Yamaha CVP-509 Owner's Manual - Page 41

• 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. NOTE The characteristics of SA2 Voices (default vibrato setting and articulation 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. Voices - Playing the keyboard - 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). 2 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. CVP-509/505/503/501 Owner's Manual 41