User guide

Once you have launched the Voice Editor and
double clicked on the Kit you want to edit the
above COMMON screen will open. The drum kit
you select will be sent to the Motif ES Editor
buffer and you will hear your edits immediately.
• Click on the ELEMENT KEY button (red circle
above) to open a view where you can edit
each individual drum.
• Click on the Key you want to edit – it will
sound and will be highlighted in aquamarine.
• Click on the OUTPUT assignment (circled in
red above) and a list of possible routing
assignments will open for the selected key.
Above is a close-up view of the left-to-right signal
flow of an individual drum key – at the bottom of
the Drum Key Editor.
LevelÆPanÆRandom PanÆAlter PanÆInsert Effects A/B*
or ThruÆSystem Effects (Reverb/Chorus)Æ Output
*
the relationship between Insert Effect A/B is
determined on the COMMON page – depending if the
routing between Insertion Effects is “parallel” or AÆB, or
BÆA.
Experiment with assignment here and you will
learn all you need to know about the effects
within a drum Voice.
If, for example you elect to send this particular
snare drum (Key D1) through Insertion Effect A…
…notice how the graphic changes. The signal is no
longer routed to System Effects (the send
indicators disappear from the Reverb and Chorus
knobs) and is routed up and to the output.
If, in another example, you elect to route the
snare to an assignable output, say Assignable 2
(asn2)…
…notice the signal now bypasses the effects
altogether on its way to the individual output.
“L&R” Out = 15&16 – Any Motif ES PART set to
Output Select “L&R” (the normal default) will be
sent via mLAN outputs 15&16.
The Motif ES assignable outputs are the
equivalent to individual outputs. The stereo L&R
mix is sent on mLAN audio channels 15 and 16.
The stereo output is also referred to as the
SYSTEM output. The System Effects (your Reverb
and Chorus processors) will be applied as normal
to the L&R outputs. Any Part or Parts set to an
assignable output will not have the System
Effects, obviously. Those that do go to the System
L&R outputs will naturally have the System
Effects. However, if you have applied the Dual
Insertion Effect to a Part, it will accompany the
signal assigned to the individual output. The
exception is drums. Since when a Dual Insertion
Effect is assigned to a KIT, if a drum is routed
within the KIT Voice to an assignable output, it is
taken out of the general pool and is stripped of
the Dual Insertion Effect assigned to that kit.
Putting Theory into Action
You can transfer as many tracks individually as
you wish. At first you may think that you will
always be transferring multiple tracks – all at one
time. In actual practice you may find that you will
work differently. The point is you can decide and
you can operate, as you need, when you need.
In any multi-track recording scenario you are
typically working on one track at a time, and
when it comes time to transfer data as audio, you
are probably going to settle into a work method
where you are doing just a few tracks at a time
(don't forget everything runs in sync each time).
Besides since you have 8 Dual Insertion Effects
that seems to be an appropriate maximum
number of tracks to transfer (at a single time).
But (the beautiful thing is) it's up to you!!!
Also before ever doing this, it is natural to think
that you don't need the stereo output (but once
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