Yamaha DJX Owner's Manual - page 61

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Knob moves are strictly perfor-

mance features — they are not

transmitted via MIDI and cannot

be recorded to a User song.

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Turn the knobs to change the sound.

Turn the desired knob to the left for minimum (or negative) effect

and to the right for maximum (or positive).  Each knob has a center

detent for the “0” or “12 o’clock” position, making it easy to “feel”

your way back to zero.

Here’s what each of the knobs do:

CUTOFF

Tweak this to create wah-wah and “swooshing” filter sweep effects in the

selected Part or voice.  (Want to find out more?  See the box on page 62.)

RESONANCE

Tweak this to set the level for the CUTOFF knob above.  For most applications,

you’ll want to set this at a certain point, and tweak the CUTOFF knob.  (Want

to find out more?  See the box on page 62.)

GROOVE

Tweak this to change the “groove” or “feel” of the entire pattern.  This affects

only the pattern Parts (Bass, Kick, Phrase 1, Snare, Hi-hat, Phrase 2, Percus-

sion, and Phrase 3) and not the voices.  (Want to find out more?  See the box

on page 62.)

ASSIGN

This is a “wild card” knob — it can be assigned to control any one of 12

different functions.  To find out how you can use the ASSIGN knob, see page

63.

BASS BOOST

This is similar to the bass control on a stereo amplifier; it affects all Parts and

voices.  To make the entire sound fatter with more bottom and depth, turn

the knob to the right.  Turning it to the left cuts the bass and creates a

brighter, thinner sound.  The BASS BOOST knob setting will also affect the

range and depth of the CUTOFF and RESONANCE knobs.  (This is especially

true for the Bass Part or for “bassy” sounds.)

THE KNOBS

• Want to have even

more keys in the PER-

FORMANCE section of

the keyboard?

Try setting a lower Pattern

Split Point value.  For

example, setting Pattern Split

Point to “47” would let you

use keys C2 and higher for

playing the voices.  (See page

54.)

• Want to instantly call

up your favorite set-

tings?

Many of the settings men-

tioned above (even the

position of the GROOVE

knob!) can be memorized as

part of the Performance Setup

parameters.  Once you create

a custom Performance Setup,

you can instantly call it up by

pressing the appropriate

PERFORMANCE SETUP

button.  (For a list of memo-

rized settings and how to use

this function, see page 56.)

Minimum

Maximum

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