Yamaha TYROS Owners Manual - Page 133

Reference Using a Microphone I NOISE GATE This effect mutes the input signal when the input from the microphone falls below a specified level. This effectively cuts off extraneous noise, allowing the desired signal (vocal, etc.) to pass. G SW (Switch This turns Noise Gate on or off. G TH. (Threshold) ....... This adjusts the input level at which the gate begins to open. I COMPRESSOR This effect holds down the output when the input signal from the microphone exceeds a specified level. This is especially useful for smoothing out vocals that have widely varying dynamics. It effectively "compresses" the signal, making soft parts louder and loud parts softer. G SW (Switch This turns Compressor on or off. G TH. (Threshold) ....... This adjusts the input level at which compression begins to be applied. G RATIO This adjusts the compression ratio. G OUT Adjusts the final output level. I VOCAL HARMONY CONTROL The following parameters determine how the harmony is controlled. G VOCODER CONTROL The Vocal Harmony effect is controlled by note data - the notes you play on the keyboard and/or the notes of the song data. This parameter lets you determine which notes are used to control the harmony. SONG CHANNEL KEYBOARD MUTE/PLAY When set to "MUTE," the channel selected below is muted (turned off) during keyboard performance or song playback. OFF/1 - 16 When set to "OFF," song data control over harmony is turned off. When set to one of the values 1 - 16, note data (played from a song on disk or external MIDI sequencer) contained on the corresponding channel is used to control the harmony. OFF Keyboard control over harmony is turned off. UPPER Notes played to the right of the split point (page 112) control the harmony. LOWER Notes played to the left of the split point (page 112) control the harmony. G BAL (Balance) This lets you set the balance between the lead vocal (your own voice) and Vocal Harmony. Raising this value increases the volume of the Vocal Harmony and decreases that of the lead vocal. When this is set to LH, only the lead vocal is output. G MODE (Vocal Harmony mode) All of the Vocal Harmony types fall into one of three modes which produce harmony in different ways. The harmony effect is dependent on the selected Vocal Harmony mode, and this parameter determines how the harmony is applied to your voice. The three modes are described below. VOCODER CHORDAL AUTO The harmony notes are determined by the notes you play on the keyboard and/ or song data. The harmony notes are determined by the following three types of chord: chords played in the chord section of the keyboard (with the [ACMP] turned on), chords played in the LEFT voice section of the keyboard (with the [ACMP] turned off and the [LEFT] turned on), and chords contained in song data for controlling the harmony. (Not available if the song does not contain any chord data.) When the [ACMP] or [LEFT] is set to ON and if chord data exists in the song, the mode is automatically set to CHORDAL. In all other cases, the mode is set to VOCODER. G CHORD The following parameters determine which data in a recorded song is used for chord detection. OFF XF 1 - 16 Chords are not detected from the song data. Chords of XF format are used for the Vocal Harmony. Chords are detected from note data in the specified song channel. I MIC (Microphone) The following parameters determine how the microphone sound is controlled. MUTE VOLUME When set to OFF, the microphone sound is turned off. Adjusts the output volume of the microphone sound. 133 TYROS Owner's Manual 131