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Introduction With its wide collection of voices and easy-to-use controls, the Yamaha RY20 is the perfect musical partner for guitarists, bassists, keyboard players, and many other instrumentalists. It offers the features and capability required for recording applications, rehearsals and practice sessions, and live performance. The RY20 uses Yamaha's AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) tone generator system to create 300 realistic tunable voices including drums, effected drums, percussion of all kinds, and basses. You can add effects to the voices, either reverb or delay, using the built-in DSP (Digital Signal Processor). Using one of the 20 user drum kits, you can assign any voice to one of the pads. The RY20 has 50 professionally-programmed preset patterns. You can also create and store 50 user patterns of your own, and combine tracks from different patterns and store them for an additional 50 "combination" patterns. Each pattern has six sections ("INTRO", "MAIN A", "MAIN B", "FILL AB", "FILL BA", and "ENDING") and each section has four tracks (bass drum, snare drum, hi-hat and other instruments). Patterns can be combined to create complete songs. The RY20 can store 50 songs in its user song memory. It features easy-to-use controls with a large, useful LCD display. Change values quickly using the Shuttle dial, then fine-tune them using the Jog dial. Create patterns in real-time or step record mode using the velocity-sensitive pads. Make up "kits" of commonly-used drum and bass sounds. Make your patterns reflect your musical ideas and escape from the "mechanical feel" common to conventional rhythm machines by using the built-in swing and groove functions. The RY20 includes full MIDI capabilities (including General MIDI compatible drum mapping) to allow full communication with the rest of your MIDI set-up. Please read this owner's manual carefully in order to familiarize yourself with the RY20 and its features - and keep the manual in a safe place for later reference. iii

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With its wide collection of voices and easy-to-use controls, the Yamaha RY20 is the perfect musical
partner for guitarists, bassists, keyboard players, and many other instrumentalists. It offers the
features and capability required for recording applications, rehearsals and practice sessions, and live
performance.
The RY20 uses Yamaha’s AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) tone generator system to create 300
realistic tunable voices including drums, effected drums, percussion of all kinds, and basses. You can
add effects to the voices, either reverb or delay, using the built-in DSP (Digital Signal Processor).
Using one of the 20 user drum kits, you can assign any voice to one of the pads.
The RY20 has 50 professionally-programmed preset patterns. You can also create and store 50 user
patterns of your own, and combine tracks from different patterns and store them for an additional 50
“combination” patterns. Each pattern has six sections (“
INTRO
”, “
MAIN A
”, “
MAIN B
”, “
FILL AB
”,
“
FILL BA
”, and “
ENDING
”) and each section has four tracks (bass drum, snare drum, hi-hat and other
instruments).
Patterns can be combined to create complete songs. The RY20 can store 50 songs in its user song
memory.
It features easy-to-use controls with a large, useful LCD display. Change values quickly using the
Shuttle dial, then fine-tune them using the Jog dial. Create patterns in real-time or step record mode
using the velocity-sensitive pads. Make up “kits” of commonly-used drum and bass sounds. Make your
patterns reflect your musical ideas and escape from the “mechanical feel” common to conventional
rhythm machines by using the built-in swing and groove functions.
The RY20 includes full MIDI capabilities (including General MIDI compatible drum mapping) to
allow full communication with the rest of your MIDI set-up.
Please read this owner’s manual carefully in order to familiarize yourself with the RY20 and its
features – and keep the manual in a safe place for later reference.
Introduction