Operation Manual

Quick Guide Creating Your Original Program Set (Master mode)
Creating Your Original Program Set (Master mode)
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Owner’s Manual
The Master mode is the highest mode in the S90 ES hierarchy, letting you instantly switch between programs you've created
in the Voice, Performance and Multi modes. Use the Master mode in one of the following ways
■ Storing your favorite programs
This lets you register settings that you often use in the Voice, Performance, or Multi mode, and instantly recall the mode and
custom settings together in a single button press, without having to first select a mode. It also lets you set up a sequence of
custom programs—for example, when playing different songs live—and smoothly switch from setting to setting as needed.
■ Playing as a master keyboard
This lets you divide the keyboard into four separate sections—just as if you were playing four different MIDI keyboards. You
can also separately play the sounds of the S90 ES and the sounds of connected MIDI devices—all from the S90 ES
keyboard—by assigning each zone to a different MIDI channel. Moreover, you can use the Control sliders to tweak the
sound of each as desired.
Selecting a Master
The S90 ES features 128 specially programmed Masters. Try some of these out now.
Selecting a Master is done in basically the same way as selecting a Voice. Since there is only one bank for Masters, you
need not select a Master bank.
When the Mode is set to Voice or Performance, play the keyboard.
When the Mode is set to Multi, play the MIDI song file on the external sequencer.
Creating Your Original Program Set
(Master mode)
1
Press the [MASTER] button to enter the Master Play mode.
2
Select a Master.
3
Play the selected Master program.
VOICE
MASTER
PERFORM
Mode memorized to the current Master.
Program number (Voice number in this
example) memorized to the current Master.
Use the [SF1] - [SF5] buttons to call up the
Arpeggio type assigned to each button
(page 39). Assigned types depend on the
program number memorized to the current
Master.
Indicates information related to the Control
sliders. The settings depend on the program
number memorized to the current Master.
Indicates the currently
selected Master.
Indicates the Keyboard Octave setting.
Same as in the Voice mode/Performance
mode (page 105).