Yamaha Tyros 1 User Manual

Song Playback
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Song Position
The TYROS provides the following song position features.
• The current song position is indicated on the Main display as measure/beat number during playback — letting you easily see where 
you are in the song.
• Pressing the [FF] or [REW] button automatically calls up a pop-up window showing the current measure number (or Phrase Mark 
number) in the Main display.
• You can put Song Position markers in the song data using the [SP1] - [SP4]...

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Song Playback Related Parameters
The TYROS has a variety of song playback functions — which can be accessed by pressing [FUNCTION] → 
SONG SETTING.
• Listen to (or practice along with) your favorite song repeatedly — with Repeat Playback.
• Play back all of the songs in a particular folder — repeatedly or at random — for your listening pleasure.  
• Play back all of the songs in all of the folders.  Each of the SONG [I] - [VI] buttons has wealth of songs...

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The following parameters can be set in step #3 in “Basic Procedure” on page 92.
 Repeat Playback parameters
 MIDI Channel parameters
 Lyric Display parameters
 Quick Start parameter
REPEAT MODEDetermines the method of repeat playback.
OFF
Plays through the selected song, then stops.
SINGLE
Plays through the selected song repeatedly.
ALL
Continues playback through all the songs in the specified folder repeatedly.
RANDOM
Continues playback at random...

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Song Creator (Digital Recording)
This section explains operations not covered in the Quick Guide, including Step Recording and re-recording or editing 
existing song data.  For basic information on recording a song using Quick Recording and Multi Recording, refer to 
the Quick Guide.
You can record your keyboard performance as MIDI data in two different ways: Realtime and Step.
 Realtime RecordingThis method records performance data in real time, overwriting any data...

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Record Mode Settings (Setting up for Re-recording)
The following parameters can be set when you call up the REC MODE page in step #4 of the Basic Procedure. Set the parameters 
below and press the [REC] button to re-record an existing song by following the instructions (from step #2 to end) in the “Quick 
Guide.”
 REC START...

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Editing Data for each Channel
To set the following parameters, call up the CHANNEL page in step #4 of the Basic Procedure on page 94.
 Quantize (set in step #2 above)........................................................................................................
Quantize lets you “clean up” or “tighten” the timing of a previously 
recorded track. For example, the following musical passage has been 
written with exact...

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 Mix (set in step #2 on the previous page)......................................................................
This function lets you mix the data of two channels and place the results in a different channel. It also 
lets you copy the data from one channel to another.
 Channel Transpose.................................................................................................................
This allows you to transpose the...

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Step Recording for Chord data using the Event List
The explanations here apply when you call up the CHD page in step #4 of the Basic Procedure on page 94.
This feature makes it possible to record Style playback chord changes one at a time with precise timing. Since the changes don’t 
have to be entered in real time, it is easy to create complex chord changes and accompaniment — even before recording the 
melody.
 Entering Chord/Section...

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2Press the [AUTO FILL IN] button and press the [MAIN C] button to specify the section 
(Fill In C) then enter the chords as shown at right.
3Enter the chords as shown at right.
4Move the song position to the top and play the song to hear the newly recorded chord 
progression. 
CM7Dm7Em7Dm7G7
MAIN D FILL IN C
MAIN VARIATION
AUTO
FILL IN OTS 
LINKACMP
Select this resolution and play chords as 
shown at right.002 : 3 : 000
Dm7
002 : 4 :...

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 Editing existing Chord events.............................................................................
The Chord events already entered to the STEP RECORD display can be edited from the CHD display. 
With the exception of the Expand function explained below, the operations for the CHD display are the 
same as that of the channel data editing display (1-16 page) described on page 105.  
Events handled on the Chord Event list...