Yamaha EL-500 Owner's Manual - Page 5

Table of Contents EL-700 Panel Layout 6 EL-500 Panel Layout 8 LCD Display/Display Select 10 Main Features 11 6 Registration Memory 77 1 Storing Registrations 77 2 Selecting Registrations 78 3 Saving the Registration Data to Disk 78 4 Registration Shift 79 1 Quick Introductory Guide 12 1 Getting Started 12 2 Basic Registrations 13 3 Registration Menu Disk 14 4 Basic Operation 19 5 Using the LCD Display 20 6 Voice List 24 2 Voice Sections 26 1 Selecting Voices from the Panel 26 2 Selecting Voices from the Dotted Buttons 29 3 Voice Menus 31 3 Flute Voices (Organ Sounds) - EL-700 only ...... 37 1 Creating Flute Voices 37 2 Save to User Flute Voice 39 3 Using Preset and User Voices 40 7 Music Disk Recorder 84 1 Precautions 84 2 Formatting a Disk 86 3 Recording - Punch In Recording 87 4 Recording Registrations (and Bulk Data 93 5 Recalling Recorded Registrations (and Bulk Data 94 6 Replacing Registrations 94 7 Playback - About XG Songs 95 8 Other Functions 99 8 Voice Edit 107 1 Editing a Voice 107 2 Saving Your New Voice 112 3 Quitting Voice Edit 114 4 Recalling an Edited Voice 114 5 Selecting Voices from a Voice Disk (Optional) ...... 115 6 Voice Editing Basics 116 4 Voice Controls and Effects 41 1 Selecting from Voice Condition Pages 42 [PAGE 1 42 1) Touch Tone 42 2) Feet 43 3) Pan 43 4) Reverb 43 5) Volume 43 [PAGE 2 43 1) Effect (On/Off 43 2) Brilliance 44 [PAGE 3 44 1) Vibrato 44 2) Touch Vibrato 45 3) Slide (Lead Voices Only 45 4) Tune (Lead Voices Only 45 2 Selecting from Effect Set Pages 45 1) Tremolo/Chorus 46 2) Symphonic/Celeste 46 3) Delay 46 4) Flanger 47 5) Distortion 48 3 Selecting from the Panel 49 1) Reverb 49 2) Sustain 52 3) Tremolo/Chorus 53 5 Rhythm and Accompaniment 56 1 Selecting Rhythms from the Panel 56 2 Rhythm Condition Pages 59 3 Dotted Buttons and User Rhythms 61 4 Rhythm Menus 63 5 Automatic Accompaniment- Auto Bass Chord (A.B.C 65 6 Accompaniment Controls 67 7 Preset/User Keyboard Percussion 68 8 Melody On Chord (M.O.C 76 9 Rhythm Pattern Program and Rhythm Sequence Program 122 Outline of the Rhythm Programming Operation ........ 122 1 Rhythm Pattern Program 123 1) Entering Rhythm Pattern Program 123 2) Percussion Sounds Used for Rhythm Pattern Program 125 3) Step Write and Real Time Write 127 4) Selecting Step Write or Real Time Write Operation ....... 127 5) Setting the Beat/Quantize Values 127 6) Entering Percussion Sounds to a Rhythm Pattern ........ 128 7) Editing with Step Write 129 8) Editing with Real Time Write 133 9) Selecting Accompaniment Patterns - Lower Rhythmic 134 10) Saving Rhythm Patterns 137 11) Quitting the Rhythm Pattern Program 138 12) Recalling User Rhythm Patterns 139 13) Selecting Rhythm from a Pattern Disk (Optional) ....... 140 2 Rhythm Sequence Program 141 1) Selecting a Sequence 141 2) Programming a Sequence 142 3) Quitting Rhythm Sequence Program 145 4) Playing Rhythm Sequences 145 5) Playing All Sequences in Order 146 10 Footswitches, Knee Lever and Expression Pedals 148 1 Footswitch 148 2 Knee Lever 150 3 Expression Pedals 152 11 Transpose and Pitch Controls 154 12 MIDI 155 13 Accessory Jacks and Controls 157 14 Appendix 158 MIDI 158 MIDI Data Format 164 MIDI Implementation Chart 175 Troubleshooting 177 Specifications 180 Index 182 5 1 Quick Introductory Guide 2 Voice Sections Flute Voices 3 (Organ Sounds) - EL-700 only 4 Voice Controls and Effects 5 Rhythm and Accompaniment 6 Registration Memory 7 Music Disk Recorder 8 Voice Edit Rhythm Pattern 9 Program and Rhythm Sequence Program 10 Footswitches, Knee Lever and Expression Pedals 11 Transpose and Pitch Controls 12 MIDI 13 Accessory Jacks and Controls 14 Appendix