Yamaha RX21 SETTING UP

SETTING UP

Please read the PRECAUTIONS section of this manual before setting up your RX21.

The CONNECTIONS diagram which folds out at the front of this manual shows you how to make the simple connections necessary to set up your RX21. Use the PA-1 power supply, or any similar power supply to convert the AC voltage to the voltage required to power the RX21 (9 to 12 V).

A brief output pulse appears at the RX21 outputs when the power is initially turned on. To prevent this from possibly damaging your speaker system, make sure the master volume control of your sound system, or the volume of the mixer channel to which the RX21 is connected, is set to minimum before the RX21 is turned on. Better yet, turn on the RX21 first, then your sound system.

The RX21 has an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) panel that keeps you informed of what is happening at any moment (for example, which pattern is playing, or what editing operation you are carrying out). When you turn on the RX21, the LCD shows “YAMAHA RX21” for about a second, then switches to the “SELECT PTN 00”, the basic select pattern mode display which prompts you to select any pattern and then play it back. (The LCD also displays Error Messages to indicate any faults or operating errors: see the ERROR MESSAGES section of this manual). Without any further operations, the RX21 is now ready for you to play.

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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)