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Avoiding sound dropouts in a song

The XP-80 can produce up to 64 voices simultaneously. But

if you request more than 64 simultaneous voices, notes

exceeding the limit will be turned off in order of priority

starting from the lowest priority note, to be able to accom-

modate the newly requested notes. You can prevent this by

using Voice Reserve to ensure a minimum number of notes

will always be available for each Part.

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The XP-80 can produce up to 64 simultaneous voices. The

number 64 however does not represent simply the number

of notes being played, but is affected by the number of Tones

used in each Patch. If you are playing one Patch which uses

just one Tone with a single key press, you can produce just

one note at one time. If you play two Patches, each using

four Tones, by pressing two notes, you’re using eight simul-

taneous voices. Calculating the number of simultaneous

voices is easy using this formula: (number of currently

sounding notes) x (number of Tones used in the Patch being

played).

If you are using the XP-80 in Performance mode to play an

ensemble, count the total number of Tones used by all the

Parts.

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❶ Select the Performance you want on the Play display

(PERFORM).

❷ Press [l] or [r] to select the Part for which you want

to reserve notes.

❸ Press [d ] to call up the Play display of a Patch

assigned to the Part.

❹ Confirm the Tones used by the Patch shown below the

Patch name.

For example, a “Tone:12--” indication means two out of four

Tones are used.

❺ Press [u] to return to the Play display (PERFORM).

❻ Call up the Part Param display (PERFORM/Part).

❼ Set the Voice Reserve parameter to the number of

notes to be reserved.

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Using external MIDI devices

Using the XP-80 to change the sound on

an external MIDI device

❶ Press [LOCAL/TX/RX] to open the LOCAL/TX/RX

window.

❷ Press [F2] (Tx P.C) or [F3] (Tx P.C) to call up the

Transmit Program Change window.

❸ Set the Channel (MIDI channel), P.C Number

(Program number), Bank Select MSB, and Bank Select

LSB parameters to match the sound used by the exter-

nal MIDI device.

✳ If the Program number of the external MIDI device

reads 0–127, set the P.C Number parameter by adding

1 to the external MIDI device’s value.

❹ Press [F6] (Trans) to change the sound of the external

MIDI device.

Using the XP-80 to control external MIDI

devices

❶ Connect the XP-80’s MIDI OUT to the MIDI IN of the

external MIDI device using a MIDI cable.

❷ Set the XP-80’s MIDI channel to match the external

MIDI device’s receive channel.

The MIDI channel is determined by the following parame-

ters.

Patch mode: Patch Tx-Ch parameter (SYSTEM/MIDI/MIDI

Param 1)

Performance mode: Channel parameter (PERFORM/MIDI/

Part MIDI), Tx Switch parameter (PERFORM/MIDI/Part

MIDI) ON

❸ If you want to play just the sound source of the exter-

nal MIDI device, set the Local Switch parameter (SYS-

TEM/MIDI/MIDI Param 1) OFF.

When you want to connect two or more external MIDI

devices, use the MIDI THRU connector of the external MIDI

devices.

✳ If you daisy-chain three or more MIDI devices using

IN→THRU→IN→THRU..., the MIDI signal may

become garbled and cause errors in data. Using a MIDI

Thru Box is recommended in such cases. MIDI Thru

Boxes allow a single stream of MIDI data to be sent to

a large number of MIDI devices or sound modules

without causing data errors.

Chapter 11. Getting the full potential of the XP-80

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