Yamaha PSR-A2000 Owner's Manual - Page 38

1 Voice Types Preset Voices Percussion/Drum Voices When one of the Voices is selected from this button, you can play various drums and percussion instruments or SFX (sound effects) sounds on the keyboard. Details are given in the Drum List provided in the Data List on the website. Organ Flutes Voices (page 45) Expansion/User Voices This is used for calling up Custom Voices (your original Voices created with the Voice Set function), or Expansion Voices (additionally installed Voices). For details on Expansion Voices, refer to the section "Expanding Voices" (page 39). Voices - Playing the keyboard - • Voice Characteristics The Voice type and its defining characteristics are indicated above the Voice name-Live!, Cool!, Sweet!, etc. For detailed explanation, refer to the Advanced Features section (page 100). In this section, only MegaVoices are explained. These Voices have special characteristics you should be aware of, and they require specific performance techniques to bring out all of their expressive qualities. MegaVoices What makes MegaVoices special is their use of velocity switching. Each velocity range (the measure of your playing strength) has a completely different sound. For example, a guitar MegaVoice includes the sounds of various performance techniques. In conventional instruments, different Voices having those sounds would be called up via MIDI and played in combination to achieve the desired effect. However, now with MegaVoices, 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. NOTE MegaVoices are only compatible with other models which have those types of Voices installed. Any Song, Style or Multi Pads data you've created on the instrument using these Voices will not sound properly when played back on other instruments. NOTE MegaVoices sound differently depending on the keyboard range, velocity, touch, etc. Hence, if you apply HARMONY/ECHO effect, change the transpose setting or change the Voice Set parameters, unexpected or undesired sounds may result. 38 PSR-A2000 Owner's Manual