Yamaha TYROS - page 133

Using a Microphone

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■ NOISE GATE

This effect mutes the input signal when the input from the microphone falls below a speciﬁed level. This effectively cuts

off extraneous noise, allowing the desired signal (vocal, etc.) to pass.

● SW (Switch)............. This turns Noise Gate on or off.

● TH. (Threshold)....... This adjusts the input level at which the gate begins to open.

■ COMPRESSOR

This effect holds down the output when the input signal from the microphone exceeds a speciﬁed level. This is especially

useful for smoothing out vocals that have widely varying dynamics. It effectively “compresses” the signal, making soft

parts louder and loud parts softer.

● SW (Switch)............. This turns Compressor on or off.

● TH. (Threshold)....... This adjusts the input level at which compression begins to be applied.

● RATIO........................This adjusts the compression ratio.

● OUT............................Adjusts the ﬁnal output level.

■ VOCAL HARMONY CONTROL

The following parameters determine how the harmony is controlled.

● VOCODER CONTROL

The Vocal Harmony effect is controlled by note data — the notes you play on the keyboard and/or the notes of the song

data. This parameter lets you determine which notes are used to control the harmony.

● BAL (Balance)

This lets you set the balance between the lead vocal (your own voice) and Vocal Harmony. Raising this value increases the

volume of the Vocal Harmony and decreases that of the lead vocal. When this is set to L<H63 (L: Lead Vocal, H: Vocal

Harmony), only the Vocal Harmony is output; when it is set to L63>H, only the lead vocal is output.

● MODE (Vocal Harmony mode)

All of the Vocal Harmony types fall into one of three modes which produce harmony in different ways. The harmony effect

is dependent on the selected Vocal Harmony mode, and this parameter determines how the harmony is applied to your

voice. The three modes are described below.

● CHORD

The following parameters determine which data in a recorded song is used for chord detection.

■ MIC (Microphone)

The following parameters determine how the microphone sound is controlled.

SONG CHANNEL

MUTE/PLAY

When set to “MUTE,” the channel selected below is muted (turned off) during keyboard perfor-

mance or song playback.

OFF/1 - 16

When set to “OFF,” song data control over harmony is turned off. When set to one of the values

1 - 16, note data (played from a song on disk or external MIDI sequencer) contained on the

corresponding channel is used to control the harmony.

KEYBOARD

OFF

Keyboard control over harmony is turned off.

UPPER

Notes played to the right of the split point (page 112) control the harmony.

LOWER

Notes played to the left of the split point (page 112) control the harmony.

VOCODER The harmony notes are determined by the notes you play on the keyboard and/ or song data.

CHORDAL

The harmony notes are determined by the following three types of chord: chords played in the chord

section of the keyboard (with the [ACMP] turned on), chords played in the LEFT voice section of the

keyboard (with the [ACMP] turned off and the [LEFT] turned on), and chords contained in song data

for controlling the harmony. (Not available if the song does not contain any chord data.)

AUTO When the [ACMP] or [LEFT] is set to ON and if chord data exists in the song, the mode is automat-

ically set to CHORDAL. In all other cases, the mode is set to VOCODER.

OFF Chords are not detected from the song data.

XF Chords of XF format are used for the Vocal Harmony.

1 - 16 Chords are detected from note data in the specified song channel.

MUTE When set to OFF, the microphone sound is turned off.

VOLUME Adjusts the output volume of the microphone sound.