Yamaha RX21 2

YAMAHA

DIGITAL RHYTHM PROGRAMMER

OWNER’S MANUAL

Contents

Page Page INTRODUCTION CONTENTS Page CONNECTIONS Page PRECAUTIONS SETTING UP THE INSTRUMENTS Getting to Know the RX21 Instruments RX21 INSTRUMENT CHART Total Level Stereo Positioning Accents Setting Accent Levels Playback of Patterns Pattern Change During Playback Tempo Control Real Time Pattern Programming LENGTH SETTlNG (II/16) TIME SIGNATURE Page Real Time Write (Example: Step Write Pattern Programming Page Step Write (Example: 4/4 Time, Quantize Rate 16, on pattern 00) Quantize QUANTIZE Applied to the Step Write Mode The Step Write Dot Display Dot Display (Example: Time 3/4, Quantize 1/16, on pattern 00) Beat Exchange IMPORTANT: Beat Exchange (Example: on pattern 00) Click Level Pattern Clear Instrument Clear Pattern Copy Page Song Playback Repeat Playback of Songs Editing (Assembling aSong) Break Patterns Song Editing (Example: song 0, patterns 22,5,79,4) The lnsert Function The Delete Function Repeats Deleting Repeats Song Clear Song Clear (AIl Songs) Save/Verify Load Load Data From Cassette MIDI FUNCTIONS 1. MIDI CLOCK INPUT APPLICATION EXAMPLE: RX21 plus QX7 plus TX7 2. MIDI CLOCK OUTPUT 3. KEY NUMBER RECEPTION APPLICATlON EXAMPLE 1: RX21 plus DX21 APPLICATION EXAMPLE 2: QX7 plus RX21 plus TX7 4. MIDI DATA TRANSMIT Clock Modes MIDI Parameters Key Number Reception 3. SYSTEM lNFORMATlON AVAILABLE Tape Sync with the RX21 PROGRAMMING REFERENCE GUIDE INSTRUMENT OPERATIONS PATTERN OPERATlONS Page Page Page SONG OPERATIONS Page Page CASSETTE MIDI FUNCTIONS CHANGE BATTERY NO BATTERY RX BUFFER FULL PRESET PTN AREA PTN MEMORY FULL SONG MEMORY FULL ALREADY ENTERED VERIFY ERROR LOAD ERROR SPECIFICATIONS Page Page FCC INFORMATION (USA)