Selecting A Voice - Yamaha YDS-120 Owner's Manual

Playing the Instrument
Mouth Shape
Position the mouthpiece in your mouth with your upper
front teeth resting about 1cm from the tip of the mouth-
piece. Cover your lower teeth with your lower lip to keep
your teeth from coming into direct contact with the mouth-
piece.
Tongue
Lower
teeth
With the mouthpiece resting on your lower lip, seal your
mouth around the mouthpiece to keep air from leaking out
of the corners of your mouth when blowing.
* Do not bite hard on the mouthpiece.
How to Play Sound
Put the mouthpiece into your mouth and blow. Blow
strongly for a higher volume, and softly for a lower volume.
NOTE
• Unlike an acoustic saxophone, changing the degree to
which the mouthpiece is inserted into the neck will not
change the pitch of the sound.
Selecting a Voice
It is possible to select a Voice and tonality you like, such as
an alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, etc.
1
Press VOICE [ ]/[
The Voice number is displayed on the LED display. For
the Voice names, refer to the Voice List on page 19.
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Upper
front teeth
Lower lip
].
The display on the LED screen has the follow-
ing meanings.
to : Alto sax Voices (in Eb)
to : Soprano sax Voices (in Bb)
to : Tenor sax Voices (in Bb)
to : Baritone sax Voices (in Eb)
to : Non-sax Voices (in C)
to : You can select user Voices edited in
the dedicated app (page 14). For
details, refer to the manual for the
dedicated app.
: Change to the MIDI controller func-
tion. You can transfer your perfor-
mance as the MIDI data to your
smart device connected via the USB
cable. Also, you can edit the MIDI
controller settings in the dedicated
app. In this function, the speaker of
this product do not sound.
NOTE
• Press the VOICE [
button to jump to a next/previous Voice group.
Using the Analog Controller
The analog controller has functions assigned by default
depending on the selected Voice.
For details about the functions assigned to the analog con-
troller for each Voice, see the Voice List at the end of this
document.
NOTE
• Portamento is a playing technique that smoothly slides
the pitch of the performance up and down. When using
a Voice with portamento assigned to it, move the thumb
controller to smoothly change the pitch.
]/[ ] button while holding the [Fn]
• Raising or lowering the
pitch (Pitch Bend)
• Applying vibrato to the
sound. (Modulation)
• Smoothing out the pitch
slide between notes (Por-
tamento)