User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- How to use the manual
- Accessories
- Main Features
- Contents
- The Controls & Connectors
- Start Guide
- Step 1: Setting Up
- Resetting the User Memory to the Initial Factory Settings
- Step 2: Selecting and Playing a Voice
- Step 3: Selecting and Playing a Performance
- Step 4: Creating Your Original Song
- Step 5: Creating a Pattern
- Using a Computer
- Basic Section
- Reference
- Playing the Keyboard in the Voice Play Mode
- Selecting a Voice
- Select a Voice using the Category Search function
- Grouping your most-used Voices together-Favorite Category
- Using Knobs and Control Sliders
- Keyboard MIDI transmit channel setting
- Keyboard Octave setting
- Using the Arpeggio function
- The Voice Play display
- Voice information-[SF6] INFO (Information)
- Portamento settings-[F2] Porta
- Changing tonal color-[F3] EG/EQ
- Arpeggio settings-[F4] Arpeggio
- Editing a Normal Voice
- Common Edit and Element Edit
- Editing Normal Voices
- Convenient functions for editing Voices
- Common Edit parameters
- Element Edit parameters
- Selected Element display/ Four-Element display
- Setting the Waveform and Note range of the Element-[F1] Oscillator
- Pitch Settings-[F2] Pitch
- Adjust the brightness using the Filter-[F3] Filter
- Output Level settings-[F4] Amplitude
- Modulating the Voice-[F5] Elm LFO (Element LFO)
- Equalizer (EQ) Settings-[F6] EQ
- Editing a Drum Voice
- Voice Job-Convenient Functions
- Playing in the Performance Mode
- Selecting a Performance
- Switching a Part on/off
- Using the Arpeggio Function
- Using Knobs
- Using Sliders
- The Performance Play display
- Performance information-[SF6] INFO (Information)
- Parameters for the Voice assigned to each Part-[F2] Voice
- Changing the tonal characteristics- [F3] EG (Envelope Generator)
- Arpeggio settings-[F4] Arpeggio
- Recording your keyboard performance in the Performance mode
- Editing a Performance
- Performance Job-Convenient Functions
- Creating a Voice/Performance by Using the Sampling Function
- Song Playback
- Song Recording
- Editing MIDI Events (Song Edit)
- Song Job
- Pattern Playback
- Pattern Playback Procedure
- Playback types
- Mixing Setup for each track
- Knobs and Control Sliders
- Pattern Playback-[F1] Play
- Changing the rhythmic “feel” of the Pattern-[F2] Play FX (Play Effect)
- Track Settings-[F3] Track
- Pattern Creating-[F4] Patch
- Pattern Chain-[F5] Chain (Pattern Chain)
- Dividing the Pattern data to create a new Pattern-[F6] Remix
- Pattern Recording
- Editing MIDI Events (Pattern Edit)
- Pattern Jobs
- Multi-timbral Tone Generator Settings for Song/Pattern Playback (Mixing mode)
- Audio Recording to Song/Pattern (Sampling mode)
- Using as a Master Keyboard (Master mode)
- System Settings (Utility mode, etc.)
- Basic Procedure in the Utility mode
- System Information-[SF6] INFO
- General Settings-[F1] General
- Audio In/Out Settings-[F2] I/O (Input/Output)
- System Settings for the Voice mode-[F3] Voice
- Audio Input Settings in the Voice mode-[F4] VoiceAudio
- Remote Control and MIDI settings -[F5] Control
- Resetting the User Memory to the Initial Factory Settings-[JOB] (Factory Set)
- Sequencer Settings-[SEQ SETUP]
- File Management (File mode)
- Playing the Keyboard in the Voice Play Mode
- Appendix
Audio Recording to Song/Pattern (Sampling mode)
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Voice mode Song mode Pattern mode Mixing mode Master mode Utility mode File mode
Performance
mode
Sampling
mode 1
Sampling
mode 2
Reference
) Meter
Determines the meter (time signature) of Sample playback.
Setting the Meter changes the End Point (8) so that the
length between the Start Point and the End Point matches
the settings of the Tempo and Measure.
Settings: 1/16 – 16/16, 1/8 – 16/8, 1/4 – 8/4
! Measure
Determines the amount of measures for Sample playback.
Setting the Measure changes the End Point (8) so that the
length between the Start Point and the End Point matches
the settings of the Tempo and Meter.
Settings:
Measure: 000 – 032
Beat: 00 – 15 (Varies depending on the Meter setting.)
@ Recordable Time (Indication only)
Indicates the available Sampling time using the available
memory. The time indicated here is calculated assuming a
mono signal with a sampling frequency of 44.1 kHz. The
amount of memory space currently being used is shown in
the display as a blue line.
# [SF1] Audition
You can hear the selected Sample by holding this button.
This lets you hear precisely how the Sample is played
back.
$ [SF2] LP=ST
When the menu indication here is “LP=ST,” the Start (Start
Point) and the Loop (Loop Start Point) will share the same
address, meaning that both of them will be changed
simultaneously, even if just one of them is changed.
Pressing the [SF2] button in this condition changes the
menu from “LP=ST” to “LP≠ST.” When the menu indication
here is “LP≠ST,” the Start (Start Point) and the Loop (Loop
Start Point) can be changed independently. When pressing
the [SF2] button in this condition, the address value of the
Start will be copied to the one of the Loop, with the result
that both of them share the same address value. The menu
indication also changes from “LP≠ST” to “LP=ST.”
% [SF3] Display
Pressing the [SF3] button adjusts the zoom level so that the
entire wave, including the Start Point and End Point, is
shown on the display.
^ [SF4] Zoom Out
& [SF5] Zoom In
Press these buttons to zoom in and out of the wave
indication of the Sample in the display.
* [F6] Slice
Pressing this button calls up the Record Slice display.
( [SF6] NUM
When “NUM” is shown in the tab, you can use the [F1] –
[F6] buttons and the [SF1] – [SF5] buttons as numeric keys
by pressing the [SF6] button.
Slicing the Sample—Record Slice
display
When the Recording Type (page 244) is set to “slice+seq,”
you can call up this display by pressing the [F6] Slice
button in the Record Slice display. From this display, you
can divide the recorded Sample into several slices
according to the rhythm of the original Sample. By
executing the Slice operation, the recorded Sample is first
divided into “slices” to be stored as a Sample Voice, then
these slices are assigned to successive notes on the
keyboard. These notes are then automatically arranged in
MIDI sequence data (to the specified track) for playback.
The procedure on the Record Slice display is as follows.
1 Select a Slice Type (6).
2 Set the amount of Measures (7) for Sample
playback.
3 Set the Meter (8), Sub Divide (9), and
Sensitivity ()).
4 Press the [SF4] Apply button to execute Slice.
The Apply indication color will change from green to
gray. At this time, the Sample has been modified
temporarily and is not fixed as data.
5 Confirm the result of the Slice operation.
Press the [SF1] Audition button to hear the modified
Sample. If you are satisfied with the result, go on to the
step 6. If you are not satisfied with the results and want
to try again, press the [SF4] Apply button again to abort
the Slice operation and return the Sample to the original
status. The Apply indication color returns to green. In
this case, attempt the operation again from step 1.
6 Press the [ENTER] button to fix the Slice result
as Sample data.
The instrument returns to the Setup display.
7 Press the [EXIT] button a number of times to
go back to the Song mode or Pattern mode.
Listen to the recorded track having the sliced Sample.
8 Before turning the power off, store the Song or
Pattern data to internal memory then save the
created Waveform to a USB storage device or
to a computer connected via network to the
MOTIF XS.
For information about how to store and save, see pages
186 and 278.