How To Setup And Play - Yamaha SY99 Owner's Manual

The first thing you will probably want to do is play the voices (sounds) of your new SY99. Here's how to
select and play the SY99's voices:
Connections
Turn the power on
How to select and play
voices
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How to set up and play
Make sure that your amp/speaker system and the SY99 are switched off.
Connect the rear panel output OUTPUT 1/1+2 jacks (L/MONO and R) to the inputs
of your amp/speaker system. Or, if you are using a set of stereo headphones,
plug them into the rear panel PHONES jack.
Turn down the SY99's two VOLUME sliders marked OUTPUT 1 and 2, located at
the far left. Then turn the power on by pressing the POWER switch located on the
rear panel to your right. After displaying a greeting message for about two sec-
onds, a display similar to the following should appear. If the SY99 was in Voice
Play mode when the power was last turned off, the upper left of the LCD will
read "VOICE".
If the upper line of the display does not show VOICE then press the VOICE but-
ton located at the upper left of the front panel.
Make sure that the volume of your amp/speaker system is turned down, and
turn its power on. Set the volume of your amp/speaker system to an appropriate
level, and gradually raise the SY99's OUTPUT 1 and 2 sliders while playing the
keyboard. If you don't hear anything, re-check the connections, and make sure
that your amp/speaker system is functioning correctly.
What you hear when you play the keyboard is defined as a voice. The SY99 has
128 voices that are preset in permanent memory, and 64 others stored in
editable internal memory. The 64 internal memory locations can also be used to
store your own original voices or voices loaded from a card or disk (the 64 voices
originally stored in the internal memory are also provided on disk and can be
reloaded if erased*). An optional RAM or ROM card can be inserted into the
VOICE card slot to provide 64 more voices.
The preset voices are organized into two locations, PRESET 1 and PRESET
2.
* The original internal voices can be re-loaded by loading the file named
"INTVOICE" from the "Chick Corea" demo disk. Use the load procedure
described on page 6, selecting "02:Synth all" instead of "01 :All data" in step
4. Each of these has four banks (A-D) with 16 voices in each. The LCD shows
the ten-character voice name, and also tells you which memory the voice is
from. The number in parentheses indicates what number the voice would be if
you started counting from the beginning of the bank.