Yamaha PSR-S910 Owner's Manual - Page 33

Voice Types Preset Voices [USER] button (page 30) 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 37) 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 Reference Manual. NOTE MegaVoices and Super Articulation Voices 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 1 In this section, only MegaVoice and Super Articulation Voice are explained. These instrument using these Voices will not Voices have special characteristics you should be aware of, and they require specific performance techniques to bring out all of their expressive qualities. sound properly when played back on other instruments. 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 and Super Articulation Voices 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. Super Articulation Voices (S.Art!) (PSR-S910) The Super Articulation 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 saxophone 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 shake or breath noises (for the Trumpet Voice), or finger noises (for the Guitar Voice) will be produced. For details on how to best play each Super Articulation Voice, call up the information window (pressing the [7 ▲] (INFO) button in the Voice Selection display). PSR-S910/S710 Owner's Manual 33