Yamaha MOTIF6, MOTIF7, MOTIF8, Music Production Synthesizer Voice Selection, ◆Basic Procedure, ●Category and Voice name, ●Bank and Voice Program number, ■Using the BANK, GROUP, NUMBER buttons

Voice Play mode

Voice Play mode

Basic Structure (page 30) · Quick Start Guide (page 80)

In this mode, you can select and play individual Preset and User voices, as well as Plug-in voices (when installed).

nFor details about voice types and memory (bank) structure, see page 43.

◆Basic Procedure

1 Press the [VOICE] button to enter the Voice Play mode. (The indicator lights.)

VOICE

Indicates the Keyboard

MIDI transmit channel.

See page 127 for details.

4 Select the menu you wish to edit by pressing the [F1] - [F6] buttons and edit the parameters in each display.

nWhen the Plug-in voice is selected (when the Single part Plug-in board is installed), you can press the [F2] button to call up the BANK display.

5 Store the settings edited in step #4 to the User Memory as required.

6 Press any other mode button to exit from the Voice Play mode.

•For detailed instructions on steps #2 - #4, see the following explanations.

•For details on step #5, refer to “Voice Store mode” on page 159.

Voice Selection

The explanations here apply to step #2 of the Basic Procedure described above.

There are four ways in which you can select a Voice.

mode Voice Reference

Indicates the functions assigned to the respective Control knobs. See pages 254 and 256 for details.

Indicates the current selected voice.

Indicates Keyboard Octave setting set via the [OCTAVE] buttons. See page 127 for details.

•Using the BANK, GROUP, NUMBER buttons

•Using the [INC/YES] and [DEC/NO] buttons

•Using the data dial

•Using the Category Search function

■Using the BANK, GROUP, NUMBER buttons

1										CATEGORY
	DRUM KITS	PRE 1	PRE 2	PRE 3	GM	USER	PLG 1	PLG 2	PLG 3	SEARCH	BANK
	FAVORITES	A. PIANO	KEYBOARD	ORGAN	GUITAR /	BASS	STRINGS	BRASS	REED/PIPE
	COMMON				PLUCKED
		A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	SECTION	GROUP

●Bank and Voice Program number

Number (selected via the

NUMBER [1]-[16] buttons)

Group (selected via the

GROUP [A]-[H] buttons)

Voice Program number (corresponding to

Groups A to H and Numbers 01 to 16)

Bank (selected via the BANK buttons)

●Category and Voice name

Category Voice name

2 Select a voice.

3 Set the Keyboard Octave or MIDI transmit channel.

2	SYN LEAD	SYN PAD/	SYN COMP	CHROMATIC	DRUM /	SE	MUSICAL FX	COMBI
		CHOIR		PERCUSSIONPERCUSSION					TRACK
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
3									SELECT
	ELEMENT/ PERF.PART / ZONE
									NUMBER
	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	MUTE
									SOLO

nThe explanations here apply when these four button indicators are off.

1 Press any of the BANK buttons to select a Bank.

•To select a Normal voice, press any of the [PRE1] - [USER] buttons.

PRE 1	PRE 2	PRE 3	GM	USER
A.PIANO	KEYBOARD	ORGAN	GUITAR /	BASS
			PLUCKED

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