Yamaha MOTIF XS6/7/8 manual

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    Extensions for Steinberg DAW Owner’s Manual 1 About Extensions for Steinberg DAW ...................................................................................... 2 What Extensions for Steinberg DAW can do ........................................................................... 2 ■ Auto setting of Audio Driver...........................[...]

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    Extensions for Steinberg DAW Owner’s Manual 2 “Extensions for Steinberg DAW” is a set of program plug-ins and project templates developed by Yamaha to enhance the functions of Steinberg DAW software. Simply by installing Extensions for Steinberg DAW and connecting the MOTIF XS series (MOTIF XS6/7/8 and MOTIF-RACK XS) to your computer via an I[...]

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    Extensions for Steinberg DAW Owner’s Manual 3 For MOTIF XS For MOTIF-RACK XS ■ Auto settings of Remote Device With Extensions for Steinberg DAW installed, the MOTIF XS connected to a computer via an IEEE1394 cable will be regis- tered as the Remote Device of Cubase. Also, the detailed settings such as MIDI Ports will be set automatically. You c[...]

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    Extensions for Steinberg DAW Owner’s Manual 4 ■ Project templates with Input/ Output Bus settings With Extensions for Steinberg DAW installed, convenient Project templates for the MOTIF XS and MOTIF-RACK XS will be installed to Cubase. Each of these templates includes the appropriate settings for the Input/Output buses of the VST Con- nection, [...]

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    Extensions for Steinberg DAW Owner’s Manual 5 The correspondences between the Input/Output Buses and Device Port on the VST connection window are as follows: ■ Song import from MOTIF XS6/7/8 With Extensions for Steinberg DAW installed, Song data recorded to the tracks of the MOTIF XS6/7/8 can be imported to a Project in Cubase on your computer.[...]

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    Extensions for Steinberg DAW Owner’s Manual 6 Select the song to be imported from the pull-down menu at the top of this dialog box, then select the specific tracks of the selected song. If you want to import the entire song, click [Select All Tracks]. After selecting a song and tracks, click [OK] to exe- cute the actual Import operation. After co[...]

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