Yamaha Motif 6 Manual

Editing a Voice
81Owner’s Manual
Quick Guide — Advanced Course
Editing a Voice by using the Knobs
The four knobs at the top left of the instrument are not only for tweaking the sound while you perform — you can also use 
them to edit a Voice, either in the Voice Play mode or the Voice Edit mode.
●When the [PAN/SEND] indicator is turned on: 
●When the [TONE] indicator is turned on: 
nThe settings above are applied as offsets to the AEG and FEG settings in the Voice Edit mode.
●When the [ARP FX] indicator...

Editing a Voice
82Owner’s Manual
Quick Guide — Advanced Course
To solo an Element for editing
This feature is useful for isolating the sound of single 
Element, for ease in editing.
1In the Normal Voice Edit mode, simultaneously 
hold down the [MUTE] button and press one of the 
NUMBER buttons [9] to [12] to solo the 
corresponding Element.
Once you’ve selected an Element for soloing, the [MUTE] 
button’s lamp flashes, indicating the Solo function is 
active and only the selected Element can be edited....

Quick Guide — Advanced Course
Editing a Voice
83Owner’s Manual
The main parameters available are basically the same as in the 
Normal Voice Edit (page 80). What is called Key Edit in the Drum 
Voice corresponds to Element Edit in the Normal Voice. Please keep 
in mind that the LFO parameters are not available in the Drum Voice. 
Enter a name for the Voice from the NAME display 
([COMMON] → [F1] GENERAL → [SF1] NAME). For detailed 
instructions on naming a voice, refer to page 53 in the Basic 
Operation...

Editing a Voice
84Owner’s Manual
Quick Guide — Advanced Course
Setting the drum key for independent open and closed hi-hat sounds
In a real drum kit, some drum sounds cannot physically be played simultaneously, such as open and closed hi-hats. 
You can prevent drum instruments from playing back simultaneously by assigning them to the same Alternate Group. 
The preset Drum Voices have many such Alternate Group assignments to ensure the most authentic, natural sound.  When 
creating a Voice from scratch,...

Quick Guide — Advanced Course
Editing a Voice
85Owner’s Manual
Plug-in Voice Edit
The Plug-in Voices (available when installing optional Plug-in Boards to the instrument) can be edited in basically the same way 
as in Normal Voice Edit (page 79). Unlike with Normal voices, the Plug-in voices only have one Element for editing. In addition, 
some of the other parameters may not be available. Refer to page 205 in the Reference section.
Storing/Saving the created Voice
Two steps are necessary in order to...

Editing a Voice
86Owner’s Manual
Quick Guide — Advanced Course
After the Voice has been stored, a “Completed” message 
appears and operation returns to the Voice Play display.
Keep in mind that the Store operation may take a short time to complete, 
during which an “Executing..” or “Please keep power on” message may be 
shown. Never attempt to turn off the power while data is being written to 
Flash ROM while such a message is displayed. Turning the power off in this 
state results in loss of all user...

Quick Guide — Advanced Course
Editing a Performance
87Owner’s Manual
■ Loading Voice data from the SmartMedia/USB 
storage device
In the previous section, we saved Voice data as an “All Voice” 
file to a SmartMedia card or USB storage device.  Here, we’ll 
recall that Voice data and load it to the instrument with the 
Load operation.
Refer to “Basic settings for using SmartMedia or a USB 
storage device” on page 30. 
The file saved in operation explained on the previous page 
has all the User Voices. If...

Editing a Performance
88Owner’s Manual
Quick Guide — Advanced Course
Use the Part Edit to edit the parameters for each Part. Use Common Edit to edit the parameters for all of the Parts. 
The following briefly describes the main Performance parameters.
●Parameters for the Voice assigned to each Part...Page 216
The Voice assigned to each part and its note range can be set also in 
the Performance Play mode (page 71). In addition to the parameters 
available in the Performance Play mode, the Performance Edit...

Quick Guide — Advanced Course
Editing a Performance
89Owner’s Manual
●Effect related parameters ................Pages 177 and 215
The Effects use DSP (Digital Signal Processing) to alter and 
enhance the sound of a Performance. The Common Edit 
display lets you edit the Effect related parameters. 
●Master EQ related parameters ........Pages 178 and 214
These parameters let you use the five-band Master EQ to 
process the overall sound of the Performance.  Master EQ 
also features separate EQ shape...

Quick Guide — Advanced Course
Editing a Performance
90Owner’s Manual
Editing a Performance by using the Knobs
The four knobs at the top left of the instrument are not only for tweaking the sound while you perform — you can also use 
them to edit a Performance, either in the Performance Play mode or the Performance Edit mode.
●When the [PAN/SEND] indicator is turned on: 
●When the [TONE] indicator is turned on: 
nThe settings above are applied as offsets to the AEG and FEG settings in the Performance Edit...