Main Features - Yamaha Electone EL-500 Owner's Manual

Main Features

Your Yamaha Electone is packed with many sophisticated functions. Yet is amazingly easy
to use. The main features are briefly described here so that you can quickly understand the
capabilities of your Electone.
Included among the main features are:
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Astoundingly True-to-life Sounds
The new AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) and FM (Frequency Modulation) tone generation
technologies combined with authentic touch response make this Electone a truly expressive
musical instrument.
You can enjoy playing a total of 173 AWM/FM voices using the touch response function.
(page 26)
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Limitless Variety of Organ Sounds (EL-700 only)
The Electone also has separate voice sections that feature classic organ sounds-from jazz and pop
to church and theater-and lets you easily create your own organ sounds by adjusting the volumes
of the various flute footages. (page 37)
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Original Voice Creation
The Electone also provides easy-to-use voice editing tools for manipulating the sophisticated
AWM and FM tone generation technologies, allowing you to create your own original Electone
voices. (page 107)
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Dynamic and Programmable Rhythm Patterns
The Rhythm section of the Electone features authentic drum and percussion sounds, used by
expert rhythm programmers in creating a total of 66 rhythm patterns, ranging across all styles of
music. (page 56)
Along with the Keyboard Percussion function (page 68), which lets you play 120 different
percussion sounds from the keyboard, the Rhythm Pattern Program and Rhythm Sequence
Program functions let you record your own rhythm patterns and connect them to make songs.
(page 122)
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Wide Variety of Effects
Electone voices can also be enhanced with a full range of high-quality digital effects, ranging from
Tremolo and Reverb to Flanger, Delay and Distortion. Pan and Reverb can be applied to each
voice and each percussion sound independently. (page 41)
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Versatile Functions of the Music Disk Recorder
The Electone also features a Music Disk Recorder (MDR) for recording your registrations and
performances to a floppy disk. In addition, the MDR allows you to copy a song from a disk to
another, duplicate a disk, and play and save commercially available XG song data. (page 84)
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Large LCD for Systematic, Intuitive Operation
The large (320 x 80 full dot) LCD display provides comprehensive and easy-to-understand
control over virtually all of the operations of the Electone.
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