Yamaha TYROS - page 80

Voices

Reference

80 TYROS Owner’s Manual

■ Mega Voices........................................................................................................................................................

These specially programmed voices are not indicated among the VOICE buttons on the panel. In fact, they are not even

intended to be played from the TYROS keyboard. The Mega voices are primarily designed for use with recorded MIDI

sequence data (such as songs and styles). Some of the guitar and bass voices in particular have been created as Mega

voices for the TYROS, and are easily distinguished from the normal voices by their icons in the Open/Save displays.

What makes Mega voices special is their use of velocity switching. Normal voices use velocity switching, too — to make

the sound quality and/or level of a voice according to how strongly or softly you play it. This makes the TYROS voices

sound authentic and natural. However, with Mega voices, each velocity range (the measure of your playing strength) has

a completely different sound.

For example, a Mega guitar voice includes the sounds of various performance techniques (as shown below). In conven-

tional instruments, different voices having those sounds would be called up via MIDI and played in combination to achieve

the desired effect. However, now with Mega voices, a convincing guitar part can be played with just a single voice, using

speciﬁc velocity values to play the desired sounds.

Because of the complex nature of these voices and the precise velocities need to play the sounds, they’re not intended for

playing from the keyboard. They are, however, very useful and convenient when creating MIDI data — especially when

you want to avoid using several different voices just for a single instrument part.

Sound maps for the TYROS’ Mega voices (like the one above) are given in the separate Data List booklet. Take full

advantage of the Mega voices and refer to these maps when creating MIDI sequence data for songs, styles, and Multi Pads.

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C-2 C-1 C0 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8

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The sounds of various guitar performance techniques are inde-

pendently assigned to different velocity and note ranges.

Harmonics

Slide

Hammer-on notes

Muted

“Dead” notes

Open (hard)

Open (mid)

Open (soft)

Strumming Fret

Noise

●Example Mega Voice — Guitar

Velocity

Since the Mega voices are fundamentally different from the other voices of the TYROS, you should keep in mind the following points and precau-

tions when working with them.

Unexpected or undesired sounds may result depend-

ing on the settings or conditions below:

• Initial Touch setting in the [FUNCTION]

→

CON-

TROLLER

→

KEYBOARD/PANEL display (page

154)

• Harmony/Echo settings in the [FUNCTION]

→

HARMONY/ECHO display (page 154)

• Touch sensitivity-related settings in the Sound

Creator (page 86)

• Playing keys in the left-hand Chord sections when

Stop Accompaniment (page 112) is set to

“STYLE.”

Unexpected or undesired sounds may result

depending on the settings below, when editing or

creating data for songs, styles, and Multi Pads:

• When selecting a Mega voice from the Revoice

display of a style (page 37).

• When changing the velocity values of several

notes at once in the Event List displays of

song, style, or Multi Pad (page 100).

• When changing the velocity values of several

notes at once with the Velocity Change function

(page 120) and the Dynamics function (page

118) in the Style Creator function.

• When changing the note numbers of several

speciﬁed channels at once with the Channel

Transpose function (page 97) in the Song Cre-

ator function.

Mega voices are unique to the TYROS

and are not compatible with other mod-

els. Any song/style/Multi Pad data

you’ve created on the TYROS using the

Mega voices will not sound properly

when played back on other instru-

ments.

Maximum Polyphony

The TYROS features a maximum polyphony of 128 notes. Since style playback uses a number of the

available notes, the full 128 notes will not be available on the keyboard when a style is played back.

The same applies to the Voice RIGHT1, RIGHT2, RIGHT3, LEFT, Multi Pad, and Song functions.

When the maximum polyphony is exceeded, notes are played using last-note priority.