Selecting Gm, Xg And Other Voices - Yamaha Tyros5 Reference Manual

AEM Technology
When you play the piano, pressing a "C" key produces a definite and relatively fixed C note. When you play a wind
instrument, however, a single fingering may produce several different sounds depending on the breath strength, the
note length, the adding of trills or bend effects, and other performance techniques. Also, when playing two notes con-
tinuously—for example "C" and "D"—these two notes will be smoothly joined, and not sound independent as they
would on a piano.
AEM (Articulation Element Modeling) is the technology for simulating this characteristic of instruments. During
performance, the most appropriate sound samples are selected in sequence in real time, from huge quantities of sam-
pled data. They are smoothly joined and sounded—as would naturally occur on an actual acoustic instrument.
This technology to smoothly join different samples enables the application of realistic vibrato. Conventionally on
electronic musical instruments, vibrato is applied by moving the pitch periodically. AEM technology goes much fur-
ther by analyzing and disaggregating the sampled vibrato waves, and smoothly joins the disaggregated data in real
time during your performance. If you move the Modulation wheel when you play the S.Art2! Voice (using AEM
technology), you can also control the depth of the vibrato, and still maintain remarkable realism.

Selecting GM, XG and Other Voices

This instrument features Voices provided specially for Style playback and XG/GM compatibility. These Voices cannot
be called up directly from the VOICE category selection buttons. However, they can be called up as described below.
1
Press the PART SELECT button corresponding to the Part you want to use.
2
Press one of the VOICE category selection buttons (other than the [ORGAN WORLD],
[ENSEMBLE] and [EXPANSION/USER] buttons) to call up the Voice Selection display.
3
Press the [8 ] (UP) button to call up the Voice categories.
4
Press the [2 ] (P2) button to display Page 2.
5
Press the desired [A]–[J] button to call up the Voice Selection
display of GM&XG Voices, GM2 Voices, etc.
6
Select the desired Voice.
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NOTE
You can also find the "Legacy" folder in
this display. This folder contains previ-
ous Yamaha keyboards' Voices (such as
Tyros, Tyros2, Tyros3, Tyros4, etc.) for
data compatibility with other models.