User manual YAMAHA QS300 2

[. . . ] Welcome to the QS300 ····················· · Congratulations and thank you for purchasing the Yamaha QS300 Music Production Synthesizer. As its name indicates, the QS300 Music Production Synthesizer provides all you need to create and perform fully orchestrated and professional-sounding music. The QS300 features an advanced tone generator, plus a comprehensive sequencer for recording and editing your performances. The tone generator of the QS300 provides 954 high-quality Voices, full General MIDI and new XG-MIDI compatibility, and three separate digital effects sections for processing the Voices. [. . . ] 113 Quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Swing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Transpose/Clock Shift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Gate Time/Velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Track Transmit Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Track Mute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 105 About Phrases, Sections, Patterns and Styles Before delving deeper into the Pattern mode, let's take a look at how Patterns and other aspects of the accompaniment fit into the general scheme of the QS300. At the top of the accompaniment hierarchy are musical "Styles. " When you select one of the Preset Styles, you are actually selecting a Style (for example: Ska, Slow Blues or Country Ballad). Style Each of these instrument parts is called a "Phrase. " The QS300 contains 3, 093 different Phrases, and has memory space for 100 original User Phrases. (For more details on Phrases, see page 125. ) The individual Patterns do not stop there, however. Just as a piece of music is made up of different sections, so are the Patterns of the QS300. Each Style actually contains several "Section" Patterns -- an introduction, two main themes, fill-ins, and an ending. Naturally, each of these sections is made up of up to eight tracks of instruments. These Sections are typically "strung" together to create a song or musical passage, like this: Preset: 1 - 100 User: 1 - 100 Preset 1 User 1 Intro Main A Main A * Each Style represents a different musical section (Pattern). Each Style features one or more measures of complete instrumental backing or accompaniment suited to the corresponding Style. (Most Preset Patterns are two or four measures, although some Patterns are up to eight measures long. ) For example, Preset Style #51 (Slow Blues) features drums, bass, two guitars and organ. These instrument parts are divided into separate tracks -- and each Style has up to eight different tracks, each with a different instrument. Our Slow Blues Pattern, for example, features seven instrument tracks: three tracks of drums (kick, hi hat, and snare), bass, high rhythm guitar, low muted guitar riff, and organ. Fill AB Main B Ending The rest of this section on the Pattern mode covers selecting and playing Styles, changing chords, changing the playback parameters, and so on. The Pattern mode is very similar to the Song mode and has many of the same functions and operations. For example, Playback Effects and some of the Multi controls are the same. The main difference is that whereas the Song mode has sixteen tracks, the Pattern mode has eight. NOTE: The Pattern mode is not available when the System Mode parameter (in Utility mode) is set to TG-B. (See page 189. ) (Preset Style 051 Slow Blues) Track 1 Kick drum Track 2 Hihat Track 3 Snare Track 4 Bass Track 5 Hi Guitar Track 6 Lo Guitar Track 7 Organ Track 8 Empty 106 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Selecting and Playing Patterns Although you'll normally use the Pattern mode when creating new patterns, the Pattern mode is also useful when you want to listen to individual phrases and experiment with chord changes using the QS300's advanced ABC capability. To select and play Patterns in the Pattern mode:. . . . . . . . . . . . . Select the Pattern mode by pressing p. 4. [. . . ] Navarinou Street 13, P. Code 10680, Athens, Greece Tel: 01-364-7111 SWEDEN Yamaha Scandinavia AB J. Wettergrens Gata 1 Box 30053 S-400 43 Göteborg, Sweden Tel: 031 89 34 00 MALAYSIA Yamaha Music Malaysia, Sdn. , Bhd. 16-28, Jalan SS 2/72, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia Tel: 3-717-8977 BRASIL Yamaha Musical Do Brasil LTDA. Reboucas 2636, São Paulo, Brasil Tel: 011-853-1377 PHILIPPINES Yupangco Music Corporation 339 Gil J. [. . . ]