User manual YAMAHA MOTIF XS6/MOTIF XS7/MOTIF XS8

[. . . ] SPECIAL MESSAGE SECTION PRODUCT SAFETY MARKINGS: Yamaha electronic products may have either labels similar to the graphics shown below or molded/stamped facsimiles of these graphics on the enclosure. The explanation of these graphics appears on this page. Please observe all cautions indicated on this page and those indicated in the safety instruction section. Battery Notice: This product MAY contain a small nonrechargable battery which (if applicable) is soldered in place. The average life span of this type of battery is approximately five years. [. . . ] (The display prompts you for confirmation. ) Press the [DEC/NO] button to cancel the Store operation. Song Store is canceled, and operation returns to the previous display. 4 CAUTION The recorded Song will be lost when selecting a different Song, calling up a different mode, or turning the power off. Make sure to store the Song data to internal memory by pressing the [STORE] button before selecting a different Song, calling up a different mode, or turning the power off. Press the [INC/YES] button to execute the Store operation. After the Song has been stored, a "Completed" message appears and operation returns to the Song Play display. n If there is not enough memory space for the Song/Pattern, an alert message appears, and you will not able to store any additional Songs/Patterns. If this happens, delete unnecessary Patterns/Songs by using the Song/Pattern Job, then try the Store operation again. 6 Save the created Song data to a USB storage device or to a connected computer as desired (page 278). MOTIF XS Owner's Manual Song Recording Preparing the Song Recording-- [F1] Setup From this display you can set up various parameters for recording a Song. @ # $ % ^ & * 6 Track type (Indication only) Indicates the track type: MIDI track or Audio track. For Mixing Parts that correspond to Audio tracks, a Sample Voice is assigned. For Mixing Parts that correspond to MIDI tracks, a Voice other than a Sample Voice is assigned. For Mixing Parts that correspond to empty tracks, no Voice is assigned. Settings: M (MIDI Track), W (Audio track), blank (no Voice is assigned) 7 Mute/Solo (Indication only) Indicates the Mute/Solo status for each track. For detailed instructions on setting Mute/Solo, see page 179. Blank: Neither Mute nor Solo are assigned to this track. s: Indicates soloed track. º ¡ ( TM £ Indicates the name of the currently selected Song. The Song can be selected in the Song Play display (page 178). Pattern mode 1 Song name (Indication only) 9 REC TR (Record Track) Determines the track to be recorded. Move the cursor to the desired track or press any of the Number buttons [1] ­ [16] with the TRACK lamp turned on so that the red circle is shown in the corresponding column of the REC TR. To set all tracks to the Record Track, press the [F6] button (red circles are shown in all columns of REC TR). Settings: Scene Track, Tempo Track, 1 ­ 16, All Track Song mode 6 8 Voice name (Indication only) Indicates the Voice name of the Mixing part corresponding to each track. Sampling mode 1 5 Performance mode Voice mode 2 Meas (Measure) Determines the location at which playback starts. This also indicates the current location of the recording. Measure Beat Clock Scene Track Records track mute on/off events and Song Scene changing timing events. Settings: Tempo Track Records tempo change information during playback. Measure: 001 ­ 999 Beat, Clock: Indication only 1 ­ 16 Master mode 3 Time signature (Meter) Determines the meter (time signature) of the Song. Settings: 1/16 ­ 16/16, 1/8 ­ 16/8, 1/4 ­ 8/4 Records your actual musical performance. Your keyboard performance will be recorded to the track selected here. All Track Simultaneous recording to all 16 sequence tracks. Multi-channel data from an external MIDI device can be recorded at once. 4 Tempo Sets the tempo for recording in real time. Settings: 5. 0 ­ 300. 0 n The tempo value set here will be the tempo of the Song after recording. n If you are using this instrument with an external sequencer, a computer, or other MIDI device, and you want to have the Song recording tempo controlled by the external device(s), set the MIDI sync (5) parameter in the MIDI display (page 267) of the Utility mode to "MIDI. " In that case, the Tempo parameter here indicates "MIDI" and cannot be changed. ) Record Type Determines a Recording method. Settings: replace, overdub, punch replace You can use this method when you want to overwrite an already recorded track with new data in real time. The original data will be erased. File mode overdub You can use this method when you want to add more data to a track that already contains data. Previously recorded data will be maintained. punch You can use this method when you want to overwrite data to a specified range of a track that already contains data. You can overwrite the already recorded data from the starting point to the ending point (measure/beat) that was specified before recording. n When the Record Track (5) is set to "Tempo Track" or "Scene Track, " "overdub" cannot be selected here. 5 Track number (Indication only) Indicates the track number. MOTIF XS Owner's Manual 187 Utility mode Sampling mode 2 Mixing mode Reference Song Recording !Punch In @ Punch Out When punch (Punch In/Out) is selected as the Record Type explained above, the recording start position (Punch In position) and finish position (Punch Out position) are specified here. Settings: 001 : 01 ­ 999 : 16 * Ins Effect Sw (Insertion Effect Switch) Determines whether the Insertion Effect assigned to the Voice is used or not. 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