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MOTIF XS Owner’s Manual 37

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Step 5: Creating a Pattern

The Patterns of the MOTIF XS feature short but fully realized instrumental parts that you can repeat (loop), combine, and

arrange in any order you want—giving you the basic material for creating a Song. This section covers what you can do in the

Pattern mode.

Pattern Structure

The MOTIF XS provides two modes for creating a Song:

Song mode and Pattern mode.

In the Song mode, you can record the Song from the

beginning to the end by playing the keyboard. In the

Pattern mode, on the other hand, you can create the

accompaniment of the Song by creating several sections,

such as intro, melody A, main theme and ending by

recording your rhythm pattern to the different Sections,

then combining them as a Pattern Chain.

The Pattern mode also lets you record your rhythm patterns

or riffs to the different Sections as you wish—and as the

inspiration hits—then combine the Sections into a Pattern

Chain to create a complete Song. Along with the Arpeggio

feature and Performance recording, you have a wide range

of easy-to-use tools to quickly create fully arranged,

professional sounding Songs.

nYou can create a Pattern Chain (page 213) by programming

the order of Sections. The created Pattern Chain can be

converted to Song data by using the Pattern Chain Edit

(page 215).

Listening to the Demo Patterns

Before creating your own original pattern, you should give

a listen to some of the preset Demo Patterns. These

specially recorded Patterns cover a wide range of musical

genres and are full of great hints and ideas on how you can

create and use Patterns in your own music.

1Load the Demo Patterns following the

procedure on page 21.

2Press the [PATTERN] button to enter the

Pattern mode.

The Pattern Play display will appear.

nAs indicated in the Pattern Play display, a Pattern consists

of 16 separate tracks. Accordingly, a Pattern is played

back via the various instrument Voices such as bass,

guitar and keyboard.

3Select a Pattern by turning the data dial.

4Press the [F] (Play) button to start playback of

the Pattern.

The Pattern will be played back repeatedly until you

press the [J] (Stop) button.

5Change the Section from A – P.

Pressing the [A] – [H] buttons calls up Sections A – H

and pressing the [USER 1] – [USER DR] and [ETHNIC]

buttons calls up the Sections I – P.

nBy changing the Sections, you can create rhythmic

variations, and easily improvise arrangements (such as

intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, ending) in real time.

Now, try other Patterns.

1st measure ...................................................................... 120th measure

Intro

Section A

Melody A

Section B

Main theme

Section C

Melody B

Section D

Ending

Section E

Section Pattern number, Pattern name

Tr a c k

1 – 16

Section A – P

SECTION

I-P

SECTION

A-H

SUB CATEGORY

PRE 1 PRE 2 PRE 3 PRE 4 PRE 5 PRE 6 PRE 7 PRE 8

ABCDEFGH

USER 1 USER 2 USER 3 GM DRGM PRE DR USER DR

PIANO KEYBOARD ORGAN GUITAR BASS BRASSSTRINGS SAX/

WOODWIND

SYN LEAD PADS/

CHOIRS SYN COMP CHROMATIC

PERCUSSION

DRUM/

PERCUSSION SOUND

EFX

MUSICAL

EFX ETHNIC

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