Selecting Voices From The Dotted Buttons - Yamaha Electone EL-87 Owner's Manual

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Selecting Voices from the Dotted Buttons

—Dotted Buttons and User Voices—
The EL-87 has a wide variety of voices from which you can choose-
far greater than what is immediately apparent from the front panel
controls. You've already learned in the section above how to select
the different voices that are available in the Voice Menu display of
each panel voice. The Electone also has dotted buttons in each
voice section, giving you access to even more voices by including
space for storing and recalling voices you've created yourself (User
voices) by using Voice Edit function(See page 88.). Optional Voice
Disk voices containing many new voices are also being made
available for the EL-87(See page 95.).
Each voice section has one or two dotted buttons, found on the
right side of each voice section. These dotted buttons function as
"wild card" Voice Menu selectors; any internal or User voices can
be selected from these buttons.
The dotted buttons have three basic uses:
For playing any voice of the Voice Menus from any of the
keyboards or Pedalboard. You can play on the Upper keyboard,
for example, voices from the twenty-two Voice Menu pages
(including User), and not be limited to only the twelve buttons
(equivalent to twelve Voice Menu pages) that make up the Upper
Voice section. Another advantage to this feature is that when
the normally monophonic (one note) Lead and Pedal voices are
assigned to the Upper or Lower keyboard Voice sections, they
can be played polyphonically.
For having three different voices from the same Voice Menu
page available for selection in the same song. For example,
you can assign one of the voices to a dotted button in the Upper
Keyboard Voice 1 section, the second voice to the other dotted
button in the same section, and the third one on the Voice Menu.
For playing the User voices of your own creation or those from
a Voice Disk. (See page 88.)
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