Yamaha CVP-505, CVP-501, CVP-503

CVP-509/505/503/501 Owner’s Manual 41

Voices – Playing the keyboard –

• SA2 Voices (S. Articulation2!) (CVP-509)

Mainly for wind instrument Voices, a special Yamaha technology called

AEM has been used, which features detailed samples of special expressive

techniques used on those speciﬁc instruments—to bend or slide into notes, to

“join” different notes together, or to add expressive nuances at the end of a

note, etc.

You can add these articulations by playing legato or staccato, or by jumping

in pitch by around an octave. For example, using the Clarinet Voice, if you

hold a C note and play the Bb above, you’ll hear a glissando up to the Bb.

Some “note off” effects are also produced automatically when you hold a

note for over a certain time.

You can also use the pedals to add articulations to the SA and SA2 Voices (page 43).

For details on how to best play each SA and SA2 Voice, call up the information

window (pressing the [7 ▲] (INFO) button in the Voice Selection display).

NOTE

The characteristics of SA2 Voices

(default vibrato setting and articula-

tion effects applied by the pedals) are

effective for real-time performance;

however, these effects may not be

completely reproduced when you play

back a Song which has been recorded

using SA2 Voices.

AEM Technology

When you play the piano, pressing a “C” key produces a deﬁnite and relatively

ﬁxed C note. When you play a wind instrument, however, a single ﬁngering may

produce several different sounds depending on the breath strength, the note

length, the adding of trills or bend effects, and other performance techniques.

Also, when playing two notes continuously—for example “C” and “D”—these

two notes will be smoothly joined, and not sound independent as they would on a

piano.

AEM (Articulation Element Modeling) is the technology for simulating this

characteristic of instruments. During performance, the most appropriate sound

samples are selected in sequence in real time, from huge quantities of sampled

data. They are smoothly joined and sounded—as would naturally occur on an

actual acoustic instrument.

This technology to smoothly join different samples enables the application of

realistic vibrato. Conventionally on electronic musical instruments, vibrato is

applied by moving the pitch periodically. AEM technology goes much further by

analyzing and disaggregating the sampled vibrato waves, and smoothly joins the

disaggregated data in real time during your performance.