Yamaha SY85 Musical Instrument User Manual


 
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Voice Mode Problems
Symptom Possible Cause
No Sound
Wrong pitch.
Unstable/indefinite pitch.
Is the pitch envelope generator set properly? If the L0 through L3 param-
eters are set too low, the resultant pitch may be below the audible range
(page 74).
Is the filter set in such a way that most of the sound is filtered out (page
65)?
Is the total voice level set high enough (page 94)?
Is the amplitude envelope generator attack time set to an excessively long
value (page 60)?
Is an appropriate wave assigned to the voice (page 58)?
Is the tuning set properly (page 58)?.
Is the note shift parameter set properly (page 59)?.
Is the random pitch parameter set properly (page 59)?.
Is the aftertouch pitch bias parameter set properly (page 88)?.
Is the LFO pitch modulation parameter set to an excessively high value
(page 78)?.
Is the pitch envelope generator set properly (page 74)?.
Song Mode Problems
Symptom Possible Cause
No Sound
Wrong pitch.
Some notes not played during
sequencer playback.
Are voices/performance combinations properly assigned to the multi instru-
ments (page 148).
Are the volume levels of the multi instruments set high enough (page 149)?
Are the sequencer track transmit channels properly matched to the multi
instrument channels (Getting Started manual, page 47)?
Are the note shift parameters for each multi instrument set properly (page
152)?.
Are the tune parameters for each multi instrument set properly (page 153)?.
Does the sequence data exceed the maximum polyphony of the SY85
(page 157)?.
Other Problems
Symptom Possible Cause
No Sound
Wrong pitch.
Is the local off mode selected (page 211).
Are the keyboard transmit channel and voice receive channels matched
(page 212)?
Is the master tune parameter set properly (page 210)?.
APPENDIX / TROUBLE SHOOTING