Main Features - Yamaha Tyros5-76 Owner's Manual

 Extraordinarily expressive and realistic Voices
As one of the most powerful performance keyboards ever created, the Tyros5 has a comprehensive and sonically stunning set of
authentic Voices, and gives you the means to play these Voices more naturally and with greater expressiveness. In particular, the
instrument has new Ensemble Voices that let you convincingly recreate true multi-part ensemble playing, such as brass sections
and string quartets. There are also many new and enhanced orchestral Super Articulation Voices, including trumpet, trombone
and flute. Moreover, a special Organ World feature provides realistic recreation plus expressive control of some of the world's
most popular organ sounds.
 Dynamic, professional Auto Accompaniment Styles
The Styles of the Tyros5 make it possible to perform in a wide variety of music genres with full backing band accompaniment.
However, the new Audio Styles bring a fresh level of realism and expressiveness, featuring actual audio recordings of top-class
studio musicians. These impart all the original feel, ambience and excitement to the drums and percussion parts of the Style,
and retain the subtle nuances and grooves that are difficult to reproduce using the preset drum kits.
 Powerful DSP effect processing for enhancing the sound
Not only does the Tyros5 have new and high-quality effect types, including Real Distortion and Real Reverb, it provides beau-
tifully designed panel displays, with highly intuitive controls—just like actual effect devices. These also include VCM effects
that use the same technology as the professional-level processing on Yamaha's high-end mixers.
 Audio recording and playback
The Tyros5 lets you conveniently record your performance as audio data, and save it in WAV file format—making it easy to edit
your recordings on computer as desired, and share them over the Internet, or burn your own original CDs. MP3 audio playback
is also supported. Moreover, the instrument provides a variety of advanced convenient audio playback and processing functions,
including Time Stretch, which lets you slow down or speed up an audio file without changing the pitch, and Pitch Shift, which
allows you to change the pitch without affecting the time. Moreover, a Vocal Cancel function effectively mutes center-position
vocals in audio, letting you to sing "karaoke" style with just instrumental backing.
 Expressive and Versatile Vocal Harmony feature—with Synth Vocoder
The enhanced Vocal Harmony 2 (VH2) processing engine delivers superior sound, lightning-fast processing and comprehen-
sive, flexible control of the harmonies applied to your singing voice (page 89). It also has a Synth Vocoder feature, recreating
that popular effect for a variety of luscious, other-worldly sounds. In addition, the rear-panel combo jack lets you conveniently
connect either XLR mic cables or ¼" phone plugs.
 Voice expandability
The Tyros5 is an open-ended instrument that lets you continually expand the available content for your creative explorations.
Featured on our special website (http://yamahamusicsoft.com) are many Voices, Waves, Songs and Styles (called Premium
Pack data) that you can buy and load to the Tyros5. (You'll need to install the optional Flash Memory Expansion Module in
order to use this additional content.)
Compatible formats for the instrument
"GM (General MIDI)" is one of the most common Voice allocation formats. "GM System Level 2" is a standard spec-
ification that enhances the original "GM" and improves Song data compatibility. It provides for increased polyphony,
greater Voice selection, expanded Voice parameters, and integrated effect processing.
XG is a major enhancement of the GM System Level 1 format, and was developed by Yamaha specifically to provide
more Voices and variations, as well as greater expressive control over Voices and effects, and to ensure compatibility
of data well into the future.
GS was developed by the Roland Corporation. In the same way as Yamaha XG, GS is a major enhancement of the
GM specifically to provide more Voices and Drum kits and their variations, as well as greater expressive control over
Voices and effects.
The Yamaha XF format enhances the SMF (Standard MIDI File) standard with greater functionality and open-ended
expandability for the future. The Tyros5 is capable of displaying lyrics when an XF file containing lyric data is
played.
"SFF (Style File Format)" is an original Style file format by Yamaha which uses a unique conversion system to pro-
vide high-quality automatic accompaniment based on a wide range of chord types. "SFF GE (Guitar Edition)" is an
enhanced format of SFF, which features improved note transposition for guitar tracks.
"AEM" is the trademark of Yamaha's leading-edge tone generation technology. For information on AEM, refer to the
Reference Manual on the website.

Main Features

Tyros5 Owner's Manual
11