Operating Modes - Yamaha CS2x Owner's Manual

Operating Modes

The CS2x has two main operating modes — Performance mode
and Multi Play mode — both of which give you a range of
options for real-time play as well as multitimbral Part play using
an external MIDI sequencer for song production. There are also
Utility and Store modes.
Performance Modes
Performance mode —
[PERFORMANCE] button — actually consists of Performance
Play and Performance Edit modes. The diagram below provides
an overview of the overall structure of key Performance mode
components.
Preset Bank
(256 Performance)
I: 128 Performance II: 128 Performance
COMMON EDIT
ARPEGGIATOR PERFORM EFFECT PERFORM
TYPE TEMPO SUB LEVEL REV CHO VARI VARI VARI NAME
DIVIDE TYPE TYPE TYPE PARAM DATA
P BEND MW FC PORTA ASSIGN1
RANGE PMOD FMOD CUTOFF FMOD CUTOFF VARI SWITCH TIME PARAM
EF
TUNE NOTE VEL ASSIGN 2
NOTE DETUNE LIMIT LIMIT LIMIT LIMIT OFFSET DEPTH PARAM DATA
SFT LOW HIGH LOW HIGH
AEG LFO
ATK DCY SUS REL AMOD PMOD FMOD WAVE SPEED PHASE
TIME TIME LEVEL TIME INIT
FEG PEG
ATK DCY SUS REL INIT ATK ATK DCY REL REL
TIME TIME LEVEL TIME LEVEL TIME LEVEL TIME TIME LEVEL
EFFECT FILTER POLY
BANK PROGRAM VOLUME PAN REV CHO VARI CUTOFF REZ MONO
SEND SEND SEND
PERFORMANCE
LAYER EDIT
A Performance is comprised of up to four "Layers", or AWM2
voices sounding at the same time — either playing
simultaneously across the length of the keyboard, or playing
independently according to specified key and velocity range
settings — plus a variety of other settings which determine the
behavior of the Arpeggiator, digital effects selection,
characteristics of envelope generators, and much more.
Performance Play Mode
In Performance Play mode you can select from 512 Performances
— 128 of which are available in each of the two Preset
Performance banks and 128 of which are available in each of the
two User Performance banks — and begin playing the keyboard.
As you play you can select one of two available Performance
timbre variations by pressing a SCENE switch, or fade between
("morph") the sounds of each Scene in real-time by pressing both
[SCENE] buttons simultaneously (SCENE CONTROL function)
then using the MODULATION wheel or a connected Foot
Controller to precisely determine the relative volumes of each
Scene timbre in relation to each other.
accessed by pressing
User Bank
(256 Performance)
I: 128 Performance II: 128 Performance
STORE IN USER BANK
Performance
Layer 4
Layer 3
VOICE
Layer 2
VOICE
Layer 1
VOICE
VOICE
COMMON
LAYER
ATTACK DECAY RELEASE ASSIGN 1 DATA
2
MW FC
1
SCENE 2
HPF CUTOFF LPF CUTOFF RESONANCE ASSIGN
REAL TIME EDIT with
SAVE AS SCENE 1 or 2
THE SOUND CONTROL KNOBS
Performance Edit Mode
Performance Edit mode is activated when you change a setting
for any of the parameters available in the panel edit menus using
the Parameter Value [UP/DOWN] buttons — which may affect all
Layer voices equally (COMMON menus) or only the currently
selected Layer voice (LAYER menus).
Adjustments you make using the SOUND CONTROL knobs or
[UP/DOWN] buttons will offset (add to or subtract from) the
parameter data values which are preset for each voice. An edit
mark, or reversed type letter "E", will appear in the LCD to
indicate that a parameter has been changed. When you're
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satisfied with the sound of the Performance, simply store it in any
of the 256 User Performance memories using the Performance
Store operation (page 66), before selecting a different
Performance.
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For more information about Performance mode, see page 40.
Song Production In Performance
Mode
Although Performance mode is primarily used for real-time
playing, you can also use it for multitimbral operation in order to
take advantage of Arpeggiator, Scene and other Performance
mode-oriented functions not available in Multi Play mode. In
such a case, one of the instrument "Parts" would be comprised of
the Layer voices for the selected Performance. (For more
information, see page 33.)
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