Playing The Keyboard (In The Voice Play Mode); Selecting A Voice - Yamaha MOTIF ES Owner's Manual

Playing the Keyboard (in the Voice Play mode)

Playing the Keyboard (in the Voice Play mode)
The Voice Play mode is where you select and play the instrument sounds (voices) of this synthesizer.

Selecting a Voice

Selecting a Normal Voice
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. In this section, we'll show you how to select a Normal Voice.
You can select the desired Voice from various Voice Banks (Preset 1~6, User 1~2, GM preset, Plug-in 1~3) as shown below.
Voice Bank
Preset Bank
Contains the Voices
built into this
instrument.
1
Press the [VOICE] button to enter the Voice Play mode.
In this condition, playing the keyboard sounds the Voice indicated in the display.
The parameters shown in the Voice Play mode are briefly explained below.
Bank and Voice Program number
USR1 : 001 (A01)
Bank
(selected via the
BANK buttons)
n
Keep in mind that the example displays shown in this manual are for instruction purposes only, and the contents (for example, the Voice name here) may
differ slightly from those on your instrument.
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PRE 1 PRE 2 PRE 3 PRE 4
PRE 5 PRE 6 USER 1 USER 2
A. PIANO KEYBOARD ORGAN GUITAR/
PLUCKED
User Bank
Contains the voices you create in
the Voice Edit mode.
Indicates the functions assigned to the respective Control
knobs. See page 81.
Indicates the currently selected voice.
Number
(selected via the NUMBER
[1]-[16] buttons)
Group
(selected via the GROUP [A]-[H] buttons)
Voice Program number
(corresponding to Groups A to H and Numbers 01 to 16)
1 2 3
SLOT SLOT SLOT
GM PLG 1 PLG 2 PLG 3
Plug-in Bank
Available when Plug-in Boards have
BASS STRINGS BRASS REED/PIPE
been installed. See page 74.
GM Bank
Contains the voices allocated according to the
GM standard. For details, see page 160.
MODE
VOICE PERFORM MASTER
Category and Voice name
Gt : MegaAcGtr
Category
Indicates the Keyboard MIDI
transmit channel. See page
64 for details.
Indicates the Keyboard Octave
setting set via the [OCTAVE]
buttons. See page 63 for details.
ARP1-ARP5
Use the [SF1] - [SF5] buttons to call
up the Arpeggio type assigned to
each button (page 66).
Voice name