Yamaha MOTIF7 Owner's Manual - Page 217

Pattern Play mode Basic Structure (page 67) In this mode, you can select and play individual User patterns. n For details about patterns and their track and memory structure, see page 51. ◆ Basic Procedure Basic Structure (page 67) 1 Press the [PATTERN] button to enter the Pattern Play mode. (The indicator lights.) PATTERN Pattern track number and data status No data has been recorded. (A Phrase has not been assigned.) MIDI sequence data has been recorded. (Indicates a MIDI track.) In addition to MIDI sequence data, the sample data has been recorded. (Indicates an sample track.) Tempo for the selected style ❒ Setting 010.0 ~ 300.0 Time signature for the selected style ❒ Setting 1/16 ~16/16, 1/8 ~16/8, 1/4 ~8/4 Measure : Beat (for current playback location)/ Total length of the selected pattern Transpose setting (for all style data) Can be adjusted in semitones. For example, when a value of +12 is set, the pitch of all of the data becomes one octave higher. ❒ Settings -36 ~ +36 Currently selected pattern (style and section) Style number Style name Section Pattern track on/off status Indicates muted track. Indicates soloed track (page 218). 2 Select a style and its section. 3 Start/Stop pattern playback. Pattern Play mode Stop playback Start playback 4 Make necessary or desired settings (e.g., transpose, tempo, individual track on/off status, and so on) in the above display. 5 Select the menu you wish to edit by pressing the [F2] - [F6] buttons and edit the parameters in each display. n Creating patterns is done with the Patch function, selected with the [F4] button. (See page 219.) n The Pattern Chain function, selected with the [F6] button, lets create a song by chaining together several different patterns. (See page 219.) 6 Repeat steps #3 through #5 as desired. 7 Press any other mode button to exit from the Pattern Play mode. • For detailed instructions on steps #2, 3, 4, and 5, see the following explanations. Style Selection The explanations here apply to step #2 of the Basic Procedure see above. The method for selecting a style is the same as that for selecting songs (page 179), as shown below. DRUM KITS PRE 1 PRE 2 PRE 3 GM USER PLG 1 PLG 2 PLG 3 CATEGORY SEARCH BANK FAVORITES COMMON 1 A. PIANO KEYBOARD ORGAN A B C GUITAR / PLUCKED D BASS E STRINGS BRASS REED/PIPE F G H SYN LEAD SYN PAD/ SYN COMP CHROMATIC DRUM / SE CHOIR PERCUSSION PERCUSSION 1 2 3 4 5 6 MUSICAL FX COMBI 7 8 SECTION TRACK SELECT GROUP 2 ELEMENT/ PERF.PART / ZONE 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 MUTE NUMBER SOLO n The explanations here apply when these four button indicators are off. You can also select a style by moving the cursor to the style number location and using the [INC/YES] and [DEC/NO] buttons or the data dial. MOTIF Reference 217 Reference Pattern mode