6.2  SOUND ENHANCEMENT WITH         EXTERNAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

Play your most exciting sounds through some reverb, delay or other external processor. Do some harmonizing. There are even programmable sound signal processors which allow for MIDI preset changes - you can change effects along with your synthesizer sounds by simply changing presets from your SYNTHOPHONE.

More complex effect units can even change some of their parameters dynamically, according to some MIDI controller. Imagine changing the reverb time constantly by changing your lip pressure. Some MIDI mixers will give you the power to change total mixing setups using preset change commands, others will accept MIDI continuous controllers to do equalization, panning or volume control.

6.3  MIDI EVENT PROCESSING

MIDI data can be stored, transformed and reproduced in almost unlimited ways. There are a number of hardware units (Yamaha MEP4, Digital Music Corp. MX-8, MIDI-Temp, MIDI Solutions, Anatek, etc.) to do just this. Try them with your SYNTHOPHONE.

Typical features of these MIDI EVENT PROCESSORS are:

- MIDI delays - Keyboard splits, transpositions - Preset and MIDI channel reassignments - MIDI data conversions and scaling - MIDI data filtering (etc.)