILLATOR
      • FILTER
      • AMP
      • EFFECT
    • Length, Scale/Beat settings
    • Swing settings
    • Creating a phrase pattern
      • Realtime recording
      • Step recording
      • Event editing
  • Motion sequence
    • Playing a motion sequence
    • Recording a motion sequence
    • Checking motion sequence data
  • Convenient functions for editing patterns
    • Erasing phrase pattern data from a part
      • Erasing data during playback or recording (ERASE)
      • Erasing all data from a part (CLEAR PART)
    • Transposing a phrase (TRANSEPOSE)
    • Moving data within a part (MOVE DATA)
    • Copying a part (COPY PART)
    • Data Copy within a pattern
    • Erasing motion sequence data from a part (CLEAR MOTION)
  • Pattern Set
    • Using Pattern Set to perform (Pattern Set Play)
• 5. Song mode
  • Selecting a song
  • Setting the playback tempo
    • • Using the dial to set the tempo
    • • Using the tap tempo key to set the tempo
  • Playing a song (Song Play)
    • Fast-forward or rewind a song
    • Switching songs
    • Playing from the beginning of a position or song (Reset & Play)
  • Creating a song
    • Creating a song from scratch
      • Erasing song data (CLEAR SONG)
      • Specifying a pattern for each position
    • Specifying the pitch of each pattern
    • Editing a song
      • Inserting a pattern at a specified position (INSERT PATTERN)
      • Deleting a pattern from a specified position (DELETE PATTERN)
      • Changing the pattern for a specific position
      • Recording knob movements or your performance in a song (Event Recording)
      • Deleting event data from a song (CLEAR EVENT)
      • Checking for song event data
  • Saving a song (WRITE)
• 6. Global mode
  • Metronome settings
  • Adjusting the volume of the Audio In
  • Synchronizing the EA-1mkII with external MIDI devices (MIDI Clock)
    • Synchronizing the EA-1mkII to a master external MIDI device (Ext)
    • Synchronizing an external MIDI device to the EA-1mkII as master (int)
  • Protect settings (Memory Protect)
  • Saving the settings you modify in Global mode (WRITE)
• 7. MIDI mode
  • Setting the MIDI channel of part 1
  • Setting the MIDI channel of part 2
  • Transmit/receive dump data (MIDI Data Dump)
  • MIDI filter settings
  • Adjusting the pitch bend range
  • Saving the settings you modify in MIDI mode (WRITE)
• 8. Appendices
  • About MIDI
  • Troubleshooting
  • Error messages
  • Restoring the factory set data
  • Specifications
  • Example sounds
  • Blank Chart
  • Index
  • Pattern Name List
  • Song Name List
  • MIDI Implementation Chart