Yamaha RS7000 Owner's Manual - Page 30

2. Assemble a Pattern Using Preset Phrases 2. Assemble a Pattern Using Preset Phrases Let's begin the "hands-on" portion of our tutorial by discovering just how easy it is to create greatsounding grooves by selecting and combining a few of the RS7000's preset phrases. The RS7000 provides an enormous database of 5980 preset phrases ... just image the number of possible combinations. Also keep in mind the fact that once you've assembled the basic pattern, there are still countless ways in which the details can be changed to make the sound your own. Definition: Patterns & Phrases • Patterns An RS7000 "pattern" is a musical segment between one and 256 measures in length and consisting of as many as 16 individual tracks. Each "track" can be approached as a separate "part" of the pattern: e.g. a bass drum part, a cymbal part, a synthesizer bass part, a sampled loop, etc. The patterns are further organized into "sections" and "styles". The RS7000 has memory for up to 1,024 patterns organized as 64 styles, each with 16 sections labeled "A" through "P", alphabetically. PATTERN TRACK 1: Phrase 1 - [e.g. bass drum] TRACK 2: Phrase 2 - [snare or percussive effect] TRACK 3: Phrase 3 - [synth bass] TRACK 4: Phrase 4 - [sampled loop] : : TRACK 16: ... • Phrases Phrases are essentially pre-programmed "parts" for your patterns. The RS7000 comes with loads of preset drum and percussion phrases. All you have to do is select a pattern track, select the phrase you want to assign to that track, then repeat for as many tracks as you need. Of course, you can record your own phrases for use in patterns, too. Phrases can use voices from the RS7000's internal tone generator, or samples in the RS7000's sample memory. Procedure 1 Engage the PATTERN Play mode If the PATTERN Play mode isn't already selected, press the [PATTERN] button to select it. PATTERN MODE PATT CHAIN SONG UTILITY PATTERN Play EFFECT ON/OFF MASTER EFFECT MULTI COMP CTRL DELAY D-FILTER ISOLATION RING MOD V-DIST LO-FI SLICE REAL TIME LOOP REMIX SAMPLING SAMPLE EDIT STANDBY START/STOP REC VOLUME MUSIC PRODUCTION STUDIO Integrated Sampling Sequencer IN OUT A OUT B MIDI MASTER VOLUME SEQUENCE PLAY FX SELECT EFFECT SEND / VOLUME BEAT STRETCH CLOCK SHIFT GATE TIME MIDI DELAY LFO WAVE SWING VELOCITY DRY EG VARI DELAY/CHO REVERB TRACK VOLUME SPEED PITCH USER S&H PGM DEPTH AMP FILTER PITCH PORTAMENTO TYPE FINGERED FULL TIME OFF PITCH BEND PORTAMENTO TIME ATTACK FILTER CUTOFF DECAY SUSTAIN RELEASE - + TYPE RESONANCE ENV.DEPTH LPF24 LPF18 LPF12 HPF BPF BEF F1 F2 F3 F4 NUM REC SHIFT KEYBOARD ARPEGGIO ON OCT DOWN OCT UP STOP PLAY MUTE STORE SCENE 1 BPM MEMORY 2 3 4 5 EXIT SECTION TRANSPOSE A B C D E F G H PATTERN MODE PATT CHAIN SONG UTILITY GROOVE SUB MODE PLAY FX MIDI DELAY MIXER 7 8 VOICE EDIT EFFECT 9 SETUP +/MASTER 4 5 6 0 SAVE LOAD JOB EDIT 1 2 3 I J ENTER TAP UTILITY SYSTEM MIDI SETUP MIDI FILTER GROOVE PLAY FX MIDI DELAY GRID GROOVE HARMONIZE MIDI DELAY NOTE FEEDBACK TIME MIXER VOICE SELECT VOL/PAN/OUT EQ EFFECT SEND LEVEL VOICE EDIT LFO PORTAMENTO PITCH EG FILTER EFFECT EFFECT TYPE VARIATION DELAY REVERB SETUP ARPEGGIO A/D SETUP KNOB ASSIGN MIDI OUT CH MASTER MASTER EQ MASTER EFFECT SAVE SAVE EXPORT RENAME DELETE FORMAT LOAD LOAD IMPORT SCSI SETUP SCSI COMM JOB JOB LIST EDIT EDIT CHANGE VIEW FILTER PAD 1 PAD 2 CAPS ALL 1~8 9~16 TR- TR+ PAD ASSIGN TRACK 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 MUTE SOLO K ! L # M $ N % O & P ' Q ( R ) S - T @ U ^ V _ W { X } Y ~ Z TRACK SELECT 3.3V CARD TRANSPOSE(-) TRANSPOSE(+) SPACE DEL 2 Select a STYLE Use [Knob 1] to select the "STYLE" (i.e. the group of 16 "sections" - if you're not sure what we're talking about here, go back and review the "Definitions" sidebar, above) that you want to record. STYLE numbers range from "01" through "64". For our tutorial, select STYLE 01. 30 RS7000