Yamaha Tyros2 Owner's Manual - Page 94

Reference Voice Creator-Custom Voice Edit The powerful Voice Creator features of the Tyros2 give you the tools to create your own original voices from scratch. Voice Creator allows you to import your own audio samples and waveforms, and assign them to the keys-building completely new voices with completely new sounds. It also has a Voice Set function that lets you edit basic parameters for the voice, including filter, envelope and vibrato settings, as well as modulation assignments for the controllers and effect/EQ processing. The resulting voice is called a Custom voice and can be selected and played in the same way as all other Tyros2 voices. You can save your original voices to a USB storage device or an installed hard disk drive, as well as the User drive. You can also edit Preset voices or Custom voices on a computer by using the Voice Editor software (contained in the included CD-ROM). Creating a Voice-Basic Procedure For this operation, you'll need some audio data. This could be a short waveform of an instrument sound, a recording of a voice (sung or spoken), or a rhythm loop. As long as the data is stored in WAV or AIFF format, you can import it to the Tyros2. (In the Voice Creator, "Wave" refers to both WAV and AIFF format data.) You can use a USB storage device (such as a USB flash memory) to store the audio data and import it to the Tyros2, or you can record/transfer the audio to an installed hard disk drive. NOTE • This instrument cannot recognize the extension .aiff. When you use an AIFF file, change the extension to .aif. Wave file Custom voice file (Created by "Save" operation.) Element 1 "Import" operation Wave 1 Wave 2 Wave 3 Custom voice bank Can be called up with the [CUSTOM VOICE] button. "Assign" operation NORMAL Custom voice 128 areas Element 8 (max., if needed) Wave 4 Wave 5 Wave 6 Wave 7 For keyboard voices. DRUM 10 areas For style playback voices. 1 Prepare the audio data you'll be using for the new voice. The easiest way to do this is on a computer, ideally with audio editing software. You can record your own sounds to the computer and edit them, or take existing sounds (from commercial sample libraries and the like). If the audio data is on a USB storage device, connect the device to the USB TO DEVICE terminal. 94 Tyros2 Owner's Manual