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2. The FX500: What It Is and What It Does II Effects The FX500 SIMUL-EFFECT PROCESSOR is a highperformance digital signal processor intended for use with electric guitars, electronic keyboards or other instruments. It employs leading-edge Yamaha digital signal processing technology to provide a "chain" of up to six independent effects thatcan be independently controlled to produce precisely the required overall sound. As shown below, the FX500 includes five effect (compressor, distortion, equalizer, modulation and reverb) stages. Stages can be turned on or off as required, and the order of the modulation and reverb stages can be reversed. The compressor, distortion and equalizer stages are basically single-function processors. The modulation and reverb stages each incorporate a number of separate effects which can be selected and used as required. Several of the reverb effects actually combine both delay and reverb, effectively giving you a total of six effects in the chain! Each effect has a number of parameters which can be adjusted to tailor its sound to your specific musical needs. 01COMPRESSOR DISTORTION EQUALIZER MODULATION REVERS • CHORUS • FLANGER • SYMPHONIC • TREMOLO • REVERB Hall, Ream, Vocal, Plata • EARLY REF. Hall, Random, Reverse, Plate • DELAY • ECHO • REVERBIOELAY • REVERB-•DELAY • DELAY-•REVERB IN Memory Configuration The FX500 has a total of 91 memory locations. Memory locations 1 through 60 are ROM (Read Only Memory) containing 60 pre-programmed effects that you can simply select and use. Memory locations 61 through 90 are RAM (Random Access Memory), and can be used to store original effect programs that you create by editing the presets. The 30 RAM memory locations (61 - 90) originally contain a selected group of the preset programs. The last memory location - memory location number 0 - contains Initialized data" that can be used as a basis for creating your own original effects programs from scratch. ROM MEMORY 1 - 60 • Preset effect programs RAM MEMORY 61 - 90 • User-edited programs ROM MEMORY 0 • Initial Data Prio,grOk Program Title t it Broad Dist. Warm Strings -Pri5(jiaril'::. A Program Title ;' 3A ' Clisp Chords r Sharp Chops '+-4,, .1F• . Standard Jazz Soft Echo Power Pan Tremolo Sweet Flange Chord-Clouds k l,4t„ .p Trad. Dist. , Light Symphonic '-`r Tg., P. Dark Dist. Ring Dist. !''"°:4.47,,,V Clean Acoustic Acoustic Solo Metal Overdrive Lush Strings V Echo Dist. :.4,4g, Tight Dist. Soft Focus - ' ..1.. Brass Room '~ a Blue Dist. ''N r Brass Burst , ''. :t Fuzz Slap Dist. Trumpet Flange Brass Energizer Power Leads r`-' Echo Rhythm Chasing Leads 00at t Symphonic Hall '414)„7,* Power Stack .k.. 4, Symphonic Dist. '4 Horror House Sitar Turbo Drive 4 Staccato Vibe .... Chasing Rhythm Stereo Dist. Sweep Gate Monk Akka! , Fusion Dist. ., Straight Bass • t 4 Boogie Room - Slap Bass . ,...., Buzz Backer c..,, Liquid Dist. Fretless Bass Trad. Bass - • . Electric Chords tat.AV10 Sax Solo Clean Repeat '''''• Vocal Reverb t ',, 4*.:!tt.' Sweet Swirl .:. Drum Gate/Rev ! Mild Motion ,... Tight Snare ft. : ,.. Pearly Chords Eaftgrt Rock Drums User Programs Initial Data • MIDI Control For further versatility and smooth integration with MIDIbased music systems, the FX500 offers broad MIDI control capabilities. Any of its 90 memory locations may be directly selected from a remote MIDI device such as a keyboard or MIDI foot controller'. It is also possible to directly control up to two different effect parameters simultaneously in real time. This means that two MIDI controllers (a MODULATION WHEEL and DATA ENTRY slider on a keyboard, for example) could be used to control, say, the modulation depth of the flanger effects and the reverb time of a reverb effect in real time as you play! Any two MIDI controllers can be assigned to any two effect parameters (See "MIDI Parameter Control: Control Change 1 Table Edit and Control Change 2 Table Edit" on page 20 for operational details). * Extensive MIDI control is also possible with the MFC1 MIDI Foot Controller. Consult the MFC1 operation Manual for details. 4