Specifications

Below the Pattern there‘s a smaller unit -
the Phrase. A Pattern can consist of up to
16 Tracks, each containing a Phrase. The
length can be between 1 and 256 bars.
made the experience that this Pattern - as
described above - is repeated in a loop un-
til you press the STOP button.
If you now want to
follow the transition
to a Song, please
go back to your ori-
ginal Performance.
All you need to do, is to press the RECORD
button again and change the Section to „B“.
After pressing the EDIT key and SF3 (la-
belled with „Song>“ in the display), select
a free song storage location and press
ENTER & YES to start the conversion of the
Pattern Chain into a Song. The result can
now be played from the Song mode, which
at this stage is no different to the Pattern
Chain. But by activating the next available
track (track 5) you are ready to record for
instance a melody on top of your backing
tracks with your chord progression.
After this last step the term Song is fully
justified.
Please look back a few lines in your
thoughts. Provided a little routine with the
procedure described above: Can you think
of a faster way to create a professional-
sounding Song? We don‘t think so and
would proudly proof that on any suitable
occasion. We will later come back to recor-
dings that allow extensive post processing.
Back to theo-
ry: A Song can
include up to
16 Tracks. Whether
these Tracks are re-
corded like shown
in the above exemplary manner, or if you
record track by track, or import a finished
song as standard MIDI file, is completely
up to you. The maximum capacity of the
MOTIF‘s Sequencer (Patterns and Songs in
total) is about 130,000 events. However,
these events include such as aftertouch,
pitch bend, and modulation wheel, thus re-
ducing the capacity when intensively used.
MulTIs, MIxIngs
With the Production of a Song in one way or
the other, the focus was on the musical con-
tent. Now, with the terms Mixing and Multi
we would like to complete this part of the
Yamaha Synth Guide.
How is a Phrase used in a Pattern? A very
elegant and fast method, that is also a lot of
fun, is to record a Pattern from playing an
ARP-based Performance. You only have to
set some very few parameters, such as tem-
po, time signature and the length in bars
and you are ready to produced a Pattern in
minutes. Depending on your selection, even
a Pattern with several Phrases. So select an
ARP-based, four Parts Performance on your
MOTIF that suits your taste. If necessary, ad-
just the tempo and play a few minutes to
learn as you go. Now suppose you want to
produce a four-bar Pattern, which contains
a different chord per bar. Press the RECORD
button to call up the following screen where
you can make any necessary adjustments.
Since you have previously set the tem-
po and the default value for the length of
the recording is set to four bars, you only
have to press the START button and start
playing your first chord after the count-in.
The recording automatically stops after the
fourth bar. Enter the Pattern mode, press the
START button and enjoy the acoustic fruits
of your work.
You just have created a four-bar Pattern
with four Phrases in the shortest time and
Start to play another chord progression af-
ter hitting the START button and listening to
the count-in. Choose chords that are suit-
able as an alternative to Section „A“. In the
Pattern Play mode you will then see the Sec-
tions „A“ and „B“, each having four Phrases
assigned to. Use the Bank Select keys to
switch between Section „A“ and „B“ during
playback.
To make a Song from that exemplary Pat-
tern, you simply create a sequence of the
Sections. To do this, enter the Pattern Play
mode and press „F5“ to call up the „Chain“
display.
Press RECORD and then PLAY and start to
switch between the Sections „A“ and „B“
after the count-in. You don‘t have to wait
for the four bars of each Section, you can
change bar-wise, too. The Pattern Chain
you just have created can be played back
from the Pattern Play mode.
Although the sequence of the Sections
already has a certain Song character, a
further step towards a „real“ Song is neces-
sary.
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