The Turtle Beach Systems Tropez Plus is a high quality digital audio card
with an impressive 4 megabyte wavetable. To complement the MIDI functionality,
a Yamaha YSS-225 effects processor is used to provide effects on the onboard
synth's audio output channel. The effects processor on the Tropez Plus is
capable of global effects -- channelized effects are available with the
Multisound Pinnacle.
In Digital Orchestrator Plus, all you need to do is add a controller event
to change the effects. I'll give you a quick run-down of how to turn on the
Reverb halfway through a song, then off again at the end.
First, however, you need to make sure that your sequencer is set up properly.
Check in your 'MIDI Port Setup' entry under the 'Options' menu - you should
have both the "TBS-2001 Sample Player" and the "TBS-2001 Effects" selected
as output devices under the 'MIDI Out' section.
1. Record (or Open) your MIDI sequence, noting what effects you may want to
add.
2. Make/Assign a track to the TBS-2001 Effects -- it can be a track containing
MIDI information, but I would strongly recommend using a new track and
naming it something obvious like 'Effects Track'.
3. Click on the 'Window' menu, then select 'Event Editor' from the 'New'
menu item.
4. Make sure that you have the proper track number showing at the top of the
screen. If you don't, use the drop down menu to select the track that
you assigned to the Tropez Plus Effects port.
5. Push the 'Insert' key on your computer's keyboard (not your MIDI keyboard)
to add an event.
6. Adjust the Bar:Beat:Click to the proper time in the MIDI file you want the
events to take place (or you can use 'Time' field if you want to). Make
sure that subsequent controllers are sent at least 2 clicks apart.
7. Change the 'Type' to 'Controller' by clicking on the appropriate Icon in
the list to the left.
8. Change the parameters to match the following:
Type: Non-Registered Param LSB
Value: 7
9. Insert another controller, and do the same, with the parameters being:
Type: Data Entry MSB
Value: 0
This sequence turns off the Effects Bypass setting (changing the data bit to
a 1 will turn it on again). Each command to the effects engine is sent in a
pair. The NRPN LSB (Non-Registered Parameter Number, Least Significant Bit)
means that the following number is referring to the effect type -- in this
case the number is 7, which means change the 'FX Bypass State'.
(I list the full effects list below, but they are also on page 111 of the
manual).
You may recognize the first pair below as being the same that I just covered
above; it is in the MIDI sequence to turn off the effects bypass. It is always
a good practice to un-bypass the effects engine at the start of any sequence.
It sounds complicated when it's written out, but you can see below that it
isn't really that difficult to accomplish in practice.
Just putting these six controllers into any MIDI file will give it superb
reverb (a little too much for my taste though!)
The first two controllers here tell the effects bypass to turn off, allowing
us to hear the effects processor.
The second pair set the reverb preset to 'Grand Hall', and the third pair
places the reverb mix at 100%.
One hint here - if you plan to place a lot of these controller pairs into a
MIDI file, a good shortcut is to select a controller pair (NRPN LSB and the
Data Entry MSB), copy them, then paste them back in, but move the
Bar:Beat:Click up two clicks past the last event using the spin control.
Then, just click on OK, and it will drop the pair in right where you want it.
To turn the reverb effect off now, you can just place the following controller
message at the point that you want to cut out the reverb.
Data Entry MSB; Value 0
If you have sent another NRPN LSB controller between now and the time that
you changed the reverb mix last, you will need to reissue the command [NRPN
LSB; Value 1] before sending the Data Entry value to the processor. The
easiest way is just to send the NRPN/Data Entry pair each time.
You don't always need to re-issue the NRPN LSB controller because these are
what are called 'Continuous Controllers', which means that they can be updated
constantly, or rather, continuously. If you wanted to change the reverb mix
from 0% to 100% to 50% over a three measure section, you could do the
following, assuming that you wanted to start at the first measure, and end
with the third.
Position 01:01:000 NRPN LSB; Value 1 *sets up the Reverb Level control
Position 01:01:002 Data Entry MSB; Value 0 *sends a 0% level command
Position 02:01:000 Data Entry MSB; Value 127 *sends a 100% level command
Position 03:01:000 Data Entry MSB; Value 64 *sends a 50% level command
This will by no means produce a smooth increase in the reverb mix; it will
step it up from nothing to full, then to a 50% mix, with each change occurring
at the beginning of each measure. You could add intermediate values if you
want to make a smoother transition.
NRPN LSB Effect Control Data Range
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0 Reverb Preset 00 to 07
1 Reverb Level 00 to 7F
2 Chorus Preset 00 to 07
3 Chorus Level 00 to 7F
4 Other Effects Preset 00 to 38
5 Other Effects Level 00 to 7F
6 Dry Synth Level 00 to 7F
7 Bypass State 00 to 7F
Tropez Plus Effects:
Reverb Programs
---------------
0 Hall Sound
1 Grand Hall
2 Medium Room
3 Short and Small
4 Monastery
5 Church
6 Dinner Plate
7 Outlandish Verb
Chorus Programs
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0 Litely Slight
1 Wah Chorus
2 A Little Off
3 Nice and Smooth
4 Roller Rink
5 De-Tuned
6 The 60's
7 Outer Space
Other Effects
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0 Through
1 Flange 1
2 Flange 2
3 Flange 3
4 Flange 4
5 Flange 5
6 Delay 1
7 Delay 2
8 Delay 3
9 Delay 4
10 Delay 5
11 Delay 6
12 Stereo Delay 1
13 Stereo Delay 2
14 Stereo Delay 3
15 Stereo Delay 4
16 Stereo Delay 5
17 Stereo Delay 6
18 Pitch Shift 1
19 Pitch Shift 2
20 Pitch Shift 3
21 Pitch Shift 4
22 Pitch Shift 5
23 Pitch Shift 6
24 Pitch Shift 7 30 EQ 5
25 Pitch Shift 8 31 EQ 6
26 EQ 1 32 EQ 7
27 EQ 2 33 EQ 8
28 EQ 3 34 Wide Stereo
29 EQ 4
There is a discrepancy between the first revision of the manual and these
pages in the numbering scheme. What is shown here is the correct information;
we apologize for any problems the error may have caused.
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