How To Edit A Drum Voice - Yamaha SY77 Operating Manual

A drum voice is a special type of voice which plays a different AWM sampled wave from each key of the
SY77's 61-note keyboard. This is normally used to assign drums and percussion sounds to the keyboard
when creating rhythm accompaniments.
Set the voice mode to
Drum Voice
Drum voice parameters
Wave Data Set - select
a wave for each key
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How to edit a drum voice

In the top level of voice edit mode, press
and select 11:Drum Set.
Press (Com) to get the voice common data job directory. All drum voice
F2
parameters are contained in this job directory.
As when editing a normal voice, a drum voice allows you to set the overall
volume of the voice (01:Voice volume), make settings for the DSP effect units
(03:Effect Set), specify the controller which will regulate the volume of the voice
04:Controller Set), and assign a name (05:Drum Set Name).
A drum voice differs from other voices mainly in the second parameter job,
02:Wave Data Set.
From the voice common data job directory, select 02:Wave Data Set.
This job is where you specify the AWM wave played by each key. Adjustments
for level, pan, etc. can also be made independently for each key.
Press the key or use
C1
note on the SY77 keyboard). Move the cursor to Waveform and select preset
wave number 93 BD 1 (bass drum).
(Mode) to get the voice mode job
F1
(K-Dn) and (K-Up) to select C1 (the lowest
F1 F2