Yamaha MOTIF6, MOTIF7, MOTIF8, Music Production Synthesizer ■Note, • Data, •Velocity, • Note name, ■Pitch Bend, ■Inserting New Events, • Gate time (beat : clock), Event Editing/Inserting/Deleting

Song Edit mode

Event Editing/Inserting/Deleting

The explanations here apply to step #3 of the Basic Procedure on page 189.

■Editing/Deleting Existing Events

To edit data in the Event List, use the up/down cursor buttons to highlight the specific event you want to edit, and use the left/right cursor buttons to highlight the data type or parameter to be edited. Then, change the value as needed by using the [INC/YES] and [DEC/ NO] buttons or the data dial.

The edited event will flash on the display. Press the [ENTER] button to actually enter the edited data (the event will stop flashing). To abort an edit simply highlight to a new event location without pressing the [ENTER] button. Press the [F6] button to delete the event at the current location.

You can also move the selected event to	Press the [F6] button to
another location by specifying different	delete the
values for measure, beat, and clock.	event at the current
	location.

■Inserting New Events

	To insert an event, use the up/down cursor buttons to
	highlight an event at the desired point in the track
	(measure, beat, clock) — this is the location to which
Reference	the new event will be inserted. Then, follow the steps
	below.
mode Song
		Press the [F1] button to abort and	Press the [F5]
		return to the main Event List	button.
		display.

Press the [ENTER] button to ENTER

actually insert the event.

EXECUTE

MIDI events that can be inserted (edited)

The following explanations apply to the MIDI events that can be inserted (edited) in step #3 of the Basic Procedure on page 189.

The following displays are called up by pressing the [F5] button in step #3 of the Basic Procedure on page 189.

■Note

This is the most common and prevalent type of data — the individual notes of a song.

Note name Gate time Velocity

• Note name

Determines the note name or the specific keyboard pitch of the note.

❏ Settings C -2 ~ G8

• Gate time (beat : clock)

Determines the length of time that a note actually sounds in beats and clocks.

❏ Settings 00:001 ~ 999:479

nOn the MOTIF, one clock is 1/480th of a quarter note.

•Velocity

Determines how strongly the selected note sounds. ❏ Settings 1 ~ 127

■Pitch Bend

These are the events that define continuous changes in pitch and these events are generated by pitch bend wheel operation.

Data

• Data

❏ Settings -8192 ~ +8191

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