Yamaha Music Production Synthesizer Manual Do Utilizador

Songs and Patterns are MIDI sequence data consisting 
of 16 tracks.

● A Song on the MOTIF is effectively the same as a 

Song on a sequencer, and playback automatically 
stops at the end of the recorded data.

●  In the MOTIF, the term “pattern” refers to a 

relatively short pattern — say, 4 to 16 measures (up 
to 256 measures) — which is used for looped 
playback. Therefore, once Pattern playback starts, it 
continues until you press the [

J] button. The 

MOTIF features a variety of preset Phrase data that 
is used as the basic material in making up Patterns.

The following illustration shows the track structure of 
Song. Songs are created by recording MIDI data to 
individual tracks.

Song playback uses up to 16 parts (from those shown above).

Song 64

Song 63

Port 1

Port 2

(Multi-Part Plug-in

board)

Port 3

(Single part Plug-in

board)

part 1

part 2

part 3

part 4

part 15

part 17

part 18

part 30

part 31

part 32

PLG1 part

PLG2 part

part 16

part 33

Parts 33-46
are not used.

part 34

part 46

part 47

part 48

When a Multi-Part Plug-in board and two Single part Plug-in 
boards have been installed:

Song Mixing

Song 01

Song 02

Song 62

Tempo track

Tempo change

Scene track

Track mute status/Scene memory change 
(including tempo, transpose etc,) 

Track 1

MIDI sequence data

Track 2

MIDI sequence data

Track 3

MIDI sequence data

Track 16

MIDI sequence data

MIDI OUT

External
Tone 
Generator