Yamaha Yros 3 Owners Manual

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The Tyros3 has a Voice Set feature that allows you to create your own Voices by editing some parameters of the 
existing Voices. Once you’ve created a Voice, you can save it as a User Voice to the USER drive or external devices 
for future recall. 
1Select the desired Voice (other than an Organ Flutes Voice).
The editing method is different for the ORGAN FLUTES Voices compared to 
other Voices. For instructions on editing the ORGAN FLUTES...

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Editable Parameters in the VOICE SET Displays
The Voice Set parameters are organized into five different displays. The parameters in 
each display are described separately, below. 
■COMMON Page
■CONTROLLER Page
●1 MODULATION
The MODULATION wheel can be used to modulate the parameters below as 
well as the pitch (vibrato). Here, you can set the degree to which the MODU-
LATION wheel modulates each of the following parameters.
The available...

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●2 AFTERTOUCH
Aftertouch can be used to modulate the parameters below. Here, you can set 
the degree to which Aftertouch modulates each of the following parameters.
■SOUND Page
●FILTER
Filter is a processor that changes the timbre or tone of a sound by either block-
ing or passing a specific frequency range. The parameters below determine 
the overall timbre of the sound by boosting or cutting a certain frequency 
range. In addition to...

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●VIBRATO
Vibrato is a quavering, vibrating sound effect that is produced by reg-
ularly modulating the pitch of the Voice.
■EFFECT/EQ Page
●1 REVERB DEPTH/CHORUS DEPTH/DSP DEPTH
●2 DSP
●3 EQ
Determines the Frequency and Gain of the Low and High EQ bands. For infor-
mation about EQ, refer to page 96.
■HARMONY Page
Same as in the [FUNCTION] → [F] HARMONY/ECHO display. See “Selecting 
the Harmony/Echo type” on page 7. 
Pitch
DELAYSPEED
DEPTH...

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Disabling Automatic Selection of Voice Sets (Effects, etc.)
Each Voice is linked to its default VOICE SET parameter settings. Usually these settings are automatically called up 
when a Voice is selected. However, you can also disable this feature by the operation in the relevant display as 
explained below.
For example, if you want to change the Voice yet keep the same Harmony effect, set the HARMONY/ECHO param-
eter to OFF (in the display...

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The Organ Flute Voices selected from the [ORGAN FLUTES] button can be edited by 
adjusting the footage levers, adding the attack sound, applying effect and equalizer, 
etc. 
■FOOTAGE Page
Refer to the Owner’s Manual.
■VOLUME/ATTACK Page
 
■EFFECT/EQ Page 
Same parameters as in the VOICE SET “EFFECT/EQ” Page explained on 
page 14.
Editing Organ Flutes Parameters
After editing, go to the Voice 
Selection display by pressing the 
[I]...

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The powerful Voice Creator features of the Tyros3 give you the tools to create your own original Voices. Voice Cre-
ator allows you to import your own “Wave” (audio samples in WAV or AIFF format), and assign them to the keys—
building completely new Voices with completely new sounds. 
Two types of Voices can be created: Normal Voice (see below) and Drum Voice (page 22). The creating procedure 
differs depending on the Voice type. 
Creating...

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2Turn the PART SELECT [RIGHT 1] button to on, then select a Voice. 
When you are creating a Custom Voice from scratch, select an “empty” Voice 
from the [EXPANSION] button. If you are creating a Voice by adding Wave files 
to an existing Voice, press the desired VOICE button and select the desired 
Voice.
3Press the [VOICE CREATOR] button to call up the Voice Creator.
4Press the [G] (WAVE IMPORT) button to call up the WAVE IMPORT 
menu....

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6-4Press the [7 ▼] (OK) button.
The file properties for the audio data are shown for confirmation pur-
poses.
6-5At the prompt, press the [F] (YES) button.
To cancel, press the [G] (NO) button.
7Set the parameters for the imported Wave in the ADD WAVE display.
From this display, you can set a number of parameters related to how the 
sound will be mapped to the keyboard.
8
[D] PROPERTY Shows the Property display (page 25).
[1 ▲▼]FIXED PITCH...

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8Execute importing by pressing the [H] (EXECUTE) button.
To cancel importing, press the [8 ▲▼] (CANCEL) button.
9If you want to import another Wave to this Element, repeat steps 6–8.
10Set the parameters for the currently selected Element in the KEY 
MAPPING display.
11Press the [EXIT] button to return to the WAVE IMPORT display. 
If you want to edit another Element, repeat steps 5–10.
12Press the [8 ▲▼] (VOICE SET) button and edit the...