And in a similar fashion to before, you would need
to set the initial level of the Element(s) that you
are controlling to zero (bias its level to the MW).
Instead of “Total Voice Volume” we are looking for
the level of this particular Element. This is found
on the Element Amplitude page: Return to
Element Level editing by pressing program button
[2] (Element 2 Select)
Then press [F4]:Amp/ [SF1]:Lvl/Pan
Set EL2 Level to 0
When you set Element 2’s Level to 0, it is biased
to the MW. This is a very flexible arrangement.
You can expand upon it and dream up your own
configurations. For example, you could take
Control Set 2 and program it to control just
Element 1 with the same Mod Wheel but set the
ELM–Lvl DEPTH to –64. Now when you move the
wheel it will fade out one sound and fade in the
other.
Notice you did not have to set the Element Level
for Element 1 to 0. This is because if you did and
then applied a minus value to it…this would be
illogical…because levels below 0 are still inaudible.
Experiment.
A similar scenario occurs when you assign a Voice
to Breath Control. You want the Voice to only pay
attention to (be biased to) input from the Breath
Controller (cc #002). In such a case you may
want to reduce the overall volume of the Voice to
0 or the element level to 0. Which one you use
will depend on what it is you are trying to
accomplish. This way the volume will be entirely
determined by the amount of breath pressure
applied to the BC3. Note-ons
do not
turn the
sound on alone. They must be accompanied by a
burst of breath (air) pressure (cc #002) applied to
the mouthpiece.
Note:
It must be stated here that Breath Control works
best of all on VL physical modeled voices (optional
PLG150-VL board). The Virtual Acoustic technology is
meant to respond perfectly with breath control input. In
the technology there is an acoustically accurate change
in timbre, pitch and amplitude in response to BC
‘pressure’ control. The sound of VL will mimic the
‘behavior’ of acoustic instruments. When controlling
non-VL type voices you might try assigning breath
control (BC) to vary the cutoff frequency of the filter. In
such a case you may want to program the initial value of
the filter to something other than zero – set to taste.
This would require you to go into the Voice element level
and set the cutoff frequency of the filter for each
element you want to control. Each element can have a
different filter type and cutoff/resonance. Each element
that you add can have its own filter and filter settings.
Note 2:
When using Breath Control on sampled-based
Voices you may find it easier to just reassign the BC to
Expression. Here’s how: from Voice mode press
[UTILITY]/ [F3]:VOICE/ [SF3]:CtlAsn and set BC = 11
Expression. This will allow you to immediately control
any internal sound with BC - without any further
programming.
FOOT PEDALS
The same scenario holds true for controlling
volume with an optional Yamaha FC7 (sweep
control pedal) plugged into the
Foot Control
jack
(FC2). Foot Control (cc #004) can be assigned to
control many different parameters within a synth
voice. (Not to be confused with Foot Volume (cc
#007) which always controls MIDI Channel
Volume). There is always some confusion here
because they both use the same FC7 pedal –
however, the function can be quite different. One
key difference is that if you use cc007 every thing
connected to that MIDI channel will be controlled
the same. If you use the assignable Foot Control
cc004 you can choose the destination parameter
for the foot pedal and it will only affect the S90 ES
and only the Elements of the S90 ES sound that
you designate.
Foot Control (cc004) can be assigned to control
the internal volume of the S90 ES in a similar
fashion to how we did the MW experiment. Simply
follow the same steps we did with the MW, above,
to assign the Foot Controller (FC04) to be the
Source and set volume as the (DEST) destination.
When you set the Volume to 0 you will have
biased total volume to the Foot Controller.
Note:
If the parameter to be controlled is set at any
value other than 0, you are, in affect, setting a
minimum value
. In the case of our volume example, this
would be the minimum volume when the controller was
in the heel down position. In some instances you may
wish to set the minimum to a value other than zero as
the stored condition (especially for Live players this is
invaluable). The example above is useful in a scenario
where you want to control the internal S90 ES sound
with a separate foot pedal from what is sent via MIDI.
After any and all Voice edit procedures you should
STORE and then SAVE data (if it is worthy of
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