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Is there a way to CLEAR/INITALIZE Performance/Tone settings


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Is there a way to CLEAR/INITALIZE Performance/Tone settings, so that I only have a bare wave form and nothing else.

No multiple zones/tones, no keyboard splits, no portamento, no legato, no Oscillator, Filter, Amp, LFO, Envelope, Effects settings etc. etc. - so that I can start from scratch without having to push a million buttons to clear and check all the existing settings?

 

I'm fiddling around since 5 weeks with the XW-G1 now but I don't seem to come to grips whatsoever.
I must have initialized back to the factory settings already a 300 times in the last 5 weeks because I always come to a point where I completely loose track of all the buttons I have pushed and I regularly get stuck in a total mess.

Anyway, so again - Is there a way to CLEAR/INITALIZE a Performance/Tone settings? If not I think that it would be a great feature to add.

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By the looks of it you're trying to create you're own solo-synth sound or want to create a performance patch with one instrument but It seems you're doing everything at once.

 

Are you trying to create a Performance

 

Or want to edit a tone / drumkit 

 

Or create a solo-synth patch. 

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Gotta sit at the XW later and check-but don't you simply start with a blank "user tone" or "user performance" to start from scratch? Or same with sequencer. if all your user memory slots are filled with tones, performances and sequences, I think it's just a matter of deleting a user slot and starting from a blank as long as you are in the right "mode"-tone, performance or sequencer first.  Page E-71 in the manual for the XW-P1 (not sure if the G1 is the same manual but it must be close) details how to pick a user tone, performance or sequence and delete whatever one you select. Apparently-as confusing as this is-page E-75 describes how to select tones, performances or sequences to save to a memory card but then page 71 refers to that page for directions on how to pick the user tone, etc. first, then delete it from the internal memory of the XW. I hope this helps. Again, this is only needed if you have filled up all the user memory slots in the XW already and have no blank user slots left.

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Thanks for the replies.

 

I'll give you an example of what I mean:

 

I have a Roland GAIA SH-01 synth. No matter what Patch/Sound, by pressing the "Cancel/Shift" and "Write" buttons you can initialize the sound back to the bare wave form.

Here's a YT vid where you can see it: http://tinyurl.com/qhypexj


Is there a way to do this on the XW-G1?

So that no matter if I'm in a P or U Performance/Tone I don't have to mess with a zillion of zones/tones, keyboard splits, portamento, legato, Oscillator, Filter, Amp, LFO, Envelope, Effects and countless other settings before I can start over from scratch.

Even if I choose an "Untitled" Performance there's always XW SoloSynth with DSP active. You have Syn1, Syn2, PCM1, PCM2 and NOISE that are set to ON - with Envelope, LFO and countless other settings that you basically have to check and clear by hand before you can start from scratch.

 

Also, I have another question. I've created and stored a couple of custom sounds - for example a Bass sound in U:024.

 

If I'm into "Perform" Mode and press Edit, I can't choose U:000 - U:099 in "Tone" in Zone 2, 3 and 4. I can only choose User Tones starting from U:100 - U:210 and from U:300 to U:309. Is this normal?

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I'll have to check that out tomorrow, I don't remember why that is. The Yamaha SY77 has the ability to throw the sequencer on while you are editing a sound. You can not only edit in context to how you are playing in an arrangement, it is recording your edits in real time and allows you step back to wherever you want. And initialize completely starts from ground zero with one keypress so I know what you want to do. The XW is not a simple machine. It needs IMO to be approached as several separate modular devices. There is no one key apprach to zeroing everything out n this. Maybe another user here knows a better way but I don't see it. It does retain certain settings and not others and it is confusing. That's partially why this forum is so active, documentation as you will find here is not one of the favorite features for these XWs!

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OK, what I've found out is that it's possible to clear a U:Performance or U:Tone via -> Menu -> Clear USER.

Doing so, the U:Performance will be set back to an "Untitled" U:Performance with a single Zone and the apparently "standard" P:XW SoloSynth DSP TONE with Syn1, Syn2, PCM1, PCM2 and NOISE that are set to ON etc.

Now if you load an Untitled TONE and then SAVE it by pressing WRITE etc. you have a U: Performance/Tone with a bare Wave.

Why make it simple if you can make it complicated....

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