About The Keyboard; Keyboard Sections And Their Functions; Synchro Start On/Off - Yamaha Tyros2 Owner's Manual

Basic Operations—Organizing Your Data

About the Keyboard

The Tyros2 keyboard features various functions and performance conveniences that are simply unavailable on an acoustic
instrument. As explained in the Quick Guide for example, it allows you to play several different voices together in a layer, or
play one voice with your left hand while you play a different voice (or even three layered voices!) with your right.
Below is a summary of the keyboard-related functions and modes.

Keyboard Sections and Their Functions

● Playing a single voice
VOICE RIGHT 1
● Playing three voices in a layer
VOICE RIGHT 1–3
● When [ACMP] (style playback) is turned on:
Chord section for
style playback
Split Point ........... The point on the keyboard that separates the
chord section and the right-hand section.
● Playing two voices in a layer
VOICE RIGHT 1 + RIGHT 2

Synchro Start On/Off

The convenient Synchro Start function lets you start style or song playback by simply playing a key on the keyboard. Naturally,
it should be set to on (standby) when you want to use it.
● Synchro Start—Style Playback (page 31)
Turn it on or off by pressing the [SYNC START] button in the STYLE CONTROL section. When Synchro Start is
on, style playback behaves in two different ways, depending on the [ACMP] button status:
• When [ACMP] is off—
Only the Rhythm part (channel) of the selected style starts as soon as you play any key on the keyboard.
• When [ACMP] is on—
All parts of the selected style start as soon as you play a key/chord in the Chord section of the keyboard.
(Playing in any other section does not start the style.)
● Synchro Start—Song Playback
To turn Synchro Start on or off, simultaneously hold down the [STOP] button and press the [PLAY/PAUSE] button
in the SONG CONTROL section. When Synchro Start is on, the song starts from the current position as soon as you
play the keyboard.
80
Tyros2 Owner's Manual
VOICE RIGHT 1–3
● Playing separate voices with the right and left hands
VOICE LEFT
Split Point........... The point on the keyboard that separates the
left-hand section and the right-hand section.
Chord section +
VOICE LEFT
Split Point
When the Split Point for the Chord section and the
Split Point for the Voice are set to different points
(notes):
VOICE LEFT
Chord section for
style playback
Split Point for the Chord section
RIGHT 3 Split Point
You can set a separate split point to be specified for the R3 voice.
This means that you could, for example, assign only the top octave
of the keyboard to a percussion or sound-effect voice.
VOICE RIGHT 1–3
VOICE RIGHT 1–3
VOICE RIGHT 1–3
Split Point for the Voice