Yamaha Loopfactory DX200, Owner'S Manual

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Contents ............................................................ 6
How to Use This Manual .................................. 8
Panel Controls .................................................. 9
Quick Start Guide ........................................... 11
Parameter Structure ....................................... 12
Tone Generator Signal Flow &
Effect Block Diagram .............................. 13
Chapter 1
Pattern Basics ........................ 15
Tip 1 Playing a Pattern ............................................... 15
Tip 2 Exploring other Patterns.................................... 15
Tip 3 Switching Patterns on the fly ............................ 16
Tip 4 Playing it backwards ......................................... 17
Tip 5 Changing the bpm ............................................. 17
Tip 6 Messing with the Beat ....................................... 18
Tip 7 Double time, half time....................................... 18
Chapter 2
Song Playback......................... 19
Tip 8 Playing a Song................................................... 19
Chapter 3
The Keyboard......................... 20
Tip 9 Playing the keyboard......................................... 20
Tip 10 Changing octaves .............................................. 20
Tip 11 Playing the Rhythm track.................................. 21
Tip 12 Velocity ............................................................. 21
Chapter 4
Scene Basics .......................... 22
Tip 13 Switching Scenes .............................................. 22
Tip 14 Morphing........................................................... 22
Chapter 5
Effects....................................23
Tip 15 What is an Effect? ............................................. 23
Tip 16 Playing with the Effects .................................... 24
Tip 17 Distortion........................................................... 26
Chapter 6
Filter (VCF) ..............................27
Tip 18 Cutoff and Resonance ....................................... 27
Tip 19 Wild, wild filter sweeps — VCF Types............ 28
Tip 20 FEG Depth ........................................................ 30
Chapter 7
Nuts and Bolts ........................ 31
Tip 21 Show Value ....................................................... 31
Tip 22 Original Value ................................................... 32
Tip 23 Panic! (or “Uh-oh...What do I do now?”) ......... 33
Tip 24 Factory Reset..................................................... 34
Chapter 8
Pattern Playback.................... 35
Tip 25 Adjusting the Gate Time....................................35
Tip 26 Transposing the key ...........................................36
Tip 27 Swing .................................................................37
Tip 28 Muting tracks .....................................................37
Tip 29 Muting notes during playback ...........................38
Tip 30 Mixer controls — Pan and Volume ...................39
Tip 31 Assigning Patterns to the keyboard buttons.......40
Chapter 9
LFO Modulation ........................41
Tip 32 Modulating the volume......................................41
Tip 33 Modulating the Filter .........................................42
Tip 34 Modulating the pitch..........................................43
Tip 35 Changing the LFO wave ....................................44
Chapter 10
EG Basics ............................... 46
Tip 36 Shaping the sound with EG ...............................46
Tip 37 Using EG to control the Filter (FEG) ................49
Tip 38 More about FEG Depth......................................50
Tip 39 Going negative — with FEG Depth ..................51
Chapter 11
Advanced Sound Shaping
Controls ................................. 52
Tip 40 Portamento — the famous gliding pitch effect. .52
Tip 41 Selecting the Algorithm .....................................53
Tip 42 Shifting Harmonics ............................................54
Tip 43 Mellow or metallic — FM Depth ......................55
Tip 44 Controlling the FM Decay .................................56
Tip 45 Noise Level ........................................................56
Tip 46 All kinds of noise...............................................57
Tip 47 Fat, phatter and phattest!....................................58
Tip 48 Creating your own original Scenes —
and saving them .........................................59
Chapter 12
Free EG................................... 60
Tip 49 Free EG ..............................................................60
Tip 50 Changing the Length of your Free EG tracks ....62
Chapter 13
Pattern Power Tips................. 63
Tip 51 Hit the top of the Pattern! ..................................63
Tip 52 Shake, Retrigger, and Roll!................................64
Tip 53 Selecting a Voice (Copy Voice) ........................65
Tip 54 Starting a Pattern on a different note .................65
Tip 55 Transposing the pitch of a Pattern .....................66
Tip 56 Copying a Pattern (Sequence)............................67
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