Normal Voices & Drum Voices; Gm Voices; Internal Memory And File Management - Yamaha S90 Owner's Manual

Normal Voices & Drum Voices
Internally, there are two Voice Types: Normal Voices and Drum Voices. Normal Voices are mainly pitched musical
instrument-type sounds that can be played over the range of the keyboard. Drum Voices are mainly percussion/drum
sounds that are assigned to individual notes on the keyboard. A collection of assigned percussion/drum wave or
Normal Voice is known as a Drum Kit.

GM Voices

GM is a worldwide standard for Voice organization and MIDI functions of synthesizers and tone generators. It was
designed primarily to ensure that any song data created with a specific GM device would sound virtually the same on
any other GM device — no matter the manufacturer or the model. The GM Voice bank on the S90 is designed to
appropriately play back GM song data. However, keep in mind that the sound may not be exactly the same as played
by the original tone generator.

Internal Memory and File Management

In this section, how to store the various types of data and use the memory media for storing them.
This diagram details the relationship among the S90's functions and the internal memory and memory card.
Recall Buffer
(DRAM)
* Voice/Performance only
Edit Buffer
(DRAM)
• Voice Edit
• Plug-in Voice Edit
• Performance Edit
• Master Edit
• Mixing Edit
Put (save)
Computer
For editing Plug-in
Voices
Normal Voice
Voice
Element 1-4
Key 1
S90 Internal Memory
Preset Data (ROM)
• Voice
• Plug-in Voice
• Preset Arpeggio
• Demo
MIDI bulk
User Memory
Flash ROM
• User Voice
(Normal 128, Drum 16)
• User Plug-in Voice
(64 Voices x 3 boards)
• User Performance (128)
• User Master (128)
• Chain
• User Arpeggio (128)
• System setting
(Utility setting)
Plug-in board
(DRAM)
Personal System/V
PS/V
• Plug-in All Bulk
Personal System/V
Drum Voice
Key 2 Key 3 Key 4 Key 5
*
Bulk transmission cannot be used to
transfer the data of User Arpeggios
and part of the System settings.
(Load only)
Internal Memory and File Management
Key 76
External MIDI device
Memory Card
File extensions ".W4V"
File extensions
".W4C"
File extensions
".W2G"
File extensions ".W4A"
File extensions
".W2B"
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