Controllers can be activated or deactivated per
Zone. Of course, they
can
send cc007 in Master
mode because each Voice can be on a separate
MIDI channel!
What happens when I want to control Voices
in a Performance, independently?
A Performance is literally, up to 4 Voices
addressed together on the same Basic MIDI
Channel. If you want to control one Voice a
certain way and another a different way within the
same Performance you may need to program each
individually back in Voice mode. That is what you
learned about in this article – assignment of
controllers in Voice mode. You now can assign
parameters in a Voice and when you place that
Voice in a Performance all of your controller
routings will apply. This can be very interesting
because a single slider can be doing different
things to different Voices in your Performance…
…which is actually very, very cool. For example,
say you want to control a Performance with three
sounds: STRING/PIANO/FLUTE. And you want to
control the string sound independently with a
FOOT CONTROL pedal. You may need to program
the individual Voice, however, you do have the
option of activating or deactivating a controller for
an individual PART within a Performance. So you
will have to determine if you need to make
adjustments to individual Voices or can you simply
activate or deactivate certain controllers to
accomplish your goal. In a Performance you can
see which Controllers are active per Part:
•
Press [EDIT]
Touch program button [1] to select PART edit
level/
•
Press [F5] RCV SW or Receive Switch.
Here you can set each Part as necessary. An ‘x’
means the Controller is active on this PART.
In general, each Performance is pretty much
autonomous when it comes to control
assignments. In other words BC, Assign1,
Assign2, FC1, and FC2 can be assigned differently
per Performance, as necessary, whereas in Voice
mode the assignment for these was global.
One last tip concerning your controller
assignments: There is a default condition for each
when a Voice or Performance is recalled. This is
affected by the CONTROLLER RESET parameter
which can be set globally:
•
Press [UTILITY]
•
Press [F1] GENERAL
•
Press [SF4] OTHER
This parameter can be set to either RESET or
HOLD. “Hold” will allow each Voice to inherit the
current condition of a controller. For example, if
you have a BC plugged in and the Controller Reset
is set to HOLD, you will not have to blow air into
the BC3 to initialize it each time. Therefore if you
are using a BC3 you want the value to HOLD.
If you use a Foot Controller as your master
Volume level, setting Controller Reset to HOLD
will mean that the next setup you call up will hold
at the current volume of your pedal. This makes
your pedal’s position “live” rather than having it
RESET to a pre-set value. You can choose which
way works best for you.
Cool…enjoy!
Phil Clendeninn
Senior Product Specialist
Technology Products
©Yamaha Corporation of America
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