Yamaha Electone EL-500 Owner's Manual page 97

About XG
The EL-700/500 allows you to play back the commercially
available XG song data using the M.D.R. Also, the XG Easy
Convertor function of the EL-700/500 lets you convert the
data created with the EL-700/500 to the XG compatible
data.
Playing back the XG Song Data
This function is for playback only. You can practice a
specific part of the XG song data by muting that part.
To play back XG song data:
1. Insert the XG song disk into the floppy disk slot.
The following display appears.
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[XG] page will be added to the upper right side of the
display.
The XG song data will be displayed on the XG page.
You can store both the XG songs (on the XG page) and
Electone songs (on pages 1 - 4) in a single disk.
2. Use the Data Control buttons 1 to select a song which
you want to play back.
3. Press the PLAY button in the M.D.R. section to start
songplayback.
Use 2 button to select a part, and press 3 to engage the
solo playback of the selected part, press 4 to mute some
parts or press 5 buttons to adjust the volume of a
specific part.
3 4 5
2 2 2
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1 Selects a song.
2 Selects a part. Range: 1 - 16, ALL (all
parts)
2
Moves the cursor one step to the
-1
left.
2
Moves the cursor one step to the
-2
right.
3 SOLO: Brings the part at the current
cursor position to solo playback status.
The solo playback part is indicated by
a square ( ). All other parts will be
muted automatically.
4 MUTE: Brings the part at the current
cursor position to muted status. The
muted parts are indicated by a hyphen
(-).
5 VOL. (VOLUME): Adjusts the volume
of each part within the range, 0 - 24.
If you have selected ALL, you can
adjust overall volume.
NOTE:
The XG song data created with EL-700/500
conforms to the SMF format 0 and 1.
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