The Edit Mode - Yamaha TX 816 Owner's Manual

(a)
SET RECEIVE BASIC CHANNEL:
Select
Which
channel
MIDI
information
is
received on. This
must
be
the
same
as
the
channel
on which
your
M!DI
instrument
is
transmitting data.
NOTE: MIDI
in-
formation
may
be sent
down
a single
cable
on up
to
16
differebnt
channels.
See
HOW
THE
MIDI
SYSTEM
WORKS
later
in
this
manual.
(b)
SET OMNI
ON/OFF:
When
the
Omni mide
is
turned
on, the
module
can
receive
MIDI
data
on
all
MIDI
channels.
(c)
TUNE MASTER
PITCH:
The
pitch
okf
each
module may
be
altered
by+/- 75
cents.
Tunning each module
to a slightly different pitch
makes
for a
more
realistic
acoustic
sound- -a
"natural
chorus"
effect.
All
Yamaha MIDI
instrument
can
extensively
program each
other through the use
of inbuilt
"system exclusive information" that other manufacturer's
MIDI
devices
cannot
receive.
With
the
TX81
6,
you can
edit
any
of
the
32
voices
stored
in
each
module,
using a
DX7,
just as
if it
were
an
internal
voice
of
the
DX7.
You
can
also
edit
with
a
DX1
,
and
the smaller
DX9
can be used
for editing,
with
some
limitations,
as
its
FM
Tone
Generation
System
is
slightly less
sophisticated than the
DX7
(in
technical terms,
it
has only four operators per voice as
compared
to
six in
the DX7).
There
are basically
two
types of data
that
can be
edited:
(1 )
Voice Data (145 separate parameters). This
is
the data that actually creates
the
sound
of
an
FM
voice: the frequency,
level,
and envelope
characteristics
of
each
of the six operators;
the keyboard
level
scaling
and keyboard
rate
scaling settings,
and
so on. This data
is
edited using
a
DX
keyboard.
The
parameters
are
listed
in
Table 4-1
in
the
MIDI
FORMAT
chapter,
and
they
are
explained
in full in
the
DX
owner's manual.
(2)
Function Data (25 speparate parameters)
.
This applies
to
parameters
that
affect
the
overall
performance
of a voice, regardless of
tis
timbre.
These
include
poly/mono
selection, pitch
bend, portamento, glissando,
modulation wheel,
foot control,
breath
control,
and
after
touch,
and they
are
all
edited
with
a
DX
keyboard, except
for
the functions described
in
palragraph
(c)
below,
which
may
only be edited using the
front
panel controls
on each TF1
voice
module.
Sub-modes
within the
Edit
mode
have
the following functions:
(a)
SELECT
PROGRAM NUMBER
FOR
EDIT:
Choose which
voice
you wish
to
edit. In this
sub-
mode
the voice
may
be
selected
either
by using the
front
pane! switches
on
the
TF1
,
or
by pressing the voice
select
keys
on
a
DX7.
(b)
ATTENUATE OUTPUT
LEVEL:
Adjust the output
level
of
an
individual voice.
FM
digital
voices,
with
their limitless
range
of timbres,
can vary
in level.
With
this
function
you can
match up
levels
of
different
voices--
rlicularly useful
if
you wich
to
change
voices during
a per-
formance.
(c)
LIMIT
LOWEST
KEYILIMIT
HIGHEST
KEY:
These two
functions allow
you
to allocate
each
voice
to
any
part of
your
DX7
or
MIDI
keyboard.
You
can simply
split
the
keyboard
into
two
halves; divide
it
into
THE EDIT
MODE
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