System Overview

System Overview

This section provides an overview of the MOTIF’s wide range of sophisticated and versatile features. The MOTIF is made up of several blocks, as shown here.

Controller block

Keyboard

Controllers

 

MIDI out

KN 1 KN 2

KN 3 KN 4

Sequencer block

Tone Generator block

 

 

Effect block

 

 

MIDI sequence data

Internal AWM2

 

 

DSP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plug-in board

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Song

 

MIDI data

• Voice

 

 

• Reverb

 

Output

• Pattern

 

 

 

 

• Performance

 

 

• Chorus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Arpeggio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Variation

 

 

 

 

Sampling block

 

 

 

 

• Master Equalizer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MIDI data

 

Microphone or

 

 

MIDI data

A/D Input

 

MIDI data

 

 

 

audio equipment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic Structure

External MIDI device

Controller block

Basic Structure (pages 37, 48)

This block consists of the keyboard, Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels, Ribbon Controller, Sound Control knobs, and so on. The keyboard itself doesn’t generate sounds, but instead sends note, velocity and other information (MIDI data) to the synthesizer’s tone generator section when you play notes. The controllers also send changes. Information from the keyboard and controllers can be transmitted to other external MIDI devices through the MIDI OUT connector or the USB connector.

Sequencer block

Basic Structure (page 51) · Quick Start Guide (pages 99 ~ 118) · Reference (pages 177, 215)

This block lets you create songs and patterns by recording/editing musical performances (MIDI data) recorded from the controller block, and then plays back this data, transmitting it to the tone generator block.

The sequencer block can be operated in the Song mode, in the Pattern mode, and in using the Arpeggio feature. When a song or a pattern is played back, the musical data of each sequence track is transmitted to the tone generator block according to the Transmit Channel settings.

Sequencer

Track 1

 

Piano

 

Ch1

Track 2

 

Bass

 

Ch2

 

 

Track 3

 

Strings

 

Ch3

 

 

Track 16

 

Percussion

 

Ch16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tone Generator block (example)

part 1

(Receive channel 2)

 

 

part 2

(Receive channel 3)

 

 

part 3

(Receive channel 10)

 

 

part 4

(Receive channel 1)

 

 

 

 

part 15

(Receive channel 9)

 

 

part 16

(Receive channel 16)

 

 

nDetails about track structure of a Song/Pattern/Arpeggio are described on pages 51 and 52 respectively.

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