Yamaha A3000 manual Pitch Bend Control, Real time Beat Change, EQ Frequency EQ Gain EQ Width

automatically names the duplicate by adding an (*) asterisk to the original name. You can rename it, if you wish.

Record a beat, make a bunch of duplicates that you slice up via the Wave Start and End points, into individual events or hits. You can tune, EQ and filter these smaller hits and then add them back into the mix to reinforce the main loop, accenting selected beats. Or create unique stutter steps with them. You can reverse the hits and super impose them on the forward playing original loop to create a wacky inside-out effect. Send some of them into a special effect you’ve set up. Let your imagination run wild.

Pitch Bend Control

What’s to get excited about? Pitch Bend is pitch bend, right? Try using this trick on your dance loops. [EDIT]:[MIDI/CTRL]:[Vel&PB] screen. Here you can set the Pitch Bend parameter to control playback pitch in the “Normal” way or set it to “Slow” to get the sound of a turntable coming to a stop when you move the wheel down. Or try “Slow&Reverse” – this will slow down playback to almost a full stop at about half way in the down direction but then start up the played portion of the sample, in reverse when the wheel is at the full down position. With a little practice you can “work the wheel” like scratching a turntable. Here’s how this works: you are playing data into an audio buffer. The more you play into the buffer, the more there is to playback in reverse. You can “cue” and repeat segments by aggressively working the wheel. Other pitch bend modes are Stop and Stop&Reverse. These use the pitch wheel to initiate play of the loop. There are also PB settings for different values for PB up and PB down over a 2 octave range.

Real time Beat Change

Among the 54 effect algorithms per effect processor is Beat Change. This unique effect, which is typically used in the 100% Wet balance position, takes incoming signal and allows you to adjust the tempo without affecting the pitch. This, of course, defies the laws of physics. The demonstration disk “Drum Variations” shows this off to good effect. Load this disk into the A3000. If it is your first time, simply place the disk in the A3000 drive and power up. The A3000 has a “diskette autoload” feature that will load the data. The second Program 002 “Modwheel” shows off the Beat Change effect. The samples are mapped just below middle “C”, and as you hold down a key that triggers a loop you can move the modulation wheel, which will raise and lower the tempo, yet the sound does not “munchkin-ize”.

There are 9 programmable parameters in the Beat Change algorithm, as follows:

1.Beat Change (Ctrl) – leave this set at 0 because this is what the assigned controller changes in real-time.

2.Beat Range – amount of overall tempo change (playback speed) – value should equal Pitch Range

3.Pitch Change (Ctrl) – leave this set at 0 because this is what the assigned controller changes in real-time.

4.Pitch Range – amount of overall pitch change. Value should equal Beat Range

5.Accuracy Type – weights the result toward sonic or rhythmic accuracy.

6.EQ Frequency

7.EQ Gain

8.EQ Width