Yamaha S90 ES - page 192

Appendix

Troubleshooting

192 Owner’s Manual

■ A Plug-in Voice cannot be selected even when a Plug-in Board has been installed.

•Check whether the SLOT lamp (from SLOT1 - 3) corresponding to the selected PLG button ([PLG1] - [PLG3]) is turned on

or off.

• When selecting a User bank, are any Voices stored into the User bank?

In the default settings, User banks for Plug-in Voice contain no Voices. You must the select the Preset bank or create a

User Voice.

• Check whether the PLG which corresponds to the PLG100-XG slot is selected or not.

The Voice on the PLG100-XG cannot be selected in the Voice mode or Performance mode.

• Check whether the PLG which corresponds to the PLG100-VH slot is selected or not.

The PLG100-VH contains no Voices for selection, since it is an Effect Plug-in Board.

■ The Plug-in Board does not work.

Is the lamp of the corresponding slot number to which the Plug-in board has been installed lit? (page 18)

• Has the PLG100-VH been installed to slot 2 or 3?

The PLG100-VH can be installed only to slot 1.

• Has the PLG100-XG been installed to slot 1 or 2?

The PLG100-XG can be installed only to slot 3.

■ Data communication between the computer and the S90 ES does not work properly.

• Check whether the Port setting on the computer is appropriate or not.

• Is the cable setting (MIDI, USB, mLAN) in the Utility mode appropriate?

■ The S90 ES does not sound properly even when playing back the song data on the computer or the

MIDI instrument connected to the S90 ES.

• Make sure to set the S90 ES to the Multi mode. To play back the multiple channels simultaneously, select multi mode.

(page 70)

■ MIDI bulk data transmission/reception does not work properly.

• Is Bulk data receive protection enabled?

Turn the Receive Bulk parameter to “on.”

•When receiving recorded data with the internal Bulk Dump function, the device number must be set to the same value as

that used when transmitting/recording.

• When transmission does not work properly, is the device number of the MIDI instrument connected to the S90 ES set to

match the DeviceNo. parameter?

• When using the Voice Editor/Multi Part Editor, have you set a sufﬁcient Dump Interval?

The Dump Interval in the Editor Setup dialog must be set to 20ms or greater. For details refer to the PDF manual included

with the Editor.

■ Data cannot be saved in the USB storage device

• Is the connected USB storage device write protected? (Write-protect should be set to off for saving data.)

• Is the connected USB storage device properly formatted?

■ Cannot enter the Edit mode

• Is the Category Search function turned on?

After exiting from the Category Search function, press the [EDIT] button.

• Is the S90 ES in the File mode?

After exiting from the File mode, press the [EDIT] button.

[VOICE] → [F2] BANK (page 127)

[UTILITY] → [F5] MIDI → [SF4] OTHER → MIDI IN/OUT(page 166)

[UTILITY] → [F5] MIDI → [SF2] SWITCH → RcvBulk (page 166)

[UTILITY] → [F5] MIDI → [SF1] CH → DeviceNo (page 166)

[FILE] → [F1] CONFIG → [SF2] FORMAT (page 168)