Yamaha DX200 Owner's Manual - Page 10

Panel Controls

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These are the fundamental controls of the DX200 — for

changing modes, adjusting values, exiting from func-

tions, and so on.

Display and indicators

[SONG]

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Tips 8, 63

[PATTERN]

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Tip 1

[DATA] knob

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Tips 2, 69

[SHOW VALUE]

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Tips 21, 22

[STORE]

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Tips 48, 61, 68

[EXIT]

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Tip 23

For the most part, these buttons are related to the Pat-

terns — especially for controlling record and playback

operations.

Start/Stop

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Tip 1

[TAP]

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Tip 5

Record

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Tips 49, 51, 59, 60

[SWING]

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Tips 6, 27

[REVERSE]

...............................

Tips 4, 25

[SHIFT]

.................................

Tips 69, 70

[OCT <<]

...............................

Tips 10, 63

[OCT >>]

...............................

Tips 10, 63

[KEYBOARD]

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Tips 9, 26

[PATTERN SELECT]

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Tips 3, 31, 78, 79

[SYNTH TRACK]

............................

Tip 28

[RHYTHM TRACK]

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Tip 28

These controls are for editing and changing the sound of

the Voices.

[SCENE]

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Tips 13, 14

[FREE EG]

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Tips 49, 50

[VOLUME]

[LFO]

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Tips 32 — 35

[EG]

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Tips 36 — 39

[DIST]

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Tip 17

[COMMON]

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Tip 47

[ALGORITHM]

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Tip 41

[MODULATOR]

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Tip 42

[NOISE OSC]

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Tip 46

[EFFECT/MIXER]

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Tips 15, 16, 30

[PORTAMENTO]

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Tip 40

[HARMONIC]

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Tip 42

[FM DEPTH]

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Tip 43

[DECAY]

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Tip 44

[NOISE LEVEL]

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Tip 45

[VCF]

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Tips 18 — 20

The Keyboard section has several main uses:

• Playing the Voices

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Tips 9, 86

• Selecting Patterns

.......

Tips 2, 3, 31, 78, 79

• Controlling the Sequence Steps

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Tips 29, 59, 60

• Selecting functions and operations

. Tips 28, 52 – 58, 60, 62, 66, 67, 80, 81, 86, 91 – 93

Main

Control

Voice

Keyboard

Section	Page
Cover	1
PRECAUTIONS	4
Contents	6
How to Use This Manual	8
Panel Controls	9
Quick Start Guide	11
Parameter Structure	12
Tone Generator Signal Flow & Effect Block Diagram	13
Chapter 1 Pattern Basics	15
Tip 1 Playing a Pattern	15
Tip 2 Exploring other Patterns	15
Tip 3 Switching Patterns on the fly	16
Tip 4 Playing it backwards	17
Tip 5 Changing the bpm	17
Tip 6 Messing with the Beat	18
Tip 7 Double time, half time	18
Chapter 2 Song Playback	19
Tip 8 Playing a Song	19
Chapter 3 The Keyboard	20
Tip 9 Playing the keyboard	20
Tip 10 Changing octaves	20
Tip 11 Playing the Rhythm track	21
Tip 12 Velocity	21
Chapter 4 Scene Basics	22
Tip 13 Switching Scenes	22
Tip 14 Morphing	22
Chapter 5 Effects	23
Tip 15 What is an Effect?	23
Tip 16 Playing with the Effects	24
Tip 17 Distortion	26
Chapter 6 Filter (VCF)	27
Tip 18 Cutoff and Resonance	27
Tip 19 Wild, wild filter sweeps - VCF Types	28
Tip 20 FEG Depth	30
Chapter 7 Nuts and Bolts	31
Tip 21 Show Value	31
Tip 22 Original Value	32
Tip 23 Panic! (or \	33
Tip 24 Factory Reset	34
Chapter 8 Pattern Playback	35
Tip 25 Adjusting the Gate Time	35
Tip 26 Transposing the key	36
Tip 27 Swing	37
Tip 28 Muting tracks	37
Tip 29 Muting notes during playback	38
Tip 30 Mixer controls - Pan and Volume	39
Tip 31 Assigning Patterns to the keyboard buttons	40
Chapter 9 LFO Modulation	41
Tip 32 Modulating the volume	41
Tip 33 Modulating the Filter	42
Tip 34 Modulating the pitch	43
Tip 35 Changing the LFO wave	44
Chapter 10 EG Basics	46
Tip 36 Shaping the sound with EG	46
Tip 37 Using EG to control the Filter (FEG)	49
Tip 38 More about FEG Depth	50
Tip 39 Going negative - with FEG Depth	51
Chapter 11 Advanced Sound Shaping Controls	52
Tip 40 Portamento - the famous gliding pitch effect.	52
Tip 41 Selecting the Algorithm	53
Tip 42 Shifting Harmonics	54
Tip 43 Mellow or metallic - FM Depth	55
Tip 44 Controlling the FM Decay	56
Tip 45 Noise Level	56
Tip 46 All kinds of noise	57
Tip 47 Fat, phatter and phattest!	58
Tip 48 Creating your own original Scenes - and saving them	59
Chapter 12 Free EG	60
Tip 49 Free EG	60
Tip 50 Changing the Length of your Free EG tracks	62
Chapter 13 Pattern Power Tips	63
Tip 51 Hit the top of the Pattern!	63
Tip 52 Shake, Retrigger, and Roll!	64
Tip 53 Selecting a Voice (Copy Voice)	65
Tip 54 Starting a Pattern on a different note	65
Tip 55 Transposing the pitch of a Pattern	66
Tip 56 Copying a Pattern (Sequence)	67
Chapter 14 Pattern Recording	68
Tip 57 Erasing a Pattern - and starting from scratch	68
Tip 58 Setting the Metronome lead-in	69
Tip 59 Recording a Pattern in real time	70
Tip 60 Step Recording	72
Tip 61 Storing your new Pattern	79
Chapter 15 Song Recording	81
Tip 62 Erasing a Song - and starting from scratch	81
Tip 63 Creating a Song	82
Tip 64 Setting the BPM (tempo) for your new Song	84
Tip 65 More Song editing features	85
Tip 66 Adding Patterns to your Song - Insert Pattern	87
Tip 67 Taking Patterns out of your Song - Delete Pattern	88
Tip 68 Storing your new Song	89
Chapter 16 Speed Tips for Power Users	90
Tip 69 Using [SHIFT] with the [DATA] knob - for leaps and bounds!	90
Tip 70 Using [SHIFT] to \	91
Tip 71 Gang-editing a group of Steps	91
Chapter 17 Real World Tips	92
Tip 72 Adjusting the Gate Time with the [DATA] knob	92
Tip 73 Adjusting the pitch with the [DATA] knob	92
Tip 74 Changing the pitch with the keyboard	93
Tip 75 Stutter fill-in 1	94
Tip 76 Stutter fill-in 2	94
Tip 77 Stutter fill-in 3	95
Tip 78 Assigning Patterns for your gig	95
Tip 79 Chord progressions with Pattern Assign	95
Chapter 18 Master Class 1 - Onstage	96
Tip 80 Sync the DX200 to your sequencer	96
Tip 81 Changing the MIDI channels	97
Tip 82 Loopfactory setup - with the SU200	98
Tip 83 Loopfactory sync system - with the AN200	99
Tip 84 Loopfactory sampling	100
Tip 85 Full DJ system - turntable and all!	101
Tip 86 Loopfactory megasetup - with MIDI Thru	101
Chapter 19 Master Class 2 - Advanced Music Production	103
Tip 87 Playing the DX200 as a synthesizer	103
Tip 88 Recording to a sequencer	104
Tip 89 Recording DX200 knob moves to a sequencer	105
Tip 90 Editing the DX200 from a computer	106
Tip 91 MIDI sequencer controls - Start, Continue, Stop	107
Tip 92 Saving Patterns and Songs to a MIDI data filer	108
Tip 93 Loading back your saved Patterns and Songs	109
Appendix	110
Function Index	110
About the Included CD-ROM	112
Specifications	114
Error Messages	114
Troubleshooting	115
FM Tone Generation	116
MIDI Data Format	124
MIDI Implementation Chart	144
Rhythm Track Instrument List	145

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