Yamaha EX5, EX5R, EX7

Introductory

Section

Voice & Performance

Selection

One of the first things you'll want to do with your EX5, EX5R, or EX7 is select and play some

of its voices or performance combinations … this section will show you how to do just that.

The EX has 256 preset voices organized into two separate memories — Preset 1 (“P1”), and

Preset 2 (“P2”) — each containing 128 voices. Two 128-voice “Internal” memory areas are

also provided for storage of original voices or voices loaded from an external storage medium:

Internal 1 (“I1”) and Internal 2 (“I2”). The EX voice memory can thus hold up to 512 voices

at once for instant selection and performance.

One internal 128-location memory area is provided for performance combinations, so there’s

no need to switch memory areas as in the Voice mode.

If at any time you want to restore the original factory voices, they can be reloaded from the supplied Factory Set

file as described on page 27.

1Select the Voice or Performance Mode

To select and play voices, press the [VOICE] MODE button so that its indicator lights and “VOICE

PLAY” appears in the upper left corner of the LCD screen. The voice-mode display provides a few

items of information in addition to the name of the currently selected voice.

The abbreviations in the section separated by a line at the bottom of the display (“P1,” “P2,” etc)

indicate the functions of the corresponding function keys below the display screen.

To select and play performance combinations press the [PERFORMANCE] MODE button so that its

indicator lights and “PERFORM PLAY” appears in the upper left corner of the LCD screen. The

performance-mode display is somewhat simpler than the voice mode display.

MODE

VOICE

PERFORMANCE

SONG PATTERN SAMPLE

EDIT JOB STORE UTILITY DISK

Function Menu

Bank &

Number

Performance

Number

Performance Name

MODE

VOICE

PERFORMANCE

SONG PATTERN SAMPLE

EDIT JOB STORE UTILITY DISK

Function MenuVoice Type

(See “Extended

Synthesis”, page 29)

Memory

area Receive

Channel

Transmit

Channel

Bank &

Number

Voice

Number

Voice Name

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