Making A Drum Roll; Effect. Reverse And Poly - Yamaha RX8 Operating Manual

made to the level of the voice. Also notice that as you scroll
through the bar with the 4 and № keys, the notes will be played
with their new accent values.
Making a drum roll
Let's use this facility to make a drum roll which goes down in
pitch, panning across the stereo field, with every fourth note
accented. Start by going to the main PATTERN menu, selecting
a blank pattern (without a "w"), going into Step write, and
entering sixteen tom notes:
Tom 1. АСС= 00
Add an accent to the first note in evey quarter-note (crochet), in
the same way as we did for the bass drum above. Now use the
START key to jump to the beginning of the bar, and press the
PITCH key:
Tom 1 .PICH- 00
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Now use the -1/МО and +1/YES keys to select a higher pitch for
this note (the pitch is altered in semitone steps). If you make the
pitch higher than the maximum available for this voice (ie the
total of the pitch value set up here and the value set up in the
VOICE EDIT procedure falls above the maximum), an exclama-
tion mark will be displayed after the pitch value, showing that no
further increase in pitch is possible. Now move to the next note
(use the > key) and set the pitch of this note to a semitone lower
than the first. Repeat this procedure throughout the bar.
You can set pitches lower than the original by using the -1/NO
key, but when you come to the bottom of the voice's range, an
exclamation mark will again be displayed, showing that you
cannot lower the pitch any further. Now move to the start of the
bar (press START), and use the » key to scroll through, listening
10 the notes played. You should now have a descending chro-
matic scale (semitone steps). If you don't, use the +1/YES and
-1/МО keys to alter the pitch of the offending notes.
Now we're ready to set up the pan positions in the same way.
Press START to move to the top of the bar, and press the
ACCENT and PITCH keys together:
Tom 1 РАМ = 00
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In exactly the same way as we did for accent and pitch, use the
-1/МО and +1/ҮЕ$ keys to take the first note to the right side of
the stereo image (the higher the number, the more to the right the
sound is positioned). Again, an exclamation mark following the
pan value will tell you when no further alterations are possible.
Now move to the next note ( key) and use the +1/YES and -1/
NO keys to alter the pan position of this note so that it is
positioned to the left of the first note. Repeat this procedure until
you come to the end of the bar. Now press STOP/CONTINUE to
exit to the main pattern menu. When you press START, you
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should hear your pattern of descending toms, moving from right
to left of the stereo image, with every fourth note accented.
EFFECT, REVERSE and POLY
If you have set up a effect detune and effect expansion in the
VOICE EDIT mode, this can also be set in the Step write job. By
pressing the EFFECT key while in this job, you will obtain a
display similar to the following whenever the cursor is over a
note:
EFFCT ОР
To turn the effect on for a particular note, use the +1/YES key,
and to turn it off again, use the -1/NO key. As you step through,
you will hear the effect on the selected notes.
In the same way, you can use the REVERSE key to check
whether the sound of the voice has been reversed for the notes
entered:
Use the +1/YES key to turn the reverse effect on for selected
notes, and the -1/NO key to turn it off. The reversed sound will
be audible as you step through the pattern.
The RX8 is capable of playing two notes of the same voice on the
same beat (polyphony). As you will remember, this is set up in
the VOICE EDIT section (job 4). When a voice has POLY set to
ON in this way, it is possible to examine and alter two notes
independently, even if they fall on the same beat. First, let's enter
two notes on the same beat (using the DX Orchestra voice which
you select using the VOICE ASSIGN button, and set POLY ON
using the VOICE EDIT button, job 4). Enter a note on the first
beat of the bar:
and use the akey to step back and enter another in the same place.
The display will change to:
Now press the ACCENT, PITCH, EFFECT or REVERSE keys,
and you will see that the display changes to:
(if you have pressed the ACCENT key). Further presses of any
of these keys will change the note displayed from "1" to "2" and
back again, and will enable you to edit each note in the 2-note
chord individually. When changing from "1" to ^2" using the
PAN function, it will be necessary to press both the ACCENT
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