Keyboard Track

Track 1 becomes the keyboard track when the cursor is located at

the “Pat”, “Chd”, or “Tmp” track.

When the cursor is located at a specific track number/mute button (the track number is inverted), that track becomes the QY300 “keyboard track” — i.e. the track played by the micro-keyboard. The keyboard track setting is maintained even if the cursor is moved to other parameters on the display. The current keyboard track setting determines which internal tone generator channel will be played by the micro-keyboard, and via which MIDI channel the note data corrresponding to what is played on the micro-keyboard will be output — according to the channel assignments made in the Output Select

display page 18).

Voices, Assignment & Effects

•Press the [F6] function key (“Exit”) from any of the voice-mode

displays to return to the normal SONG mode display.

•The master (“M”) fader also af- fects the pattern tracks — page 65.

The QY300 has 128 voices and 8 drum kits that can be selected, played, and assigned to the 16 SONG mode sequencer tracks via the voice display. The voice mode also features a graphic on-screen “mixer” that has pan pots and faders for each tone-generator channel as well as reverb, tuning, and pitch bend range controls (tone generator channel to sequencer track assignments are

described in the “Channel Assignments” section, page 18).

Press the [F3] function key (“Voice”) to select the voice mode and then, if necessary, press [F1] (“Mixer”) to select the mixer display.

Try Out the Voices

•In any QY300 mode, the micro keyboard plays

the voice assigned to the currently selected track. A MIDI keyboard connected to the MIDI IN con- nector, however, will only play the voice assigned to the track that is set to receive on the MIDI channel that the external keyboard is transmitting on. MIDI track assignments are discussed on page 18.

•To conform to General MIDI proto- col, only the drum voices can be assigned to track 10.

•See the “VOICE LISTS AND MIDI

DATA” booklet page 3) for a complete list of note assignments (i.e. which drum instruments are assigned to which notes) for all 8 drum kits.

If you’re playing the micro keyboard, use the octave keys to access the full range

of instruments in each drum kit.

Move the cursor to the channel-1 voice parameter immediately below “1” on the display (as in the display shown above). Note that the name of the voice currently assigned to channel 1 appears in the upper right corner of the display, while an abbreviation indication the voice category appears at the voice parameter location (the voices and their category abbreviations are listed on page 2 of the separate “VOICE LISTS AND MIDI DATA” booklet). Play the micro keyboard and you’ll hear that voice. Use any of the QY300’s data entry methods to select and try out the various voices.

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