Oberheim OB 12 Operating Manual - page 17

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Z-Domain Synthesizer

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To access this operating environment, press the [SYSTEM] button in the MODE&SET-UP section

of the central panel. Once the selection has been made, the LED of the key illuminates and the

following video page appears in confirmation:

THE DISPLAY SWAPPING FUNCTION

As we will see below, the OB-12 has a huge number of parameters and controls on the front

panel, used to generate the type of sound desired. It may often occur that when the Play Program

video page is displayed (i.e. not the Program editing video pages) the user wishes to modify a

given control on the panel, and check the value associated to it, without switching from the

Program to the Timbre operating environment for the purpose. At other times, it may useful to

display a timbre editing page immediately by just moving a control on the panel, without having to

carry out the entire display procedure to obtain display of the video page concerned.

The DISPLAY SWAPPING function allows the user to display a given menu page by just changing

the position of a control whose parameter is present in the video page. This means that the video

page can be displayed momentarily (to check the value of the parameter whose panel control is

being used) or the user can “freeze” it and then move around the menus relating to the video

page displayed by simply pressing the [DISP HOLD] (Display Hold) button in the Control Center

section of the front panel.

The OB-12 also allows the user to set the Display Swapping function to his own requirements, in

order to obtain the best from this important, useful function.

After pressing the [SYSTEM] button, select option 7-GLOBAL SETUP. The display will show:

now select the SWAPPING folder to access the function set-up: