Yamaha DJX Owner's Manual - Page 5

Contents PANEL CONTROLS AND SONG PLAYBACK - TERMINALS 6 THE SONG MODE 40 • Front Panel 6 • Rear Panel 7 SELECTING AND PLAYING A SONG ... 40 CHANGING THE BPM (TEMPO) ......... 41 SETTING UP 8 POWER REQUIREMENTS 8 ABOUT THE BEAT DISPLAY 42 ADJUSTING THE SONG VOLUME ....... 43 ,@P,@P,@P,@P,@P TURNING ON THE POWER 8 ACCESSORY JACKS 9 Quick Guide 10 PATTERNS - THE STYLE MODE 44 SELECTING A STYLE AND PLAYING THE PATTERN 44 PATTERN CONTROLS 47 Step 1 The DJX - Take it for a spin 10 PATTERN SECTIONS (BEAT A, BEAT B AND BREAK OUTS 48 Step 2 Using the Keyboard .......... 12 CHANGING THE BPM (TEMPO) ......... 48 Step 3 Demo Song/Voice/Style ... 14 ADJUSTING THE PATTERN VOLUME ..... 49 Step 4 Digital Sampling 16 FINGERING 50 Step 5 Function Parameters ......... 18 BEAT REVERSE 52 Step 6 Assigning Various Controls to the ASSIGN Knob, RIBBON CONTROLLER, and Footswitch 20 PART ON/OFF 52 • About the Parts 53 SETTING THE PATTERN SPLIT POINT .... 54 PANEL DISPLAY INDICATIONS 22 Function Parameter - Pattern Split Point 55 PLAYING VOICES - THE VOICE MODE 24 PLAYING A VOICE - MAIN VOICE ... 25 • About Panel Voices and GM Voices 26 • Drum Kit Voice Chart (voices 141 - 155 26 Function Parameters - Main Voice .. 27 TRANSPOSE AND TUNING 28 Transpose 28 Tuning 29 PLAYING TWO VOICES - DUAL VOICE 29 Function Parameters - Dual Voice ... 30 PLAYING TWO VOICES - SPLIT VOICE 31 Function Parameters - Split Voice .... 32 ADDITIONAL VOICE FUNCTIONS - VOICE SET, TOUCH SENSITIVITY, AND PITCH BEND RANGE 33 Function Parameters - Voice Set, Touch Sensitivity and Pitch Bend Range 33 EFFECTS 34 REVERB 34 CHORUS 35 DSP 36 ARPEGGIATOR 37 Function Parameters - Effects .......... 37 • Effect Types 38 PERFORMANCE SETUP 56 PERFORMANCE SETUP - USER ......... 56 Recording a User Performance Setup 56 Recalling a User Performance Setup 57 • Selecting a User Bank 57 PERFORMANCE SETUP - PRESET ...... 58 Selecting a Preset Performance Setup 58 THE KNOBS 59 USING THE KNOBS 59 • About CUTOFF and RESONANCE 62 • About GROOVE 62 ASSIGN KNOB 63 ASSIGN Knob Parameters 64 RIBBON CONTROLLER 66 USING THE RIBBON CONTROLLER .... 66 RIBBON CONTROLLER Parameters ... 67 • How the RIBBON CONTROLLER works 68 DIGITAL SAMPLING 69 ABOUT DIGITAL SAMPLING 69 RECORDING A SAMPLE AND PLAYING IT 70 • Guidelines for sampling 71 • Trigger Level 71 • Sampling memory capacity ........ 73 • Deleting a sample 74 • Recording additional samples ..... 74 SAMPLE EDITING 75 Setting the End Point 75 Creating Loops 78 • About the resolution settings ...... 79 SONG RECORDING 80 RECORDING A USER SONG - REALTIME RECORDING 81 • Additional Operations 84 RECORDING A USER SONG - STEP RECORDING 85 Recording Notes 86 • Additional Operations 88 Replacing a Note or Rest 89 Entering Velocity Curves 90 Velocity Curve Chart 90 CLEARING A SONG 91 MIDI FUNCTIONS 92 WHAT IS MIDI 92 Channel Messages 93 System Messages 93 CONNECTING TO A PERSONAL COMPUTER 94 • MIDI Terminals 94 FUNCTION PARAMETERS - MIDI ..... 95 USING BULK DUMP SEND/ SAMPLING SEND TO SAVE DATA ....... 97 Saving Bulk Data/Sampling Data ...... 97 Loading Bulk Data/Sampling Data .... 99 USING INITIAL SETUP SEND WITH A SEQUENCER 100 Sending Initial Setup Data 100 TROUBLESHOOTING 102 DATA BACKUP & INITIALIZATION .... 103 VOICE LIST 104 DRUM KIT LIST 108 STYLE LIST 111 MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART ...... 112 SPECIFICATIONS 115 INDEX 116 5