Basic Operations - Yamaha TX 816 Owner's Manual

You
can
now
play the preset voices
in
the
TX816
form your DX7.
Here's
how
it's
BASIC
OPERA
TIONS
done:
(a)
Switch
all
modules
to
"COMMON",
by pressing
SW1
.
The
COMMON
LED's
will light
on each module.
(b)
You
will
now
find that,
as
you
press the voice selector keys
on
the
DX7,
all
eight
modules on
the
TX81
6
will
switch
to the
same program numbers, which
will
be
indicated
on
all
their
LEO
Displays.
You
can
now
play
all
eight
modules
simultaneously from your
DX7. Switch form one
set of eight
voices
to
another,
and
enjoy the
different
combinations
that are available to
you
at
the
touch
of a
DX7
voice
select key.
And
now,
here's
how
you can change
the voices
of individual
modules, and
create
different
combinations
of eight voices.
(c)
Switch
all
of the
modules
except
one
to
"INDIVIDUAL". You
can
now
play
only the
one
that
is left
in
the
"COMMON"
mode.
Set
this
one
to a desired
voice
by
selecting
a
voice
on
the
DX7. Then
switch the
module
to
"INDI-
VIDUAL.
With
all
modules
in
"INDIVIDUAL", no sound
will
come
from
the
TX816 when
you
paly the
DX7.
(d)
Switch another
module
to
"COMMON"
and
select
another voice.
Then
swicth
it
back
to
"INDIVIDUAL".
Continue through
the eight
modules
in
the
same
manner,
setting
each
one
to a defferent voice.
(e)
And now--the moment
of truth!
switch
all
modules
to
"COMMON"
and
play the
DX7,
You
wilt
hear your personally selected
combination
of eight
voices
—
an
impressive
sound which
will
be even
more
magnificent
if
you
have arranged the eight voices
in
a
stereo pattern
(one
good
way
is
to
have
voice
1
on
the
left,
voice
8 on
the
right,
and
the other voices spread out
between
them).
You'll notice that
the orange
"COMMON"
LEDs
on
the
TX816
are flashing
while
you
play.
This
shows
that
MIDI
data
is
being
received
by the
TX816:
data that
indicates
"Key
On"
when
you
hit
a key,
"Key
Off"
when
you
release a key,
and
"Pitch
Bend", "Modulation Wheer'/'Sustain Footswitch", "After
Touch" and
so
on
when
you
use the various functions.
(f)
Here's
how
you can
make
it
sound
even
more
impressive:
by
slightly
detuning
each module.
Start
with
module
1.
Select the
TUNE MASTER
PITCH
sub-
mode
by
pressing
SW3
briefly
three times.
The LED
Display
will
show
dot indicating minus number
This
example
indicates that
you
are
in
the
TUNE mode
and
that
the tuning
is
set
at
minus two
(minus
mumbers
are indicated
by
a
dot
in
the
upper
left
corner of
the
LED
Display).
The
tuning setting
can vary
from -64
to
+63.
(g)
Set the tunig to zero,
by
pressing either
SW1
or
Sw2,
to increase or
decrease
the pitch
number.
Pressing
either
of
these switches
wilt
add
or
subtract
one
from
the pitch
number. Holding
a
switch
down
will rapidly
and continuously
change
the tuning.
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