User manual YAMAHA VOICE EDITOR FOR S90

[. . . ] Contents What is the Voice Editor?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Starting the Voice Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Library Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] · saw down. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creates a saw shaped downward wave. · even step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Values of all even steps are set to 127, and values of all odd steps are set to 0. · odd step. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Values of all odd steps are set to 127, and values of all even steps are set to 0. 4 Wave graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Click on the text box and select the method of restarting the LFO when a note is played. 5 RESET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Values of all the steps are reset to 0. 6 VALUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edit the value for each step by using the corresponding knob. CONTROLLER (Plug-in Voice only) This determines the depth of pitch, cutoff, pitch modulation, cutoff modulation, and amplitude modulation. 8 ELEMENT unit This section is explained in more detail in "Element Unit" (page 21). 9 INSERTION EFFECT units This section is explained in more detail in "Insertion Effect" (page 26). ) SYSTEM EFFECT settings This section is explained in more detail in "System Effects" (page 26). Keyboard Click any key on the keyboard to monitor your edited voice in that key. @ KEY ASSIGN settings Click on the left text box to select a Key Assign setting. Click on the right text box to select Monophonic or Polyphonic. The "KEY ASSIGN" settings are not available for Drum Voices. # MICRO TUNE settings Click on the text box to select a Micro Tuning preset. The "MICRO TUNE" settings are not available for Drum Voices. 19 $ ASSIGNABLE 1/2 settings Use the knobs to set the value of the parameter assigned to each of the assignable 1/2 controllers. % MEQ GAIN CONTROL settings Use the knobs to set the gain for each frequency band of the four-band EQ. ELEMENT Unit 1 2 3 4 1 EL (Element) 1 to 4 buttons Click these to open the corresponding "ELEMENT" dialogs. n For Drum voices, you will see the following panel. Click [KEY C0. . . C6] to open the "Drum Key" dialog (page 24). n For Plug-in voices, you will see the following panel. Click [DETAIL] to open the "Plug-in Voice Detail" dialog. 1 2 4 3 1 VOICE BANK . . . . . . . Determines the Speed of LFO, Pitch Modulation, and Delay. Determines the amount of Note Shift (key transpose). Click [NATIVE PARAM] to open the "NATIVE Parameter" dialog. Select the Plug-in board to be edited at the top left of the keyboard illustration on the window. 20 2 ON/OFF switches Click these to switch each Element on or off. 3 Element Level knobs Use these to set the level of each Element. 4 EF (Effect) 1 / EF (Effect) 2 / THRU switches Click these to assign each Element to Insertion Effect 1 or Insertion Effect 2, or to by pass the Insertion Effect units. q ELEMENT Dialog 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 1 LFO WAVE Click on the "WAVE" text box and select the LFO's waveform. 2 LFO SPEED Click on the "SPEED" text box and specify its speed. [. . . ] (pages 11, 32) Library files created in Voice Editor cannot be read directly by the S90. · Set the file extension to "W4E" in order to read Voice Editor's Library files directly on your synthesizer. The corresponding file (extension "W5E") should be copied to the same location (folder) as "W4E". <Windows> Bulk data is not received. · Open the Editor Setup Dialog and check that the Device Number has been properly assigned (page 11). [. . . ]