Y power user music production and performance with the s90xs/s70xs introducing the effects phil clendeninn senior technical sales specialist technology products ©yamaha corporation of america.
Understanding the effects the focus of this article will be to introduce you to the xs effects. “a picture is worth a thousand words”, some great mind said. Please refer to the xs reference manual pages 15-16 for the full graphic story on the effects routing in the xs for voice mode, performance mod...
Reverb processor can be thought of as the external environment. The system effects (chorus and reverb) are overall effects – they are shared by all the elements together. They provide the outer environment for the sound. That is, the system effects are very much like the room acoustics. Reverb is th...
In multi mode: the tone generator block can have a total of up to 16 synth parts, plus an a/d input part. The dual insertion effect can be activated on any eight parts from the internal xs (1-16) or the a/d part. Each part will have an individual send to the system effects. And finally, all signal g...
Individual parameters and effect types. On page 36-43 of the data list you will see a list of the different effect categories and effect names. It will list the parameters available in a convenient form to see them all and the ranges of control. This is worth a look. The table number heading is for ...
That used a transducer (driver) at one end and second transducer (microphone) at the other…in between was a large aluminum plate. You sent signal from the mixing board’s aux sends and returned up to a maximum of 5 seconds of cool reverb. This was the standard for drums and percussion “back-in-the-da...
Short sound reflections but lots of them to make the sound smooth. The chorus processor features time delays from flanging, to chorusing/phasing and on out to multiple repeats and echoes. We are talking much larger than the distance between reverb reflections because these can be heard as separate e...
Noisy) – with the lo-fi effect you can actually grunge the sample rate a thousand times to 44.1hz (talk about low fidelity) – if this is at all curious to you, “step away from the lo-fi effect”! It is an acquired taste and specific to some forms of modern electronica. There is a multi-band compresso...
Block and the master eq block. Contrast this to the graphic, which shows the blocks during a mix in song/pattern mode. The dual insertion effect is available for any eight xs (parts 1-16 or the ad input). How to understand the routing… navigate to the xs effect connection screen. In voice mode this ...
The xs editor allows you to drop into full voice edit for any voice while still in the multi mode. Simply select the part by number and click on the edit overlay to view and edit all components of the voice. This allows you to edit a voice and its two insertion effects (provided the insert switch is...
• select “common” > press [enter] • select “eq” > press [enter] here you will have access to the 3-band (front panel) eq and the master eq • select “master eq” > press [enter] conclusion and final thoughts signal flow is the most important thing to get a handle on when you are seeking a better under...
