User manual YAMAHA YS624W SERVICE MANUAL

[. . . ] 10 2. 2 YS624W as a Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3 YS624W Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3. 1 The Idea behind YS624W . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3. 1. 1 Semi-Modular Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3. 1. 2 Modulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] The Mini-Patch View The Mini-Patch view. YS624W ­ Getting Started ­ 31 ENGLISH The Mini-Patch view represents the whole patch of your Sound, as it appears in the Patch window. Here you can select which modules of your Sound you want to mutate: · The Module Slots that are not used in your current patch are dimmed: · The Module Slots currently disabled for mutation have only their borders highlighted: · The Module Slots currently enabled for mutation are fully highlighted: You even have buttons for the Envelopes and LFOs of your Sound, so that you can decide to include them or not in the mutation process. Toenable/disableaparticularmoduleformutation, clickonitsiconinthisMiniPatch view. % Using the Mini-Patch view can be a great help to get results related to some particular Attributes. For example, if you select a "Bass" Sound but then want it to be more "Percussive"thenmakesuretoactivatetheEnvelopebuttonintheMini-Patchview, andmaybe the Effect module. If you want an "FM" sound, select the Oscillators and nothing else. The Finetuning Controls At the bottom of the Mutator section, you see a row of eight controls. These are the Finetuning controls: The Finetuning controls. TheFinetuningcontrolsformaquickaccesstoeightcharacteristicsofeachparticularSound. ThesecontrolsallowtoquicklytweaktheSoundafteraMutationor after loading. The other ones are dimmed. ! TheseFinetuningcontrolsareintendedtomakeon-the-flyadjustmentstoyourSounds when browsing or mutating them. They are not meant for live performance for example, therefore they cannot be automated, modulated nor controlled via MIDI! 32 ­ YS624W ­ Getting Started 4. 2. 4 Using the History While mutating your Sounds, you can use another tool to avoid getting lost in all your experiments: the Mutation History. The Mutation History section. Sitting in the right part of the Mutator section, the Mutation History shows you the name (andthusthenumber)oftheMutationcurrentlyloaded, alongwithtwoarrowbuttons: these allow you to switch to the previous/next Sound Mutation, if any. This dialog keepstrackofallyourmutationssothatyoucanquicklyauditionanythingyouhave done by simply selecting it. This allows you to compare various Sound Mutations and alsotosaveyourfavoritesasfully-fledgedSoundforlateruse, viatheSaveAsbutton. 4. 2. 5 Tips Here are a few more tips that might help you to get familiar with the settings for the Mutator: · If you set the Mutation Amount slider at a higher value, you will actually get more predictable results. This is because as the slider gets higher, the Mutator algorithm ismorelikelytoloadawholeChannelforapatch, whichmeansthattheEnvelope, FilterandOscillatorwillhavebeencraftedforeachother;italsomeansthatthe patch is less "origiRolling the dice and doing a full Mutation on all modules in the Mini-Patch view often gives interesting results. Again, wedonotwanttokeepthedefaultsinewaveinthenewlyactivatedmodule: Replace the current Waveform Sine of the Oscillator B with the Waveform Saw_ filt2 by repeating the steps described above for the Oscillator A. % We recommend you to listen repeatedly to the sound after each step, in order to get a feelingofitsinfluence. Atanymoment, youcandeactivateanymoduleandreactivate itbyclickingonitsthickleftborder, inordertocomparethesoundwithandwithoutthismodule­ don't worry: when you reactivate it, YS624W remembers your last settings. Adjusting the Transposition We will now transpose the Oscillator B by one octave, in order to better separate its soundfromthefirstone. YoucanseetheFrequencycontrol(showing0. 0000 at the moment)rightundertheWaveformSelectorthatweusedafewsecondsago: TheFrequencycontrol, rightundertheWaveformSelector(hereintheOscillatorB). ThisparameterdefinestheoffsetoftheOscillator'spitchagainstthepitchofthenote thatyouplayonthekeyboard­inshort, itstransposition. ! The behavior of the Frequency control actually depends on the setting in the left-hand Frequency menu­for now set to Trans. Clickontheleft-handdiamondsittingtotherightoftheFrequencycontrol, hold the mouse button depressed, drag your mouse up until the display shows 12. 0000 (12semitones, whichmakeoneoctave)andreleasethemousebutton. Nowyour Oscillator B plays one octave higher than the Oscillator A. Adjust further the Frequency control to 12. 1100 using its middle diamond. Thesmalldetuningproducesasubtlebeatinyoursound­thisoftenmakes leads and pads sound livelier and stronger. YS624W ­ Getting Started ­ 37 ENGLISH Adding a Filter We will now process the sound with a filterinordertoreduceabitthehighfrequencies. We want it to process both Channels A and B, so we will put it on the Master Channel, at the bottom of the Patch window: ActivatetheFiltermodulebyclickingonthethickleftborderoftheModuleSlot labelled Filter, in the Master Channel. YourecognizethesignalflowinyourSoundbythewiresthatconnectthethreeactive modules. The signals coming from both Oscillators are combined in the Master Channel and run through the Filter. Wewouldliketousealow-passfilterwithagentlefrequencyslopethatcutsfrequenciesstartingfrom5000 Hz. Todothis: 1. IntheFiltermodule, clickontheTypemenu(labelledType). Inthemenuthat opens, select the entry LPF 2 Pole. Beneath the Type menu, set the Frequency controltoapproximately5000 Hzvia the little diamonds. [. . . ] · Youhearthesoundfilteredbyabandpass(henceBP in the menu below the Filter Switch)withaquitelargebandwidth. BothparameterstotherightoftheFilterSwitchcontrolitscutofffrequency(Cutoff control, Hz)anditsresonance(Resonancecontrol, Q). Play with these parameters to hear how they affect the sound, without forgetting to play with their corresponding Random parameters. % You can get for example some nice whistling sounds by setting the Cutoff control above 3000 Hz, itsrelatedRandomCutoffcontrolsomewherebelow60andtheResonance control at a very high value. Youcancontrolwhichfrequenciesarerandomlyappliedtothefilterbyturningon the Filter Quantize. SelectingascalefromtheFilterQuantizemenuwillmakesurethatonlycertain frequenciesareusedinthefilter'srandomization. Thefirstparameteradjuststhe centerfrequency. ThebehaviorofRandomHzis:0%-50%, frequenciesare progressivelydistributedacrossthetemplate. Above50%frequenciesincreasingly deviate from the template to become totally random. 56 ­ YS624W ­ Getting Started We will leave you here, somewhere among the amazing possibilities provided by the Aetherizer­thinkthatwedidnottrytheFeedbackcontrolandthePredelaycontrol nor any parameter in the Master section yet. Notethat, inthisquicktour, wedeliberatelyusedextremeparametersettingstolet you grasp the range of possibilities. [. . . ]