Yamaha MOTIF6, MOTIF7, MOTIF8, Music Production Synthesizer • Bank, • Type, •PortaSw, • Mono/Poly, • PortaTime, • PortaMode, [F4] Voice Play Portamento, ● [F6] Voice Play Arpeggio, ●[F2] Voice Play Plug-inBank

Voice Play mode

●[F2] Voice Play Plug-in Bank

From this display you can select the particular bank on the Plug-in board, and determine whether you will be using a Plug-in voice or a “Board” voice. Simply put, the difference between the two types of voices is this:

•Board voices are unprocessed, unaltered voices of the Plug-in board — the “raw material” for Plug-in voices.

•Plug-in voices are edited Board voices — voices that have been specially programmed and processed for optimum use with the MOTIF.

For more details, see page 153.

❏ Settings When a Plug-in voice using the Plug-in

		board installed to slot 1 is selected:
		PLG1USR (User Plug-in voice), PLGPRE1
		(Preset Plug-in voice), 032/000 ... (Indicates
		the Bank Select MSB/LSB of the Board
		voice. These values differ depending on the
Reference		installed Plug-in board)
		n This display is available only when the Plug-in
		board is installed to the MOTIF and the Plug-in
Voice		voice is selected.
	●	[F4] Voice Play Portamento
mode
		From this display you can select monophonic or
		polyphonic playback and set the Portamento
		parameters.
		Portamento is used to create a smooth transition in
		pitch from the first note played on the keyboard to
		the next.

• Mono/Poly

Determines whether the Voice is played back monophonically (single notes only) or polyphonically (multiple simultaneous notes).

❏ Settings Mono, Poly

•PortaSw

Determines whether Portamento is on or off. ❏ Settings off, on

• PortaTime

Determines the pitch transition time. Higher values result in longer transition times.

❏ Settings 0 ~127

• PortaMode

Determines the Portamento mode. The behavior of the Portamento varies depending on whether Mono/Poly is set to “mono” or “poly.”

❏ Settings fingered, fulltime

When Mono/Poly is set to “mono”:

With the “fingered” setting, Portamento is only applied when you play legato (playing the next note before releasing the previous one). With the “fulltime” setting, Portamento is always applied.

When Mono/Poly is set to “poly”:

This is the same as for “mono,” except that Portamento is applied to multiple notes.

● [F5] Voice Play EG (Envelope Generator)

Basic Structure (page 46)

This display contains the basic EG settings, both volume and filter, for the voice, as well as the filter’s cutoff frequency and resonance settings. The settings made here are applied as offsets to the AEG and FEG settings in the Voice Edit mode.

The full names of the available parameters are shown in the chart below, as they appear in the display.

	ATK	DCY	SUS	REL	DEPTH	CUTOFF	RESO
AEG			Sustain		---	---	---
	Attack	Decay	level	Releas
FEG	time	time	---	e Time	Depth	Cutoff	Resonance
						frequency
❏ Settings		-64 ~ 0 ~ +63 (except --- above)

● [F6] Voice Play Arpeggio

Basic Structure (page 55)

This display contains the basic settings for Arpeggio playback, including Type and Tempo.

• Bank

Determines the Bank.

❏ Settings pre1, pre2, user

• Type

Determines the Arpeggio type. The two-letter prefix before the name indicates the general Arpeggio category.

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