Yamaha EL-87 Owner's Manual - Page 5

Table of Contents Panel Layout 2 7 Music Disk Recorder 68 Main Features 5 1 Quick Introductory Guide 6 1 Getting Started 6 2 Basic Registrations 7 3 Registration Menu Disk 8 4 Basic Operation 15 5 Using the LCD Display 16 6 Voice List 20 2 Voice Sections 22 1 Selecting Voices from the Panel 22 2 Selecting Voices from the Dotted Buttons.. 25 3 Voice Menus 27 3 Flute Voices (Organ Sounds).........32 1 Creating Flute Voices 32 2 Save to User Flute Voice 34 3 Using Preset and User Voices 35 4 Voice Controls and Effects 36 1 Selecting from Voice Condition Pages ....... 37 [PAGE 1 37 (1) Touch Tone 37 (2) Feet 38 (3) Effect (On/Off 38 (4) Pan 38 (5) Brilliance 38 (6) Volume 38 [PAGE 2 39 (1) Vibrato 39 (2) Touch Vibrato 39 (3) Slide (Lead Voice Only 39 (4) Tune (Lead Voice Only 39 2 Selecting from Effect Set Pages 40 (1) Tremolo/Chorus 40 (2) Symphonic/Celeste 40 (3) Delay 41 (4) Flanger 41 3 Selecting from the Panel 42 (1) Reverb 42 (2) Sustain 45 (3) Tremolo/Chorus 46 5 Rhythm and Accompaniment .......49 1 Selecting Rhythms from the Panel 49 2 Rhythm Condition Page 52 3 Dotted Buttons and User Rhythms 53 4 Rhythm Menus 54 5 Automatic Accompaniment-Auto Bass Chord (A.B.C 56 6 Accompaniment Controls 58 7 Keyboard Percussion 59 8 Melody On Chord (M.O.C 61 1 Precautions 68 2 Formatting a Disk 70 3 Recording 71 4 Recording Registrations (and Bulk Data) ... 77 5 Recalling Recorded Registrations (and BulkData 78 6 Replacing Registrations 78 7 Playback 79 8 Other Functions 81 8 Voice Edit 88 1 Editing a Voice 88 2 Saving Your New Voice 93 3 Quitting Voice Edit 94 4 Recalling an Edited Voice 94 5 Selecting Voices from a Voice Disk (Optional).. 95 6 Voice Editing Basics 96 9 Rhythm Pattern Program and Rhythm Sequence Program .108 Outline of the Rhythm Programming Operation ... 108 1 Rhythm Pattern Program 109 (1) Entering Rhythm Pattern Program...... 109 (2) Percussion Sounds Used for Rhythm Pattern Program 111 (3) Step Write and Real Time Write ........ 112 (4) Selecting Step Write or Real Time Write Operation 112 (5) Setting the Beat/Quantize Values....... 112 (6) Entering Percussion Sounds to a Rhythm Pattern 113 (7) Editing with Step Write 114 (8) Editing with Real Time Write 118 (9) Selecting Accompaniment Patterns.... 119 (10) Saving Rhythm Patterns 120 (11) Quitting Rhythm Pattern Program...... 121 (12) Recalling User Rhythm Patterns......... 122 2 Rhythm Sequence Program 123 (1) Selecting a Sequence 123 (2) Programming a Sequence 124 (3) Quitting Rhythm Sequence Program.. 127 (4) Playing Rhythm Sequences 127 (5) Playing All Sequences in Order.......... 128 10 Footswitches, Knee Lever and Expression Pedals 130 1 Footswitch 130 2 Knee Lever 132 3 Expression Pedals 134 11 Transpose And Pitch Controls ..136 12 MIDI 137 13 Accessory Jacks and Controls ...139 14 Appendix 140 6 Registration Memory 62 1 Storing Registrations 62 2 Selecting Registrations 62 3 Saving the Registration Data to Disk .......... 63 4 Registration Shift 64 MIDI 140 MIDI Data Format 141 MIDI Implementation Chart 145 Troubleshooting 146 Specifications 149 Index 150 1