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ZONE Templates 

The Motif ES gives you 3 templates for setting up 
ZONE configurations. To use these templates from 

MASTER mode, you would press [JOB]/ [F1] INIT. 

Uncheck the box that says ALL and highlight the 

box that says ZONE. Press [YES] to check it. You 
can select a SPLIT (2 Zones will be activated with 

a default split point at C3), 4-ZONE  (all  four  will 

be activated) and LAYER (2 Zones will be 
activated across the MIDI key range). Select a 

template, set MIDI channels (for Split or Layer) 

and press [ENTER]/ [YES] to execute. 
 

 

 

 

 

Initializing with the 4-Zone routine will create a 

Note Limit arrangement dividing the keyboard into 
4 discreet Zones. You can, however, divide it in 

any manner that you need including overlapping 

Zones. 
 

 

 

KNOBS and SLIDERS 

In MASTER/ EDIT/ COMMON/ F2 Other you can 
set up how the Knobs and Sliders behave per 

Master setup. You can select between PAN, TONE, 

ASSIGN, PART EQ, MASTER EFFECTS, ARP FX and 
ZONE. What this refers to is how the KNOB 

CONTROL FUNCTION is set when the MASTER 

setup is recalled. If you select PAN, for example, 

the LED at the top of the Knob Control Function 
will illuminate and you will have access to KN1 = 

Pan, KN2 = Reverb Send, KN3 = Chorus Send, 

KN4 = Tempo. If you select TONE then the four 
knobs will be Cutoff, Resonance, Attack and 

Release. If you select ASSIGN the knobs will be 

Assign A, Assign B, Assign 1 and Assign 2 
(recalling  what  they  were  programmed  to  do  in 

the original Voice or Performance that is 

associated). If you select PART EQ the bottom LED 

will illuminate and you will have access to the gain 
control for the e-band PART EQ (KN 1, 2 and 4). If 

MASTER EFFECT (MEF) is selected you will have 

access to the pre-determined control functions. If 
ARP FX is selected you will have control over the 

Swing, Gate time, Velocity and Unit Multiply 

parameters of the assigned Arpeggios. If your 
MASTER is a “Zoned” setup you will probably want 

to select ZONE (all LEDs go out).  

 

 

 
This will make the settings you make per each 

Zone, active. Use Track buttons [1]-[4] to view 

individual Zone parameters. The default 
assignment when you select ZONE is for PAN (10) 

for the KNOBS and Volume (7) for the CONTROL 

SLIDERS. KN1 is Pan for Zone 1, KN2 is Pan for 

Zone 2, KN3 is Pan for Zone 3, and KN4 is Pan for 
Zone 4. Each Slider 1-4 is the Volume for the 

Zone 1-4. You can set the KNOBS per Zone to any 

MIDI control change message between 1-95 
(except 32), per MASTER setup. Likewise, the 

Sliders can be programmed per MASTER setup, 

per Zone to any control change number from 1-95 
when “ZONE” is selected as the Control Function 

option.  

 

There is a difference between the normal VOLUME 
assignment of the Control Sliders and when the 

ZONE assignment is set to control VOLUME. Let’s 

assume a VOICE MEMORY is associated with a 
MASTER, if the “VOLUME” LED is illuminated, the 

SLIDERS assignment will be controlling the 

internal Voice’s Element Volumes – as they do in 
Voice mode. If you select ZONE as the assignment 

(all the LEDs will go OUT), then the Sliders will be 

controlling the Volume of the entire Voice 

assigned to that ZONE.  
 

You can always see an overview of your MASTER 

setup by pressing the INFORMATION button while 
in Master Play mode.  

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Press [Master]/ [F1] Play/ [INFORMATION]. 

 

 

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Summary of Contents for MOTIF ES series

Page 1: ...Therefore a good use of the Master setups is organizing your favorite things to do with the Motif ES into one Bank called the MASTER Bank Rather than jumping back and forth between modes organize things in one Bank to rule them all You can then easily access setups via a Foot Switch The programmable FS assigned to cc99 will increment you through the Master setups A second use for Master setups is ...

Page 2: ...y of the Voice A Voice occupies a single MIDI channel and in Voice mode only one Voice can be recalled at a time There are 6 banks of 128 Preset Voices 256 User Voices in 2 banks 128 Normal General MIDI Voices 64 Preset Drum Kits 32 User Drum Kits and a GM Drum Kit 1 Rule 2 A Performance is a combination of up to four Voices Each Performance has a reverb a chorus effect processor and each of the a...

Page 3: ...3 1 64 PLGPRE2slot2 063 074 1 64 PLGPRE3slot2 063 075 1 64 PLGPRE1slot3 063 076 1 64 PLGPRE2slot3 063 077 1 64 PLGPRE3slot3 063 078 1 64 User Sample Voice can be recalled if the associated MEMORY is the Song or Pattern MIX containing the audio data Mix Voice can be recalled if you are within the Song or Pattern Mix it was created for The PLG150 VL is currently the only board with the additional tw...

Page 4: ... MIDI CONTROLLER in a large setup Now all of your settings will be determined by your MASTER configurations Setting the MIDI channel transmit to OFF will mean that you will play only the internal Motif ES sounds when you are in Voice mode or Performance mode however when you activate the MASTER MODE you can be transmitting on the MIDI channels as defined by the current Master settings This is a us...

Page 5: ...ank TG ON and PC TG ON for ZONE 1 This will enable us to send a Bank Select Program Change to the internal Motif ES tone generator when the MASTER is recalled Nothing is sent right now the actual value is sent when you recall the MASTER You will see the change when you STORE this MASTER setup Also if you cursor down you will see switches for your various controllers per Zone See screen shot below ...

Page 6: ...nd will be found by pressing MASTER EDIT COMMON F1 NAME This tip will work anytime your principal sound in this case a Motif ES Voice and your Zone controlled sound is also a Motif ES Voice It will work if your associated sound is a Performance and your Zone controlled sound is also a Motif ES Performance In other words you cannot use this trick to switch from an associated Voice to a Zone selecte...

Page 7: ...ill illuminate and you will have access to the gain control for the e band PART EQ KN 1 2 and 4 If MASTER EFFECT MEF is selected you will have access to the pre determined control functions If ARP FX is selected you will have control over the Swing Gate time Velocity and Unit Multiply parameters of the assigned Arpeggios If your MASTER is a Zoned setup you will probably want to select ZONE all LED...

Page 8: ...set to transmit on MIDI channel 16 communicates with PART 16 of the Motif ES s MIX At the same time you can independently be transmitting via a ZONE MASTER to 4 separate PARTS when you play the Motif ES s keyboard let s say on channels 1 4 If you send Program Changes from your external keyboard on any unused MIDI channel 5 16 you can select and change the sounds in the Motif ES s MIX remotely If t...

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