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MOTIF XF Owner’s Manual

As in the Voice Play mode, the Performance Play mode is where you select and play the instrument sounds of this synthesizer.

However, in the Performance mode, you can mix several different Voices together in a layer, or split them across the keyboard,

or even set up a combination layer/split. Each Performance can contain up to four different Parts.

Press the [PERFORM] button to enter the Performance Play mode.

Selecting a Performance

Selecting a Performance is done in basically the same way

as selecting a Voice. The Category Search function is

available also in the Performance Play mode. Note that the

MOTIF XF has no Preset Performances and provides only

three User Banks. Consequently, press any of the [USER 1] –

[USER 4] buttons to select a Performance after pressing the

[PROGRAM] button.

Performance Play mode

indications

The Performance Play display indicates the Voice names for

each of four parts making up the Performance at the bottom

right corner. Except for this, the display is almost same as in

the Voice Play mode.

NOTE The above display appears when the Type is set to “1” in the [F6]

Screen display of the Utility mode. You can change this

parameter setting by pressing any of the Cursor buttons while

holding the [EXIT] button. This operation lets you call up the

desired one from four display design types provided in the

MOTIF XF.

Using the Controllers and Knobs

As in the Voice Play mode, you can change the tonal

characteristics by using the controllers and knobs in the

Performance mode.

Try selecting a Performance and operating the controllers

and knobs.

How Voices are assigned to Parts

of a Performance

By default (when shipped from the factory), various types of

Performances are provided in the User Banks. For some of

these Performances, it may not be immediately obvious how

to play them or use them, since they are more complicated

than normal Voices. In this section, you’ll learn the typical

ways in which Performances are created, and thus better

understand how to play and use them.

Each Performance can contain up to four different Parts. This

section covers the typical four types of Voice assignments to

these four parts.

This method lets you play multiple (two or more) Voices

simultaneously by pressing any notes. In the Performance

mode, you can create a thicker sound by combining two

similar Voices—for example, two different Strings Voices,

each with a different attack speed.

This method lets you play different Voices with your left hand

and right hand. By assigning the Strings to the lower range

and assigning the Flute to the higher range separately as

illustrated below, you can play the Strings as

accompaniment with your left hand and play the Flute as

melody with your right hand.

This method lets you trigger different Voices depending on

your playing strength (velocity). In this example below,

playing the note with low velocities triggers Strings sounds

with a slow attack speed. Playing the note with middle

Playing the Keyboard in the Performance mode

Bank

Performance

number