3: Throat Formant - Yamaha VL1 Owner's Manual

Feature Reference

3: Throat Formant

The • button ("Ctrl") can be used to go directly to the throat formant
•
controller page (≥
TROLLER directory. You can then return to the miscellaneous throat formant
page by pressing • ("Para") again.
• An inverse "K"(˚) next to a value means that key scaling can be applied to
that parameter. Position the cursor at the appropriate parameter and then press
the ¶ button ("KSC") to go directly to the key scaling page for that param-
eter. You can return to the throat formant parameter page by pressing the
] button.
Pitch Tracking
≤
Fixed, KeyTrack.
Determines whether the throat formant pitch is fixed or tracks the keyboard.
Fixed
KeyTrack
Pitch
≤ 23.1 Hz ... 48.0 kHz (when "Fixed" and "Intens" ≥ 0).
≤
11.4 Hz ... 24.0 kHz (when "Fixed" and "Intens" < 0).
≤
-2.00oct ... 1.98oct (when "KeyTrack").
When the "Pitch Tracking" parameter is set to "Fixed", this parameter sets
the throat formant pitch to a specific frequency. When "Pitch Tracking" is set to
"KeyTrack", however, this parameter determines how much the throat formant pitch is
offset from the pitch of the key played in octave units. In the latter case negative values
offset the throat formant pitch below the pitch of the key played, while positive values
offset the throat formant pitch above that of the key played.
Amount
≤
-64 ... 63.
Determines the amount of effect the throat formant sound has on the air velocity
within the instrument. Positive values increase the air velocity, thereby increasing the
throat formant effect. Minus values decrease the air velocity, producing a more subtle
throat formant effect.
Edit Mode
Page 75), also available from the ELEMENT CON-
The throat formant is fixed at the pitch specified by the "Pitch"
parameter, below.
The pitch of the throat formant tracks the note(s) played on the
keyboard, offset by the amount specified by the "Pitch" parameter,
below.
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