Yamaha DJX Electronic Keyboard User Manual


 
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Contents
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