Effect Connection; About The Vocoder Effect; About Effect Categories, Effect Types, And Effect Parameters; About Preset Settings - Yamaha Montage 7 Reference Manual

Effect connection

1 Each EQ and Insertion Effect applied to each
Part
2 Variation and Reverb related parameters
Setting: Part Edit  [Effect]  [Routing]
page 136)
Common/Audio Edit  [Effect]  [Routing]
3 Master Effect related parameters
Setting: Common/Audio Edit  [Effect]  [Master FX]
(page 158)
4 Master EQ related parameters
Setting: Common/Audio Edit  [Effect]  [Master EQ]
(page 159)
NOTE Regarding the audio input signal from the A/D INPUT [L/
MONO]/[R] jacks, the effect is set in Common/Audio Edit
 [Audio In].

About the Vocoder Effect

MONTAGE features a Vocoder effect. Vocoder is a distinctive, "robot voice" effect which extracts the
characteristic of the microphone sound and adds it to the sound via your keyboard performance. The
human voice consists of sounds generated from the vocal cords, and filtered by the throat, nose and
mouth. These resonant sections have specific frequency characteristics and they function effectively as a
filter, creating many formants (harmonic content). The Vocoder effect extracts the filter characteristics of
the voice from the microphone input and recreates the vocal formants by the use of multiple band pass
filters. The machine-like 'robot' voice is created by passing the pitched sounds of musical instruments
(such as a synthesizer sound) through the filters.
Mic Input or
Part Output
Part Output
(Keyboard
Performance)

About Effect categories, Effect types, and Effect parameters

For information regarding the effect categories of this instrument and the effect types contained in
their categories, see the "Effect Type List" in the Data List PDF document. For information on the
effect parameters which can be set in the each effect type, see the "Effect Parameter List" in the Data
List PDF document. For information on the descriptions of each effect category, each effect type, and
each effect parameter, see the Synthesizer Parameters Manual PDF document.

About Preset settings

Preset settings for parameters of each effect type are provided as templates and can be selected in
the Effect Type selection display. To get a desired effect sound, try first selecting one of the Presets
close to your imagined sound, then change the parameters as necessary. Preset settings can be
determined by setting "Preset" in each effect parameter display. For information on each effect type,
see the Data List PDF document.
MONTAGE Reference Manual
(page 67, page 122,
(page 154)
Extracting the characteristic
of the input sound
Creating formants
Vocoder
Performance
Part EQ
Part
Insertion A/B
Send Level
Variation
Reverb
Variation
to Reverb
System Effect
Return Level
Master
Effect
Master EQ
Robot-like
voice
Basic Structure
Functional blocks
Tone Generator block
A/D Input block
Sequencer block
Arpeggio block
Motion Sequencer block
Effect block
Envelope Follower block
Controller block
Internal Memory
Reference
Display (touch panel) config.
Performance Play (Home)
Motion Control
Mixing
Scene
Play/Rec
Normal Part (AWM) Edit
Drum Part Edit
Normal Part (FM-X) Edit
Common/Audio Edit
Category Search
Utility
Live Set
iPhone/iPad connection
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