Yamaha Tyros4 Owner's Manual - Page 37
Super Articulation Voices, SA Voices S.Articulation, AEM Technology
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Voices - Playing the Keyboard - Super Articulation Voices The word "articulation" in music usually refers to the transition or continuity between notes. This is often reflected in specific performance techniques, such as staccato, legato and slur. Two types of Voices-Super Articulation (SA) Voices and Super Articulation 2 (SA2) Voices-enable you to create these subtle musical expressions, simply by how you play. SA Voices (S.Articulation!) The SA Voices provide many of same benefits as the MegaVoices, but with greater playability and expressive control in real time. For example, with the Saxophone Voice, if you play a C and then a D in a very legato way, you will hear the note change seamlessly, as though a saxo- 1 phone player played it in a single breath. Similarly with the Concert Guitar Voice, the D note would sound as a "hammer on", without the string being plucked again. Depending on how you play, other effects such as subtle sound produced when the keys are released or sustain sound that occur when you press the damper pedal of a grand piano (for the Grand Piano Voice), shake or breath noises (for the Trumpet Voice), or finger noises (for the Guitar Voice) will be produced. SA2 Voices (S. Articulation2!) For wind instrument Voices and Violin Voices, a special 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 non-legato, 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. Each SA2 Voice has its own default vibrato setting, so that when you select a SA2 Voice, the appropriate vibrato is applied regardless of the Modulation wheel position. You can adjust the vibrato by moving the Modulation wheel. You can also use the [ART. 1]/[ART. 2] buttons to add articulations to the SA and SA2 Voices (page 40). For details on how to best play each SA and SA2 Voice, call up the information window (pressing the [6 ] (INFO) button in the Voice Selection display.) NOTE For more information on AEM technology, see below. NOTE The characteristics of SA2 Voices (default vibrato setting and articulation effects applied by the [ART] buttons) 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. 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. If you move the Modulation wheel when you play the SA2 Voice (using AEM technology), you can also control the depth of the vibrato, while maintaining its realistic quality. Tyros4 Owner's Manual 37