User Manual

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Table of Contents
EL-700 Panel Layout ...................................................... 6
EL-500 Panel Layout ...................................................... 8
LCD Display/Display Select .......................................... 10
Main Features .............................................. 11
1 Quick Introductory Guide ........................ 12
1 Getting Started ........................................................ 12
2 Basic Registrations ................................................... 13
3 Registration Menu Disk ........................................... 14
4 Basic Operation ....................................................... 19
5 Using the LCD Display ............................................ 20
6 Voice List ................................................................. 24
2 Voice Sections .......................................... 26
1 Selecting Voices from the Panel ............................... 26
2 Selecting Voices from the Dotted Buttons ............... 29
3 Voice Menus ............................................................ 31
3 Flute Voices (Organ Sounds) - EL-700 only ...... 37
1 Creating Flute Voices .............................................. 37
2 Save to User Flute Voice .......................................... 39
3 Using Preset and User Voices .................................. 40
4 Voice Controls and Effects ........................ 41
1 Selecting from Voice Condition Pages ..................... 42
[PAGE 1] ................................................................. 42
1) Touch Tone ....................................................... 42
2) Feet ................................................................... 43
3) Pan .................................................................... 43
4) Reverb ............................................................... 43
5) Volume .............................................................. 43
[PAGE 2] ................................................................. 43
1) Effect (On/Off) .................................................. 43
2) Brilliance ........................................................... 44
[PAGE 3] ................................................................. 44
1) Vibrato .............................................................. 44
2) Touch Vibrato ................................................... 45
3) Slide (Lead Voices Only) ................................... 45
4) Tune (Lead Voices Only) .................................. 45
2 Selecting from Effect Set Pages ................................ 45
1) Tremolo/Chorus ................................................ 46
2) Symphonic/Celeste ............................................ 46
3) Delay ................................................................. 46
4) Flanger .............................................................. 47
5) Distortion .......................................................... 48
3 Selecting from the Panel .......................................... 49
1) Reverb ............................................................... 49
2) Sustain ............................................................... 52
3) Tremolo/Chorus ................................................ 53
5 Rhythm and Accompaniment ................... 56
1 Selecting Rhythms from the Panel ........................... 56
2 Rhythm Condition Pages ......................................... 59
3 Dotted Buttons and User Rhythms .......................... 61
4 Rhythm Menus ........................................................ 63
5 Automatic Accompaniment-
Auto Bass Chord (A.B.C.) ........................................ 65
6 Accompaniment Controls ........................................ 67
7 Preset/User Keyboard Percussion ............................ 68
8 Melody On Chord (M.O.C.) .................................... 76
6 Registration Memory ................................ 77
1 Storing Registrations ............................................... 77
2 Selecting Registrations ............................................. 78
3 Saving the Registration Data to Disk ....................... 78
4 Registration Shift ..................................................... 79
7 Music Disk Recorder ................................ 84
1 Precautions .............................................................. 84
2 Formatting a Disk .................................................... 86
3 Recording — Punch In Recording ........................... 87
4 Recording Registrations (and Bulk Data) ................ 93
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Recalling Recorded Registrations (and Bulk Data) .......... 94
6 Replacing Registrations ........................................... 94
7 Playback — About XG Songs .................................. 95
8 Other Functions ...................................................... 99
8 Voice Edit............................................... 107
1 Editing a Voice ...................................................... 107
2 Saving Your New Voice ......................................... 112
3 Quitting Voice Edit ................................................ 114
4 Recalling an Edited Voice ...................................... 114
5 Selecting Voices from a Voice Disk (Optional) ...... 115
6 Voice Editing Basics .............................................. 116
9 Rhythm Pattern Program and
Rhythm Sequence Program .................... 122
Outline of the Rhythm Programming Operation ........ 122
1 Rhythm Pattern Program ....................................... 123
1) Entering Rhythm Pattern Program .................. 123
2) Percussion Sounds Used for
Rhythm Pattern Program ................................. 125
3) Step Write and Real Time Write ...................... 127
4)
Selecting Step Write or Real Time Write Operation ....... 127
5) Setting the Beat/Quantize Values ..................... 127
6)
Entering Percussion Sounds to a Rhythm Pattern ........ 128
7) Editing with Step Write ................................... 129
8) Editing with Real Time Write .......................... 133
9) Selecting Accompaniment Patterns —
Lower Rhythmic .............................................. 134
10) Saving Rhythm Patterns .................................. 137
11) Quitting the Rhythm Pattern Program ............ 138
12) Recalling User Rhythm Patterns ...................... 139
13)
Selecting Rhythm from a Pattern Disk (Optional) ....... 140
2 Rhythm Sequence Program ................................... 141
1) Selecting a Sequence ........................................ 141
2) Programming a Sequence ................................ 142
3) Quitting Rhythm Sequence Program ............... 145
4) Playing Rhythm Sequences .............................. 145
5) Playing All Sequences in Order ....................... 146
10 Footswitches, Knee Lever and
Expression Pedals ................................... 148
1 Footswitch ............................................................. 148
2 Knee Lever ............................................................. 150
3 Expression Pedals .................................................. 152
11 Transpose and Pitch Controls ................. 154
12 MIDI ...................................................... 155
13 Accessory Jacks and Controls ................. 157
14 Appendix ............................................... 158
MIDI .......................................................................... 158
MIDI Data Format ...................................................... 164
MIDI Implementation Chart ...................................... 175
Troubleshooting ......................................................... 177
Specifications ............................................................. 180
Index .......................................................................... 182
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Voice Sections
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Quick Introductory Guide
Flute Voices
(Organ Sounds)
- EL-700 only
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Voice Controls
and Effects
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Rhythm and
Accompaniment
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Registration Memory
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Music Disk Recorder
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Voice Edit
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Rhythm Pattern
Program and
Rhythm Sequence
Program
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Footswitches, Knee Lever
and Expression Pedals10
Transpose and
Pitch Controls
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MIDI
Accessory Jacks
and Controls
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Appendix
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