QS300E1.pdf

Welcome to the QS300

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Congratulations and thank you for purchasing the Yamaha QS300 Music Pro-

duction 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 sophisti-

cated 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 conve-

nient 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 appropri-

ate rhythmic/chordal accompaniment in a fraction of the time it would take if

you recorded all the parts yourself.