Yamaha Tyros 2 Manual

Calling Up Ideal Setups for Your Music—Music Finder
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Searching the Ideal Setups by Keyword
The Music Finder feature of the Tyros2 has a wide range of more than 1800 different records—
making it exceptionally versatile, yet difficult to find a desired setup. That’s where the Search 
function comes in handy. It lets you quickly and easily find the records that you want to use.
1Press the [SEARCH 1] LCD button ([I] button) on the Music Finder 
display to call up the Search...

Calling Up Ideal Setups for Your Music—Music Finder
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Creating a Set of Favorite Records
As convenient as the Search function is in plumbing the depths of the Music Finder records, you 
may want to create a “folder” of favorite records—so you can quickly call up those styles and 
settings you use most often in your performance.
■ Other convenient functions
Music Finder has a variety of other useful functions, as described below. These are avail-
able in all the Music...

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Reference on page 112Song Playback
Playback of Songs in the USB Storage Device
1Connect the USB storage device con-
taining MIDI song data to the USB TO 
DEVICE terminal. 
2Press any of the SONG buttons to call up the song selection dis-
play. 
3Select a song in the USB storage device.
Selecting a song is done in the same way as selecting a voice or style.
4Press the SONG CONTROL [PLAY/PAUSE] button to start the 
selected song.
5Press the SONG CONTROL [PLAY/PAUSE]...

Song Playback
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■ Viewing Song Lyrics and Score
● When the song data contains lyric data, you can view it by using the [LYRICS/TEXT] button............... Page 47
● When you have text data containing lyrics, you can view it by using the [LYRICS/TEXT] button. ....... Page 115
● You can also view the song score (notation) by using the [SCORE] button. .......................................... Page 50
Using Song Position Markers
Song Position markers (SP 1–SP 4) can be...

Song Playback
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3Stop song playback.
4Now that you’ve entered markers in step #2 above, 
try using them to jump around in the song and navigate among the 
song positions. 
5Stop song playback.
■ Using markers in loop playback....................................................................
Try using the markers you registered in step #2 above to play back the separate “sections” of the 
song in loops.
1Go to the top of the song to which you’ve entered the markers and...

Song Playback
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4Turn the [LOOP] button on again before reaching the [SP3] point.
Turning the [LOOP] button on again here starts a new loop—this time between the 
[SP2] and [SP3] points (as shown).
5Continue looping the remaining “sections” of the song ([SP2]– 
[SP3] and [SP3]–end) in the same way, repeating steps #3 and #4 
above.
6Stop song playback.
Adjusting the Volume Balance between the Song and the Keyboard
Press the [BALANCE] button so that the mixer window...

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Connecting a microphone
1Set the [TRIM] control on the rear panel and the [INPUT VOLUME] 
on the front panel both to “MIN.” 
2Connect a microphone to the L/L+R/MIC jack. 
The L/L+R/MIC jack accepts 1/4 phone plugs.
3Turn the power on. 
4Adjust the [TRIM] control on the rear panel and the [INPUT VOL-
UME] on the front panel while singing into the microphone.
• Since the input level from the microphone may be low, set the [TRIM] control close 
to...

Singing with a Connected Microphone
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3Turn the Effect for the microphone 
sound on, if desired.
4Start song playback. 
5Sing the song while viewing the lyrics 
on the display.
6Stop the song.
Applying harmony to your voice
Use the sophisticated Vocal Harmony function to automatically apply harmony to your 
voice as you sing into the connected microphone.
1Turn Vocal Harmony on.
2Press the [VH TYPE SELECT] button to call up the Vocal Harmony 
type selection display and...

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Keyboard and Vocal Practice using the Guide function
Selecting a Guide menu
Call up the SONG SETTING display by following the procedure below and select a Guide menu.
■ Guide menu for keyboard practice
● Follow Lights...........When this is selected, song playback pauses, waiting for you to play the notes correctly. 
When you play the correct notes, song playback continues. Follow Lights was developed for 
the Yamaha Clavinova series. This function is used for...

Keyboard and Vocal Practice using the Guide function
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Keyboard Practice using “Follow Lights”
1Select the desired song for practicing the keyboard (page 43).
2Call up the SONG SETTING display by following the procedure 
described on the previous page and select “Follow Lights.” If nec-
essary, specify the channel settings.
3Call up the Song Score display by pressing the [SCORE] button.
4Turn the [GUIDE] button on.
5Start song playback.
6Song playback automatically...