Table Of Contents - Yamaha Motif-Rack XS Owner's Manual

Contents
Introduction ................................................................6
Accessories ................................................................6
About the Accessory Disk.........................................6
Main Features .............................................................7
How to Use the Manual..............................................8
The Control & Connectors
Front Panel ...............................................................10
Rear Panel.................................................................12
Setting Up
Power Supply ...........................................................13
Cable Clip..................................................................13
Using Headphones or Speakers .............................13
Power-on Procedure ................................................14
Turning the Power On/Off .......................................14
Listening to the Sound
Demo Playback ........................................................15
Audition Phrase Playback .......................................16
Connections
Connecting to a Computer and MIDI Device .........17
Connecting to External MIDI Equipment................21
Using a Computer
Creating a Song by Using a Computer ..................22
Song playback from a computer using the MOTIF-RACK XS
sounds ...................................................................................... 22
Using another synthesizer together with the MOTIF-RACK XS 22
Using the MOTIF-RACK XS Editor ........................................... 23
Integration Between the MOTIF-RACK XS and
Cubase ......................................................................24
What you can do by using Cubase 4/ Cubase AI 4 together with
the MOTIF-RACK XS................................................................ 24
Studio Connections................................................................... 24
Quick Guide
Modes of MOTIF-RACK XS and Basic Operation..25
Voice Mode ............................................................................... 25
Multi Mode ................................................................................ 25
The modes of the MOTIF-RACK XS......................................... 26
How to leave the current display............................................... 26
Voice Mode ...............................................................27
Playing the Voices .................................................................... 27
Using Knobs 1 - 5 to change the sound ................................... 29
Voice Editing ............................................................................. 31
Using Voice Effects................................................................... 33
Multi Mode ................................................................35
Playing a Multi........................................................................... 35
Editing the Multi ........................................................................ 36
Effect settings in the Multi mode ............................................... 38
Playing four Parts in a layer with a single MIDI keyboard......... 40
Using the Arpeggio Function ................................. 40
What is the Arpeggio function? .................................................40
Arpeggio playback.....................................................................41
Controlling from an External MIDI Keyboard........ 44
External controllers supported by the MOTIF-RACK XS...........44
Assigning Control numbers .......................................................45
Storing the Edited Voice, Multi and Utility Settings
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Storing the edited Voice, Multi and Utility settings in the internal
Flash ROM ................................................................................46
Saving data to an external device (Bulk Dump) ........................47
Resetting the User Memory to the Initial Factory
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Settings .................................................................... 48
Basic Structure
The Five Functional Blocks.................................... 49
Tone Generator Block............................................. 50
Tone Generator block in the Voice mode..................................50
Tone Generator block in the Multi mode ...................................52
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Audio Input Block.................................................... 53
Arpeggio Block........................................................ 53
Arpeggio Category ....................................................................53
Arpeggio Sub Category .............................................................53
Arpeggio Type Name ................................................................54
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How to use the Arpeggio Type List ...........................................54
Arpeggio related settings...........................................................54
Arpeggio playback types ...........................................................55
Controller Block ...................................................... 57
Effect Block ............................................................. 57
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Effect structure ..........................................................................57
Effect connection in each mode ................................................58
Effect Types divided into Effect Categories...............................59
Effect Parameters......................................................................61
Reference
Voice Mode .............................................................. 64
Normal Voice Edit......................................................................64
Element Edit .............................................................................73
Drum Voice Edit ........................................................................83
Supplementary information .......................................................87
Multi Mode................................................................ 91
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Multi Edit....................................................................................91
Utility ........................................................................ 98
Appendix
Display Messages ................................................. 104
About MIDI ............................................................. 105
Installing the Optional mLAN16E2....................... 108
Troubleshooting .................................................... 109
Specifications ........................................................ 112
SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT ................... 113
Index ....................................................................... 114
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