Yamaha PSR-9000 Owner's Manual - Page 157

Troubleshooting PROBLEM • MIDI data is not transmitted or received via the MIDI A termi- nals, even when MIDI cables are connected properly. • If you experience distorted or out-of-tune sound from the Vocal Harmony feature, your vocal microphone may be picking up extraneous sounds (other than your voice) - the Auto Accompaniment sound from the PSR-9000, for example. In particular, bass sounds can cause mistracking of the Vocal Harmony feature. • When a voice is changed, the previously selected effect is changed. • There is a slight difference in sound quality between notes played on the keyboard. • Some voices have a looping sound. • Some noise or vibrato is noticeable at higher pitches, de- pending upon the voice. • Some voices will jump an octave in pitch when played in the upper or lower registers. • The auto-accompaniment chord does not change even when a different chord is played or the chord is not recognized. • The displayed disk free area value does not coincide with the actual value. • Disk save operations - particularly when saving wave data to floppy disk - take a long time. • Appropriate harmony notes are not produced by the Vocal Harmony feature. • The voice produces excessive noise. • The sound is distorted or noisy. • A strange "flanging" or "doubling" sound occurs. • The sound is slightly different each time the keys are played. • When a disk is inserted into the disk drive, the [DISK IN USE] lamp automatically lights and the data starts loading automatically, even though no disk functions have been executed. POSSIBLE CAUSE/SOLUTION The MIDI terminals can only be used when the HOST SELECT switch is set to "MIDI." All other settings ("Mac," "PC-1" and "PC-2") are for direct transmission/ reception with a computer. The solution to this problem is to ensure that as little extraneous sound as possible is picked up by your vocal microphone: • Sing as closely to the microphone as possible. • Use a directional microphone. • Turn down the MASTER VOLUME, ACMP volume, or SONG volume control. • Separate the microphone from the instrument's speakers as much as possible. • Cut the Low band via the 3 Band EQ function in the MIC SETUP display (page 70). This is normal, each voice has its own suitable preset values which are automatically recalled when the corresponding Voice Set parameters are turned on (page 139). This is normal and is a result of the PSR-9000's sampling system. Some voices have a pitch limit which, when reached, causes this type of pitch shift. This is normal. • Are you sure you're playing on the left-hand section of the keyboard? • You may be using single-finger type fingering in the fingered mode, or vice versa. Use the correct type of chord fingering for the selected autoaccompaniment fingering mode. The displayed value is an approximate value. This is normal. It takes approximately 8 minutes to save 1 megabyte of data to a floppy disk. Make sure you are using the appropriate method to specify the harmony notes for the current Vocal Harmony mode. See page 71. Certain voices may produce noise, depending on the Harmonic Content and/or Brightness settings of the Mixing Console Filter. This is unavoidable due to the sound generation and processing system of the PSR-9000. To avoid noise, change the above mentioned settings. • The MASTER VOLUME control may be turned up too high. • This may be caused by the effects. Try cancelling all unnecessary ef- fects, especially distortion-type effects. • Some filter resonance settings in the Custom Voice Creator display can result in distorted sound. • Is the gain of the Low band set too high in the Master Equalizer display (Mixing Console - page 125) ? • If this applies to the "Sampled" voice , you may have recorded the sam- ple(s) at too high a level. (See page 72.) • Are the R1 and R2 parts set to "ON" and both parts set to play the same voice? • If you are routing the MIDI OUT on the PSR-9000 to a sequencer and back to the MIDI IN, you may want to set Local Control (page 151) to "off" to avoid MIDI "feedback." • This is normal and no cause for concern if "FD CACHE" (page 142) has been set to "ON." If you do not need the data loaded to cache memory, you can eject the floppy disk. You can also operate other functions from the panel without disturbing the automatic cache loading process. q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q Appendix 157 155