Yamaha MX61, Reference Manual

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Contents
Using the MX49/MX61 Manuals 2
Basic Structure 3
Structure of the MX49/MX61 .......................................3
Controller Block...........................................................3
Keyboard.................................................................................. 3
Pitch Bend wheel ..................................................................... 3
Modulation wheel ..................................................................... 4
Knobs ....................................................................................... 4
Tone Generator Block .................................................5
AWM2 (Advanced Wave Memory 2) ........................................ 5
Voices....................................................................................... 5
Memory structure of the Voices ............................................... 8
Performances ........................................................................... 9
Performance memory structure.............................................. 10
Editing a Performance and the Voices................................... 10
Effect Block ................................................................11
Effect structure ....................................................................... 11
Effect connections and settings ............................................. 12
Arpeggio Block ..........................................................13
Arpeggio categories .............................................................. 13
About the Arpeggio type list .................................................. 14
Arpeggio playback types ....................................................... 14
Relation between played notes and Arpeggio types ............. 15
Song/Pattern Playing Block......................................16
Rhythm Pattern ....................................................................... 16
Song ....................................................................................... 16
Internal Memory .........................................................17
Internal memory of the MX49/MX61 ....................................... 17
MIDI/Audio Signal Flow .............................................18
Using a Connected Computer 19
Connecting to a computer ........................................ 19
Creating a Song with a computer............................. 22
Recording your performance on the MX49/MX61 to DAW
software as MIDI data.............................................................22
Recording your performance on the MX49/MX61 to DAW
software as audio data ...........................................................27
Recording Arpeggio phrases of the MX49/MX61 to DAW
software as MIDI data.............................................................28
Remote-controlling DAW software or VSTi (software instruments)
from the MX49/MX61 ..............................................................31
Remote Control Assignments .................................................35
Using iOS Applications 39
Reference 40
Performance............................................................... 40
Performance Play....................................................................40
Performance Select ................................................................41
Performance Part Select .........................................................41
Performance Edit ....................................................................43
Performance Job ....................................................................54
Performance Store ..................................................................56
Supplementary Information.....................................................56
Song/Pattern settings................................................ 58
Song........................................................................................58
Pattern.....................................................................................59
File............................................................................... 60
Terminology in the File operation............................................60
File display..............................................................................61
Utility........................................................................... 64
Utility Job ................................................................................68
Remote mode ............................................................. 70
Remote display .......................................................................70
Switching the functions for Knobs [A] – [D]............................71
Switching the Control Template..............................................71
Utility settings..........................................................................71
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