Tone Generator; Awm Tone Generator - Yamaha Electone STAGEA ELC-02 Owner's Manual

Tone Generator

The Electone features the AWM (Advanced Wave
Memory) tone generation system.

AWM Tone Generator

AWM is a synthesis system based on sampled waves, or
audio recordings of actual instruments. AWM Voices use
multiple samples, so that they sound like a real
instrument. This section also describes how to play the
Super Articulation Voices, since you will need special
settings and operations for playing these Voices.
What are Super Articulation Voices?
The Super Articulation Voices (having names beginning
with the prefix "S-") realistically recreate many of the
performance techniques and characteristic sounds
generated when an artist plays an instrument. As a result,
you can produce superbly detailed expression such as the
realistic sound of finger slides on guitar and keyboard
action noise of electronic piano. Moreover, these Voices
will enable you to feel the breath noise of musicians
which employ performance techniques such as legato,
pitch bend and glissando, as well as scat singing ("Shoo-
Bee-Doo-Bah, " etc.), such as adlibbed by jazz vocalists.
These expressions can be called up by simply playing the
keyboard or by using the Left Footswitch.
Expression examples via the Super
Articulation Voice
The following expressions can be produced by setting the
parameters of ARTICULATION (page 43) on page 2 of
the Voice Condition display.
Example: S-Nylon Guitar (type A)
When either of "ART.1" or "ART.2" is selected, pressing
the Left Footswitch will produce body-tapping sound.
Example: S-Steel Guitar (type B)
When "ART.1" is selected, playing the keyboard with the
Left Footswitch pressed will produce sound via picking
harmonics.
Example: S-ShooBeeDooBah/Hmm (type C)
When "ART.1" is selected, playing the keyboard with the
Left Footswitch pressed will produce a humming sound
while playing the keyboard with the Left Footswitch
released will produce "Shoo, " "Bee, " "Doo, " and "Bah"
alternatively.
Example: S-Alto Saxophone (type D)
When "ART.1" is selected, playing the keyboard with the
Left Footswitch pressed will bend the pitch up.
When "ART.2" is selected, playing the keyboard with the
Left Footswitch pressed will produce glissando.
When "AUTO" is set to ON, both the bend-up and
glissando are produced automatically by just playing the
keyboard.
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