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 5: Creating a Pattern
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Start Guide
Creating a Pattern by using
Arpeggio
In addition to creating a Pattern by recording your
keyboard performance conventionally, you can also use
the powerful Arpeggio playback features of the MOTIF XS
(described below) and even record audio data from
commercially available sample CDs.
This section explains how to create a Pattern by using
Arpeggio.
1 Press the [PATTERN] button to enter the
Pattern Play mode.
2 Press the [I] (Record) button to call up the
Record Setup display.
3 Press the [F2] button to call up the Record
Arpeggio display.
4 Set the following parameters as required in the
Arpeggio Record display.
4-1 Set the Switch parameter to on.
4-2 Set the Voice with Arpeggio (ARP) parameter to on.
When this is set to “on,” the Voice matching the
selected Arpeggio type is automatically called up
each time the Arpeggio type is changed.
4-3 Select the Arpeggio type by specifying the Category,
Sub Category and Type.
5 Press the [F1] button to call up the Record
Setup display.
6 Set the following parameters in the Record
Setup display.
6-1 To select the desired track, press the [TRACK]
button (the lamp lights), then press the appropriate
Number button [1] – [16].
6-2 Set the Time Signature to “4/4.”
6-3 Set the Pattern length to a value equivalent to the
Arpeggio length.
6-4 Turn the Keyboard Start icon “on.”
6-5 Set the Loop parameter to “off.”
6-6 Set the Quantize parameter to “off.”
7 After completing setup, press a note on the
keyboard to start recording.
Recording will stop automatically when the last
measure (specified by the Length) is reached.
Creating a Pattern with audio—
Sampling
In this section, you’ll learn how to record audio data (from
commercially available sample CDs, for example) to the
Pattern track, using the versatile Sampling feature. After
recording the audio, you can slice it into individual
Samples, which can then be played back at any desired
tempo—without compromising the sound or introducing
pitch changes. These step-by-step instructions assume
that the recorded audio data is a one-measure drum
pattern in 4/4 time.
Important
In order to use the Sampling function, DIMM modules must be
installed to the instrument. For details on installing DIMMs, see
page 295. The recorded (edited) sample data residing temporarily
in DIMM is lost when the power is turned off. Make sure to prepare
a USB storage device or a computer connected to the same
network as the MOTIF XS before using the Sampling function.
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Sampling Setup
1
Turn the power off and set the GAIN knob on
the rear panel to the minimum.
Arpeggio
Switch
Voice with
Arpeggio
Arpeggio type
selection
Recording Track Time Signature
Length
Keyboard
start
Loop
Quantize
Min.
Max.