Yamaha P200- Manuals

(1)-2 PRECAUTIONS PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING * Please keep these precautions in a safe place for future reference. WARNING Always follow the basic precautions listed below to avoid the possibility of serious injury or even death from electrical shock, short-circuiting, damages, fire or ...

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8 MIDI FILTE SYSTEM PIANO 1 PIANO 2 VOICE PERF. B PERF. A EDIT STORE 1 2 PAGE DETUNE TRANSPOSE BALANCE SPLIT +1/YES -1/NO MIDI PS 2 PS 1 CONTRAST C3 CS DATA ENTRY VOLUME MAX MIN MODULATION PITCH POWER ON/ OFF OUTMIDI IN THRU A B ! # " ! [PHONES] jack This jack on the front panel lets you connect...

SPEAKERON OFF INPUT R L/MONO R L/MONO OUTPUT SUSTAIN SOSTENUTO SOFT FOOT CONTROLLER THRU MIDIOUT IN 13 ! [SPEAKER] switch This switch lets you turn off the P-200’s internal speakers. It doesnot affect the output from the [OUTPUT] jacks or the [PHONES]jack. " [INPUT] jacks These jacks let you inp...

14 ■ Voice Play and Performance Play Modes The P-200 has two basic Play modes, Voice Play mode and Performance Playmode. Within each mode are various Voice and Performance parameters, or settingsthat you can change, which make up the sound of the selected voice and thespecific operating status of th...

15 ■ Voice Parameters In Voice Play mode, each of the P-200’s AWM instrument voices have a set of Voiceparameters that are initially set at the factory, but which you can change to suit yourneeds. These include controller parameters such as pitch bend range and modulation wheelassignment, keyboard s...

16 ■ Performance Parameters In Performance Play mode, the P-200 has 24 sets of Performance parameters whichlet you configure settings for specific music situations (i.e., for a certain style ofmusic, or a particular song, or for a practice session, or a live set, etc.). This affordsyou the convenien...

17 Descriptions of all parameters anddetails about how to access andmanipulate them are provided in theappropriate sections herein. Also seethe Blank Chart on page 78. ■ System Settings The P-200’s overall System settings encompass those “global” parameters which arerelated to the instrument as a wh...

18 GETTING STARTED This section explains how to set up the P-200 and the proper procedure for turning it on, playing the preprogrammed Demo songs, and basic voice selection. ■ Setting up the P-200 Although setting up the P-200 for basic play is easy and straightforward, be sure totake heed of the Pr...

20 5. Connect MIDI devices. If you wish to connect the P-200 to external MIDI devices such as a rhythmprogrammer, tone generator or synthesizer, you will need special MIDI cableswhich plug into the [MIDI] jacks on the rear panel. First, however, you mustdetermine a MIDI system configuration, based o...

21 ■ Playing the Demo Songs After setting up the P-200 and turning on the power — and before you begin exploringthe instrument’s various features — you may want to listen to the various Demo songs,which have been specially programmed to demonstrate the exceptional sound andperformance capabilities o...

22 You can assign a specific effect to the[MODULATION] wheel in Edit mode(see page 58) which is completelyunrelated to the modulation effectsavailable by pressing the[MODULATION] button (see page 27)once or more. Note that when thevibrato effect is assigned to the[MODULATION] wheel, you cannotapply ...

23 ENTERING AND EXITING VOICE PLAY MODE 1. Press the [VOICE] button. When you press the [VOICE] button while the P-200 is in Performance Playmode, the LED above the [VOICE] button starts blinking, indicating that VoicePlay mode is standing by waiting to be activated. 2. Press a [VOICE SELECT] button...

24 ■ Single Mode When the P-200 is in Single mode, you can select and play any one of the 12 voicesover the full range of the keyboard. You can also apply and adjust reverb andmodulation effects, and adjust the graphic equalizer settings. In Single mode, the LED above the currently selected [VOICE S...

25 Once you have modified certainparameters in Voice Play orPerformance Play mode, $ (Quick Edit) will display in the upper rightcorner to remind you that you havemodified the original settings.Parameters include the following: reverb and modulation setting,stereo/mono setting for Piano1 andPiano2, ...

26 NOTE As you play the keyboard, you will hear the Electric Bass voice. To change back to the UPRIGHT BASS voice, simply press and hold [BASS]for a few moments again. The UPRIGHT BASS screen briefly appears. ■ Reverb Effects The P-200’s internal DSP digital signal processor generates three types of...

27 CHANGING REVERB DEPTH 1. Hold the [REVERB] button and move the [DATA ENTRY] slider (or press[–1/NO] or [+1/YES]). As soon as you move the [DATA ENTRY] slider (or press [–1/NO] or [+1/YES])the REVERB DEPTH screen appears. If you move the [DATA ENTRY] slider upward, the depth level increases; if yo...

28 A different modulation type and speedcan be selected for each voice. Whenyou play two voices in either Dual orSplit mode, the P-200 will apply themain voice modulation type and speedsetting to both voices, and ignore anysettings which you may have made forthe sub voice. For more informationabout ...

29 ADJUSTING THE EQUALIZATION Move an [EQUALIZER] slider up or down. Move either the [LOW], [MIDDLE] or [HIGH] slider upward to increase the level ofoutput for that range, or move it downward to decrease the level of output for thatrange. The graph below shows how the equalizer modifies the sound ou...

30 NOTE ■ Dual Mode When the P-200 is in Dual mode, you can play two voices at the same time—a mainvoice and a sub voice—over the full range of the keyboard. For example, you canblend electric piano and strings sounds together to add depth and texture to amelody line. You can adjust the volume balan...

31 NOTE ADJUSTING THE BALANCE OF THE DUAL VOICES 1. Hold the [BALANCE] button and move the [DATA ENTRY] slider. As you move the [DATA ENTRY] slider, the DUAL BALANCE screen appears. Moving the slider upwards increases the level of the main voice whiledecreasing the level of the sub voice. Conversely...

32 As you move the [DATA ENTRY] slider, the DUAL DETUNE screen appears. You can set the detune to any value between 0 (no detuning) and 7 (maximumdetuning). Moving the slider upwards increases the detune value. Conversely,moving the slider downwards decreases the detune value. DUAL DETUNE $ 4 ^ 2. R...

33 If you enter Split mode directly fromDual mode, and then choose theOrgan 1 voice as the main voice, whenyou press the [SPLIT] button to exitSplit mode, the P-200 willautomatically switch to Single mode. In Split mode, the [PITCH] and[MODULATION] wheels, as well as thesustain, soft and sostenuto p...

34 SELECTING SPLIT VOICES 1. Main Voice: Press a [VOICE SELECT] button. When you press the [SPLIT] button to enter Split mode, the voice you wereplaying in Single mode (or the main voice you were playing in Dual mode) willbe assigned by default to the main keyboard area. To change the main voice, si...

35 NOTE Moving the slider upwards increases the level of the main voice while decreasing thelevel of the sub voice. Conversely, moving the slider downwards increases the levelof the sub voice while decreasing the level of the main voice. You can set the balanceto any value between -16 and 15. Two in...

36 NOTE 2. Release the [SPLIT] button. After a moment, the Split voice names will reappear in the screen. The split point will remain where you set it until you change it again, even if youexit and reenter Split mode. As you change the split point you can specify whether the main voice will playabov...

37 ■ Transpose The P-200 has a multi-faceted transpose feature that lets you transpose the pitch atthe touch of a button while you play. The P-200 has four independent transpose paths, which let you set transpose valuesfor the internal main voice as well as the sub voice, and which also let you sett...

38 As you play in Split mode, the pitch of both voices will transpose according tomain and sub voice settings when you press the [TRANSPOSE] button. Youcan play two-handed duets with different instruments by transposing the subvoice up or down two octaves to match the pitch range of the main voice. ...

40 ■ MIDI Transmit Enable You can enable or disable MIDI transmission by pressing the [MIDI] button. The LEDabove the [MIDI] button remains lit while this function is enabled. It will not block the reception of data from the [MIDI IN] jack. Note that you cannot enable transmission if the [MIDI] butt...

41 ■ MIDI Panic Although MIDI is very reliable, it is in fact so sophisticated that it is not without itsoccasional faults. For example, sometimes a connected tone generator orsynthesizer responds to a Note On message, but not a Note Off message, thuscausing a note to get stuck, which can be quite f...

42 USING THE PANEL SWITCH LOCK FUNCTION From the Voice Play mode or the Performance Play mode, double-click thedesired [VOICE SELECT] button. (Refer to "About Panel Switch Lock" belowfor details.) The following screen appears when Panel Switch Lock is activated. To cancel the lock function, ...

45 PERFORMANCE PLAY MODE Within Performance Play mode you can select and play any one of the 24 Performances, make changes in a Performance, or store the settings of one Performance into another Performance bank and number. Following is an overview of how to enter and exit Performance Play mode, how...

46 NOTE SELECTING A PERFORMANCE Press a [PERFORMANCE SELECT] button. Pressing any of the 12 [PERFORMANCE SELECT] buttons will access a Performancein the currently selected Performance bank. The name of the Performance appears inthe LCD screen. The P-200 comes with 24 Preset Performances designed for...

49 EDIT MODE From within either Voice Play mode or Performance Play mode you can enter Edit mode and make changes to a wide variety of System, MIDI and other variable parameters. When the P-200 is in Edit mode, the LED above the [EDIT] button blinks, as does the LED above the currently selected [EDI...

50 SELECTING AN EDIT FUNCTION Press an [EDIT SELECT] button. The LED above the button you press starts blinking, and thename of the currently active parameter page appears in theLCD screen. SELECTING EDIT FUNCTION PAGES Press the [PAGE] button once or more. Each time you press the [PAGE] button a pa...

51 ● ACTIVE When the Active setting is selected, the P-200’s on-board reverbeffects will function as normal. ● BYPASS When the Bypass setting is selected, the P-200’s on-board reverbeffects will be disengaged. DEVICE NUMBER The Device Number function lets you match the MIDI devicenumber with the dev...

52 PERFORMANCE ENABLE The Performance Enable function lets you switch betweenSystem (“Sys”) settings and Performance (“Perf”) settings forMIDI channel assignments, local on/off status and controllerassignments. This function lets you apply the System settingsdesignated in Voice Play mode to all of t...

53 ■ Program Change (PC) Table The Program Change Table function lets you assign programchange numbers to incoming and outgoing program changemessages. PROGRAM CHANGE TRANSMIT The Program Change Transmit function lets you assignprogram change transmit numbers to each voice orPerformance. You can als...

54 ● MSB/LSB (Off, 0 ~ 127) This parameter lets you designate the MSB/LSB bank selectnumber. When set to Off (default), the P-200 will not transmit thebank select number. Pressing the [ - 1/NO] button lets you select Off for MSB/LSB and Program Change Number. When Off is selected for MSB, LSB will a...

55 ● TRANSMIT CHANNEL Main/Sub (Off, 1 ~ 16) This determines the MIDI channel over which MIDI data is sent.For the Split mode, the main and sub voices can be set toseparate channels. For the Single and Dual modes, all MIDI datais sent over the specified Main channel (the Sub channel settingdoes not ...

56 INTERNAL CONTROL Off No function assigned Reverb Depth Controls the reverb depth level Mod. Speed Controls the modulation speed level Total Volume Controls the P-200’s overall volume Main Volume Controls the main voice volume Sub Volume Controls the sub voice volume MIDI CONTROL CHANGE MESSAGES M...

57 ■ Panel Switch (PS) The Panel Switch function lets you assign a function to each ofthe two Panel Switches for realtime control of an external MIDIsequencer. This gives you the flexibility to send Start, Stop or Continuecommands to external devices like sequencers and rhythmprogrammers from the P-...

58 The right-most parameter, Attack mode, determines which notesin a held cluster of notes are given an attack sound. With the ì (first) setting, only the first note played will have an attack; all othernotes played while the first note is held will have no attack. Withthe í (Each) setting, all note...

59 Velocity Curves The P-200 has 10 different types of sensitivity settings for bothinternal voices and external MIDI instruments, organized in fourcategories: Normal, Soft-1~3, Hard-1~3, and Fixed-1~3. These give you wide and flexible control over how the strengthof your playing affects the volume ...

60 STORE The P-200 has versatile and handy store and copy functions. In Edit mode you can designate whether the changes you make in Voice Play mode and Performance Play mode will be stored automatically as you make them (Auto Store), or will only be stored permanently after you perform a specific st...

62 APPENDIX ■ Bulk Dump The Bulk Dump feature lets you offload parameter settings bysending it to an external MIDI data storage device (such as theYamaha MDF3 MIDI Data Filer), as well as load it back into theP-200 by receiving it from an external storage device.This gives you the luxury of being ab...

63 ■ Initialize The Initialize feature lets you restore the initial factory defaultsettings with a quick and simple operation.Before initializing the settings, make sure to first offload anydata that you want to save using the Bulk Dump operation.Otherwise, the Voice and Performance data you have cr...

64 System messages also come in a number of varieties.SYSTEM REALTIME messages are used to start, stop andsynchronize the sequencing devices in a MIDI system.SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE messages allows for the transmission ofdata specific to individual devices. This data can be eitherindividual parameter setti...

66 Besides eliminating the possibility of MIDI delays, a MIDI patchbay is essential in a larger setup where you frequently need toperform bulk dump and other operations with specific devices,and don’t want to waste time plugging and unplugging cablesaccordingly. A MIDI patch bay lets you instantly r...

67 ■ Error Messages Occasionally you may encounter certain error messages which appear in the LCD screen. Below is a list with descriptions of each. The internal backup battery charge is low and the battery should be replaced. (See page 6.) Too much MIDI data is being received at once. Reception of ...

68 ■ Troubleshooting The P-200 is a rather sophisticated electronic instrument with many parameter settings which affect its operation status. As such,occasionally you may find that it does not function as you think it should.If this happens, before rushing the P-200 to the service center, carefully...

70 ■ Specifications Keyboard 88-key (A-1 to C7), velocity sensitive, Graded Hammer Effect keyboard Tone Generator AWM; 64-note maximum polyphony Voices PIANO 1 ~ 2 (STEREO/MONO); PIANO 3 ~ 4; ELECTRIC PIANO 1 ~ 3; VIBES; ORGAN 1 ~ 2; STRINGS; BASS (UPRIGHT/ELECTRIC) Play Modes Voice Play mode; Perfo...

71 N Name (Performance) .............................................................57 O Organ Combination ..............................................................57 P Panel Switch (PS) .................................................................57Panel Switch Lock .........................

72 MIDI CHANNEL LOCAL ON/OFF ASSIGN PC SEND OTHERS Note On/Off Control Change Program Change Aftertouch Pitch Bend Change Channel Mode Message Parameter Change Bulk FA/FB/FC Note On/Off Control Change Program Change Pitch Bend Change Channel Mode Message Parameter Change Bulk NUMBER BANK LSB BANK MS...

73 PRESET VOICE LIST PITCH BEND MODULATION WHEEL INTERNAL MIDI REVERB MODULATION INTERNAL EQUALIZER CONTROLLERS KBD SENS. EFFECT RANGE ASSIGN TYPE TYPE RANGE MIN RANGE MAX TYPE DEPTH TYPE SPEED LOW MID HIGH Piano 1 2 mod.speed normal normal 1 128 hall 1 off 2 +8 0 -4 Piano 2 2 mod.speed normal norma...

74 MAIN SUB 16' 8' 5-1/3' 4' 2-2/3' 2' 1-1/3' 1' RESPONSE 4' 2-2/3' 2' LENGTH EACH/FIRST MAIN SUB MAIN SUB ASSIGN ASSIGN ASSIGN RANGE MIN RANGE MAX ASSIGN RANGE MIN RANGE MAX HOLD ATTACK ENABLE SWITCH INTERNAL MIDI TX CHANNEL RX CHANNEL PS1 PS2 CS FC PLAY MODE VOICE PIANO 1 STEREO/MONO PIANO 2 STERE...

78 MIDI CHANNEL LOCAL ON/OFF ASSIGN PC SEND OTHERS Note On/Off Control Change Program Change Aftertouch Pitch Bend Change Channel Mode Message Parameter Change Bulk FA/FB/FC Note On/Off Control Change Program Change Pitch Bend Change Channel Mode Message Parameter Change Bulk NUMBER BANK LSB BANK MS...

80 2. MIDI TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION 2.1 MIDI Transmission Condition ■ MIDI DATA FORMAT 1. MIDI DATA FLOW 2.2 MIDI Reception Conditions MIDI SW MERGE INTERNAL VELOCITY CURVE KEYBOARD MIDI VELOCITY CURVE KBD OFFSET Min/Max MIDI TRANSPOSE INTERNAL TRANSPOSE Tx FILTER Rx FILTER LOCAL MIDI IN MIDI OUT P-20...

82 RX Program Change No. 13 14 35 36 Voice Perf. A01 Perf. A02 Perf. B11 Perf. B12 * Any Bank Select message is ignored. 3.2.4 Aftertouch Aftertouch is not received. 3.2.5 Pitch Bend Only the MSB of the Pitch Bend is received. 3.2.6 Channel Mode Channel Mode messages are received. Value 00H 00H 00H ...

84 6. PARAMETER CHANGE TABLE 6.1 System Setup F0H, 43H, 1nH, 2AH, 20H, 00H, 00H, N2H, 00H, V2H, F7Hn : Device Number N2H : Parameter NumberV2H : Parameter Value 2 N2 data name V2 (data range) note 0 00 MTUNE -64 – +63 (o/b) Master Tuning 1 01 MENABSW off/on MIDI Tx Enable SW 2 02 MREVSW bypass/activ...