Table Of Contents - Yamaha Electone EL-900 Owner's Manual

Table of Contents

Panel Layout .............................................. 6
Main Features ............................................ 9
1 Quick Introductory Guide .................. 1 0
1 Getting Started .................................................... 10
2 Basic Registrations .............................................. 11
3 Registration Menu Disk ...................................... 12
4 Basic Operation ................................................... 19
5 Using the LCD Display ....................................... 20
6 Voice List ............................................................ 24
2 Voice Sections ..................................... 26
1 Selecting Voices from the Panel ......................... 26
2 Selecting Voices from the Dotted Buttons .......... 30
3 Voice Menus ....................................................... 32
3 Flute Voices (Organ Sounds) ............. 4 0
1 Creating Flute Voices ......................................... 40
2 Save to User Flute Voice ..................................... 42
3 Using Preset and User Voices ............................. 43
4 Voice Controls and Effects ................. 44
1 Selecting from Voice Condition Pages ............... 45
[PAGE 1] ............................................................ 37
1) Touch Tone ................................................... 45
2) Pitch ............................................................... 46
3) Feet ................................................................ 46
4) Pan ................................................................. 46
5) Reverb ............................................................ 46
6) Volume .......................................................... 46
[PAGE 2] ............................................................ 46
1) Effect (On/Off) .............................................. 46
2) Brilliance ........................................................ 47
[PAGE 3] ............................................................ 47
1) Vibrato ........................................................... 47
2) Touch Vibrato ............................................... 48
3) Slide (Lead Voice Only) ................................ 48
4) Tune (Lead Voice Only) ................................ 48
2 Selecting from Effect Set Pages ........................... 48
1) Tremolo/Chorus ............................................ 49
2) Symphonic/Celeste ........................................ 49
3) Delay .............................................................. 49
4) Flanger ........................................................... 50
5) Distortion ...................................................... 51
3 Selecting from the Panel ..................................... 52
1) Reverb .................................................................. 52
2) Sustain .................................................................. 55
3) Tremolo/Chorus .................................................. 56
5 Rhythm and Accompaniment ............ 5 9
1 Selecting Rhythms from the Panel ..................... 59
2 Rhythm Condition Page ..................................... 62
3 Dotted Buttons and User Rhythms ..................... 64
4 Rhythm Menus ................................................... 66
5 Automatic Accompaniment-Auto Bass Chord
(A.B.C.) ............................................................... 68
6 Accompaniment Controls .................................. 70
7 Preset/User Keyboard Percussion ....................... 71
8 Melody On Chord (M.O.C.) ............................... 79
6 Registration Memory ......................... 8 0
1 Storing Registrations ........................................... 80
2 Selecting Registrations ........................................ 80
3 Saving the Registration Data to Disk .................. 81
4 Registration Shift ................................................ 82
7 Music Disk Recorder ........................... 8 7
1 Precautions ......................................................... 87
2 Formatting a Disk ............................................... 89
3 Recording ﾑ Punch In Recording ..................... 90
4 Recording Registrations (and Bulk Data) ........... 96
5 Recalling Recorded Registrations (and Bulk Data) .... 97
6 Replacing Registrations ...................................... 97
7 Playback ﾑ About XG Songs ............................. 98
8 Other Functions ............................................... 102
8 Voice Edit ........................................... 110
1 Editing a Voice .................................................. 110
2 Saving Your New Voice .................................... 115
3 Quitting Voice Edit ........................................... 117
4 Recalling an Edited Voice ................................. 117
5 Selecting Voices from a Voice Disk (Optional) .... 118
6 Voice Editing Basics .......................................... 119
9 Rhythm Pattern Program and
Rhythm Sequence Program .............. 125
Outline of the Rhythm Programming Operation . 125
1 Rhythm Pattern Program .................................. 126
1) Entering Rhythm Pattern Program ............. 126
2) Percussion Sounds Used for
Rhythm Pattern Program ............................ 128
3) Step Write and Real Time Write ................. 130
4) Selecting Step Write or
Real Time Write Operation ......................... 130
5) Setting the Beat/Quantize Values ................ 130
6) Entering Percussion Sounds to
a Rhythm Pattern ........................................ 131
7) Editing with Step Write ............................... 132
8) Editing with Real Time Write ..................... 136
9) Selecting Accompaniment Patterns ﾑ
Lower Rhythmic .......................................... 137
10) Saving Rhythm Patterns ............................. 140
11) Quitting Rhythm Pattern Program ............ 141
12) Recalling User Rhythm Patterns ................ 142
13) Selecting Patterns from a Pattern Disk
(Optional) .................................................. 143
2 Rhythm Sequence Program .............................. 144
1) Selecting a Sequence .................................... 144
2) Programming a Sequence ............................ 145
3) Quitting Rhythm Sequence Program .......... 148
4) Playing Rhythm Sequences ......................... 148
5) Playing All Sequences in Order ................... 149
1 0 Footswitches, Knee Lever and
Expression Pedals ........................... 151
1 Footswitch ........................................................ 151
2 Knee Lever ........................................................ 153
3 Expression Pedals ............................................. 155
11 Transpose And Pitch Controls ....... 157
12 MIDI ................................................ 158
13 Accessory Jacks and Controls ........ 160
14 Appendix ......................................... 161
MIDI ...................................................................... 161
MIDI Data Format ................................................. 167
MIDI Implementation Chart ................................. 178
Troubleshooting .................................................... 181
Specifications ......................................................... 184
Index ...................................................................... 186
1
Quick Introductory Guide
2
Voice Sections
3
Flute Voices
(Organ Sounds)
4
Voice Controls
and Effects
5
Rhythm and
Accompaniment
6
Registration Memory
7
Music Disk Recorder
8
Voice Edit
Rhythm Pattern
9
Program and
Rhythm Sequence
Program
10
Footswitches, Knee Lever
and Expression Pedals
11
Transpose and
Pitch Controls
12
MIDI
13
Accessory Jacks
and Controls
14
Appendix
5