Yamaha IIs Owner's Manual - Page 23

Play Section Basic Items From this default screen, you can select and set basic parameters such as drum kit, song, tempo, beat, and click count. These parameters can be freely changed while you are playing the drum kit, click, or song. KIT=P1 SONG=P1 TEMPO BEAT Kit name Songname =107 4/4 1 2 3 4 CLICK 5 1 KIT Selects a drum kit. The name and number of the drum kit is displayed. P1 to P90 are Preset kits, and U1 to U40 are User kits. C1 to C99 are User kits stored to memory card. (These are available only when an appropriate card is inserted in the CARD slot; otherwise "No Card" will be shown for these numbers.) ❏ Settings: P1~P90, U1~U40, C1~C99 4 BEAT Sets the time signature of the song or click. ❏ Settings: 1/4~16/4, 1/8~16/8, 1/16~16/16 n If your beat setting is different from the song-native one, the click count specified with CLICK 5 will not match at every first beat of the measure. This is not a malfunction, but is a useful technique for counting into a difficult phrase - for example, using a 3/8 count to lead into a 4/4 song. The click count and beat will sync together when you reset the playback position to the song beginning, or when the song-native beat setting is changed during playback. 5 CLICK Sets the beat of the metronome (click count). ❏ Settings: For a BEAT 4 setting of 3/8, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8, 15/8: Dotted quarter note, 8th note, 16th note For other BEAT 4 settings: Quarter note, quarter note triplet, 8th note, 8th note triplet, 16th note, 16th note triplet n You can specify the click tone and its output jack (page 81). 2 SONG Selects the desired main song for playing with the current drum kit. The name and number of the song is displayed. Song numbers starting with the letter, P, Q, and R are Preset songs. P songs are demo, Q songs are suitable for practice, R songs are suitable for pad songs, and U1 to U32 are User songs. C1 to C99 are User songs stored to memory card. (These are available only when an appropriate card is inserted in the CARD slot; otherwise "No Card" will be shown for these numbers.) ❏ Settings: Preset or User song 3 TEMPO Sets the playback tempo of the song or click. ❏ Settings: 30~300 n TEMPO is not adjustable when " =ext" is displayed, or in other words, when DTXTREME IIs is synchronized to an external clock (page 82). n Since every song contains information about the playback tempo, your tempo setting might be overwritten when you start or select a song or reset the playback position to the song beginning. If this is inconvenient, you can set to ignore the song-native tempo, giving priority to your custom tempo setting (page 82). 23