Moog Music Minimoog Voyager XL - Manual (Page 83)

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Voyager XL User’s Manual - Appendices
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Voyager XL User’s Manual - Appendices
CONTINUOUS CONTROLLER: The Voyager XL is a knob-laden synth. Many of its controls provide
smooth, continuous change over their parameters. Continuous Controller messages (abbreviated as ‘CCs’)
are used to effect changes in a MIDI synth much as the knobs on an analog synth. A Continuous Controller
message has a CC number (from 0-127), which is assigned to a synthesis parameter inside the receiving
device. The Voyager XL panel controls transmit MIDI CCs, and the same parameters can be controlled
externally by MIDI CCs. The Voyager XL uses a non-standard implementation of Continuous Controller
messages; refer to the table on page 78 for the complete list of MIDI CCs.
PROGRAM CHANGE: A message that tells the receiving device (synthesizer, tone generator, drum machine,
etc.) which preset (or patch, program, etc.) to select. A Program Change command can only specify 128
memory locations (0 - 127), so this command is often used in combination with a BANK SELECT command
in order to access all of the memory locations available in modern instruments.
Together, the Program Change and Bank Select commands can specify over 2 million
memory locations!
SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE: System Exclusive (SysEx) messages are used for sending information to specific
instruments in a MIDI setup. The Voyager uses SysEx messages for sending or receiving presets and for
updating the operating system.
MIDI CLOCK: A message used to define a tempo in a MIDI system and synchronize events with that
tempo.