The Play Mode - Yamaha TX 816 Owner's Manual

THE PLAY
MODE
The
play
mode
is
automaticalty selected
when
you
turn
on
the
power
to
the
TX816.
If,
however, you have
already
been
using
your
TX816
and
it
is
currently operating
in
another
mode, you
enter the Play
mode
by
holding
down
SW3
until
you
see
a
number
from
1
to
32
appear
on
the
LED
Display,
at
which
point
you
release the
SE3
key.
The main
modes
are
displayed
in
the order
in
which
the corresponding chapters appear
in this
manual, so
when
you
hold
down
SW3
you
will
see the following sequence:
3P
Ed
r
r
J
1
ir
J D
JL
(the
Q
appears
between
each
change
of
mode).
All
functions
set
in
the Play
mode
are
common
to
all
32
voices
in
each module.
When
you
enter the Play
mode,
the
LED
Display
will
show
the
Program
Number
(or
voice
number) from
1
to 32.
This
number
will
change
when
a
program change MIDI
signal
is
received
at
the
MIDI
IN terminal.
In
other words,
if
you
select a
voice by
pressing a
Vioce
Select
key
on
the
DX7,
the
new
voice
number
will
appear
on
the
LED
Display,
and
the voice data
will
be loaded
into the Edit Buffer.
If
the
LED
Display
shows
instead of
a
voice
number,
it
indicates that the
DX7
is in
SYS INFO
AVAIL, and
has sent
its
own
voice
into
the
Edit Buffer, instead of
theTFI
's
voice.
The
DX7
shoule be
set
to
SYS
INFO
UNAVAIL
to
switch the voices
in
the
TF1
SWITCH FUNCTIONS
In
the Play
mode SW1
selects
"INDIVIDUAL"
or
"COMMON".
Orange LED's on
the front of the
module
indicate
which
of
these
two
Play
modes
have been
selected.
"INDIVIDUAL" means
that
MIDI
singals received
at
the
INDIVIDUAL MIDI
IN
terminal
on
the
rear
of the
module
wilt
control the module.
"COMMON"
means
that
MIDI
signals received
at
the
COMMON
MIDI
IN terminal
on
the front of the
MIDI
rack frame
will
control the
module.
SW2
switches
the
Memory
Protect
on and
off.
A
red
LED
on
the
front of
the
module
incicates
when
the
Memory
Protect
is
ON.
If
the
Memory
Protect
is
set to
OFF when
you
turn the
TX816
power
off,
it
will
automatically be turned
ON
again the next time you
turn the
power
on.
These
switch functions
are identical
when
you
first
enter
any
of the four
main
operating
modes,
but they
change
when
you
enter
any
of
the
sub-modes
within
each main mode.
SW3
selects
the
sub-modes
within the play
mode. The
headings
of
each
of the
following sub-
mode
descreitions indicate the
number
of times
you
press
SW3
to
enter the
sub-mode,
starting
from
the
main
mode
display,
not from another sub-
mode.
For example, the
Limit
Highest Key
section
in
the Edit
Mode
chapter indicates
"press
SW3
four times".
The
procedure then
is
to
hold
down
SW3
until
you
see
{Ed\
)the Edit
mode LED
Display) then press
SW3
four times
until
you
see the
Limit Highest
Key Led
Display
(
alternating
with
a
note
number).
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