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
9
Welcome............................................................................... 6
Accessories.......................................................................... 6
About the accessory disk..................................................... 6
S90 XS/S70 XS Main Features.............................................. 7
About this Manual................................................................. 8
Controls and Functions 10
Top panel ........................................................................... 10
Rear Panel .......................................................................... 15
Setting Up 16
Power Supply ..................................................................... 16
Connecting speakers or headphones................................ 16
Powering Up the System .................................................... 16
Adjusting the volume and the brightness of the display .... 17
Starting Up ......................................................................... 17
Selecting Voices................................................................. 17
Playing demo songs........................................................... 17
Resetting the User Memory to the Initial Factory Settings . 18
Start Guide 19
Modes ........................................................................... 19
Basic Instructions........................................................ 20
Playing the Keyboard in the Voice mode .................. 21
Selecting a preset Voice .................................................... 21
Using the Category Search function .................................. 22
Grouping your most-used Voices together—Favorite
Category............................................................................. 22
Changing the tonal qualities of the Voice........................... 23
Voice Editing ...................................................................... 24
Enhancing the sound with Effects ...................................... 24
Using the Arpeggio function .............................................. 26
Creating a New Performance by Using Your Favorite
Voice (Performance Creator) ...................................... 28
Layer—Playing different Voices together........................... 28
Split—Playing two different Voices with your left and right
hands.................................................................................. 29
Drum Assign—Layering a drum Part with the current Voice
............................................................................................ 30
Changing the drum pattern (Arpeggio Type)..................... 30
Assigning a name to the Performance ............................... 31
Playing the Keyboard in the Performance Mode ...... 32
Selecting a Performance .................................................... 32
Changing the timbre of the Voice....................................... 32
Singing with a Connected Microphone ..................... 33
Recording/Playing Back with a USB Storage Device
(Audio Record/Play Mode) .......................................... 34
Recording........................................................................... 34
Playing back the recording ................................................ 35
Using a Connected Computer .................................... 36
Connecting to a computer ..................................................36
Using as a multi-timbral tone generator (Multi mode) ........38
Remote-controlling the software (Remote mode) ...............38
Editing more detailed parameters of the Voice ..................40
Playing the Keyboard Along with Playback of the MIDI
File................................................................................. 41
Using as a Master Keyboard (Master Mode) ............. 43
Storing the Edited Voice/Performance/Multi .......................43
Making settings for use as a master keyboard...................43
Making Global System Settings (Utility Mode) ......... 45
Saving/Loading Data (File Mode) ............................... 47
Saving the settings to a USB storage device .....................47
Loading the settings from a USB storage device ...............48
USB storage devices ..........................................................49
Appendix 50
Display Messages........................................................ 50
Troubleshooting .......................................................... 52
Specifications .............................................................. 58
Index ............................................................................. 59
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