Yamaha AR-100 Owner's Manual - Page 21

Voice Sections The AR-100 features a total of 205 realistic, high-quality AWM Voices. There are five Voice sections for the Upper keyboard, four Voice sections for the Lower keyboard, and four Voice sections for the Pedalboard. Each Voice section has its own Voice Condition page(s) (described on page 33), which allow you to make independent Voice, volume and other settings for each section. Selecting Voices Since selection of Voices follows the same procedure throughout the various Voice sections, instructions for only Upper Keyboard Voice 1 are given here. In these instructions, you'll also learn how to set the volume for the Voice sections. To select Voices: 1. First, turn on the desired Voice section in the ENSEMBLE buttons. Press the UPPER VOICE 1 button to turn on Upper Keyboard Voice 1. (The button's lamp lights.) Lamp lights to indicate the Voice section is on. ENSEMBLE LOWER VOICE 1 LOWER VOICE 2 LOWER ORGAN LOWER UPPER VOICE 1 UPPER VOICE 2 UPPER ORGAN LEAD VOICE UPPER LEAD PEDAL VOICE 1 PEDAL VOICE 2 PEDAL ORGAN PEDAL The ORGAN Voice sections do not have preset Voices and thus are not selected in the same way. (See pages 26, 29 for details.) 2. Select the desired Voice by pressing one of the Voice buttons in the Voice section. For example, if you have selected the ORGAN Voice, the following display (Voice Menu) will appear: UPPER KEYBOARD VOICE 1 MAX STRINGS BRASS CLARI- SAXO- CHORUS HARMO- 1 NET PHONE NICA ORGAN PIANO GUITAR VIBRA- COSMIC TUTTI 2 PHONE MIN Notice that several different Voice names are shown at the bottom of this display. These are variations of the basic Organ Voice category. In addition to the 205 panel Voices, the AR-100 has many other Voices for playing back commercially available XG and DOC song data. 2. Voice Sections 15