Voices And Performances; Playing A Voice - Yamaha S30 Owner's Manual

Voices and Performances

Playing a Voice

Based on an AWM2 synthesis engine, this synthesizer offers various kinds of preset Voices (256
Normal Voices and 8 Drum Voices). You can also create your original Voices and store them into the
instrument's internal memory (INT) or an external Memory Card (EXT). The internal and external
memory can each contain up to 128 Normal Voices and 2 Drum Voices. You can freely select and play
Voices from both groups of memories, as explained in the following.
A B
SHIFT PAGE
PART/ELEMENT
ASSIGNABLE NKOB
1 Press the [VOICE] key
The [VOICE] key LED will light, showing that
you are now in Voice Play Mode. The following
appears in the display.
MODE
VOICE PERFORM
UTILITY CARD
EDIT JOB
COMPARE
At this point, you can play the Voice (named on
the screen) via keyboard.
EF MASTER
BYPASS KEYBOARD
EXIT ENTER
C 1 2
DATA
DEC/NO INC/YES
3 [DEC/NO] and [INC/YES] keys
3 [DATA] knob
2 Press a MEMORY key
to select a Voice Memory
There are five Voice Memories: PRE1 (Preset 1),
PRE2 (Preset 2), INT (Internal), EXT (External),
and PLG (Plug-in). Within each Voice Memory
are several Banks (up to eight, A to H) in which
the Voices are stored. The following illustration
STORE
shows how Voices are stored in a Voice Memory.
SEQ
PLAY
PLAY/
STOP
The Drum Voices are held in separate areas of
each Memory, and are accessed as follows.
• To access the Preset Drum Memories
22
PRE1 PRE 2 INT EXT
MODE
DRUM DRUM
VOICE PERFORM STORE
A B C D
SEQ
UTILITY CARD
PLAY
A. PIANO E. PIANO ORGAN GTR/BASS
1 2 3 4
PLAY/
EDIT JOB
STOP
COMPARE
9 10 11 12
1 [VOICE] key
PRE2 (Preset 2) EXT (External)
Bank A~H Bank A~H
1~16 1~16
Voice Voice
PRE1 PRE 2 INT
DRUM
PRE1 (Preset 1) INT (Internal)
Bank A~H Bank A~H
1~16 1~16
Voice Voice
(PRE:DR1 ~ DR8):
Press the MEMORY [PRE2] key while holding
down the MEMORY [PRE1] key.
PLG
QUICK
ACCESS
E F G H
STRINGS BRASS SYNTH OTHER
5 6 7 8
13 14 15 16
2 MEMORY key
EXT PLG
DRUM
PLG (Plug-in)
Bank A~D
1~16
Voice