It's always possible to work on edition of only one sound, as there's
only one edit buffer. So I don't understand little bit what do you
mean when you say "to save my sounds". If you can't save the first
sound you are working on, it's kept in edit buffer even after
switching machine off, and can be recalled back by Recall Edit (manual
page 32), but that's all. You can't program more sounds together,
always only one in time.
Second what I don't understand - how you can be able to program your
own sounds in relatively complex FM synthesis, when you don't know
such simple thing how to save your creation. OK, maybe some people
have magic abilities and can fully understand theory of relativity or
string theory even without knowledge what's the result of 7 times 15 :-)
So first learn how to save voice:
- read manual, page 11. Sometimes it's really good to read manuals as
some functions are not so obvious, logical and straightforward, even
when they are simple. Sometimes they are little bit hidden or need
special order of button pushing. On many instruments this order is far
from logical, more like going to the right pocket with left hand.
- after editing the voice press Play/Perform. First "p" on upper line
on display will be small character - sign of edited voice.
- press and keep Store/EG Copy. On display there will be number of the
last original voice you have edited or so, it's not important.
Important is the number on right side you will select with Dec/Inc
buttons - target memory where you want to write your new voice. Check
before editing which voices you don't need and can be overwritten by
new voices.
- release Store button, check display if target number is OK and
confirm your selection by pressing Inc button, or get out without
saving (if you do mistake in selection) by pressing Dec button. You
can repeat the process, or in the worse case use Recall Edit.
- to be able to store data, memory protection must be set to "off".
It's third page in Utility menu. If by chance you forget to set it
before edition and storing, there will be alert and you can do it
during storing.
Another power of this instrument is in its Performances, so I would
recommend to learn how to program them, save and transmit. Read
manual, pages 36-42.
How to do SysEx dump:
- read manual, pages 26, 68-70
- if you haven't your sounds (or performances, microtonal scales,
effect settings, one finger chords, program change table, system
setup) stored in internal memory, you can't send them out as SysEx dump.
- switch Exclusive in Utility/MIDI Control must be "on", for
simplicity leave Basic Receive Channel and Transmit Channel set to 1
always.
- data + additional data for one voice (VCED + ACED) will be sent
whenever voice is selected, or when you Recall Edit or Init Voice.
- if you want to send all Internal Voice RAM (bank I, 32 voices), go
in Single Play Mode to Utility/MIDI control, select Voice Transmit,
start recording in recording device, and press Inc on TX81z.
- recording device can be hardware or software sequencer, MIDI data
filer (like Yamaha MDF1/2/3), or software editor, librarian or SysEx
utility. Learn how to work with it to record SysEx data (sometimes
it's necessary to switch off filter to enable receiving and recording
SysEx data). Keep tempo always the same for receiving and transmitting
back to instrument, for example BPM = 120.
- when you want to send data back, Memory protect switch in instrument
must be off, Exclusive switch on. Receiving channel must agree with
channel on which data were transmitted, keep it always to 1. These old
Yamaha instrument used Basic MIDI channel as Device number, later
instruments are more clever.
Good luck!
Daniel Forro
Post by grandnoiseI have just got a Yamaha TX81Z and really like the sounds on the
unit but I can't for the life of me work out how to save my sounds
that I have made either to the unit or via sysex, could someone give
me some pointers?
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