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Congratulations and thank you for purchasing the Yamaha QS300 Music Production Synthesizer. As its name indicates, the QS300 Music Production Synthesizer provides all you need to create and perform fully orchestrated and professional-sounding music. The QS300 features an advanced tone generator, plus a comprehensive sequencer for recording and editing your performances. The tone generator of the QS300 provides 954 high-quality Voices, full General MIDI and new XG-MIDI compatibility, and three separate digital effects sections for processing the Voices. To ensure playback of even the most sophisticated song data, the QS300 also has 16-channel multi-timbral capacity and full 32-note polyphony. The comprehensive, yet easy-to-use functions let you subtly change and customize the Voices, or create completely new and unique Voices of your own. The sequencer section features 16 tracks for recording your own performances — either in real time or manually (by Step recording). Punch-in recording allows you to re-record any portion of an already recorded track. Sophisticated editing functions let you perform various transformations on the recorded data — such as transposing, quantizing, changing note length and velocity, copying, and much more. More than just a performance recorder, the sequencer has flexible and convenient automatic accompaniment functions. These include special Phrases and Patterns that provide complete backing band parts (for example: drums/bass/ guitar/keyboards/strings) in a wide variety of musical styles. Plus, these backing parts change harmonically according to the chords you specify. You can even create your own original Phrases to be used with the automatic accompaniment. All of this gives you the means to easily create complete and musically appropriate rhythmic/chordal accompaniment in a fraction of the time it would take if you recorded all the parts yourself. Table of Contents Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 How to Use This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 The QS300 — What It Is and What It Can Do . . . . . 7 Panel Controls and Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GUIDED TOUR Setting Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Playing the Demo Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Auto Load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Selecting and Playing Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Changing the Voice Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Quick Selection of Voice Variations in Different Banks — Variation Voice Auto-Search . . . . 22 Editing a Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Changing the Amount of Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Changing the Amount of Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Selecting a Variation Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Setting the Pitch Bend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Comparing the Edited Voice with the Original . . . 27 Changing the Envelope Generator Setting . . . . . 28 Naming and Storing the New Voice . . . . . . . . . . Recording a Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Enter the Song Mode and Select an Empty Song . . . 32 Record the Accompaniment Patterns . . . . . . . . . 33 Record the Accompaniment Chords . . . . . . . . . . 36 Record Your Own Keyboard Performance . . . . . 38 Naming and Saving the New Song . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Other Sequencer Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REFERENCE Voice Edit Mode 43 Voice Common Overall Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Controller Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Variation Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Voice Element Wave Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Wave Parameters Element Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amplitude Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Filter EG Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Pitch EG Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Graphic EG Edit Parameters — Amp, Filter and Pitch . . 55 Template Copy — Amp, Filter and Pitch . . . . . . . . . 57 Tuning Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 LFO Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Other Voice Functions Drum Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Voice Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Voice Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Voice Compare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Voice Job — Edit Recall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Song Mode 65 Loading a Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Song Playback Loop Playback . . ....