Sorry I had to dig into my notes — Motif XF going back ten years... where did that time go
The voices for the audio tracks say" waveform FL1 000".
Actually if you are on the XF SONG screen, press [F3] TRACK. This gives you a full view of the Track Name — all 20 characters. Only so many characters fit on the [F1] screen. You will see your Flash Board installed Waveforms named with a four digit number indicating where the data exists, 0001 ~ 2048.
Waveform FL1 0001
Waveform FL1 0002 and so on.
Also, if I press record, and look over at the voice selection, it says Smpl 002, waveform fl1 003.
I'm not sure what this means, or why this should be different from what's up in the track name.
Any time you see “Smpl” and a number it refers to the Sampler which will always direct its data to USR (SDRAM)... The Track you have selected or last selected is currently occupied by Waveform FL1 0003
When I now go into integrated sampling, there appears to be no data.
Is this because the audio voices are now accessing The waveforms in the flash drive?
Correct.
What if I wanted to do for other modifications to those waveforms? I can't seem to get it them. Can I load them from flash drive back to SD ram for the purposes of editing?
You can Copy data from FL1 or FL2 to the USR (SDRAM). You cannot edit data burned to Flash while it is in Flash. The Flash Board is ROM (Read Only Memory)... so yes, you must copy the data to RAM to work on it, then replace the data back to Flash ROM.
Extra Credit:
To really fully understand the Sampler in the XF
Samples are always organized by what Yamaha calls WAVEFORMS. Every sample that is installed on your Flash Board must have a Waveform that organizes it for musical use within the Motif XF.
So a sample cannot be installed on your Flash Boards without the information about how it is to be used. In general, a sample is always in some kind of VOICE. The Voice being the basic fundamental playable entity of your XF.
There are USER SAMPLE VOICES - recorded to the Integrated Sampling Sequencer
There are ‘normal’ User Voices - which reside in User 1, User 2, User 3, and User 4 Banks,
Mixing Voice are ‘normal’ Voices edited and stored locally to the Song or Pattern they are used in.
There are ‘drum’ User Kits - which reside in the User Drum Bank.
The
User Sample Voice — which you’ll see referred to as SP01~SP128 or as SMPL — is the least complex of all the Voice type. The Integrated Sampling Sequencer does not record audio like a hard disk recorder. Rather it places the audio on a Key, creates a Note-on event with the precise duration of the recording. Punch in to punch out. We say it is least complex because unlike the other Voices, the User Sample Voice contains no Filters, no envelope generators, no Insertion Effects, no EQ, etc. it is just an audio sample placed in this bare-bones Voice.
A User Sample Voice has 128 Keys, like other ‘normal’ Voices so a different sample can be placed on each Key, C-2 thru G8.
But initially it has none of the other advantages of an XF Voice.
Mix Voices are 16 special locations available within each Song MIXING and each Pattern MIXING program. Each internal PART that contains a ‘normal’ Voice has the potential to be fully edited while you remain in the MIXING mode (except those recorded to the Integrated Sampling Sequencer). From the MIXING quick access screen, you will see “VCE EDIT” or Voice Edit above the [F6] button. This will drop you into full Voice Edit without having to go back to Voice mode. Normal Voices (i.e, non-Drum Kit Voices) can be converted into what Yamaha calles a MIX VOICE. Here you can completely customize the selection, change the Insertion Effects, etc. completely customize it for use within this Song or Pattern, and this Mix Voice is kept “locally” — means it is stored within the Zhongshan or Pattern data for which it was customized. Drum Kit Voices must be stored to the special USER Drum bank. Voices recorded to the ISS, must be *converted* to a normal Voice first.
When on the MIXING screen if you were to move the highlight over one of you Smpl Tracks (one recorded using the Integrated Sampling Sequencer), you will see “VCE CONV” (Voice Convert) listed above [F6].
The SMPL bank (also abbreviated “SP” and officially called the User Sample Voice) 63/50 is accessed:
1) directly from the INTEGRATED SAMPLING > REC feature.
2) by loading a .WAV or .AIF directly to a PART in the Integrated Sampling Sequencer
What the VCE CONV (Voice Convert) does is take the User Sample Voice (63/50) and create a normal Mixing Voice (63/60)
What is the difference between a USER SAMPLE VOICE (63/50) and the MIXING VOICE (63/60) or regular USER VOICE (63/08-63/11)?
The User Sample Voice has the same 128 slots (notes) to hold samples, but it has none of the other Voice parameters… When you use VCE CONV you are offered an option to store to either MIXV location or you can redirect it to the general USER 1, 2, 3, 4 bank locations. These Voices have a full compliment of parameters including Filters, envelopes, micro-tuning, Note Shift, access to Insert Effects, 3-band EQ, etc., etc., etc.