Yamaha MX49 Reference Manual

Contents
Using the MX49/MX61 Manuals 2
Basic Structure 3
Structure of the MX49/MX61 .......................................3
Controller Block...........................................................3
Keyboard.................................................................................. 3
Pitch Bend wheel ..................................................................... 3
Modulation wheel ..................................................................... 4
Knobs ....................................................................................... 4
Tone Generator Block .................................................5
AWM2 (Advanced Wave Memory 2)........................................ 5
Voices....................................................................................... 5
Memory structure of the Voices ............................................... 8
Performances ........................................................................... 9
Performance memory structure.............................................. 10
Editing a Performance and the Voices................................... 10
Effect Block ................................................................11
Effect structure ....................................................................... 11
Effect connections and settings............................................. 12
Arpeggio Block ..........................................................13
Arpeggio categories .............................................................. 13
About the Arpeggio type list .................................................. 14
Arpeggio playback types....................................................... 14
Relation between played notes and Arpeggio types............. 15
Song/Pattern Playing Block......................................16
Rhythm Pattern....................................................................... 16
Song ....................................................................................... 16
Internal Memory .........................................................17
Internal memory of the MX49/MX61 ....................................... 17
MIDI/Audio Signal Flow .............................................18
Using a Connected Computer 19
Connecting to a computer ........................................19
Creating a Song with a computer.............................22
Recording your performance on the MX49/MX61 to DAW
software as MIDI data.............................................................22
Recording your performance on the MX49/MX61 to DAW
software as audio data ...........................................................27
Recording Arpeggio phrases of the MX49/MX61 to DAW
software as MIDI data.............................................................28
Remote-controlling DAW software or VSTi (software instruments)
from the MX49/MX61 ..............................................................31
Remote Control Assignments .................................................35
Using iOS Applications 39
Reference 40
Performance...............................................................40
Performance Play....................................................................40
Performance Select ................................................................41
Performance Part Select .........................................................41
Performance Edit ....................................................................43
Performance Job ....................................................................54
Performance Store..................................................................56
Supplementary Information.....................................................56
Song/Pattern settings................................................58
Song........................................................................................58
Pattern.....................................................................................59
File............................................................................... 60
Terminology in the File operation............................................60
File display..............................................................................61
Utility........................................................................... 64
Utility Job ................................................................................68
Remote mode.............................................................70
Remote display .......................................................................70
Switching the functions for Knobs [A] – [D]............................71
Switching the Control Template..............................................71
Utility settings..........................................................................71
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Yamaha MX49 Specifications

General

Equalizer	Yes
Product type	Digital synthesizer
Product color	Black
Sound effects	Chorus, Reverberation
Chorus effects quantity	17
Keyboard number of keys	49
Maximum polyphony (notes)	128
Reverberation effects quantity	9
Display number of lines	2 lines
Display number of characters	20
Power source type	AC
Headphone outputs	1
USB ports quantity	2

Weight and Dimensions

Depth	298 mm
Width	830 mm
Height	91 mm
Weight	3800 g