The AN200 Control Synthesizer/Analog Physical
This guide is designed to take you through the Yamaha AN200 Desktop Control
Synthesizer.
It is not intended to be used instead of the manual, but rather as a
short cut to help you get up and running with it quickly. Furthermore, it should be
noted that the AN200 manual is very cool. It is essentially a collection of 92 "Tips"
that take you all the way through the AN200.
remarkably good! Lastly, the Loop Factory brochure is amazing: It has it's own little
quick start guide when you completely unfold it. One thing Yamaha does quite well
is a brochure. You can learn a great deal simply by reading it. Very cool.
(Brief word about nomenclature in this document: Actual buttons on the front panel
of the machine are listed in all caps and bracketed like this: [SYNTH TRACK]. Shift
functions are listed like this:
so you know...)
• What is the AN200?
SYNTHESIZER:
The AN200 Desktop Control Synthesizer is an Analog Physical
Modeling tone generator with a very cool pattern step sequencer and a good
selection of great sounding drum sounds built in.
Yamaha's powerful and award-winning AN physical modeling synthesis.
features a filthy, fat and punchy 5 note polyphonic synthesizer with 6 fully resonant
filter types, 2 VCOs, 2 LFOs, a VCA, envelope generators and an effects processor
capable of producing delay, flanger, phaser and distortion effects. You can sync the
VCOs to create that classic oscillator sync sound and apply noise via the separate
noise generator.
A unique FM parameter allows you to create a carrier/modulator
arrangement of the VCOs in a way that was simply not possible in analog
synthesizers of the past.
included separate from the AN synth engine.
controls. There are 18 knobs located on the front panel with specific knobs for real
time control of filter cutoff and resonance, attack, decay, sustain and release of the
envelope generators, noise generator level, oscillator sync pitch, portamento, LFO
and more. A cool thing is that each voice in the AN200 is actually two voices and
there is a dedicated knob that allows you to "morph" or interpolate between the
scenes in real time.
PATTERN AND SONG MODE:
256 of which are preset patterns and 128 of which are user patterns. Patterns can
be created via the on board 16 step old-school style sequencer (functionally similar
to other great products on the market) or through the AN200 PC editor (a "Plug-in"
editor for the included XG Works software both of which ship with the AN200).
Anyone into this type of song creation will feel right at home with this feature. The
1
EVENT
SELECT. These are the important ones...just
And to top it off, there are some great drum sounds
There are a total of 384 built in patterns on-board,
y
y
Power User Guide
Don't fear the manual!
The synth engine is based on
You have no shortage of physical
©Yamaha Corporation of America, 2001
Modeling
It's
The synth
Need help?
Do you have a question about the AN200 and is the answer not in the manual?
Questions and answers