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Style Creator (Digital Recording)

Reference

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TYROS Owner’s Manual

● Loop Recording and Overdub Recording

The Song Creator (Song Recording) feature records your keyboard performance as MIDI data. Recording a style data via the Style

Creator, however, is done in a different way. Here are some of the aspects in which style recording differs from song recording:

• Loop Recording................Style playback repeats the rhythm patterns of

several measures in a “loop,” and style record-

ing is also done using loops. For example, if you

start recording with a two-measure main sec-

tion, the two measures are repeatedly recorded.

Notes that you record will play back from the

next repetition (loop), letting you record while

hearing previously recorded material.

• Overdub Recording.......... This method records new material to a part

(channel) already containing recorded data,

without deleting the original data. In style

recording, the recorded data is not deleted,

except when using functions such as Rhythm

Clear (page 117) and Delete function (page

116). For example, if you start recording with a

two-measure MAIN section, the two measures

are repeated many times. Notes that you record

will play back from the next repetition, letting

you overdub new material to the loop while

hearing previously recorded material.

Using the recording methods above, the Style Creator feature lets you record complete rhythm patterns (like the one above) quickly

and easily.

● Rhythm Parts and Pitched Parts

Creating or recording the Rhythm parts (containing non-pitched data) differs from recording other parts (containing pitched data)

in the following ways.

• Note data can be overdubbed to existing Rhythm parts of a preset style, whereas other pitched parts can be newly recorded

to only after all existing preset data on the part is deleted.

• Style parts (channels) other than Rhythm parts are played back according to the chord root/type speciﬁed in the chord section

of the keyboard. The notes output from style parts (channels) other than Rhythm parts are transposed from the Source Pattern

(described below) according to the chord root/type speciﬁed in the chord section of the keyboard. The Style Creator lets you

set the parameters that determine how the note is transposed and set the parameters that determine how notes held through

chord changes will be handled.

The Style File Format (SFF) combines all of Yamaha’s auto accompaniment

(style playback) know-how into a single uniﬁed format. By using the Style Cre-

ator, you can take advantage of the power of the SFF format and freely create

your own styles.

The chart shown at left indicates the process by which the style is played back.

(This does not apply to the rhythm track.) These parameters can be set via the

Style Creator feature.

● Source Pattern...................................................................page 121

There are a variety of possibilities for style playback notes, depending on the par-

ticular root note and chord type that are selected. The style data is appropriately

converted depending on the chord changes you make during your performance.

This basic style data that you create with the Style Creator is referred to as the

“Source Pattern.”

● Note Transposition............................................................page 121

This parameter group features two parameters that determine how the notes of the

Source Pattern are to be converted in response to chord changes.

● Other Settings................................................................... page 122

Using the parameters of this group, you can ﬁne-tune how style playback responds

to the chords you play. For example, the Note Limit parameter allows you to have

the voices of the style sound as realistic as possible by shifting the pitch to an

authentic range — ensuring that no notes sound outside the natural range of the

actual instrument (e.g., very low notes of a piccolo sound).

Bass Drum

Snare Drum

Bass Drum

Snare Drum

Hi-Hat

Bass Drum

Special Parameter Settings based on Style File Format

Source Pattern

PLAY ROOT

(Chord Root setting of a Source Pattern)

PLAY CHORD

(Chord Type setting of a Source Pattern)

Note Transposition

NTR

(Note Transposition Rule applied to the Chord Root

change)

NTT

(Note Transposition Table applied to the Chord Type

change)

Other Settings

HIGH KEY

(Upper limit of the octaves of the note transposing caused

by the Chord Root change)

NOTE LIMIT (Note range in which the note is sounded)

RTR

(Retrigger Rule that determines how notes held through

chord changes will be handled)

Chord change via the

chord section of the

keybaord.

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