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
Controlling a DAW on Your Computer from the MOTIF XS
MOTIF XS Owner’s Manual
53
Connecting to
a Computer
4 Dial Function
Indicates the function assigned to the data dial. The circle
is shown at left of the active function. You can change the
dial function by pressing the [SF4] button only when “Dial”
is shown on the tab corresponding to the [SF4] button.
When no channel is selected on the display, the song
location function is assigned to the data dial, regardless of
the [SF4] tab indication, even if the edit parameter is set
here. Controlling any knob changes the function of the data
dial automatically to the edit parameter, allowing you to edit
the channel parameter of the knob.
Settings: Song Location, Edit Parameter
Song Location
Moves the current location of song playback.
Edit Parameter
Changes the value of the current parameter.
5 Page Select
Determines the functions assigned to the [F1] – [F5] and
[SF1] – [SF5] buttons by selecting a page. The circle is
shown at left of the selected page. Use the [SELECTED
PART CONTROL] and [MULTI PART CONTROL] button to
select the desired page, with the result that the functions
assigned to the [F1] – [F5] and [SF1] – [SF5] buttons are
changed. The page structure differs depending on the
DAW software on your computer. For details, refer to the
Remote Control Function List in the Data List 2 (PDF)
documentation which can be downloaded from the online
Yamaha Manual Library. Visit the following URL, enter
“MOTIF XS” in the Model Name box, then click “Search.” In
the results, you can find “Data List 2” for the MOTIF XS.
Yamaha Manual Library URL:
http://www.yamaha.co.jp/manual/
[SF5] Page List
Pressing this button calls up the Page List display. The
Page List display indicates five sets of functions assigned
to the [F1] – [F5] and [SF1] – [SF5] buttons together. The
active function set of five sets is highlighted. Also from this
display, use the [SELECTED PART CONTROL] and [MULTI
PART CONTROL] button to change the function set.
[SF6] INFO (Information)
Pressing this button calls up the Information window about
the Remote Control function. From the Information window,
any panel operation (pressing a button, turning a knob,
controlling a slider) indicates the following three types of
information about the operated controller (button, knob or
slider). To close this window, press the [SF6] INFO button
again.
Panel Button
Indicates the controller name on the panel.
Function
Indicates the function of the operated controller.
LED
Indicates the function of the lamp for the operated controller.
n No description here indicates that the lamp for the
operated controller has no function or the operated
controller has no lamp.
n If communication between the DAW on the computer and
the MOTIF XS has not been achieved, pressing the
[REMOTE ON/OFF] button calls up the display indicating
“Computer DAW Software Control Mode” as shown below.
If this happens, restart the DAW application software. If
doing this does not achieve communication, press the
[REMOTE ON/OFF] button again to exit from the Remote
Control mode, then try setting up for Remote Control
(page 51) again.
For details about the Remote Control functions, refer to
the PDF documentation by visiting the following URL.
Yamaha Manual Library URL:
http://www.yamaha.co.jp/manual/
Visit the above URL, enter “MOTIF XS” in the Model
Name box, then click “Search.” In the results, you can
find “Data List 2” for the MOTIF XS.