Hi, its been a very long time since I last joined the forum.
Having just purchased a Yamaha keyboard and battled with the settings and having surprisingly won, I decided to have another go at generating User Program files on My FR3x Accordion.
I have had this instrument for 13 years and the only user program files were the ones supplied by Richard Noel.
Frustration at the tediousness of the procedure required for this prevented me from programming it and making do with the
the user set files and existing accordion sounds.
But over the last week I decided to dissect the procedure amend it and wrote it down.
So for those who have not programmed the Accordion for the same reasons as given, see info below. Do let me know of any errors and also criticism where applicable.
Regards
Rainer
For those who have shied away from this function.
User programs allow you to save a selection of various instrument sets and assign them each one of the Tabs/registers, so that you can recall them all with the touch of a button instantly. This applies to the your selected sounds on bass side and the treble side being linked together.
You can use the following procedure to create a user program:
* First Select all of the Instrument settings you'd like to save in your user program; tones, drums, etc. then Press and hold the [USER PROGRAM] button to select the “write mode” (the display will show a flashing "UP").
Then choose and Press any of the treble register ([1] to [0]) to which you want to assign/write your selection of instruments to that register/tab. This will save your chosen instruments for that tab to the user Program. It’s best to start with tab No 1 and write down which tab has been set/programmed. Failure to do so can result in accidentally overwriting an already programmed tab with a different set of instruments.
If you are happy with the selected sounds for that tab then Press the [USER PROGRAM] button again to leave memory mode. This has now only registered the one selected tab with your own set of chosen instruments i.e. Bass, Chord and the treble side chosen instrument .
Set up the remaining registers/tabs individually with your different selection of instruments following the above procedures. To save the whole of the 10 tabs as a complete set as a “User program file” “Set/press” Blue tab and wander down to “SUV” = Save, which is the last one on the setting menu. This will allocate and automatically generate a User program file number starting with 0 for the first file saved which increments by one up to maximum of 10, each time a new set of user file has been assembled and saved.
When completed, the set up, the User settings will be stored on the memory stick.
! Failure to finally save (SUV) your just programmed sets will result in the loss of them when next you power up the instrument.
To delete any of the saved user programs you need to load the data from the USB stick on the pc and select the USP file separately then delete it..
The procedure, like many Japanese programs is tedious and not user friendly .
* Note the Instrument can only store up to 10 User program files, as blocks of the 10 Tabs / registers. So think about how you are going to populate those settings.
Ideally set up separate User set files with a selection of instruments which suit the type of music tou are going to play i.e. Country , Jazz orchestra etc. and then convert them into user program files.
Only the programmed tabs will be saved via the Save “SUV” function. Any not programmed ones will also be saved as they are as a part of the whole saved set.
Hope this helps
Having just purchased a Yamaha keyboard and battled with the settings and having surprisingly won, I decided to have another go at generating User Program files on My FR3x Accordion.
I have had this instrument for 13 years and the only user program files were the ones supplied by Richard Noel.
Frustration at the tediousness of the procedure required for this prevented me from programming it and making do with the
the user set files and existing accordion sounds.
But over the last week I decided to dissect the procedure amend it and wrote it down.
So for those who have not programmed the Accordion for the same reasons as given, see info below. Do let me know of any errors and also criticism where applicable.
Regards
Rainer
FR-3X: How to create user programs
For those who have shied away from this function.
User programs allow you to save a selection of various instrument sets and assign them each one of the Tabs/registers, so that you can recall them all with the touch of a button instantly. This applies to the your selected sounds on bass side and the treble side being linked together.
You can use the following procedure to create a user program:
* First Select all of the Instrument settings you'd like to save in your user program; tones, drums, etc. then Press and hold the [USER PROGRAM] button to select the “write mode” (the display will show a flashing "UP").
Then choose and Press any of the treble register ([1] to [0]) to which you want to assign/write your selection of instruments to that register/tab. This will save your chosen instruments for that tab to the user Program. It’s best to start with tab No 1 and write down which tab has been set/programmed. Failure to do so can result in accidentally overwriting an already programmed tab with a different set of instruments.
If you are happy with the selected sounds for that tab then Press the [USER PROGRAM] button again to leave memory mode. This has now only registered the one selected tab with your own set of chosen instruments i.e. Bass, Chord and the treble side chosen instrument .
Set up the remaining registers/tabs individually with your different selection of instruments following the above procedures. To save the whole of the 10 tabs as a complete set as a “User program file” “Set/press” Blue tab and wander down to “SUV” = Save, which is the last one on the setting menu. This will allocate and automatically generate a User program file number starting with 0 for the first file saved which increments by one up to maximum of 10, each time a new set of user file has been assembled and saved.
When completed, the set up, the User settings will be stored on the memory stick.
! Failure to finally save (SUV) your just programmed sets will result in the loss of them when next you power up the instrument.
To delete any of the saved user programs you need to load the data from the USB stick on the pc and select the USP file separately then delete it..
The procedure, like many Japanese programs is tedious and not user friendly .
* Note the Instrument can only store up to 10 User program files, as blocks of the 10 Tabs / registers. So think about how you are going to populate those settings.
Ideally set up separate User set files with a selection of instruments which suit the type of music tou are going to play i.e. Country , Jazz orchestra etc. and then convert them into user program files.
Only the programmed tabs will be saved via the Save “SUV” function. Any not programmed ones will also be saved as they are as a part of the whole saved set.
Hope this helps
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