Overview Of Voice/Element/Multi; Card - Yamaha S08 Owner's Manual

Overview of Voice/Element/Multi

Each Voice can consist of up to four Elements. Each Element itself is a high-quality waveform or instrument sound.
Voice & Element
Each Voice can consist of up to four Elements. Elements are made from waveforms, and the quality of the Elements
is high enough that each can be used on its own as a voice. Since you can combine up to four Elements together in a
voice, highly expressive and richly textured sounds are possible. You can also split different instrument sounds
across the keyboard to be playable separately with your left and right hands — without having to specially set up a
Multi program (page 42).
Multi
A Multi consists of up to 16 Parts, each of which can play a Normal Voice or Drum Voice Part. By assigning different
Voices and MIDI channels to each part, and by using a sequencer or computer for song data playback, you can have a
complete ensemble of 16 independent instrument sounds.You can also play Multis from the keyboard. This allows
you to set up layers of different Voices, or special key splits in which your right and left hands can play separate
Voices (page 34).
One Voice
Up to four elements
~
Element 1 4
+
Common Edit parameters
(Effect settings etc.)
Element Edit parameters
Oscillator
Wave (AWM2)
PITCH
PEG
Pitch Envelope
Generator
C-2
Up to 16 Voices (Parts)
One Part
+
Voice
Common Edit parameters
One Element
LFO
Low Frequency
Oscillator
FILTER AMP (Amplitude)
FEG
Amplitude Envelope
Filter Envelope
Generator Generator
EG
See pages 43, 44, 45
Element 1
Element 2
Element 3
Element 4
G8
One Multi
CH1
Part Edit parameters
+
Sequencer
Song File
Playback
(SMF Format 0)
~
MIDI CH 1
Computer
SMF
Format 0
AEG
SMF
Format 1
SMF Format
Conversion
Voice Edit
Different Voice
for each part
CH16
Song File Playback
via MIDI/USB MIDI
16
Included CD-ROM
Sequencer software (Windows)
Playback
Voice Editor
Recording
Card Filer
Voices & Multis
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