Yamaha CS2x Owner's Manual page 35

3. Decide the voice for each Part.
XGworks lets you use MIDI program change messages (page 75)
to call up the CS2x's voices. There are many ways to do so. Take
a look at the Track View Window.
Based on the MIDI standard, each voice has its own bank
number and program number. Setting the appropriate bank select
and program change values will call up a specific CS2x voice.
You can set these in XGworks, with intuitive ease. You can assign
a voice to each Part (5 ~ 16).
XGworks
Track 5 Piano Ch5
Track 6 Bass Ch6
Track 7 Strings Ch7
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Track 10 Drums Ch10
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In the parameter section of the Track View Window you can open
the Voice List. Like the CS2x, the voices are arranged in
categories. As shown, you can easily locate and select a voice by
choosing the basic category in column 1, which lists the types of
voice categories available column 2. Choosing a type will list the
available individual voices in column 3, available for selection.
When you select a voice from the Voice List, that track's MIDI
transmit channel transmits the bank number/program number
(bank select/program change) to the same MIDI receive channel
as set by the CS2x.
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In order to ensure automatic setup of all voice and other
parameter settings, you can insert the proper bank
select/program change and other messages at the top of the
song, before the music data starts playing. With XGworks this
is all done with ease using the List Window.
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For more information, see the owner's manual for XGworks.
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The voice changes when the CS2x receives the
corresponding bank select/program change messages. When
you use this method, you can select not only each Part's
voice but a Performance. The XGworks List Window makes
this especially convenient. Since there are extra "material"
voices available for use in Performance mode, you can
assign any of these to Parts 5 ~ 16. For more information, see
the separate "Data List" book.
XG/GM Tone Generator
Ch5 Piano voice
Ch6 Bass voice
Ch7 Strings voice
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Ch10 Drums voice
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4. Set the volume and panning for each Part.
You can control the CS2x's volume and panning for each Part
using control change messages (page 72) to change the values of
each, over a range of 0 ~ 127. From XGworks you can also
change these manually using the Mixer Window. This sends the
changes you make to volume fader and pan settings for each
individual MIDI channel as control change messages to each
corresponding CS2x Part.
Pan Control
Volume Fader
Creating The Setup Data
You can set up the basic part parameters on the CS2x. You can
use the List Window to set up each track's bank select and
program change data (for voices) at the top of the song as well as
control change data (for volume, panning, effects, etc.)
throughout the song so that the sequence software will play
everything back just as you want.
You can program Performance data at the beginning of or
throughout a song so that an original Performance is
automatically selected for playback. This means that even if the
particular User Performance is not stored in the CS2x, the
appropriate data will be transmitted before the song data begins
so that your song plays exactly as you recorded it.
It requires setting up the sequencer for a Bulk Dump request to
receive the desired User Performance data. Following is an
explanation of how to do so using the real-time recording
function of XGworks as an example, where track 1 is used for
programming the User Performance data.
For details, see page 72.