Yamaha MOTIF XS6, MOTIF XS7, MOTIF XS8

Basic Structure

MOTIF XS Owner’s Manual

Basic Structure Basic Operation Connections

Basic Section

Knobs and Sliders

These eight knobs let you change various aspects of the

Voice’s sound in real time—while you play. The eight sliders

let you adjust the volume of the Voice Elements,

Performance Parts and Mixing Parts.

For more information about how to use the knobs and

sliders in the respective modes, see page 90 (Voice

mode), page 136 (Performance mode), and page 180

(Song/Pattern mode).

Effect Block

This block applies effects to the output of the tone generator block, and audio input block, processing and enhancing the

sound. Effects are applied in the ﬁnal stages of editing, letting you change the sound of the created Voice as desired.

Effect structure

System Effects are applied to the overall sound—a Voice,

an entire Performance, a Song, etc. With System Effects,

the sound of each Part is sent to the effect according to the

effect Send Level for each Part. The processed sound

(referred to as “wet”) is sent back to the mixer, according to

the Return Level, and output—after being mixed with the

unprocessed “dry” sound. This arrangement lets you

prepare an optimum balance of the effect sound and the

original sound of the Parts.

Insertion Effects can be applied individually to each Part.

Insertion Effects are mainly used to directly process a

single Part. The depth of the effect is adjusted by setting

the dry/wet balance. Since an Insertion Effect can only be

applied to one particular Part, it should be used for sounds

you want to drastically change or for sounds that use an

effect unintended for other sounds. You can also set the

balance so that only the effect sound is heard, by setting

Wet to 100%. This synthesizer features eight sets of

Insertion Effects (one set has A and B units). They can be

applied to all Parts of the Performance, and applied to

eight Parts (maximum) of the Song/Pattern. Another

important Insertion Effect is the Vocoder, which can be

applied only to one Part.

nIn the Voice mode, the Vocoder Effect can be applied to each

of the Voices. In the Mixing (Song/Pattern) and Performance

mode, the Vocoder Effect can be applied only to Part 1. The

Vocoder Effect does not work even if you assign the Voice (to

which the Vocoder is applied in the Voice mode) to the other

parts (Part 2 or higher).

This block applies effects to the ﬁnal stereo output signal of

the entire sound.

The Element EQ is applied to each element of the Normal

Voice and each key of the Drum Voice. You can specify

which shape is used among six types, such as shelving

and peaking.

This 3-band parametric EQ is applied to each part of the

Performance/Song Mixing/Pattern Mixing. The high band

and low band are the shelving type. The middle band is the

peaking type.

Master EQ is applied to the ﬁnal (post-effect), overall sound

of the instrument. In this EQ, all ﬁve bands can be set to

peaking, or the lowest and highest bands can also be set

to shelving.

System Effects—Reverb and Chorus

Insertion Effect

Master Effect

Element EQ

Part EQ

Master EQ