Yamaha ELC-02 ELC-02/ELCU-M02 Owners Manual - Page 37

Tone Generator The Electone features the AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) tone generation system. AWM Tone Generator Tone Generator Example: S-Alto Saxophone (type D) When "ART.1" is selected, playing the keyboard with the Left Footswitch pressed will bend the pitch up. When "ART.2" is selected, playing the keyboard with the 2 Left Footswitch pressed will produce glissando. Voices When "AUTO" is set to ON, both the bend-up and glissando are produced automatically by just playing the keyboard. AWM is a synthesis system based on sampled waves, or audio recordings of actual instruments. AWM Voices use multiple samples, so that they sound like a real instrument. This section also describes how to play the Super Articulation Voices, since you will need special settings and operations for playing these Voices. What are Super Articulation Voices? The Super Articulation Voices (having names beginning with the prefix "S-") realistically recreate many of the performance techniques and characteristic sounds generated when an artist plays an instrument. As a result, you can produce superbly detailed expression such as the realistic sound of finger slides on guitar and keyboard action noise of electronic piano. Moreover, these Voices will enable you to feel the breath noise of musicians which employ performance techniques such as legato, pitch bend and glissando, as well as scat singing ("ShooBee-Doo-Bah," etc.), such as adlibbed by jazz vocalists. These expressions can be called up by simply playing the keyboard or by using the Left Footswitch. Expression examples via the Super Articulation Voice The following expressions can be produced by setting the parameters of ARTICULATION (page 43) on page 2 of the Voice Condition display. Example: S-Nylon Guitar (type A) When either of "ART.1" or "ART.2" is selected, pressing the Left Footswitch will produce body-tapping sound. Example: S-Steel Guitar (type B) When "ART.1" is selected, playing the keyboard with the Left Footswitch pressed will produce sound via picking harmonics. Example: S-ShooBeeDooBah/Hmm (type C) When "ART.1" is selected, playing the keyboard with the Left Footswitch pressed will produce a humming sound while playing the keyboard with the Left Footswitch released will produce "Shoo," "Bee," "Doo," and "Bah" alternatively. ELC-02/ELCU-M02 Owner's Manual 37