Editing And Saving Board Voices - Yamaha MOTIF6 Owner's Manual

About Plug-in Voices
Plug-in Boards give you an enormous amount of additional sonic flexibility and power. When installed, they work
seamlessly and transparently within the system of the MOTIF — meaning that you can use their sounds and
functions just as if they were built right into the MOTIF at the factory. Up to three Plug-in boards can be installed to
the MOTIF. If the Plug-in Board has been correctly installed, the corresponding SLOT lamp will light, the voice data
appropriate for the installed board is set up automatically as Plug-in voices and you can select the Plug-in bank as
well as the built-in Voice bank.
MUSIC PRODUCTION SYNTHESIZER
PRE 2
KEYBOARD
The Plug-in voices can be edited via the MOTIF's panel operation in much the same way as User voices. After
editing, up to 64 Plug-in voices for each Plug-in board can be stored.

Editing and saving Board voices

Included among the Board voices is a special set of voices — called Board Custom voices — which can be edited by a
computer connected to the MOTIF, using special editing software included with the Plug-in board.
Because the Plug-in boards do not have SRAM and the edited voice data will be lost when turning the power off, the
edited Board Custom voice data should be saved to the memory card or the SCSI device connected to the MOTIF. The
Board Custom voice data saved to the memory card or SCSI device can be loaded automatically when turning the
power on by using the Auto Load function.
1 Edit the Board voice by using the Voice Editor.
2 Transmit the edited data to the memory (DRAM) on the Plug-in board.
Computer with application software
3 Save the data in the memory (DRAM) to the memory card.
4 Set Auto Load to on in the Utility mode (page 252).
5 When turning the power on next time, the Board Custom voice data saved to the memory card is automatically
loaded to the memory on the Plug-in board.
Integrated Sampling Sequencer
Real-time External Control Surface
Modular Synthesis Plug-in System
SLOT 1
PRE 3 GM USER PLG 1
GUITAR /
ORGAN BASS STRINGS
PLUCKED
1 Edit
MOTIF
Memory card
3 Save
Plug-in board
PAN REVERB CHORUS TEMPO
CUTOFF RESONANCE ATTACK RELEASE
KNOB ASSIGN A ASSIGN B ASSIGN 1 ASSIGN 2 REMOTE
CONTROL CONTROL
FUNCTION ON/OFF
MODE
KN 1 KN 2 KN 3 KN 4
VOICE PERFORM MASTER
MEQ LOW MEQLOWMID MEQ HI MID MEQ HIGH EFFECT BYPASS ARPEGGIO
INSERTION SYSTEM ON/OFF
MASTER VOLUME VOLUME 1 VOLUME 2 VOLUME 3 VOLUME 4
SEQUENCER
SONG PATTERN FILE
SEQ TRANSPORT
INTEGRATED
SAMPLING MIXING UTILITY
SONG SCENE
LOCATE 1 2
REC EDIT JOB STORE F1
COMPARE SET LOCATE SCENE STORE
OCTAVE CS 1 CS 2 CS 3 CS 4
DOWN UP
ZONE 1 ZONE 2 ZONE 3 ZONE 4
MOTIF
Set this to on.
SLOT 2 SLOT 3
CATEGORY
PLG 2 PLG 3 SEARCH
BRASS
REED/PIPE
2 Transmit
Plug-in board
PAN REVERB CHORUS TEMPO
CUTOFF RESONANCE ATTACK RELEASE
KNOB ASSIGN A ASSIGN B ASSIGN 1 ASSIGN 2 REMOTE
CONTROL CONTROL
FUNCTION ON/OFF
MODE
KN 1 KN 2 KN 3 KN 4
VOICE PERFORM MASTER DRUM KITS PRE 1
MEQ LOW MEQLOWMID MEQ HI MID MEQ HIGH EFFECT BYPASS ARPEGGIO
INSERTION SYSTEM ON/OFF
MASTER VOLUME VOLUME 1 VOLUME 2 VOLUME 3 VOLUME 4 FAVORITES COMMON A. PIANO
SEQUENCER
SONG PATTERN FILE A
SEQ TRANSPORT DEC/NO INC/YES
SYN LEAD
INTEGRATED
SAMPLING MIXING UTILITY 1
SONG SCENE SF 1 SF 2 SF 3 SF 4 SF 5 INFORMATION
LOCATE 1 2
REC EDIT JOB STORE F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 EXIT ENTER 9
COMPARE SCENE STORE SET LOCATE EXECUTE
OCTAVE CS 1 CS 2 CS 3 CS 4
DOWN UP
ZONE 1 ZONE 2 ZONE 3 ZONE 4
MUSIC PRODUCTION SYNTHESIZER
Integrated Sampling Sequencer
Real-time External Control Sur face
Modular Synthesis Plug-in System
SLOT 1 SLOT 2 SLOT 3
CATEGORY
DRUM KITS PRE 1 PRE 2 PRE 3 GM USER PLG 1 PLG 2 PLG 3 SEARCH BANK
FAVORITES A. PIANO
COMMON KEYBOARD ORGAN GUITAR / PLUCKED BASS STRINGS BRASS REED/PIPE
A B C D E F G H SECTION GROUP
DEC/NO INC/YES SYN LEAD SYN PAD/ SYN COMP CHROMATIC DRUM / SE MUSICAL FX COMBI
CHOIR PERCUSSION PERCUSSION
TRACK
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SELECT
SF 1 SF 2 SF 3 SF 4 SF 5 INFORMATION
ELEMENT/ PERF.PART / ZONE
NUMBER
F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 EXIT ENTER 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 MUTE
SOLO
EXECUTE
Storing edited Voices
Basic Structure (page 34)
BANK
Reference (page 159)
MUSIC PRODUCTION SYNTHESIZER Integrated Sampling Sequencer
Real-time External Control Sur face
Modular Synthesis Plug-in System
SLOT 1 SLOT 2 SLOT 3
CATEGORY
PRE 2 PRE 3 GM USER PLG 1 PLG 2 PLG 3 SEARCH BANK
KEYBOARD ORGAN GUITAR / PLUCKED BASS STRINGS BRASS REED/PIPE
B C D E F G H SECTION GROUP
CHOIR SYN PAD/ SYN COMP CHROMATIC PERCUSSION PERCUSSION DRUM / SE MUSICAL FX COMBI
TRACK
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SELECT
ELEMENT/ PERF.PART / ZONE
NUMBER
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 MUTE
SOLO
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