Yamaha PLG100-VH Owner's Manual page 12

Yamaha plg100-vh percussion-accessory: owners manual
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Using the Lead Voice
To properly use the lead voice, make sure to set the following parameters:
Lead Gender Type ............"Unison," "Male," or "Female"
Lead Gender Depth..........Set to desired/appropriate value.
Lead/Harmony Balance....Set to appropriate value. (For values at or near the maxi-
You can control the pitch of the lead voice separately from the harmonies. One useful
application would be to have melody and harmony data on different tracks/MIDI channels
of sequencer song data — the melody track would control the pitch of the lead voice,
while the harmony track would control the harmonies. This would ensure that all vocal
parts stay in tune with each other and with the song — even if your actual singing is
slightly off pitch!
To control the pitch of the lead voice from a connected MIDI keyboard or sequencer (sep-
arate from the harmonies), make the following settings:
Pitch Correction................"On"
Melody Channel ...............Set to same channel as the MIDI device.(Match this to the
Harmony Channel ............Set to different value from Melody Channel. (Match this to
4. Lead Gender Depth
Range: -64 ... +63
Default: 0
This determines the quality or character of the lead voice, and depends on the setting
made in Lead Gender Type. (This parameter has no effect when Lead Gender Type is
set to "Off.") Extreme negative or positive values result in pronounced distortion of the
voice quality.
5. Lead Pitch Correction
Settings: Off, On
Default: Off
This determines whether the pitch of the lead voice is controlled by MIDI note data or not.
When this parameter and
"corrected" to the pitch of the received MIDI note. (This has no effect when Lead Gender
Type is set to "Off.")
• The Pitch Correction parameter is not available when Harmony Type is set to Detune. Also,
this parameter has no effect when Lead Gender Type is set to "off."
mum of "L<H63," lead may not sound.)
melody track of the song data.)
the harmony track of the song data.)
Lead Gender Type
are set to "On," the pitch of the lead voice is
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Effect Parameters

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