Yamaha EL-400 - Manual

Yamaha EL-400

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 2 – SPECIAL MESSAGE SECTION; CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF; ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE; CAUTION
  • Page 3 – PRECAUTIONS; PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING
  • Page 4 – You are the proud owner of a fine electronic organ, Electone EL-400.; Included Items; Owner’s Manual
  • Page 5 – Table of Contents
  • Page 6 – Panel Layout
  • Page 8 – LCD Display/Display Select; Others
  • Page 9 – Main Features; Wide Variety of High Quality Effects
  • Page 10 – Quick Introductory Guide; Getting Started; Plug the power cord in to an appropriate electrical outlet.; after the other on the LCD display:
  • Page 11 – MASTER VOLUME; Basic Registrations; and each specially suited for playing in a different music style.; To select Basic Registrations:
  • Page 12 – Playing Electone; Music Disk Recorder; Basic Operation
  • Page 13 – LCD DISPLAY; Selecting a voice/rhythm; Press the panel voice/rhythm button which you want to use (For; The first letter of the selected voice/rhythm will start blinking.
  • Page 14 – Function of the Data Control Buttons; Using Page Buttons
  • Page 15 – To call up the LCD display; Summary of the LCD Operation
  • Page 16 – Language on the LCD; LCD display can be shown in two languages, English and Japanese.; How to select the language:; Press the VOICE DISPLAY button in the DISPLAY SELECT section.; Press the PAGE button to select the page 3.; ”English; right ones select English and the left ones select Japanese.; ’English
  • Page 17 – Voice Sections; Voice Display; You can visually confirm the voice assignments to each keyboard.; using the Page buttons.
  • Page 18 – Selecting Voices from the Panel; Select a voice from the Upper Keyboard Voice 1 section by pressing; If, for example, you have selected the ORGAN voice, the following; These are variations of the basic organ voice category.
  • Page 20 – To adjust the volume balance:
  • Page 21 – Selecting Voices from the; The EL-400 has a wide variety of voices from which you can choose – far; The dotted buttons have three basic uses:
  • Page 22 – To select voices from the dotted buttons:
  • Page 23 – To select User voices:; Select the User page in the same way mentioned above.; here and choose the desired user number.; Voice Menus; Dotted buttons are shown on pages 25 - 27.
  • Page 25 – Details on All Voices
  • Page 28 – Voice Controls and Effects; Voice Controls and Effects.; Selecting from Voice Condition Pages
  • Page 29 – Selecting from Voice; To call up the Voice Condition Pages:; Voice Condition Choose a voice on page appears on the LCD display.; Pedalboard; Touch Tone; dynamic and tonal changes of actual instruments.; INITIAL Touch; Controls volume and timbre according to the velocity at which you
  • Page 30 – AFTER Touch; Feet; Volume
  • Page 31 – Effect
  • Page 32 – Press the Page buttons to select PAGE 4.; Vibrato; of the voices have already got vibrato effect.; increase the delay of the vibrato onset.; Depth; settings result in a more pronounced vibrato.; Speed
  • Page 33 – Î fi; Tune; Slide Time; Selecting from Effect Set; To call up the Effect Set page:
  • Page 34 – Selecting Voice Group; ”SYMPHONIC ’CELESTE; Symphonic
  • Page 35 – sound. Independently applied to each voice section.; Parameter Settings; Available parameters are as follows:; Time; Determines the time between delayed repeats.; Feedback; Determines the number of delayed repeats.
  • Page 36 – Balance; sound. Higher settings produce a louder delay.; Mode; an image sounds move from right to left, or left to right.; Characteristics of Each Delay Type; Monaural; Normal monaural delay.
  • Page 37 – Flanger
  • Page 38 – Distortion; Independently applied to each voice section.; parameters. Available parameters are as follows:; Level; Determines the depth of the distorted sounds.; Hi Pass; Changes the timbre of the distorted sounds.
  • Page 39 – Selecting from the Panel; respective panel buttons.; Reverb; REVERB page; Type
  • Page 40 – Sustain; Sustain effect. The following display appears.; SUSTAIN Page; high enough for the sustain effect to be noticeable.
  • Page 41 – Tremolo Operation
  • Page 42 – The Voice Condition page appears.; Select Tremolo to turn it on.
  • Page 43 – ) Setting the Tremolo Effect; Tremolo Speed; ) Realtime control of Tremolo effect
  • Page 44 – Designated Rhythm Menu page will be displayed.; Selecting Rhythms from the Panel; from the front panel. The Electone has many more ‘hidden’ rhythms,; Press any of the RHYTHM buttons once.; Rhythm and Accompaniment
  • Page 45 – START; BAR BEAT; LEAD IN
  • Page 46 – TEMPO Dial
  • Page 47 – Rhythm Condition Pages; The Rhythm Condition includes the following two pages: the Rhythm; To select the Rhythm Condition page:; Fine Adjustment of rhythm/keyboard percussion volume.; minimum, the setting here will have no effect.; Auto Variation; more interesting and complex.
  • Page 48 – Dotted Buttons and User; card’ rhythm selectors any of the rhythms available from the panel; ) To select a rhythm from a dotted button:; Select one of the pages with the Page buttons, and choose a Rhythm
  • Page 49 – Select the desired rhythm using the Data Control buttons.
  • Page 50 – Rhythm Menus; This chart lists all 66 of the rhythms available on the Electone.
  • Page 51 – Automatic Accompaniment -; OFF ’L ’P; Off
  • Page 52 – Memory; ) Chords Recognized in the Single Finger Mode
  • Page 53 – ) Chords Recognized in the Fingered Chord Mode; Accompaniment Controls; Press any of the RHYTHM buttons twice.; Rhythm Condition page 1 appears.
  • Page 54 – ACCOMPANIMENT
  • Page 55 – Percussion; freely assign the 120 available sounds to any key or pedal you wish.; ) To use the Preset Keyboard Percussion:; Turn on the Keyboard Percussion function by pressing the LOWER/1; Play some notes on the Lower keyboard and/or Pedalboard. The 43
  • Page 56 – Preset Keyboard Percussion; Preset Percussion Assignments for the Lower Keyboard (43)
  • Page 58 – Group
  • Page 59 – User Keyboard Percussion Categories
  • Page 60 – To erase one instrument:
  • Page 61 – ) Other User Keyboard Percussion Functions
  • Page 62 – To copy from one User location to another:
  • Page 63 – part to the melodies you play on the Upper keyboard. The harmony is
  • Page 65 – About the Rhythm Sequence
  • Page 66 – Registration Memory; Lower keyboards for easy access while playing.; Functions and settings that cannot be memorized are:; Storing Registrations; be saved to floppy disk for future recall.
  • Page 67 – Selecting Registrations
  • Page 68 – batches of 8 registrations.; Registration Shift; can “jump” to a specified registration or step through the panel; SHIFT page will be displayed.; REGIST SHIFT Page; Select one of the modes using the bottom left Data Control buttons.
  • Page 72 – Resetting the Electone to the Factory Preset (Power On Reset); by using the Power On Reset function.; Restoring the Registrations Before Turning the Power off; Memory before turning the Electone off.
  • Page 73 – Compatible Disk Type; To insert a floppy disk into the disk drive:; To eject a floppy disk:
  • Page 74 – Cleaning the Disk Drive Read/Write Head; To handle floppy disks with care:; Data backup
  • Page 75 – Formatting a Disk; Before recording, the disk must first be formatted.; About SHIFT Button
  • Page 76 – Recording
  • Page 77 – If you make a mistake during recording:
  • Page 78 – records the following three types of data:; Performance data; you can change any one of them without affecting the others.; Control data
  • Page 80 – Separate recording for Lead Voice and/or Keyboard
  • Page 82 – Recording Registrations; performance. Bulk data, including Registration Memory and
  • Page 83 – Using More Than 8 Registrations; Replacing Registrations
  • Page 84 – Playback; You can play back your recorded performance by simply pressing
  • Page 85 – ) To repeat playback of a song or songs:; To repeatedly playback all songs starting with the
  • Page 86 – About XG; Playing back the XG Song Data
  • Page 87 – XG Easy Converter; To convert the EL-400 data to the XG song data:
  • Page 88 – Other Functions; ) Read and Auto Increment
  • Page 89 – ) Changing the Tempo
  • Page 90 – To use the Song Copy function within a disk:
  • Page 91 – To use the Song Copy function between two different disks:
  • Page 94 – ) Checking the Remaining Memory; To load the Voice Disk voices:
  • Page 95 – To load the patterns from a Pattern disk:
  • Page 98 – Footswitches, Knee Lever and; Footswitch; be used to control various functions.; Press the FOOT SW. button in the DISPLAY SELECT section.; The following display appears.; Cancels Left Footswitch control.; taking your hands from the keyboards.
  • Page 99 – chosen, the following items appear at the bottom of the display:; Functions as an on/off switch for the rhythm or the rhythm
  • Page 100 – Determines the speed of the Glide function, or in other words, how; Tremolo; Selection of Footswitch control over Tremolo.
  • Page 101 – Knee Lever; When the Knee Lever is folded up:
  • Page 103 – Expression Pedal; Press the PITCH/MIDI button in the DISPLAY SELECT section.; MIDI IN page will be displayed.; Determines the control of the expression pedal functions.
  • Page 104 – Transpose and Pitch Controls; Transpose; About the Pitch; Each voice is tuned with the temperament.
  • Page 105 – MIDI; To select the MIDI page:; related settings are shown on the second and third pages.; MIDI OUT Page; on each keyboard will be sent through the channels set here.; Selects the transmit channel for Pedalboard from channels 1 - 16.
  • Page 106 – Receive Channels; MIDI IN Page; Internal/External Controls
  • Page 107 – Accessory Jacks and Controls; Input Jack
  • Page 108 – Appendix; OUT jacks and TO HOST terminal.; Setting examples; Using the TO HOST terminal; switches to match the computer type you use.
  • Page 109 – Using MIDI IN/OUT jacks; Control an external device using the EL-400; Using an external MIDI keyboard or MIDI tone generator; the external device you have connected.; Control the EL-400 using an external device; Using an external MIDI keyboard; external MIDI keyboard. (The MIDI transmit channels of the MIDI key-
  • Page 110 – The MIDI Messages of the EL-400; System Messages. The Channel Messages are the data related to the; Channel Messages; Key related messages; Indicates which keys are played with the note numbers 0; Velocity; Generated when a key is released.; Control Change; parameters, through specific Control Change numbers.; Program Change
  • Page 111 – System Messages; System Exclusive Messages
  • Page 112 – Receiving the Registration Data
  • Page 113 – Use the EL-400 as an XG Tone Generator
  • Page 114 – MIDI Data Format; EL Mode
  • Page 115 – XG Mode
  • Page 116 – Realtime Messages; Format
  • Page 117 – *1 Data Codes to Send
  • Page 118 – Selectors
  • Page 120 – Voice Section Parameters; *5 EL MIDI Parameters
  • Page 121 – Keyboard Parameters; Rhythm
  • Page 123 – Overall
  • Page 124 – T r a n s m i t; Note ON; MIDI Implementation Chart
  • Page 125 – True Voice; Bank Select
  • Page 126 – Troubleshooting
  • Page 129 – EL-400 Specifications
  • Page 131 – Index
  • Page 133 – INFORMATION RELATING TO PERSONAL INJURY, ELECTRICAL SHOCK,; IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS; PLEASE KEEP THIS MANUAL
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Page 2 - SPECIAL MESSAGE SECTION; CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF; ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE; CAUTION

Model Serial No. Purchase Date SPECIAL MESSAGE SECTION PRODUCT SAFETY MARKINGS: Yamaha electronic products may have either labels similar to the graphicsshown below or molded / stamped facsimiles of thesegraphics on the enclosure. The explanation of thesegraphics appears on this page.Please observe ...

Page 3 - PRECAUTIONS; PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING

• Take care that the key cover does not pinch your fingers, and do not insert a finger or hand in the key cover gap. • Never insert or drop paper or metallic or other objects between the slits of the key cover and the keyboard. If this happens, immediately turn off thepower and remove the electric p...

Page 4 - You are the proud owner of a fine electronic organ, Electone EL-400.; Included Items; Owner’s Manual

4 GM (General MIDI System Level 1) is an addition to the MIDI standard that ensures that any GM-compatiblemusic data can be accurately played by any GM-compatible tone generator, regardless of maker.The GM mark is affixed to all software and hardware products that support the General MIDI standard. ...

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