ENSONIQ VFXSD (01) PDF Document

The ENSONIQ VFXSD must be grounded. If it should malfunction or break down, grounding provides a path of least resistance for electric current to reduce the risk of electric shock. The ENSONIQ VFXSD is equipped with a cord having an equipment-grounding conductor and a grounding plug. This plug must be plugged into an appropriate outlet that is properly installed and grounded in accordance with all local codes and ordinances.

Improper connection of the equipment-grounding conductor can result in the risk of electric shock. Check with a qualified electrician or service personnel if you are in doubt as to whether the product is properly grounded. Do not modify the plug provided with this product if it will not fit the outlet; have a proper outlet installed by a qualified electrician.

To play sounds and presets from a cartridge, you must first insert the cartridge into the Cartridge port. Insert the cartridge straight into the slot in a continuous fashion with the label facing toward you.

You should re-initialize the ENSONIQ VFXSD if it begins to behave in peculiar ways; if the display shows words or lines that shouldn’t be there; if you start getting unexplained System Error messages; if the sequencer and edit functions start doing unpredictable things; try re-initializing the ENSONIQ VFXSD before you seek factory service.

To re-initialize the ENSONIQ VFXSD:

1. While holding down the Presets button, press the “soft” button in the top left corner above the fluorescent display.

2. The following message appears on the display: “ERASE MEMORY and REINITIALIZE?”.

3. Select *YES*. After selecting *YES*, the ENSONIQ VFXSD erases its internal memory and then starts up just as it does when you turn the power on, and initialization is complete. When you re-initialize the ENSONIQ VFXSD, the ROM Programs are automatically placed in the internal memory.

If re-initializing your ENSONIQ VFXSD does not correct the problem, contact an authorized ENSONIQ Repair Station.

When the display reads: WARNING – LOW BATTERY VOLTAGE SAVE DATA – SEE USER MANUAL *CONTINUE*, press *CONTINUE* (or any button) to commence normal operation. Then, make sure that all sequences, programs, and presets are saved to disk or cartridge, and take the ENSONIQ VFXSD to an authorized ENSONIQ Repair Station as soon as possible to have the battery replaced.

Each ENSONIQ VFXSD sound is a complex structure consisting of up to six voices per key and a programmable effects setup. We refer to these sounds as Programs. The ENSONIQ VFXSD gives you access to up to 180 different sounds at any time.

Sounds and Presets stored in Internal RAM Memory can be played, edited, and replaced with other sounds or presets. Sounds and Presets stored in the ROM Memory can be played and edited, but cannot be erased. Edited versions can be stored in Internal Memory or E2PROM cartridge. Sounds and Presets stored in the cartridge can be played and edited. You can save edited sounds and presets to Internal RAM memory or E2PROM cartridge.

The Cart button is used to choose between internal, ROM and cartridge sounds. The status of the Cart LED tells you where you are at any given time. Press Sounds.

To select internal sounds, the Cart LED should be off (unlit). If it is on or flashing, press Cart until it is off. The display indicates INT followed by the bank in the upper left corner.

To select ROM sounds, double-click the Cart button (press the button twice in rapid succession). The Cart LED flashes, and the display indicates ROM and BANK-A or B in the lower left corner.

To select cartridge sounds, press the Cart button once. The Cart LED lights, and the display indicates CRT followed by the bank in the upper left corner.

To layer (stack) any program with the currently selected program, double-click the soft button corresponding to the program name on the display. You will hear both sounds playing together.

Up to three programs (one selected and two layered with it) can be active at once.

To deselect a layered sound, press its button again, and the flashing underline will disappear.

If you already have two programs layered with the primary program and you double-click on a fourth sound, that sound will replace the most recently layered sound in the stack.

The primary sound is the sound which is currently selected — solidly underlined on the display — as the primary program. Only one sound is ever selected at a time. Whenever you select a new sound it becomes the primary sound. Other sounds on which you double-click are considered to be layered in the stack. Layering a sound or selecting a different sound does not change the current effects setup.

A group of Performance Parameters is associated with each preset and sequencer track. These parameters control various aspects of the track, including some important and useful sound controls which may be easily adjusted during performance or recorded into the sequencer. The settings of these parameters are saved with every preset.

The range for volume adjustment is 0 to 99.

The range is +00 (hard pan left) to +99 (hard pan right). A setting of +50 pans the sound in the center of the stereo field. The minimum setting is VOI which indicates that the individual voice’s pan settings will be used.

The range is 00 to 99.

The range is -64 to +64. Higher values lengthen release time. Lower values shorten release time.

The Pressure sub-page enables you to assign one of three pressure modes to each Track:

NONE — Pressure information will not be sent over MIDI or recorded by the sequencer, nor will the program on the track respond to pressure locally.

KEY — This setting enables the track to send and receive via MIDI the most expressive kind of pressure — Poly-Key Pressure. ENSONIQ exclusive Poly-Key pressure lets you add pressure modulation to each note independently.

CHAN — This enables the track to send and receive via MIDI the most common type of pressure — channel pressure. With channel pressure, after a note is played, pressing down harder on any key modules every note currently playing.

The output of every voice in the ENSONIQ VFXSD is assigned to a stereo bus. Of the four busses on the ENSONIQ VFXSD, two are inputs into the signal processor (FX1 and FX2), another is a direct path to the Main outputs which bypasses all effect processing (DRY), and the fourth is a direct path to the Aux outputs which also bypasses all effect processing (AUX).

When an effect with a single processing function (such as reverb only) is selected, both busses FX1 and FX2 are routed to it. Mix1 controls the amount sent to the effect. Bus FX2 can be used in two modes:

NORMAL, STEREO, SEND — In this case FX2 functions exactly like FX1, but provides a separate effects mix amount. Voices can then be routed to the most appropriate bus, depending on how much effect is desired.

LEFT/WET/RIGHT, DRY — In this configuration voice’s pan position determines its (individual) effects pan. Mix can be modulated in real-time with modulation such as Poly-Key Pressure, and other expressive effects. This mode allows real-time modulation of effect mix. In this mode, pan affects only the wet/dry mix and does not affect stereo image panning from left to right.

When the selected effect is a combined effect that has more than one signal processing function (such as chorus and reverb), the FX1 bus feeds Effect 1, and the FX2 bus feeds Effect 2. The FX1 Mix control sets the amount of Effect 1 (usually reverb) for voices assigned to that bus. The FX2 Mix control sets the amount of Effect 2 sent directly to the output. By setting this control to extremes, you can arrange the two effects to be either in series or in parallel.

When you use the ENSONIQ VFXSD in conjunction with a drum machine or other rhythm sequencer, there are basically three ways to go:

1. Sync the ENSONIQ VFXSD clock to the drum machine; or

2. Sync the drum machine’s clock to the ENSONIQ VFXSD; or

3. Sequence the drum machine from the ENSONIQ VFXSD, just as you would a synthesizer.

A Sequence on the ENSONIQ VFXSD is a fixed length which is set by the length of the first track you record. A given sequence can be as short or as long as you like (within the limitations of memory).

A Song on the ENSONIQ VFXSD is much more than just a collection of sequences playing in order because each song has an additional set of 12 tracks which are completely independent of the sequence tracks.

The three buttons at the bottom of the Sequencer section provide status and continue to step, start, stop and continue the sequencer, and put the auxiliary foot switch (available only when an optional SW-5 dual-pedal Foot Switch is connected to the ENSONIQ VFXSD) can be used to start and stop the sequencer when both hands are busy.

Pressing Play will start the current sequence or song (whichever is selected) playing from the beginning.

Pressing Stop/Cont will stop the sequencer (if pressed while it is running); or will start the sequencer from wherever it was last stopped (if pressed while the sequencer is stopped).

Pressing Record while holding down Stop/Cont will start the sequencer recording on the current track from the beginning of the sequence or song.

When the Autopunch function is off, the sequencer will only enter and exit Record mode at the point specified by the Edit Times on the Locate sub-page.

These parameters control instrument-wide system functions. You can save the settings on these two pages for quick recall by saving the System Set-up from the Storage page.

The range is -99 to +99 cents. A value of +00 will set the ENSONIQ VFXSD to concert A=440 tuning.

The TOUCH parameter allows you to adjust both the pressure and velocity response of the keyboard to match your playing style and technique. For each of the four velocity settings SOFT, MED, FIRM, HARD there are four pressure thresholds 1, 2, 3, 4, for a total of 16 available settings. The pressure threshold can be varied between 1 (minimum force required to bring in pressure) and 4 (maximum force required to bring in pressure).

• SOFT 1, SOFT 2, SOFT 3, SOFT 4 — This is for someone with a light touch. On any of these settings, a minimum of velocity is required to reach the maximum level of any velocity-controlled parameter.
• MED 1, MED 2, MED 3, MED 4 — Slightly harder keystrokes are required to reach maximum velocity. The pressure threshold is adjusted from MED-1 to MED-4 as described above.
• FIRM 1, FIRM 2, FIRM 3, FIRM 4 — These settings represent average velocity sensitivity. One of these settings should be right for the player with an average touch. The pressure threshold is adjusted from FIRM 1 to FIRM 4 as described above.
• HARD 1, HARD 2, HARD 3, HARD 4 — These settings are for the strong player who strikes the keys hard. It provides the widest possible range of velocity sensitivity. The pressure threshold is adjusted from HARD 1 to HARD 4 as described above.

The BENDRNG parameter adjusts the system pitch bend range, which is the maximum amount of pitch bend which can be applied with the pitchwheel. Each increment represents a semitone. This range will apply to all programs except those which have been programmed to override the system bend range. The range is 0 to 12 semitones.

Controls for setting the functions of any footswitch(es) connected to the FS1 footswitch input of the ENSONIQ VFXSD. When the optional SW-5 dual foot switch is plugged into the ENSONIQ VFXSD, the settings of this parameter will control the function of the left pedal.

• UNUSED — makes the ENSONIQ VFXSD ignore the left footswitch.
• SOSTENU — makes the footswitch act almost like the sostenuto pedal on a piano. Any keys that are held down when you press the pedal are sustained until you release the pedal, but subsequent keys are not affected.
• PATCH L — makes the left pedal act like the left patch select button.
• ADVANCE — each time the footswitch is pressed, the ENSONIQ VFXSD advances to the next Preset. When the next preset is in a different bank, the preset bank will also be switched.
• STOP/GO — the footswitch will stop and continue the sequencer, exactly reproducing the actions of the Stop/Cont button on the front panel.

The MIDI Control Page allows you to set system MIDI parameters, such as channel number and mode. Control what types of MIDI messages are received and transmitted. The Performance MIDI page consists of three separate sub-pages. Each time you press the MIDI button in the Performance section, the next sub-page will be displayed.

This parameter determines how MIDI information will be received by the ENSONIQ VFXSD. There are five MIDI modes implemented in the ENSONIQ VFXSD:

• OMNI — In this mode the ENSONIQ VFXSD will receive on any or all the 16 MIDI channels. This mode is useful when you are only using a few instruments, and you are not concerned with setting up different channels for each device.
• POLY — In this mode the ENSONIQ VFXSD will only receive on the Base MIDI channel. MIDI information on all other channels will be ignored.
• MULTI-T — An ENSONIQ In/Multi-timbral mode is the key to unlocking the potential of the ENSONIQ VFXSD as a multi-timbral receiver from an external MIDI sequencer. In MULTI mode the 12 Tracks of the current song or sequence can receive MIDI information independently and polyphonically on up to 16 different MIDI channels.
• MONO Mode — Mono mode is particularly useful for driving the ENSONIQ VFXSD from a guitar controller, or any other application where having up to twelve independent, monophonic channels is desirable.

The ENSONIQ VFXSD offers two types of Mono mode operation. In both types, the ENSONIQ VFXSD will receive monophonically on twelve consecutive MIDI channels starting with the base channel (the base channel plus channel +11). The difference has to do with how those MIDI channels are routed within the ENSONIQ VFXSD.

• MONO A — This mode is older ENSONIQ development intended to make using multi-channel controllers like guitar easier. All notes and controllers received will play whatever programs are selected for the note that is played. Just as if the note was played from the keyboard. You have the advantage of using each string independently, which will respond independently to controllers received on multiple channels, but you do not have to set up the programs for each track separately.
• MONO B — This is the more conventional type of Mono mode. It allows you to set up each track of the current song or sequence as a monophonic synthesizer. Each track can have a different program assigned to it. This is the only way to get a different sound on each string when using a MIDI guitar controller.

A VFXSD Program (or sound as we sometimes refer to it) is a dynamic structure made up of a voice set and an effects set-up. The status of the two Patch Select buttons determines which of those six voices will play at any given time.

Each program has a dynamic effects set-up.

The six voices that make up the patch bend wheel are assigned to individual voices to one of three Main Output Busses — DRY, FX1 and FX2, and all of the voices are sent independently to one of three Main Output Busses — FX1, FX2 and DRY — or to the AUX Output for separate external processing.

The two Patch Select buttons above and to the left of the pitch bend wheel provide instant access to four different variations within each program. When you press either or both Patch Select buttons you are selecting different combinations of the voices that make up a program. For each of the four possible patches, any combination of the six voices can be made to play or to remain silent.

As soon as you change any parameter in a program, the LED in the Compare button will light. It will remain lit until you select another program or save (write) the newly edited program in memory. This is a constant reminder that something in the program has been changed.

To hear the original, unchanged program, press the Compare button. The Compare LED will go out, and you will hear the original sound and see the page of its original settings. Press Compare again to return to your edited program. You can toggle back and forth between the original and the edited sound as often as you like.

You can edit a program, while keeping the original program intact, because the edited version is kept in a special area of memory called the Edit Buffer. Whenever you change any parameter of a program, the altered program is put in the edit buffer, replacing whatever was previously there. Only one program at a time can reside there — the edit buffer always contains the results of your last edit.

If you decide, while editing a program, that you’re not happy with what you’ve done, and you want to start over with the original program, just go to the Program Select page and select the program again. Then you can start editing the program from scratch. You will lose the one you were working on before.

The parameters on the Performance MIDI page control the MIDI attributes of each track. On this page, you can determine:

• The MIDI STATUS of the track (i.e. whether it will play locally, only over MIDI, or both);
• The MIDI CHANNEL on which the track will transmit and receive;
• The MIDI PROGRAM number that the track will transmit when selected.

The Performance MIDI page consists of three separate sub-pages. Each time you press the MIDI button in the Performance section, the next sub-page will be displayed.

Each of the six voices within an ENSONIQ VFXSD program consists of:

• a digital oscillator playing one of the 141 waves from the ENSONIQ VFXSD wave memory
• two low-mode digital filters
• one LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator)
• three complex envelope generators for controlling volume, pitch, filter frequency, etc.
• a versatile matrix modulation scheme with 15 routable modulation sources

The Waveshape determines how the signal will rise and fall. There are seven possible values:

• TRIANGL — the triangle wave is commonly used to modulate the LFO for producing vibrato.
• SINE — the sine wave is a pure fundamental frequency, more abrupt in its peaks and valleys than the triangle wave.
• SINE/TRI — a mixture of a sine and triangle wave, a sort of pointy sine wave.
• POS/SIN — the POS/SIN is similar in application to the POS/TRI.
• POS/TRI — the POS/TRI is a positive-only triangle wave useful for simulating vibrato on instruments like the guitar where vibrato techniques are limited to bending the note up.
• SAWTOOTH — the sawtooth wave is commonly used for special effects.
• SQUARE — the square wave is useful for producing trill effects.

The five time segments are:

The options are:

• SYSTEM — This is the “global” or keyboard-wide pitch-table. As it comes out of the box, the ENSONIQ VFXSD defaults to 12-tone equal temperament tuning (standard tuning). However, you can equate a custom pitch-table into the system for use by all your programs. The parameter changes for the system pitch-table are on the Master page.
• ALL-C4 — No pitch tracking — all notes tuned to C4 (middle C) as a reference.
• CUSTOM — Each program can have its own user-definable pitch-table (that is, you create it) pitch-table. When you create a custom pitch-table the ENSONIQ VFXSD will remove voices 5 and 6 from the program to create space for the pitch-table.

To write a custom pitch-table:

1. Select a program into which you want to write a custom pitch-table.

2. Press Program Control. The display shows the Program Control page.

3. Make sure that PITCH-TABLE=OFF is underlined.

4. Press the up arrow button. The display reads: REMOVE VOICES 5+6 AND USE PITCH TABLE? *YES* *NO*

5. Respond *YES* to remove voices 5 and 6. This takes you to the Select Voice Page, which now shows the words EDIT PITCH-TABLE where voices 5 and 6 once were.

The copy context determines which parameters will be affected by the functions on the page.

Based on the current copy context, this command will copy a set of parameters into the copy buffer. The copy buffer is a separate buffer into which the copy utility will copy data without affecting the current edit program in the compare buffer. Remember that MAKE COPY has no effect on the compare buffer or the selected program or voice.

This command will copy parameters back from the copy buffer into the compare program, as long as the edit program resides again according to the copy context. If Group Edit is active when voice parameters are recalled, then the recall will affect all of the voices in the group.

From the Storage page, you can select which one of the three forms of data storage you wish to use — MIDI Sys-Ex messages, Disk or Cartridge storage.

The 3.5″ disks have a sliding write-protection tab so that you can protect your own sounds and sequences against accidental erasure. Sliding the write-protection tab in the lower left corner of the disk so that the window is closed will allow you to store information on the disk. Sliding the tab so that the window is open will protect the disk against being accidentally reformatted or having files deleted.

Programs files types are:

• 1-PROGRAM file — contains a single VFXSD program.
• 6-PROGRAM file — contains a bank of 6 VFXSD programs, as displayed on the Program Bank pages 0-9.
• 30-PROGRAM file — contains 30 VFXSD programs saved from either the lower half of the program memory (Banks 0-4) or the upper half (Banks 5-9).
• 60-PROGRAM file — contains the entire program memory (Banks 0-9).

Presets file types are:

• 1-PRESET file — contains a single preset.
• 10-PRESET file — contains one bank of 10 VFXSD presets saved from either bank A or B of the internal preset memory.
• 20-PRESET file — replaces the entire preset memory, banks A and B.

Sequence/Song file types are:

• 1-SEQ/SONG file — contains a single VFXSD sequence or song.
• 30-SEQ/SONG file — contains 30 VFXSD sequencer locations, saved from either the lower half or the upper half of the sequencer memory.
• 60-SEQ/SONG file — contains the entire sequencer memory (Banks 0-9).

System file types are:

• SYSTEM-SET-UP file — lets you save the system, or “global” parameters, those contained on the Master and MIDI pages, so that you can save and re-load a new system configuration in seconds.
• SEQUENCER OS — the sequencer Operating System, or O.S.), is contained in RAM (random access memory) and will be updated from disk as upgrades become available.

To format a blank disk:

1. Insert a blank Double-Sided Double-Density 3.5″ micro-floppy disk into the disk drive, with the label-side facing up, and the metal shutter facing away from you.

2. Make sure the plastic write-protect tab is in the closed position (no light showing through the window).

3. Press Storage.

4. Press DISK. The Disk Storage menu appears.

5. Press FORMAT.

6. The display shows: FORMAT DISK *YES* *NO* ALL DISK FILES WILL BE ERASED.

7. Press *YES* to proceed. (Pressing *NO* will return you to the Disk Storage page with no harm done).

8. While the ENSONIQ VFXSD is formatting the disk the display reads “FORMATTING DISK.” The formatting process takes about 80 seconds.

9. When formatting is done, the display reads “DISK FORMATTED SUCCESSFULLY,” and then you are returned to the Storage page. The disk is ready to accept program, preset, sequencer or system data.

To Make a Backup Copy of a Disk:

1. Slide the plastic write-protect tab on the source disk — the original — so that the disk is write protected (you can see through the hole).

2. Press Storage and then select DISK.

3. Press COPY. The display shows SEQUENCER DATA WILL BE ERASED.

4. Press *YES* (or press *NO* to cancel) and save the data before proceeding.

5. Insert the destination disk (the copy) and press *OK*.

If the destination disk is not formatted, the ENSONIQ VFXSD will format it before proceeding.

After a moment the ENSONIQ VFXSD will ask INSERT SOURCE DISK. Insert the write-protected source disk (the original) and press *OK*.

The ENSONIQ VFXSD will load the data from the source disk into the sequencer memory, and then save it to the destination disk, taking you into the appropriate parameters.

Once the copy procedure is successfully completed, the display will read DISK COMMAND COMPLETED, and then return to the Storage page.

The three edit buttons in the top row of the Sequencer section provide access to the various sequencer editing functions. These are divided into Song, Seq, and Track edit functions. Pressing any of these three buttons presents a menu of available functions in that category.

INFO displays a page containing information about the song, including the number of steps, the size in blocks, the song tempo offset and the elapsed time at the current tempo. From this page you can also rename the song.

Use this command to make a copy of the currently selected song in another sequencer location.

1. Press Edit Song.

2. Press COPY. The display shows: COPY SONG TO NEW LOC=## *YES* *NO*

3. Use the data entry controls to select a location for the copied song. Note that only undefined *BLANK* sequencer locations will be available for selecting.

4. Press *YES* to copy the song (or press *NO* to cancel). The new song will be given the same name as the original one you copied. You can rename it from the Edit Seq/INFO page if you wish.

This function allows you to append one sequence onto the end of another (or to itself) doubling its length. A sequence which you specify will be appended (or tacked on) to the end of the currently selected sequence.

To execute the APPEND command on the ENSONIQ VFXSD Edit Seq Page:

1. Make sure the sequence onto which you want to append another is selected.

2. Press Edit Seq.

3. Press APPEND. The display shows: APPEND SEQ ONTO SEQ BARS=000 *YES* *NO*

4. Use the data entry controls to select the sequence which will be appended to the current sequence. (The default source is the current sequence, which will be appended to itself.)

5. Press *YES* to append the sequence buffer to the display onto the end of the sequence. Press *NO* to cancel.

Though the length of the first track determines the length of the sequence, you can use the Add Bars and Delete Bars functions to add empty bars, starting from any bar within the sequence, or to remove any number of bars from the sequence.

The following functions can be selected from the Edit Track page:

• SHIFT — Shift track forward or back in time by a number of clocks.
• QUANTIZE — Auto-correct note/controller notes to the nearest beat.
• COPY — Copy all or part of the track to another track in any sequence.
• TRANSPOSE — Raise or lower the pitch of all or part of the track by octaves and semitones.
• SCALE — Increase or decrease the level of one or more controller(s) in the track.
• EVENT-LIST — Provides a comprehensive event editor allowing you to locate and edit any event in the track.
• FILTER — This powerful function lets you remove, or copy to another track, any range of notes, controllers, program changes, etc.
• MERGE — Merge, or combine, the data from one track with another.

This command will cause all the events in the track to be moved ahead or back in time by a specified number of clocks (1 clock=1/96 quarter note).

1. Make sure the track you want to edit is selected.

2. Press Edit Track, then select SHIFT. The display shows: SHIFT TRACK 01 BY +00 CLOCKS *YES* *NO*

3. Use the data entry controls to specify the amount the track is to be shifted. Positive values will move the events in the track ahead in time, toward the end of the sequence; negative values will shift the events back toward the beginning.

4. Press *YES* to execute the edit command (or press *NO* to cancel). The ENSONIQ VFXSD returns with the Play/Keep page, where you can audition the results of the edit before deciding whether to keep it or not.

The Quantize (or auto-correct) function can take a less than perfect track and put it right on the beat.

1. Make sure the track you want to quantize is selected.

2. Press Edit Track, then select QUANTIZE. The display shows: QUANTIZE TRACK 01 TO 1/8 NOTES *YES* *NO* RANGE=ALL

3. Use the data entry controls to select the note value to which the track is to be quantized. Available values are:

4. Press *YES* to execute the edit command (or press *NO* to cancel). After editing, the ENSONIQ VFXSD returns with the Play/Keep page where you can audition the results of the edit before deciding whether to keep it or not.

This command will erase essential notes, controllers and all other data from the entire track, or from a given range if you so specify.

1. Make sure the track you want to edit is selected.

2. Press Edit Track, then select ERASE. The display shows: ERASE TRACK 01 *YES* *NO* RANGE=ALL

3. If you wish to erase a specific range rather than the entire track, press RANGE and set the time and/or key range on the Edit Track Range page, as shown earlier in this section. If the range was ALL, there is no audition.

4. Press *YES* to execute the edit command (or press *NO* to cancel). After editing, the ENSONIQ VFXSD returns with the Play/Keep page where you can audition the results of the edit before deciding whether to keep it or not.

Yes, it transmits and recognizes channels 1-16.

The recognized Note Number range is 21 – 108.

Yes, it recognizes MIDI Clock messages.

The default status is ON, but this is memorized (Global Controllers in OMNI/VO Mode).

Yes, it supports System Exclusive messages.

No, Note Off velocity is not transmitted. A Note Off velocity of 64 is always sent for all keys.

Yes, it transmits and recognizes Aftertouch (Polyphonic).