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Yamaha AN200 User Manual

Yamaha AN200 User Manual

Control synthesizer/analog physical modeling
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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
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And to top it off, there are some great drum sounds
There are a total of 384 built in patterns on-board,
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Don't fear the manual!
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©Yamaha Corporation of America, 2001
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  • Page 1 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.
  • Page 2 This is a very powerful feature that empowers you to add sonic movement that grooves to the beat. And all this is offered at a breakthrough price. Use the graphic below to help you navigate your way through the AN200. MAIN VOICE...
  • Page 3 How do I Select a Pattern in the AN200? After you have hooked up your AN200 in stereo (and you will really be missing a lot of sonic potential if you don’t listen to the box in stereo) and powered it up for the...
  • Page 4 • Editing a Preset Pattern. One of the best ways to learn the AN200 is simply by messing around with a preset pattern. Using preset pattern P.001, let’s go through some of the basics of muting tracks, changing the steps in each of the tracks and changing some of the playback attributes.
  • Page 5 GATE TIME and VELOCITY of the pitches in the 16 steps. SHIFT button is the magic button on the AN200. Note that the actual button is has the SHIFT KIND OF LIKE THIS.
  • Page 6 “bass drum #8”. Simply mo ve any of the 8 control knobs to change the sound of the bass drum to one of the other drum sounds. As soon as you move the knobs, the instrument immediately changes. Select the ©Yamaha Corporation of America, 2001...
  • Page 7 [STEP 9-16] button and use the 8 control knobs to change each of the steps. Simple. Now you understand the basics of how the AN200 works. Let’s take a look at one of the more powerful features in the AN200: Free EG.
  • Page 8 • The AN200 Plug-in Editor and XG Works Lite Software: If you have a PC, I can’t stress how cool it is to link your AN200 up with the Plug-in Editor and XG Works Lite. First of all: You get a real, honest-to-goodness linear sequencer with XG Works Lite. You can create sequences just like you can with other software sequencers, do all the cut/copy/paste editing, quantizing, etc.
  • Page 9 (Syn, R1, R2 and R3), and allows you to set other things like the clock source (internal or external) and the MIDI thru status (on or off). In this way you can set up the AN200 to function as a tone module. ©Yamaha Corporation of America, 2001...
  • Page 10 I just would like to add a great-sounding fat analog-style synth to my existing set up. You can do this with the AN200. All you need to do is MIDI out of the P80 into the AN200, make sure they are sending and receiving on the same MIDI channel, hook the AN200 up to your speaker system and your in business.