Yamaha MU128 - Manual

Yamaha MU128

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 3 – SPECIAL MESSAGE SECTION
  • Page 5 – GM System Level 1; About the XG Plug-in System
  • Page 6 – Owner’s Manual set; Unpacking
  • Page 7 – Table of Contents; GUIDED TOUR
  • Page 9 – REFERENCE
  • Page 10 – APPENDIX
  • Page 11 – How to Use This Manual; ) The MU128 — What It Is and What It Can Do; ) Setting Up the MU128 in Your Music System
  • Page 13 – P R E C A U T I O N S; PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING; WARNING
  • Page 14 – A/D INPUT VOLUME control; For control of the level of the A/D inputs.; VOLUME control; PHONES jack; For connection to a set of stereo headphones (stereo mini pin).; The Controls of the MU128; Front Panel
  • Page 15 – For changing the value of a selected parameter or control.
  • Page 16 – Data dial
  • Page 17 – Rear Panel; MIDI terminals
  • Page 18 – TO HOST terminal; For connection to the PA-6 AC power adaptor.; Power cord hook; For connection to a stereo amplifier/speaker system.; XG Plug-in Board expansion bay
  • Page 19 – The MU128 — What It Is and What It Can Do; About General MIDI
  • Page 20 – About XG; Home Studio Setup
  • Page 21 – Multimedia; About the Modes of the MU128; Which mode the MU128 is in depends on the selected Sound Module
  • Page 22 – Play Modes and the Part Controls
  • Page 23 – Modes and Function Tree
  • Page 26 – What You’ll Need; Making the Connections; Operation
  • Page 27 – • If you are using stereo headphones, connect them to the front
  • Page 29 – Powering Up; Turn on the power of your MIDI keyboard.
  • Page 31 – About the Demo Song
  • Page 32 – Connecting to MIDI Devices; • MIDI keyboard
  • Page 33 – • Hardware sequencer; In this example, a Yamaha MDF3 MIDI Data Filer is used. To back up
  • Page 35 – Set the HOST SELECT switch to MIDI.; Connecting Directly to a Computer; If your computer has a MIDI interface you may want to connect the; Depending on the computer or interface used, set the HOST SELECT
  • Page 37 – MIDI Data Flow
  • Page 38 – Calling Up the Performance Play Mode and
  • Page 39 – • Preset bank
  • Page 40 – select the desired Performance number.
  • Page 42 – Calling Up the XG Mode
  • Page 43 – Selecting Voice Banks and Voices From the Panel; Select a Part by using the [PART
  • Page 45 – ] buttons or data dial to select the desired; Manually Selecting Voice Banks and Voices
  • Page 46 – play below, Voice number 25 has been selected.
  • Page 48 – Selecting Voices From a MIDI Keyboard
  • Page 49 – Parts
  • Page 50 – Normal Voices and Drum Voices; The MU128 features two types of Voices: Normal and Drum.; Normal Voices; When the MU128 receives more MIDI data than can be played back with; Selecting the Voices
  • Page 53 – Part Mode; Normal mode and Drum mode; By setting the Part mode to “drum” for more than one Part, you can have
  • Page 54 – How to Select a Voice
  • Page 55 – When the Part mode is set to “normal”; Increasing the bank number value past 127 (with the [VALUE; When the Part mode is set to “drum” (XG mode only); Move the cursor to the bank number parameter, then use the [VALUE
  • Page 56 – When the Part mode is set to “drum”
  • Page 59 – Single Part Controls; Let’s take a look at the Play display again:
  • Page 60 – Changing the Volume and Pan settings of a Part; Here, we’ll change the Volume and Pan settings of one Part’s Voice.; board as you edit so you can hear the change in the sound.; ] buttons or data dial to change the set-; ting, and play the keyboard again as you make changes.
  • Page 61 – ) Select a control for editing with the [SELECT; For more information on the specific Part controls, see page 104.
  • Page 62 – Edit Menu Parameters; Changing the Filter and EG Settings of a Part
  • Page 63 – last step, holding a note and changing the value with the data dial.
  • Page 64 – For more information on the specific Edit parameters, see page 111.
  • Page 65 – Editing Drum Kits — with the Drum Setup Controls
  • Page 66 – Making Changes to Individual Drum Sounds — the “Drum” Parameters; ] buttons to select the parameter, then the; ] buttons or data dial. This setting creates a deep
  • Page 67 – Select the LPF Cutoff parameter, and set it to –40.
  • Page 68 – For more information on the specific Drum parameters, see page 126.
  • Page 69 – As with the Multi mode, the Performance mode has two separate sec-
  • Page 70 – All Part Controls; up whenever you turn the power on or select the Performance mode.; For more information on the All Part controls, see page 132.
  • Page 71 – Transposing the Overall Key of a Performance
  • Page 72 – For more information on the Single Part controls, see page 134.
  • Page 73 – For more information on the specific Part controls, see page 134.
  • Page 74 – Edit Menu Parameters — Creating a Two-Voice Layer; ate a two-Voice Performance and “fatten” the sound using Detune.
  • Page 75 – Select Part 2 and select the “HeavySyn” Voice for it as well.
  • Page 76 – Setting Up a Keyboard Split; the same with the “OTHERS” menu.
  • Page 77 – ) Select the desired menu with the [SELECT; Using the Assignable Controller in a Performance; buttons or data dial.
  • Page 78 – Saving Your Original Performance
  • Page 79 – Controllers and Control Numbers; to see on a MIDI keyboard.
  • Page 80 – Control Numbers and the Actual Sound
  • Page 81 – Assigning the Assignable Controller; Physical Controllers
  • Page 82 – Using the Assignable Controller — Setting Up; the sake of these instructions, select Part 1.; ) Set the value to “04” with the [VALUE; Keep in mind that this setting applies only to the selected Part.
  • Page 83 – Using the Assignable Controller —; Changing the Brightness on a Piano Voice
  • Page 85 – Expressive Volume Control of a Part; Control parameter, then set the value with the [VALUE; Expressive Control of Individual Drum Sounds
  • Page 86 – buttons to select “A3.”; ] button and set the two parameters
  • Page 87 – • Select the AC1 parameters in the “OTHERS” parameters. (In the; playing the corresponding key or by using the [PART
  • Page 88 – Using Reverb and Chorus
  • Page 90 – Select the desired Part and set its Variation Send control to “on.”; the setting to “DISTORTION” (with the [VALUE
  • Page 91 – ) If you cannot hear the Distortion effect clearly, select the
  • Page 92 – Adjusting the Tone of a Specific Part — Part EQ
  • Page 94 – Adjusting the Overall Tone — Multi EQ; data dial to select the desired preset.; change the value with the [VALUE
  • Page 97 – Turn down the A/D INPUT VOLUME control on the front panel.
  • Page 98 – highlight the bank number parameter, then using the [VALUE
  • Page 100 – ] buttons to highlight the program number param-
  • Page 101 – MIDI; Standard MIDI cable. Maximum length 15 meters.; Mac
  • Page 103 – EFERENCE
  • Page 104 – Multi Mode; Part Controls
  • Page 105 – Bank Number; Single Part Control; Voice Category; ] buttons or data dial changes the bank
  • Page 107 – Volume
  • Page 109 – All Part Control
  • Page 111 – Filter; “FILTER”; LPF Cutoff Frequency
  • Page 113 – “EG”
  • Page 114 – Level/Filter EG Parameters; EG Attack Time; Pitch EG Parameters
  • Page 116 – EQ Low Gain; “EQ”; EQ Low Frequency
  • Page 117 – Vibrato; “VIBRATO”; Vibrato Rate
  • Page 118 – Others; “OTHERS”
  • Page 119 – Receive Channel
  • Page 120 – Detune; Assignment Parameters
  • Page 121 – Portamento Parameters
  • Page 122 – Dry Level; Velocity Sensitivity Parameters
  • Page 123 – Velocity Limit Parameters
  • Page 126 – Drum Setup Controls; “DRUM”
  • Page 127 – Alternate Group; Pitch Parameters; Pitch Coarse; Pan; Effect Send Parameters
  • Page 128 – Filter Parameters; Velocity LPF Cutoff Sensitivity (VelLPFSens)
  • Page 129 – EQ Parameters; EG Parameters; EG Attack
  • Page 130 – Assignment; Note On/Off Parameters; Receive Note Off
  • Page 131 – Performance Mode
  • Page 132 – Performance Bank; This determines the Performance number.; All Part
  • Page 134 – Single Part
  • Page 137 – Common; “ COM”; Common ————————————————————————
  • Page 138 – Performance Name; Use the SELECT; buttons to
  • Page 139 – Assignable Controller Parameters
  • Page 140 – “ PART”
  • Page 142 – Copy
  • Page 143 – Store
  • Page 144 – Use the VALUE; buttons or data dial to change the destination
  • Page 145 – Recall Function; The following display briefly appears:
  • Page 146 – Effect Edit Mode
  • Page 147 – Type
  • Page 148 – Send Chorus to Reverb (SendCho
  • Page 152 – About the Effect Connections
  • Page 153 – When Variation is set to System:
  • Page 154 – When Variation is set to Insertion:
  • Page 155 – To enter the Equalizer Edit mode, press the EQ button.
  • Page 156 – Utility Mode
  • Page 158 – Mute Lock
  • Page 159 – Contrast
  • Page 160 – Thru Port
  • Page 163 – All
  • Page 164 – Multi; buttons to select the type/amount of data to be
  • Page 167 – This restores the original factory settings of the MU128.; Selected Sound Module Mode:
  • Page 169 – To stop playback of the song, press the EXIT button.
  • Page 170 – Other Functions; buttons to select the desired Sound; Press the; EXIT
  • Page 172 – Press the [EXIT] button to return to the parameter setting display.
  • Page 176 – Installing the Plug-in Board; Before Installing the Plug-in Board
  • Page 177 – • When editing any “hidden” parameters on the board (parameters that; Setting the Part Assign Parameter
  • Page 178 – Setting Part Assign from an External MIDI Device; Example: When assigning the first PLG100-DX board to Part 3, the; Selecting Voices of an XG Plug-in board
  • Page 179 – Turn off the power of the MU128 and any connected devices.; Remove the large screw from the expansion bay cover on the rear
  • Page 181 – Replace the cover with the screw you removed in step #2 above.
  • Page 182 – When the power to the MU128 is turned on again, the board is
  • Page 183 – PPENDIX
  • Page 184 – Troubleshooting
  • Page 185 – Error Messages; This Parameter Isn’t Excl Data
  • Page 191 – Index
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