Yamaha FX500 - Manual (Page 5)

2. The FX500: What It Is and What It Does
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Effects
The FX500 SIMUL-EFFECT PROCESSOR is a high-
performance 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 thar;an 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 I
Each effect has a number of parameters which can be
adjusted to tailor its sound to your specific musical needs.
COMPRESSOR It DISTORTION MODULATION
•CHORUS
•FLANQER
• SYMPHONIC
• TREMOLO
REVERB
• REVERB
Hall, Room,
Vocal, Plate
• EARLY REF.
Hall, Random.
Reverse. Plate
•DELAY
• ECHO
• REVERBtDEUY
• REVERB-DEUY
• DELAY-REVERB
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 RAM MEMORY ROM MEMORY
1 —60 61 — 90 0
• Preset effect • User-edited • initial Data
programs programs
Program
No.
Program Title
Prognm
life. :
Program Title
' 1 Broad Dist. 31 s Clisp Chords
2.:. Warm Strings _ L3A-.‘.i Sharp Chops
Standard Jazz '■.'S'is'i.i1 Tremolo
4- ■ Soft Echo 34 1 Sweet Flange
Power Pan Chord-Clouds
6-■■■■■■■ Trad. Dist. ■■■■'36 Light Symphonic
7 Dark Dist. .. :37 Clean Acoustic
'. 8 Ring Dist. . 38. Acoustic Solo
■ Q
Metal Overdrive . Lush Strings
10 Echo Dist. 40“ Soft Focus
It Tight Dist. 41 Brass Room
12 Blue Dist. 42 Brass Burst
13 Fuzz • t"’.'43'iO Trumpet Flange
Slap Dist. Brass Energizer
V.;i.>!l5af. ■ Power Leads ■wRS-f-' Echo Rhythm
16 , Chasing Leads Symphonic Hall
■ 17 Power Stack Horror House
.. IB Symphonic Dist. .48 Sitar
...... .19.,, Turbo Drive 49 Staccato Vibe
■..20.;; Chasing Rhythm ‘ ,.6P Sweep Gate
■. ZV ■ Stereo Dist. Monk Akkal
22 ■ Fusion Dist. ■ 52 ■ Straight Bass
■’•■2S Boogie Room ' 53 Slap Bass
Buzz Backer Fredess Bass
’ 25 Liquid Dist. 55 1 Trad. Bass
26 Electric Chords 56 « Sax Solo
27 Clean Repeat 57 I Vocal Reverb
28 Sweet Swirl 56 ■ Drum Gate'/Rev
29 Mild Motion 59 Tight Snare
30 Pearly Chords .60. Rock Drums
61-90’ User Programs
0 1 Initial Data
MiDi Controi
For further versatility and smooth integration with MIDI-
based 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
playl 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.