Voice Play - Yamaha MOTIF XF Quick Start Manual

red indicator it will "hook" it and the knob/slider will indicate the actual value. As long as the red arrow
appears the control is not active. Try it. Move a slider until you reach the stored value – the red indicator
disappears as soon as your reach that value.
In a VOICE the Knobs will show a row of parameters. To the left of the actual knobs you will see a button
labeled "SELECTED PART CONTROL" pressing it will select one of three rows of functions: Tone 1, Tone 2 or
ARP FX. The row that is selected when the VOICE is stored is the row that will be active initially when the
VOICE is recalled.
The CS, or Control Sliders, in VOICE mode will always control individual Element Level. This is accomplished
by sending System Exclusive messages to the Tone Generator. (An Element is simply a multi-sample
component of the Voice).
A possible question here might be: Why is this done with System Exclusive messages? In Voice mode there
is no MIDI control number that would specifically address the individual Elements. After all, Elements are an
exclusive feature found in Yamaha keyboards. A MIDI control message like Expression (cc011) or Volume
(cc007) would control the entire VOICE's volume (all Elements together). These messages are "Channel
messages" (everything on the same MIDI channel would respond in kind to a channel message).
In the screen, directly below the Control Slider icons and their stored values, you will see what six of your
physical controllers are assigned to do. This is always a good clue as to what you can immediately do to
change the Voice during a musical performance. You may not initially know what all the different parameters
mean, yet, but you can remind yourself to move them and listen to their impact on the VOICE.
MW (Modulation Wheel) = Chorus Send amount. On the this Voice it is a dual modulator Chorus device
RB (Ribbon Controller) = Cutoff. Move your finger to the left to close down the filter, to the right to open it
AF1 (Assignable Function 1)* = Reverb Send. Pressing this button will recall a preset amount of reverb
AF2 (Assignable Function 2)* = AEG Release. Recalls a slightly shorter release
AS1 (Assignable Knob 1) = Insert Effect "A", High Shelving Gain – increase high frequency output
AS2 (Assignable Knob 2) = Element Level – increases Key-Off noise (element 8)
• The small letter "L" or "M" will
appear
Function
button's current Mode – which can
be "L" Latch, or "M" Momentary.
• Press [EXIT] + [>] Right Cursor to
view
screen (shown at left)
• (You can press [EXIT] + [<] Left
Cursor to return to the first view.)
You can easily see this VOICE is an eight
Element Voice (Element Switches indicates
that Elements 12345678 are active), what
Controllers are active, the PB range, the
Octave and the Transpose function, the
Tempo and the currently selected ARP.
2
next to the Assignable
indicator denoting
an alternate VOICE
the
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