Voices; Selecting A Voice - Yamaha PF-1000 Owner's Manual

Voices

The PF-1000 gives you an enormous selection of authentic voices, including various keyboard instruments, strings and
brass — and many, many more.
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Selecting a Voice

1
Select the desired voice group.
2
Indicates that the display
is for selecting the MAIN
voice (page 25).
A
B
C
D
E
2
-2 Select the
various pages
in the current
voice group.
Press this to call up the display for selecting the voice group.
3
Play the keyboard to hear the
selected
voice.
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REC TOP START/STOP REW FF
REPEAT
NEW SONG SYNC.START
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C D TAP TEMPO
RESET RESET
STYLE CONTROL
TEMPO TRANSPOSE
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LCD
CONTRAST
BACK NEXT
MENU
DEMO
VOICE
PART
A F
ON/OFF
LAYER
HELP
B G
LEFT
C H
FUNCTION
D I
MUSIC
FINDER
E J
DIGITAL
STUDIO
ENTER
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CREATOR
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RECORDING
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PART
CHANNEL
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
ON/OFF
PART
PIANO & ORGAN &
HARPSI. E.PIANO ACCORDION PERCUSSION GUITAR
BRASS WOODWIND STRINGS CHOIR & PAD SYNTH.
VOICE
2
-1 Select the memory location of the
voice (PRESET/USER/FLOPPY DISK).
BACK
2
-3 Select the voice.
Press this to start the
demo of the selected
6 7 8
voice. To stop the demo
at any time, press this
button again.
Press this to return to
E
ND
the MAIN display.
PIANO & ORGAN &
HARPSI. E.PIANO ACCORDION PERCUSSION GUITAR
BRASS WOODWIND STRINGS CHOIR & PAD SYNTH.
VOICE
HARMONY/
REVERB DSP VARIATION ECHO MONO LEFT HOLD
VOICE EFFECT
PIANO & ORGAN &
HARPSI. E.PIANO ACCORDION PERCUSSION GUITAR BASS PIANO
BRASS WOODWIND STRINGS CHOIR & PAD SYNTH. XG USER FREEZE
VOICE
When you select a voice
BASS
group, the last selected
voice will automatically be
XG USER
selected.
n
Selecting a voice automati-
cally selects the best-suited
effect and other settings for
that particular voice. You can
disable this so that settings
are not automatically
selected (page 132).
n
NEXT
You can set how much the
volume of the voice changes
according to your playing
F
strength (page 130).
G
n
H
For a list of the available
voices, refer to the separate
I
Data List.
J
n
You can set whether the
voice bank and program
change numbers ("MSB-
LSB-Program Change num-
ber" at the right above the
voice name) are displayed or
not (page 138).
n
XG is a major enhancement
of the GM System level 1 for-
mat, and was developed by
Yamaha specially to provide
more voices and variations,
as well as greater expressive
control over voices and
effects, and to ensure com-
patibility of data well into the
future.
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BASS
XG USER
1 2 3 4
ONE TOUCH SETTING
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 MEMORY
REGISTRATION MEMORY