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
Step 2: Selecting and Playing a Voice
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Start Guide
Changing the Arpeggio type
The Arpeggio type assigned to each of the [SF1] – [SF5]
buttons can be changed as desired.
1 From the Voice Play display, press the [F4]
button to call up the Arpeggio display.
2 Press one of the [SF1] – [SF5] buttons.
The lower half of the display will be changed for the
pressed button. The upper half of the display is
common to all the [SF1] – [SF5] buttons.
3 In the lower half of the display, select the
Category, Sub Category and Type of the
Arpeggio.
The Category determines the instrument type, the Sub
Category determines the rhythm type, and the Type
determines the Arpeggio type itself. Press any note to
trigger the Arpeggio playback to find your favorite one.
Go on and assign Arpeggio types in the same way to the
other [SF] buttons as desired.
n For details about the Arpeggio, see page 62.
Using the Controllers
The MOTIF XS gives you an amazing amount of control
options. Not only is it equipped with conventional Pitch
Bend and Modulation Wheels, it also features special
Knobs, Sliders, Ribbon Controller, and Assignable Function
buttons.
The Voice Play display indicates the functions assigned to
the controllers. Keep in mind that the name of the Voice
may include an abbreviation of the controller most suitable
for use when playing the Voice. Using the controllers such
as Knobs, Sliders, and the ASSIGNABLE FUNCTION
buttons change various aspects of the Voice’s sound in real
time—while you play.
n For more information about controllers, see page 67.
These global parameters apply to all the [SF1] – [SF5]
buttons as a group.
These parameters can be set for each of the [SF1] – [SF5]
buttons.
Display Functions
AS1, AS2 Indicates the functions assigned to the respective
Knobs (printed “ASSIGN 1” and “ASSIGN 2”) with the
TONE1 lamp turned on.
AF1, AF2 Indicates the functions assigned to the two
ASSIGNABLE FUNCTION buttons.
MW
Indicates the functions assigned to the Modulation Wheel.
RB
Indicates the functions assigned to the Ribbon Controller.
TONE 2
ARP FX
REVERB
CHORUS
PAN
TONE 1
MASTER
VOLUME
LOCATE 1
2
ASSIGNABLE
FUNCTION
CONTROL
SELECTED PART
CONTROL
MULTI PART
ON/OFF ON/OFF
EQ LOW EQ MID F
CUTOFF RESONANCE
SWING
QUANTIZE
VALUE
EQ MID EQ MID Q
ATTA CK DECAY
QUANTIZE
STRENGTH GATE TIME
REMOTE ARPEGGIO
EFFECT BYPASS
SEQ TRANSPORT
VOLUME 1 VOLUME 2 VOLUME 3 VOLUME 4 VOLUME 5 VOLUME 6 VOLUME 7 VOLUME 8
EQ HIGH PAN
SUSTAIN RELEASE
VELOCITY OCT RANGE
ASSIGN 1 ASSIGN 2
REVERB CHORUS
UNITMULTIPLY
TEMPO
OCTAVE
MASTER
EFFECT
1
2
UPDOWN
INSERTION SYSTEM
ASSIGNABLE FUNCTION [1]/[2] buttons
Knobs
Sliders
Ribbon Controller
Pitch Bend wheel
Modulation wheel
Indicates the controller assignment