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
Voice mode Song mode Pattern mode Mixing mode Master mode Utility mode File mode
Performance
mode
Sampling
mode 1
Sampling
mode 2
Reference
Using as a Master Keyboard (Master mode)
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6 Knobs 1 – 8
Indicates the parameters to which respective Knobs 1 – 8
are assigned and their current values. Pressing the
[SELECTED PART CONTROL] button repeatedly switches
among the parameter sets (indicated by the lamps). For
information about the parameters, see below.
7 Control Sliders 1 – 8
Indicates the levels of respective Control Sliders 1 – 8. The
target to be adjusted by the Control Sliders differs
depending on the mode memorized to the current Master.
[SF1] ARP1 – [SF5] ARP5 (Arpeggio 1 – 5)
When the memorized mode is Voice or Performance, a
different Arpeggio type is assigned to each of the [SF1]
ARP1 – [SF5] ARP5 buttons according to the Voice or
Performance number. The Arpeggio types are assigned to
the buttons with the 8th note icon on the display tab. You
can call them up by pressing these buttons any time during
your keyboard performance.
[SF1] Scene1 – [SF5] Scene5
When the memorized mode is Song or Pattern, a different
Scene setting is assigned to each of the [SF1] – [SF5]
buttons according to the Song or Pattern number.
[SF6] INFO (Information)
Press this button to call up the information window of the
current Master.
Master Information—[SF6] INFO
(Information)
This window indicates the information of the current Master.
Settings cannot be changed here.
1 Master Name
Indicates the name of the current Master.
2 Mode
Indicates the mode memorized to the current Master. One
of the modes (Voice, Performance, Pattern or Song) is
indicated here.
3 Program
Indicates the number and name of the program (Voice,
Performance, Song, or Pattern) that is called up when the
Master is selected. The program differs depending on the
memorized mode.
4 Zone Switch
Determines whether or not the keyboard will be divided
into (up to) eight independent areas (called “Zones”). For
details about Zones, see page 253.
5 Transmit Channel
Indicates the MIDI transmit channel of each Zone (when
the Zone Switch is set to on).
When the Voice mode is memorized: See page 89.
When the Performance mode is
memorized:
See page 136.
When the Song mode is memorized: See page 180.
When the Pattern mode is memorized: See page 210.
When the Voice mode is memorized: Volume for Elements 1 – 8
When the Performance mode is
memorized:
Volume for Parts 1 – 4
When the Song mode is memorized: Volume for Parts 1 – 16
When the Pattern mode is memorized:
When the Voice mode is
memorized:
Voice Bank, Number, Category,
Name
When the Performance mode is
memorized:
Performance Bank, Number,
Category, Name
When the Song mode is
memorized:
Song number, Song name
When the Pattern mode is
memorized:
Pattern number, Pattern name
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