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
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S90 XS/S70 XS Owner’s Manual
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About this Manual
Owner’s Manual (this book)
Explains operations of the top panel controls.
PDF documentation (includes the Owner’s Manual CD-ROM)
Reference Manual
Explains in detail about the sound-related parameters and effect parameters.
Data List
This contains various important lists such as the Voice List, Wave List, Multi List, MIDI Implementation Chart,
Performance List, Master Program List, Mixing Template List, Arpeggio Type List and Remote Control Function List.
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• This device is capable of using various types/formats of music data by optimizing them beforehand to the proper format music data
for use with the device. As a result, this device may not play them back precisely as their producers or composers originally intended.
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