Rhythm Program; Outline Of The Rhythm Programming Operation - Yamaha Electone Stagea ELS-01 Owner's Manual

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Rhythm Program

The Electone includes powerful rhythm programming functions: Rhythm Pattern Program
and Rhythm Sequence Program. Rhythm Pattern Program allows you to record your own
original rhythms and save them as user rhythms. Rhythm Sequence Program lets you
connect the existing rhythms or your original rhythms to create complete rhythm tracks,
which you can automatically play back during your performance. Moreover, Rhythm
Sequence Program includes an automatic Registration Shift feature - called Registration
Sequence.
Contents
1 Outline of the Rhythm Programming Operation . . . . . . . 143
2 Rhythm Pattern Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
• Entering the Rhythm Pattern Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
• Basic settings for the Rhythm Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
• Entering Percussion Sounds to a Rhythm Pattern - Step Write . . 150
• Editing Entered Percussion Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
• Entering Percussion Sounds to a Rhythm Pattern - Real Time Write 157
• Creating Backing Patterns (Rhythmic Chord Function). . . . . . . . . 158
• Changing the Voices for Accompaniment Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
• Adjusting Volume and Panning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
• Effect Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
• Detailed settings for each percussion instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
• Saving Rhythm Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
• Quitting the Rhythm Pattern Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
• Recalling User Rhythm Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
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Outline of the Rhythm Programming Operation

Rhythm Pattern Program (pages 144 - 169)
You can create your original rhythm patterns by entering percussion sounds or editing preset
rhythm patterns.
Creating the backing (Rhythmic Chord) patterns and/or editing them
Effect settings and detailed settings for each percussion Voice (Panning, Tuning, and so on)
Rhythm Sequence Program (pages 174 - 181)
You can connect any of the rhythms together to make complete rhythm compositions. Moreover,
you can also program Registration Shift events at any point in the composition so that the
Registration Memory settings automatically change as the rhythm sequence plays back.
Entering percussion sounds and/or editing them
Saving your rhythm patterns as User rhythms
Selecting the destination of the sequence
Entering a rhythm pattern one by one
Programming the Registration Sequence
• Selecting Rhythm from an External Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
• Percussion Kit List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
3 Rhythm Sequence Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
• Selecting a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
• Programming a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
• Auditioning a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
• Editing an Existing Rhythm Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
• Programming a Registration Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
• Editing an Existing Registration Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
• Quitting the Rhythm Sequence Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
• Playing Rhythm Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
• Playing All Sequences in Order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
• Copying a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
4 Saving Rhythm Pattern and Rhythm Sequence Data to
external media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
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