Yamaha DTX700 - Manual (Page 6)

Internal Design of the DTX700
DTX700 Reference Manual 6
 Voices & Layers
The DTX700 provides four layers (A to D) for each trigger
input source. For this reason, you can assign up to four different
voices to each one. What’s more, these layered voices can also
be triggered in three different ways – for example, they will all
play together in Stack mode, a different one will be played for
each strike in Alternate mode, and they can be sustained and
turned off on each successive strike in Hold mode. (Use the
Mode parameter from the Menu area’s Kit/MIDI/Assign page
to make these settings.)
To overlay multiple voices, first of all select the trigger input
source, and use the Note parameter from the Menu area’s Kit/
MIDI/Assign page to ensure that a MIDI note number is
assigned to each of its layers. Then, use the above-mentioned
Mode parameter to set the way in which the layered voices are
to be triggered, and finally, use the VoiceCategory and Number
parameters from the Menu area’s Kit/Voice page to assign suit-
able voices to each layer.
NOTE
• When assigning a pad song to a trigger input source, only
one layer can be configured for it.
 Voices and MIDI note numbers
It is important to realize that voices are actually assigned to
MIDI note numbers whenever Stack mode or Alternate mode is
used
(see page 21) . With these modes, the sounds to be played
together are set using MIDI note numbers and not voices. To
change the correspondence between MIDI note numbers and
voices within the current kit, you can select voices assigned to
MIDI note numbers on the Menu area’s Kit/Voice page.
Effects
The effect processor built into your DTX700 applies special audio
effects to the output from the tone generator in order to modify and
enhance its sound in a wide variety of ways. Normally applied dur-
ing the final stages of editing, effects allow you optimize the sound
to better suit your own specific requirements.
 Effect Processor Design
The DTX700 can apply effects to the tone generator’s output
using the following four effect units.
 Variation Effect
Variation effects allow you to sculpt your sound in a variety
of different ways. A specific type of variation effect can be
selected for each kit, and you can also specify the degree to
which this effect is applied to each layer (using the
VarSend(Dry) (Variation Send Level) parameter from the
Menu area’s Kit/Voice page).
 Chorus
Chorus effects change the spatial characteristics of the
sounds to which they are applied. A specific type of chorus
effect can be selected for each kit, and you can also specify
the degree to which this effect is applied to each layer (using
the ChoSend (Chorus Send Level) parameter from the Menu
area’s Kit/Voice page).
 Reverb
Reverb effects add a warm ambience to sounds, simulating
the complex reflections of actual performance spaces, such
as a concert hall or a small club. A specific type of reverb
effect can be selected for each kit, and you can also specify
the degree to which this effect is applied to each layer (using
the RevSend (Reverb Send Level) parameter from the Menu
area’s Kit/Voice page).
NOTE
• The degree to which songs are processed by these effect
units can be specified using the VarSend(Dry) (Variation
Send Level) parameter, the ChoSend (Chorus Send
Level) parameter, and the RevSend (Reverb Send Level)
parameter from the Menu area’s Song/MIDI page; fur-
thermore, these settings can then be saved as part of the
corresponding song data.
 Kit EQ
Supporting four-band equalization, the Kit EQ effect unit
can be configured in a different way for each kit (using the
parameters from the Menu area’s Kit/EQ page).
 Master EQ
Processing the overall instrument sound just before output,
Master EQ supports three-band equalization. This effect unit
is configured using the Menu area’s Utility/Master EQ page,
and changing kits has no effect on its equalization settings.
 Stack
All four layers will sound simultaneously.
Layer A
Layer B
Layer C
Layer D
Four sounds
produced together.
 Alternate
Individual layers will sound sequentially.
Layer A
sounds.
Layer B
sounds.
Layer C
sounds. Layer D
sounds.