Yamaha Electone EL-500, Owner'S Manual

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Voice Sections
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Selecting Voices from the Dotted Buttons
—Dotted Buttons and User Voices—
The EL-700/500 has a wide variety of voices from which you can
choose-far greater than what is immediately apparent from the front
panel controls. You’ve already learned in the section above how to select
the different voices that are available in the Voice Menu display of each
panel voice. The Electone also has dotted buttons in each voice section,
giving you access to even more voices by including space for storing and
recalling voices you’ve created yourself (User voices) by using Voice Edit
function (page 107). Optional Voice Disk voices containing many new
voices are also being made available for the EL-700/500 (page 115).
Each voice section has one or two dotted buttons, found on the right
side of each voice section. These dotted buttons function as “wild card”
Voice Menu selectors; any internal or User voices can be selected from
these buttons.
UPPER KEYBOARD VOICE 1
BRILLIANCE
BRILLIANT
MELLOW
VOLUME
MAX
MIN
ORGAN PIANO GUITAR VIBRA-
PHONE
COSMIC TUTTI
STRINGS BRASS CLARI-
NET
CHORUS HARMO-
NICA
SAXO-
PHONE
1
2
EL-700
The dotted buttons have three basic uses:
• For playing any voice of the Voice Menus from any of the
keyboards or Pedalboard. You can play on the Upper keyboard,
for example, voices from the twenty-two Voice Menu pages
(including User), and not be limited to only the twelve buttons
(equivalent to twelve Voice Menu pages) that make up the Upper
Voice section. Another advantage to this feature is that when the
normally monophonic (one note) Lead and Pedal voices are
assigned to the Upper or Lower keyboard Voice sections, they can
be played polyphonically.
• For having three different voices from the same Voice Menu page
available for selection in the same song. For example, you can
assign one of the voices to a dotted button in the Upper Keyboard
Voice 1 section, the second voice to the other dotted button in the
same section, and the third one on the Voice Menu.
• For playing the User voices of your own creation or those from a
Voice Disk. (page 107)
To select voices from the dotted buttons:
1
Press one of the dotted buttons in any of the voice sections.
UPPER KEYBOARD VOICE 1
BRILLIANCE
BRILLIANT
MELLOW
VOLUME
MAX
MIN
ORGAN PIANO GUITAR VIBRA-
PHONE
COSMIC TUTTI
STRINGS BRASS CLARI-
NET
CHORUS HARMO-
NICA
SAXO-
PHONE
1
2
EL-700