TECHNICAL
44.1 kHz sample playback rate
18-bit D/A conversion with 108 dB dynamic range
103 dB signal-to-noise ratio
2 Hz -20 kHz frequency range
40 (2 x 20) large character LCD display
4 knobs, 89 buttons (46 with LEDs) , volume slider
SoundFinder TM /RhythmFinder TM interface - one knob selects
sound/rhythm type, another knob selects specific sound/rhythm.
Sounds/rhythms can be searched for alphabetically within musical
categories, numerically within bank locations (ROM, RAM,
Expansion Board, GM, User, Demo) , or with keyboard spelling.
Onboard Help function
EXPANSION
3 expansion slots, for a total of up to 688 Megabits (86 MB)
of ROM wave data, or up to 96 Megabits (12 MB) of user-loadable
samples
A Wave Expansion board holds up to 192 Megabits (24 MB) wave
data, multiple banks of sounds (up to 128 per bank), and demos
An MR-FLASH sample memory board provides 4 MB of re-writable
FLASH ROM memory for .AIFF and .WAV files.
Expansion boards are user-installable
VOICES
64 dynamically assigned voices
Dynamically sized voice architecture (up to 16 layers) , with
the following parameters (per layer)
Independent waveform selection
Volume and Pan
Layer delay up to 10 secs or by key-up trigger
2 independent multi-mode dynamic digital
filters (low-pass, high-pass, variable bandwidth band-pass) with
key tracking (33 settings, including fractional scaling)
3 five-stage envelope generators (time and
level) with level and attack time modulatable by velocity (8
possible curves) , key scaling, and response to release velocity
22 modulation sources, 8 modulation
destinations
1 LFO (7 waveform choices) , can sync to 16
Track Recorder, Drum Machine, or external MIDI clock (12
subdivisions)
Variable rate noise generator, can sync to 16
Track Recorder, Drum Machine, or external MIDI clock (12
subdivisions)
Octave, semi-tone and fine tuning
Pitch tracking (33 settings, including
fractional scaling)
45 ROM Pitch Tables (256 steps per semitone
resolution)
1 RAM location for receiving a pitch table sent
from any device that supports the MIDI Tuning Standard (Bulk
Tuning Dump and Single Note Tuning Change)
Key and velocity ranges
Voice trigger options (key-up or down, MIDI
controller enable)
Glide mode, glide time
Mono/poly playback
Pitch Bend on/off, Held Pitch Bend mode (range
is programmable for both positive and negative wheel directions)
Sustain on/off
Key group assignment
Effects
VLSI 24-bit digital signal processor (ESP-2)
with 26 MIPS of DSP power, 52-bit accumulation
New UMTE (Universal Multi-Timbral Effects
) architecture with 6 stereo busses:
3 stereo busses with
independent sends into global reverb
1 stereo bus with a wet/dry
mix into global chorus and a send into global reverb
1 stereo bus with a wet/dry
mix into an insert effect, a wet/dry mix into global chorus,
and a send into global reverb
1 dedicated stereo dry bus
Dedicated buttons for global reverb,
global chorus, insert effect, and FX bus routing
40 insert effect choices (dynamically
modulatable by MIDI controllers)
Effects can be routed to Main or Aux
outputs
Over 75 onboard rhythms with 8 Variations and 8 Fills per
rhythm, adjustable tempo (25-350) , volume, and part
muting
Drum Kit zones (Kick, Snare, Hats, Cymbal,
Toms, Perc1/2/3) can be edited to adjust Sound, Volume, Pan,
FX Bus, Tuning
New drum or percussion kits can be selected
from ROM, RAM, or Wave Expansion boards
Each Variation and Fill can be set to use
pattern data from any other Rhythm (selectable per Zone)
Rhythms can be sent to Track 10 in the 16
Track Recorder for synchronization with sequence data ( links
Drum Machine operations)
New rhythms can be loaded from disk
16 Track Recorder
16 tracks, each with a complete set of track
parameters (same as performance presets)
Up to 64 internal voices per track,
dynamically assigned (no limit on MIDI voices per track)
24 sequence per song structure (3 banks of
8 each, A-H)
200 kBytes memory (Recorder and Idea Pad)
384 PPQ, synchronized to internal or MIDI
clock source
2 real time record modes (Replace, Add)
Automated punch/edit/auto-locate regions
remembered for each sequence
Quantize from whole note to 1/64 triplet,
normal or Delta quantization, strength, swing, random, shift,
key range, window, quantize Note Offs, move Note Offs,
user-definable templates
Copy (with/without data) , Erase (all,
within region, data only) Track
Copy (with/without data) , Erase (all,
outside region) Sequence
Click/Countoff with selectable sound
(click, vocal, both, stick) , volume, pan, FX bus, timing (1/2
note to 1/32T) , # of bars
Tap Tempo control (25-350)
Song Playlist allows creation of a song
form quickly from the dedicated front-panel controls (up to
9,999 Steps per Song)
Dedicated Pan and Mix knobs, Track Mute and
Solo buttons
Track Mix records all volume and panning
changes for each track, globally for the song
(fade-in/fade-outs)
STORAGE
1.4 MB High Density (HD) 3.5" floppy,
MS-DOS compatible
Loads, edits, and saves Standard MIDI Files
(Type 0 and Type 1)
Save All-Session (all FLASH & RAM) ,
All-RAM (all songs, RAM sound bank, rhythm bank) , 1-Song,
All-Songs, 1-MIDIFile, Rhythm-Bank (loadable to FLASH or RAM)
, 1-Rhythm (loadable to FLASH or RAM) , Sound-Bank (loadable
to FLASH or RAM) , 1-Sound (loadable to FLASH or RAM) ,
Preset-Bank,1-Preset
MR-61 Dimensions: 41 3/4" (106.4 cm) wide x 4" (10.5 cm) high
x 14 2/3" (37.2 cm) deep
MR-61 Weight: 31 pounds (16.78 kilograms) unboxed, 48
pounds (21.77 kilograms) boxed
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