Yamaha Tyros 2 Manual

Voice Creator—Custom Voice Edit
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Editing a Custom Voice on your computer—Voice Editor
Once you’ve created a Custom voice with the Voice Creator features, you can transfer that voice 
to a computer and use the comprehensive Voice Editor software (included on the CD-ROM) to 
edit all the parameters from your computer. The voices you create can be saved to the PRESET 
drive on the Tyros2 as Custom voices, and can be called up any time by pressing the [CUSTOM 
VOICE] button....

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Song Playback
The song playback features of the Tyros2 let you play MIDI song (sequence) data. This includes commercially avail-
able song data on floppy disk (GM- or XG-compatible), and performances you’ve recorded yourself with the Song 
Recording features (page 55) and saved to one of the drives. In addition, the Tyros2 can display music notation and 
lyrics, and you can use the sophisticated Guide functions to practice the keyboard and your singing as well.
This...

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■ Notation View parameters (Step #4 on the previous page)
■ Notation View detailed parameters (Step #5 on the previous page)
LEFTEnables/disables display of the left-hand key range. Depending on other settings, 
this parameter may be unavailable and may appear grayed out. If this is the case, 
go to the detailed setting display (described below; step #4 on the previous page) 
and set the LEFT CH. parameter below to any channel except “AUTO.” Or, go to 
the...

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Displaying Lyrics
If the selected song has lyric data, you can have the lyrics shown in the display by pressing the [LYRICS/TEXT] 
button. The Lyrics feature offers a number of useful possibilities:
•The phrases to be sung are highlighted in time with the music, making it easy to follow the words and sing 
along with the song. Connect a microphone and you can even have your voice mixed with the song accom-
paniment as it plays.
•Connect an external monitor...

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Displaying Text
This feature lets you show text files (created on a computer) in the display of the Tyros2, opening up a number of 
useful possibilities:
•You can input and show the lyrics, even if the song does not contain lyrics data.
•You can show any kind of text—not only lyrics, but also lyrics with chord names, notes or tips.
•Connect an external monitor to the Tyros2 and you can have the text displayed on the monitor as can be 
done in the Lyrics...

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Displaying the Lyrics/Text on an external monitor
The Tyros2 can be directly connected to an external monitor, letting you display the lyrics and chords of your song 
data or text which you’ve created on a large screen. There are two kinds of output connectors—RGB OUT and 
VIDEO OUT. Connect a computer monitor to the RGB OUT terminal and television or video monitor to the 
VIDEO OUT jack. The RGB OUT terminal delivers higher resolution than the VIDEO OUT...

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Song Position
The Tyros2 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 display.
•You can put Song Position markers in the song data using the [SP1]–[SP4] buttons (page...

Song Playback
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Song Playback Related Parameters
The Tyros2 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—
put them all...

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The following parameters can be set in step #3 in “Basic Procedure” on page 118.
■ 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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Playing Backing Parts with the performance assistant Technology
This feature makes it exceptionally easy to play the backing parts along with Song playback.
1Select a Song (page 43).
2Press the [P. A. T.] button to turn the feature on.
3Press the SONG CONTROL [PLAY/PAUSE] button to start playback.
4Play the keyboard.
The instrument automatically matches your performance on the keyboard to the Song 
playback and chords, no matter what keys you play. It even...