Yamaha DTX700 Reference Manual - Page 6

Internal Design of the DTX700  Voices & Layers The DTX700 provides four layers (A to D) for each trigger input source. For this reason, you can assign up to four different voices to each one. What's more, these layered voices can also be triggered in three different ways - for example, they will all play together in Stack mode, a different one will be played for each strike in Alternate mode, and they can be sustained and turned off on each successive strike in Hold mode. (Use the Mode parameter from the Menu area's Kit/MIDI/Assign page to make these settings.) To overlay multiple voices, first of all select the trigger input source, and use the Note parameter from the Menu area's Kit/ MIDI/Assign page to ensure that a MIDI note number is assigned to each of its layers. Then, use the above-mentioned Mode parameter to set the way in which the layered voices are to be triggered, and finally, use the VoiceCategory and Number parameters from the Menu area's Kit/Voice page to assign suitable voices to each layer. NOTE • When assigning a pad song to a trigger input source, only one layer can be configured for it.  Stack All four layers will sound simultaneously. Layer A Layer B Layer C Layer D Four sounds produced together.  Alternate Individual layers will sound sequentially. Layer A sounds. Layer B sounds. Layer C sounds. Layer D sounds.  Voices and MIDI note numbers It is important to realize that voices are actually assigned to MIDI note numbers whenever Stack mode or Alternate mode is used (see page 21). With these modes, the sounds to be played together are set using MIDI note numbers and not voices. To change the correspondence between MIDI note numbers and voices within the current kit, you can select voices assigned to MIDI note numbers on the Menu area's Kit/Voice page. Effects The effect processor built into your DTX700 applies special audio effects to the output from the tone generator in order to modify and enhance its sound in a wide variety of ways. Normally applied during the final stages of editing, effects allow you optimize the sound to better suit your own specific requirements.  Effect Processor Design The DTX700 can apply effects to the tone generator's output using the following four effect units.  Variation Effect Variation effects allow you to sculpt your sound in a variety of different ways. A specific type of variation effect can be selected for each kit, and you can also specify the degree to which this effect is applied to each layer (using the VarSend(Dry) (Variation Send Level) parameter from the Menu area's Kit/Voice page).  Chorus Chorus effects change the spatial characteristics of the sounds to which they are applied. A specific type of chorus effect can be selected for each kit, and you can also specify the degree to which this effect is applied to each layer (using the ChoSend (Chorus Send Level) parameter from the Menu area's Kit/Voice page).  Reverb Reverb effects add a warm ambience to sounds, simulating the complex reflections of actual performance spaces, such as a concert hall or a small club. A specific type of reverb effect can be selected for each kit, and you can also specify the degree to which this effect is applied to each layer (using the RevSend (Reverb Send Level) parameter from the Menu area's Kit/Voice page). NOTE • The degree to which songs are processed by these effect units can be specified using the VarSend(Dry) (Variation Send Level) parameter, the ChoSend (Chorus Send Level) parameter, and the RevSend (Reverb Send Level) parameter from the Menu area's Song/MIDI page; furthermore, these settings can then be saved as part of the corresponding song data.  Kit EQ Supporting four-band equalization, the Kit EQ effect unit can be configured in a different way for each kit (using the parameters from the Menu area's Kit/EQ page).  Master EQ Processing the overall instrument sound just before output, Master EQ supports three-band equalization. This effect unit is configured using the Menu area's Utility/Master EQ page, and changing kits has no effect on its equalization settings. DTX700 Reference Manual 6