What Is An Awm Element - Yamaha SY99 Owner's Manual

An AWM element consists of four maim blocks. The Waveform block plays back a sampled sound and
determines the pitch, the Filter block modifies the tone, the Amplifier block modifies the volume, and the
Pan block moves the sound between left and right outputs. Each block can be controlled in a variety of
ways.
Many different ways to
control sound
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What is an AWM element?

The above diagram shows how the various blocks in an AWM element are
related, and how they can be controlled.
All interesting sounds are constantly changing. For instruments such as piano,
the tone and volume of each note changes in a predictable way over time. For
other instruments such as violin, the volume, tone, or pitch can be continuously
and freely modified by the musician. The SY99 provides several ways to control
various aspects of the sound.
Envelope Generator (EG): An EG produces a fixed pattern of change over
time. For example to simulate the attack and decay of a piano, you would
set the volume EG to be loud when the note is first played and then grad-
ually diminish in volume.