User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome
- Accessories
- About the accessory disk
- S90 XS/S70 XS Main Features
- About this Manual
- Contents
- Controls and Functions
- Setting Up
- Start Guide
- Modes
- Basic Instructions
- Playing the Keyboard in the Voice mode
- Creating a New Performance by Using Your Favorite Voice (Performance Creator)
- Playing the Keyboard in the Performance Mode
- Singing with a Connected Microphone
- Recording/Playing Back with a USB Storage Device (Audio Record/Play Mode)
- Using a Connected Computer
- Playing the Keyboard Along with Playback of the MIDI File
- Using as a Master Keyboard (Master Mode)
- Making Global System Settings (Utility Mode)
- Saving/Loading Data (File Mode)
- Appendix
- Display Messages
- Troubleshooting
- No Sound
- No sound from the MIC INPUT jack
- Split does not work via the external MIDI device
- Playback continues without stopping
- The sound is distorted
- Sound is cut off
- Only one note sounds at a time
- Wrong pitch or unexpected pitch
- No effect is applied
- Vocoder does not work when selecting a Vocoder Voice
- The Edit Indicator appears, even when parameters are not being edited
- Cannot start the Arpeggio
- Cannot stop the Arpeggio
- The Voice assigned to the Performance produces a different sound from the one in the Voice mode
- Data communication between the computer and the S90 XS/S70 XS does not work properly
- The S90 XS/S70 XS does not sound properly even when playing back the song data on the computer or the MIDI instrument connected to the S90 XS/S70 XS
- MIDI bulk data transmission/reception does not work properly
- Cannot save data to the external USB storage device
- Cannot play an audio file
- Cannot enter the Edit mode
- Specifications
- Index
S90 XS/S70 XS Owner’s Manual
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Start Guide
There are several operation modes in the S90 XS/S70 XS, and they can be selected by using the seven mode buttons.
These modes include: Voice, Performance, Multi, Master and Sequence Play. Depending on the selected mode, you can
play and perform on the keyboard and create your own original music.
If you want to play the keyboard conventionally, use the Voice or Performance mode. If you’re creating music, particularly
multi-part arrangements, use the Multi mode.
In addition, the following modes are available: the Audio Record/Play mode for recording your keyboard performance as
audio data and playing back audio files, the File mode for managing files for saving the data you created on this
synthesizer, and the Utility mode for making overall settings.
Modes
Voice mode
[VOICE] button
This synthesizer has a wealth of high-
quality, dynamic sounds—also referred to
as “Voices.” You can play these Voices—
one Voice at a time—from the keyboard in
the Voice mode. This mode also lets you
create your own original Voices.
Playing Voices from the
keyboard
Performance mode
[PERFORM] button
This mode lets you play and create
Performances. A Performance lets you put
several different Voices together in layers or
play different two Voices in a keyboard
split.
Playing multiple Voices from
the keyboard
Master mode
[MASTER] button
This special mode lets you register and use
the programs you created in each of the
Voice, Performance, and Multi modes. The
Master mode can be used in two ways:
Storing your favorite programs
This lets you register settings that you often
use in the Voice, Performance, or Multi
mode, and instantly recall the relevant
mode and custom settings together in a
single button press—without having to first
select a mode.
Playing as a master keyboard
This lets you divide the keyboard into four
separate sections—just as if you were
playing four different MIDI keyboards.
Creating original program sets
Multi mode
[MULTI/SEQ PLAY] button
The Multi mode lets you use this instrument
as a multi-timbral tone generator for
sequencer song playback. By assigning a
different Voice to each track in a song file
on your external sequencer, you can play
back complex multi-part ensemble
recordings.
Creating an original Song via
an external sequence recorder
Sequence Play mode
[MULTI/SEQ PLAY] button
This mode lets you play back SMF files
created via an external sequencer or other
device and 44.1kHz/16-bit stereo audio
files sequentially. You can directly play
back the files stored to the internal flash
memory and saved to an external USB
storage device.
Playing back audio/MIDI files
Audio Record/Play mode
[AUDIO REC/PLAY] button
This mode lets you record your keyboard
performance to the root directory of an
external USB storage device or internal
flash memory and play back audio files
from the specified device.
Recording your performance/
playing back audio data
File mode
[FILE] button
The File mode lets you save data you've
created on this instrument to a USB storage
device or the internal flash memory, and
allows you to load data from the USB
device to the instrument. Of course, you
can store your important data to the
instrument; however, for best safe-keeping,
Yamaha recommends that you back up all
important data to a USB storage device.
Backing up data
Utility mode
[UTILITY] button
The Utility mode lets you set parameters
that apply to the entire system of this
instrument. These parameter settings are
applied to all Voices, Performances, and
Multis.
Setting the system parameters
NOTE Pressing the [MULTI/SEQ PLAY]
button toggles between the Multi
mode and Sequence Play mode.