Yamaha RM50 Owner's Manual page 32

Editing Pitched Voices
The RMS0's pitched voice channel mode gives you the option of assigning a single voice to a channel's en-
tire note range in order to accommodate parts for bass guitars, melody percussion instruments, and
melodic sound effects. You will want to use this mode particularly when you use the RM50's playing the
waveforms available on sound cards released for the SY55 and SY77.
You can edit a pitched voice's parameters using the Setup Edit mode. The method for editing a pitched
voice setup is thus much the same as that described for rhythm kits in the preceding tutorial. However, the
structure of the pitched voice setup is different, and the selection of available parameters is somewhat
more limited. These differences are described in detail below.
RMS50 Pitched Voice
Structure
A pitched voice consists of a single voice selection plus a handful of settings
which determine how the voice reacts to control messages received on the MIDI
channel playing the voice. You can compare the illustration below with the one
on page 14 to get a clear idea of how the structure of the pitched voice setup dif-
fers from that of a rhythm kit.
Attenuation
Key off
Pitch bend range
Pitch bend switch
Control change
[Voice name}
First, a pitched voice cannot be named, as rhythm kits can. When a channel
is switched to pitched voice mode, it automatically displays the name of the
voice which has been selected for playing as a pitched voice.
All the other rhythm kit parameters — those specifying how the voice will re-
spond to MIDI key off, pitch bend, and control change messages — are available
with pitched voices as well. However, these settings affect the entire channel
rather than individual notes, and are therefore comparable to the rhythm kit's
pitch bend range setting.
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