Yamaha DJX - Manual (Page 5)

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PANEL CONTROLS AND
TERMINALS
6
• Front Panel ................................... 6
• Rear Panel .................................... 7
SETTING UP 8
POWER REQUIREMENTS ..................... 8
TURNING ON THE POWER ................. 8
ACCESSORY JACKS ............................. 9
Quick Guide 10
Step 1 The DJX —
Take it for a spin! .............. 10
Step 2 Using the Keyboard .......... 12
Step 3 Demo Song/Voice/Style ... 14
Step 4 Digital Sampling ............... 16
Step 5 Function Parameters ......... 18
Step 6 Assigning Various Controls to
the ASSIGN Knob, RIBBON
CONTROLLER, and
Footswitch ........................ 20
PANEL DISPLAY INDICATIONS 22
PLAYING VOICES — THE VOICE
MODE
24
PLAYING A VOICE — MAIN VOICE ... 25
• About Panel Voices and
GM Voices .................................. 26
• Drum Kit Voice Chart
(voices 141 - 155) ...................... 26
Function Parameters — Main Voice .. 27
TRANSPOSE AND TUNING ................ 28
Transpose ........................................ 28
Tuning ............................................. 29
PLAYING TWO VOICES —
DUAL VOICE ....................................... 29
Function Parameters — Dual Voice ... 30
PLAYING TWO VOICES —
SPLIT VOICE ........................................ 31
Function Parameters — Split Voice .... 32
ADDITIONAL VOICE FUNCTIONS —
VOICE SET, TOUCH SENSITIVITY, AND
PITCH BEND RANGE ........................... 33
Function Parameters —
Voice Set, Touch Sensitivity and
Pitch Bend Range ............................. 33
EFFECTS 34
REVERB ................................................ 34
CHORUS .............................................. 35
DSP ..................................................... 36
ARPEGGIATOR .................................... 37
Function Parameters — Effects .......... 37
• Effect Types ................................ 38
SONG PLAYBACK —
THE SONG MODE
40
SELECTING AND PLAYING A SONG ... 40
CHANGING THE BPM (TEMPO) ......... 41
ABOUT THE BEAT DISPLAY ................. 42
ADJUSTING THE SONG VOLUME ....... 43
PATTERNS — THE STYLE MODE 44
SELECTING A STYLE AND PLAYING
THE PATTERN ......................................44
PATTERN CONTROLS .......................... 47
PATTERN SECTIONS (BEAT A, BEAT B
AND BREAK OUTS) ............................. 48
CHANGING THE BPM (TEMPO) ......... 48
ADJUSTING THE PATTERN VOLUME ..... 49
FINGERING ......................................... 50
BEAT REVERSE ..................................... 52
PART ON/OFF ..................................... 52
• About the Parts .......................... 53
SETTING THE PATTERN SPLIT POINT .... 54
Function Parameter —
Pattern Split Point ............................. 55
PERFORMANCE SETUP 56
PERFORMANCE SETUP — USER ......... 56
Recording a User Performance
Setup ................................................ 56
Recalling a User Performance
Setup ................................................ 57
• Selecting a User Bank ................. 57
PERFORMANCE SETUP — PRESET ...... 58
Selecting a Preset Performance
Setup ................................................ 58
THE KNOBS 59
USING THE KNOBS ............................. 59
• About CUTOFF and
RESONANCE .............................. 62
• About GROOVE .......................... 62
ASSIGN KNOB .................................... 63
ASSIGN Knob Parameters ................. 64
RIBBON CONTROLLER 66
USING THE RIBBON CONTROLLER .... 66
RIBBON CONTROLLER Parameters ... 67
• How the RIBBON CONTROLLER
works ......................................... 68
DIGITAL SAMPLING 69
ABOUT DIGITAL SAMPLING ............... 69
RECORDING A SAMPLE AND
PLAYING IT ......................................... 70
• Guidelines for sampling .............. 71
• Trigger Level ............................... 71
• Sampling memory capacity ........ 73
• Deleting a sample ...................... 74
• Recording additional samples ..... 74
SAMPLE EDITING ................................ 75
Setting the End Point ........................ 75
Creating Loops ................................. 78
• About the resolution settings ...... 79
SONG RECORDING 80
RECORDING A USER SONG —
REALTIME RECORDING ...................... 81
• Additional Operations ................ 84
RECORDING A USER SONG —
STEP RECORDING ............................... 85
Recording Notes ............................... 86
• Additional Operations ................ 88
Replacing a Note or Rest .................. 89
Entering Velocity Curves ................... 90
Velocity Curve Chart ......................... 90
CLEARING A SONG ............................. 91
MIDI FUNCTIONS 92
WHAT IS MIDI? ................................... 92
Channel Messages ............................ 93
System Messages .............................. 93
CONNECTING TO A PERSONAL
COMPUTER ......................................... 94
• MIDI Terminals ........................... 94
FUNCTION PARAMETERS — MIDI ..... 95
USING BULK DUMP SEND/
SAMPLING SEND TO SAVE DATA ....... 97
Saving Bulk Data/Sampling Data ...... 97
Loading Bulk Data/Sampling Data .... 99
USING INITIAL SETUP SEND
WITH A SEQUENCER ........................ 100
Sending Initial Setup Data .............. 100
TROUBLESHOOTING ........................ 102
DATA BACKUP & INITIALIZATION .... 103
VOICE LIST ........................................ 104
DRUM KIT LIST ................................. 108
STYLE LIST ........................................ 111
MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART ...... 112
SPECIFICATIONS ............................... 115
INDEX ............................................... 116