Yamaha LC3 Music lab User manual

Operation Guide

Yamaha LC3 Operation Guide
Contents Page
Controlling the Volume of the Teacher’s
Speaking Voice (Microphone) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Controlling the Teacher’s Instrument
VolumeLevel..........................1
SelectingStudents.........................2
Interacting With a Single Student . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Listening to a Single Student. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Broadcasting a Single Student
fortheEntireClass .....................5
Addressing and Isolating
All Students Simultaneously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Allowing the Entire Class to Interact. . . . . . . . . . . 7
Quickly Resetting All Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Muting All Student Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Setting Students In PAIRS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Interacting with a PAIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
GroupingStudents........................10
Storing Custom Settings
(RECALLMEMORY)..................13
Recalling Custom Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using a CD or MP3 Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Recording a Student’s Performance (Audio) . . . . . 16
Using External Powered Speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
UsingtheAUXInput......................17

Controlling the Volume of the Tea her’s Speaking Voi e (Mi rophone)
With the MIC button on, move the MIC slider up to the desired voice level.
Controlling Tea her’s Instrument Volume Level
Use the built-in volume control on your instrument to raise or lower its volume in the LC3 lab.
It’s the only instrument volume control you need be concerned with.
Volum knob on Yamaha CP300
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Sele ting Students
A BA K light will always be on no matter how many students are in the LC3 lab. The light will
show the bank of students 1-8 at the bottom of the control unit. A fully expanded LC3 system will
have a total of six banks (48 students). Each bank has eight students organized in the following
fashion:
BA K 1-8 BA K 9-16
BA K 17-24 BA K 25-32
BA K 33-40 BA K 41-48
ot all LC3s will have all banks available. It depends on the number of expansion cards installed on
the system. For LC3s with less than all expansion cards installed, the BA K select button will only
cycle through banks installed in the system. It then returns to the first bank and cycles through
again. Labs with no expansion cards will be locked on BA K 1-8.
Teachers of larger, expanded labs will find themselves jumping through banks quite frequently since
they can only view the status of eight students at a time. For example, to confirm that students 3
and 13 are together, toggle between Bank 1-8 and 9-16 using the BA K button.
A handy table of numbers is printed on the control unit to help you quickly find the buttons of
students in the various BA KS. For example, button 6 enables students 6, 14, 22, 30, 38, and 46
depending on the currently selected BA K.
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Example One
When listening to student 3, the BA K button would be set where the first light (1-8) is lit and
student button 3 would be on.
Example Two
To listen to student 10, press the BA K button until the second light is lit (signifying BA K
9-16). Then, press button number two for student 10.
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Intera ting With a Single Student
This is essentially paying a visit to a student’s virtual practice room. Once in the correct bank, select
the student button and then turn on the MIC button. Think of turning on the MIC button as
opening the practice room door. Make sure your MIC volume is up by using the MIC slider. When
you’re ready to leave this student’s practice room, press the lit student button to turn it off.
In this xampl , you ar int racting with stud nt 5.
Listening to a Single Student
If you want to listen in on a student without talking to them, the equivalent of putting your ear to
the door, do not select the MIC button. You will know a student is selected when the light above
their number is on. When the MIC button light is not on, the student can not hear you speak.
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Broad asting a Single Student for the Entire Class
Select a student as if you were going to work with them, then turn on the BROADCAST button.
The selected student’s performance will be heard by entire class.
To exit this mode, effectively sending all students back to their virtual practice rooms, turn
BROADCAST off by touching the student button again.
In this xampl , stud nt 5 is playing for th class; you can mak comm nts with MIC on.
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Addressing and Isolating All Students Simultaneously
To speak to and play for all students without hearing their instruments, and without them being
able to hear each other, press the ALL button (the MIC will come on automatically). The students
will not be able to hear each other speak or play but they will hear their own instruments. This is
the key difference of engaging the ALL button versus switching on every student button (in every
Bank). The latter would have the students interacting with each other. Engaging ALL is like visiting
each and every student in their virtual practice room at the same time... and the students never
leave their rooms. To cancel this mode, press the ALL button so its light turns off.
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Allowing the Entire Class to Intera t... the MEGAGROUP
This is essentially your “all together now” mode. You can hear students, students can hear you, and
students can hear each other speak and play. In a simple 8-student (non-expanded) lab, this can be
as simple as turning on student buttons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. But in an expanded lab this would
have to be done for each bank. Yamaha has created a handy shortcut to get all student buttons on
or off quickly. RECALL MEMORY 7 and RECALL MEMORY 8 are reserved for these important
tasks.* Simply tap (don’t hold) the RECALL button and then tap student button 7 to activate all
student buttons as a MEGAGROUP. This one action engages every student button across all banks.
You will know your lab is in this mode by seeing every student light on, the MIC light on, and the
GROUP A button flashing. To clear the MEGAGROUP, sending all students back to their virtual
practice rooms, tap the RECALL button and then tap student button 8.
*Learn more about RECALL MEMORY on pages 13-14.
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Qui kly Resetting All Buttons
If you’re unsure about which settings/buttons are on or off, press and hold the MUTE ALL button and
then tap the ALL button. This resets all of the controller’s student unit buttons to off. This is the same as
turning the power off and then on again without making a trip to the power button on the hub.
Muting All Student Instruments
When it’s time for students to pay attention, temporarily disable their instruments by turning the
MUTE ALL button on. Note: student MICs are active but reduced in volume.
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