Owner's Manual

ELS-02/ELS-02C Owner’s Manual
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Main Features
A wide variety of Voices including Super Articulation Voices pages 34 and 39
• The ELS-02 series features a wide variety of special Super Articulation Voices, which realistically recreate
characteristic instrument sounds, such as the sound of finger slides on guitar and the breath noises of saxophone or
other wind instruments, as well as many of the performance techniques such as legato, vibrato and glissando
necessary for wind instruments.
• The ELS-02 series features a piano Voice created with samples of the Yamaha CFX flagship concert grand piano, as
well as high-quality Voices of strings, orchestra percussion, and ethnic instruments of the world — lending amazing
dynamic realism to your Electone performance.
• The ELS-02C adds to all of that 94 VA (Virtual Acoustic) Voices and a virtually limitless variety of Organ Flute
Voices. The authentic touch response keyboard lets you play these Voices with all the expressiveness and control of
an actual acoustic instrument.
Sophisticated “Registration Menu” which can be called up
any time during your performance
page 19
The five Registration Menu buttons on the front panel feature preset Registrations, allowing you to instantly set up
the Electone for playing your favorite type of music. Moreover, the ELS-02C contains an additional 60 Registrations
that utilize the expressive Custom Keyboard, VA Voices and Organ Flute Voices. The Registrations in the Registration
Menu are divided into basic music categories for ease of selection. Moreover, you can edit any of the Registrations
and customize them to fit your own performance needs.
Dynamic, Contemporary Rhythms and Auto Accompaniment page 56
The exceptionally of wide selection of various rhythms lets you choose exactly the rhythm you need in your
performance. Each rhythm contains 15 variations (sections) — such as Main, Fill In, Intro, Ending, and Break — that
you can easily switch while you play, to make your performance even more dynamic and professional. Each rhythm
has its own matching accompaniment divided into five instrument parts, providing basic backing as well as
embellishments.
Convenient Edit Functions pages 50, 81, 95,
and 138
• The Voice Link function lets you collect your favorite Voices to a single display and call them up any time during
your performance.
• The Registration Memory function lets you memorize your favorite settings for easy recall whenever they’re
needed. Up to 80 Registrations (5 Banks of 16 Registrations each) can be stored.
• The Voice Edit function lets you create up to 80 original Voices as User Voices. From a wide variety of more than
300 Effect Types divided into 16 categories, two Effect Types can be assigned to each Voice Section, giving you even
more tools to enhance, transform and customize the Voices.
• The Keyboard Percussion feature allows for flexible and detailed editing, letting you assign your desired percussion
sound to each note of the keyboard to create your own original drum kit.
• Comprehensive data compatibility lets you use data created on ELS-01 series instruments with the new ELS-02
series. For ease of use, the ELS-02 series features the same familiar operations as that of the ELS-01 series, since the
layout of the panel buttons is identical.