Keyboard Track
Track 1 becomes the
keyboard track when
the cursor is located at
the “Pat”, “Chd”, or “Tmp”
track.
When the cursor is located at a specific track number/mute button (the track
number is inverted), that track becomes the QY300 “keyboard track” — i.e.
the track played by the micro-keyboard. The keyboard track setting is main-
tained even if the cursor is moved to other parameters on the display. The
current keyboard track setting determines which internal tone generator chan-
nel will be played by the micro-keyboard, and via which MIDI channel the
note data corrresponding to what is played on the micro-keyboard will be
output — according to the channel assignments made in the Output Select
display page 18).
Voices, Assignment & Effects
The QY300 has 128 voices and 8 drum kits that can be selected, played, and
assigned to the 16 SONG mode sequencer tracks via the voice display. The
voice mode also features a graphic on-screen “mixer” that has pan pots and
faders for each tone-generator channel as well as reverb, tuning, and pitch
bend range controls (tone generator channel to sequencer track assignments are
described in the “Channel Assignments” section, page 18).
Press the
[F3]
function key (“Voice”) to select the voice mode and then, if
necessary, press
[F1]
(“Mixer”) to select the mixer display.
•
Press the [F6] function
key (“Exit”) from any
of the voice-mode
displays to return to the normal
SONG mode display.
• The master (“M”) fader also af-
fects the pattern tracks —
page 65.
Try Out the Voices
•
In any QY300 mode, the
micro keyboard plays
the voice assigned to the
currently selected track. A MIDI key-
board connected to the MIDI IN con-
nector, however, will only play the
voice assigned to the track that is set
to receive on the MIDI channel that
the external keyboard is transmitting
on. MIDI track assignments are dis-
cussed on page 18.
• To conform to General MIDI proto-
col, only the drum voices can be
assigned to track 10.
Move the cursor to the channel-1 voice parameter immediately below “1” on
the display (as in the display shown above). Note that the name of the voice
currently assigned to channel 1 appears in the upper right corner of the display,
while an abbreviation indication the voice category appears at the voice
parameter location (the voices and their category abbreviations are listed on
page 2 of the separate “VOICE LISTS AND MIDI DATA” booklet). Play the
micro keyboard and you’ll hear that voice. Use any of the QY300’s data entry
methods to select and try out the various voices.
DATA” booklet
•
See the “VOICE LISTS AND MIDI
complete list of note assignments
(i.e. which drum instruments are as-
signed to which notes) for all 8
drum kits.
page 3) for a
If you’re playing the micro
keyboard, use the octave
keys to access the full range
of instruments in each drum kit.
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