BEFORE YOU BEGIN
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THE AWM VOICES.There are 128 “drum” voices and 50 “normal” AWM voices. The drum voices
are assigned to the drum kits. The normal voices are assigned to the backing
accompaniments and to the guitar synthesizer.
THE DRUM KITS.There are 12 Preset drum kits and 4 User drum kits. Although there are only
12 pads on the top panel of the RY9, each drum kit is made up of 24 drum
voices, organized in two “Pad Banks”—a “Drum Pad Bank” and a “Percussion
Pad Bank”—with 12 drum voices assigned to each Pad Bank. (You can switch
freely back and forth between Pad Banks by pressing the [PAD BANK] button.)
The various Preset drum kits are designed for different styles of music. You
can create your own User drum kits by assigning any drum voice you want to
the pads, and specifying output and accent levels, as well as pan positioning
and pitch tuning, for each pad.
THE PATTERNS.There are 200 Preset patterns and 50 User patterns, each comprised of a one-
measure rhythm pattern. The Preset patterns are organized in 50 music styles
with “A”, “B”, “C” and “D” Sections for each style—representing both “main”
and “fill-in” type Sections.
The Preset rhythm patterns also have special Bass, Chord 1 and Chord 2
backing accompaniment tracks—matched to the music style of each respective
pattern—assigned to them. Each backing track can be turned off, or “muted”,
at will, and you can adjust the volume balance of each. If you want, you can
switch the backing off entirely.
You can create your own User rhythm patterns, and assign one of the backing
accompaniments to it.
THE SONGS.There are 50 Preset songs and 50 User songs. The Preset songs are made up
of the Preset patterns, complete with preprogrammed chord progressions, and
are intended as music style ideas to get you started or to play along with as
they are.
You can create your own songs using Preset and/or User patterns, complete
with chord progressions that you can record in the “chord track”.
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