Main Features - Yamaha Tyros4 Owner's Manual

 Extraordinarily expressive and realistic Voices
The Tyros4 has an expanded and enhanced set of exceptionally authentic Voices, and gives you the means to play these Voices
more naturally and with greater expressiveness. In particular, the instrument has many new Super Articulation Choir Voices,
with amazingly realistic and natural human voice sounds—giving you even more expressive capability.
 Powerful, professional Auto Accompaniment Styles
The Styles of the Tyros4 have been vastly enhanced with the expert use of new Super Articulation and Super Articulation 2
Voices. Greater and more expressive variations in the MegaVoices have been employed as well, particularly in the Scat and
Gospel Voices.
 Dynamic and Versatile Vocal Harmony feature—with Synth Vocoder
The newly enhanced Vocal Harmony 2 (VH2) (page 82) processing engine delivers superior sound, lightning-fast processing,
and comprehensive, flexible control of the harmonies applied to your singing voice. It also has a Synth Vocoder feature, provid-
ing the dynamic, popular vocoder effect for a variety of luscious and even other-worldly sounds. Moreover, the rear-panel
combo jack lets you easily connect either XLR mic cables or 1/4" phone plug.
 Voice expandability
Tyros4 is an open-ended instrument that lets you continually expand the available content for your creative explorations.
Yamaha has a special website (http://music-tyros.com/) featuring Premium Voices, Waves, Songs and Styles, etc. (called Pre-
mium Pack data) that can be purchased and loaded to the Tyros4. (In order to use the additional Waves and Voices you pur-
chased, you'll need to install the optional Flash Memory Expansion Module.)
 Audio recording and playback
Tyros4 lets you record your performances as audio data (page 75), with two different methods, Simple (quick and easy record-
ing to a single audio track) and Multi Track (overdub recording for complex songs). Since the created audio data is saved in
WAV file format, you can edit your recordings on computer and share it over the Internet or burn your own original CD. The
instrument also allows you to play back MP3 data.
 Convenient, easy-to-use Music Finder function
With the enormous wealth of data available on the instrument (including your own Song and Audio data), the Music Finder
function (page 66) lets you instantly find and call up what you need. Not only can you get ideal setups (Voice, Style, etc.) for
each song—searching by song title/genre—you can also easily retrieve your original Song and Audio data (registered before-
hand). Additional new panel settings for the Tyros4 can be directly downloaded from the Internet.
 Enhanced features for directly connecting to the Internet
The Tyros4 can also be directly connected to the Internet with the Internet Direct Connection function (page 90), allowing you
to download special content without the need for a computer. Enhancements include a convenient, easy-to-use IDC Setup Wiz-
ard, as well as new security options, with WPA2 and WPA.
The Tyros4 is compatible with the following formats.
"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 Tyros4 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
page 37.

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