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Voice Mode

MOTIF-RACK XS Owner’s Manual

Basic Structure

Voice

MultiUtility

Reference

The Controls &

Connectors

Setting Up

Listening to

the Sound

Connections

Using a Computer

Quick Guide

Appendix

In this section, you’ll learn about the Voice mode, the most basic mode of the MOTIF-RACK XS.

Playing the Voices

In the Voice Play display (the top display of the Voice Mode), you

can select and play a single Voice.

The Voices of the MOTIF-RACK XS are divided into the following

two types:

Normal Voices

Normal Voices are mainly pitched musical instrument-type

sounds (piano, organ, guitar, synthesizer etc.) that can be

played over the range of an external keyboard.

Drum Voices

Drum Voices are mainly percussion/drum sounds that are

assigned to individual notes. These Voices are used to perform

rhythm parts.

The MOTIF-RACK XS features Banks for memorizing Voices.

There are basically three different types of Banks: Preset, User,

and GM.

The contained Voices and features depend on the Bank as

described below.

Preset Banks

The Preset Banks contain a full set of specially programmed

Voices. Voices you've edited yourself cannot be saved in the

Preset Banks.

User Banks

The User Banks contain the Voices you have edited and stored.

These are picked up from Preset Voices by default

n If a Voice in a User Bank (User Voice) is overwritten or replaced, that User

Voice will be lost. When you store an edited Voice, be careful not to

overwrite any important User Voices.

GM Bank

The GM Bank contains the Voices allocated according to the

GM standard.

In the Voice mode, a total of 15 Banks (Preset Bank 1 – 8, User

Bank 1 – 3, GM Bank, Preset Drum Bank, User Drum, GM Drum

Bank) are available. Each of these Banks includes the Voices

according to the Voice type. In the Voice Play display, you can

select the desired Voice from various Voice Banks and play it.

n For details about Voices, refer to “Basic Structure” on page 49. For a list of

available Voices, refer to the Voice List in the separate Data List.

In the following section, we’ll select and play some Voices. The

example below assumes that you have connected an external

MIDI keyboard to the MOTIF-RACK XS.

n Make sure that the MIDI Transmit Channel of the external MIDI keyboard

matches the MIDI Receive Channel of the MOTIF-RACK XS (page 21).

Press the [VOICE] button.

This calls up the Voice Play display. (The [VOICE] button

lamp lights.)

Select a Voice Bank with the Cursor [<]/[>] buttons.

In this condition, playing the external keyboard sounds the

Voice indicated in the display. The parameters shown in

the Voice Play mode are brieﬂy explained below.

Normal Voice Banks

There are 12 different banks for the Normal Voices: PRE 1

– 8 (Preset Banks), GM (GM Bank), USR 1 – 3 (User

Banks)

Drum Voice Banks

There are 3 different banks for the Drum Voices: PDR

(Preset Drum Bank), GMDR (GM Drum Bank), UDR (User

Drum Bank)

n If the “Bank/Part Wrap” (page 99) of the Utility General window is set

to “on,” you can change from the last Bank to the ﬁrst Bank

continuously.

Voice Mode

GM Voices

GM (General MIDI) is a worldwide standard for Voice

organization and MIDI functions of synthesizers and tone

generators. It was designed primarily to ensure that any song

data created with a speciﬁc GM device would sound virtually the

same on any other GM device—no matter the manufacturer or

the model. The GM Voice bank on this tone generator is

designed to appropriately play back GM song data. However,

keep in mind that the sound may not be exactly the same as

played by the original tone generator.

Selecting a Voice

Voice Play display

Main Category

Bank

Program number

Sub Category

Voice name

Indicates status of corresponding

effect. (Not shown when effect is off.)

Indicates status of Arpeggio function

(page 66). (Not shown when Arpeggio

is off.)

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