Yamaha Personal Electronic Piano YPP-15 - Manual (Page 13)

Example 2:
chine
Using the YPP-15 with a drum ma-
If you have a MIDI-compatible rhythm/drum ma­
chine, use It as a Slave of the YPP-15. After
matching MIDI channels, play the YPP-15 key­
board. Now you can have various percussion sounds
at your fingertips. Playing a key on the YPP-15 will
transmit a specific MIDI Note Number to the drum
machine, which reproduces the percussion sound
corresponding to it.
Here’s another idea: If your drum machine includes
a melody instrument such as bass or vibraphone,
you can access this sound from the YPP-15. First,
look up the MIDI receiving channel assigned for
controlling the sound. Then, set both instruments to
this channel. You can now play the drum machine’s
melody instrument sound from the YPP-15. If you
wish, you can accompany your performance with a
rhythmic pattern (start/stopped locally on the drum
machine). Yourentire performance can be input into
the drum machine as rhythm data.
Examples: Using the YPP-15 with a sequencer
(and other keyboards)
Knowing how to use the YPP-15 effectively with a
sequencer makes you a MIDI pro!
After you’ve recorded all the parts of your perfor­
mance on the sequencer, you’ll want to play back
your ensemble, with each part matched (via MIDI
channels) to the appropriate instrument or sound
module. Say you’ve recorded a two-part ensemble,
cello and flute, on MIDI channels 1 and 2, each
channel matched to a separate instrument or sound
module in your MIDI system (instruments A and B in
the Diagram below). When you play back the
ensemble, you may wish to experiment with the
sounds. Here’s one thing you can try: put the YPP-
15 (one of the Slaves in your setup) in OMNI ON
Mode, and select the voice you wish, say PIANO 1.
Thus, the YPP-15 will receive performance data in
both of MIDI channels 1 and 2, and so will play back
both parts in PIAN01 voice, as a complement to the
cello and flute sounds from instruments A and B.
DIAGRAM
YPP-15
E Q H H H Q
Q Q Q B Q Q
Another use of OMNI ON Mode is for checking the
contents of an unlabelled performance data disk whose
MIDI channels are unspecified. After loading the data
into the sequencer, transmit it from the sequencer to the
YPP-15 in OMNI ON Mode. Regardless of the MIDI
channels to which the data was assigned, the YPP-15 In
OMNI ON Mode will play it back.
DIAGRAM
YPP-15
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