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Authentic Instrument ExerciseYou ought to carry out this simple exercise. It is easy to do and will not take you very long, but it will help you to grasp something of the changes that different parameters can make to instrumental tones or sounds. This exercise will not change any existing settings that you have placed on your Memory Buttons, but will help you to understand some of the built in attributes available on our instruments and enable you to benefit by using them to make the voices you select more authentic.
1 With the organ switched on, select
Jazz Band from the
Registration menu and with the appropriate button below the display screen select
Solo Clari..
2 Now in the
Lead section, press the illuminated button
1. This shows that
Dixie Cla. is darkened and therefore selected.
3 Press the button on the left of your screen to choose the
Condition page.
4 At the top right of your screen you should see the box identified as
Condtion highlighted. If not then press the appropriate button to the right of the screen to select it.
5 At the bottom of the display you will notice that
8' is selected.
6 Now press the button at the right of your screen to select
Vibrato.
7 You will see that the settings for
Vibrato are as follows:
Delay 1
Depth 6
Speed 28 Press and hold any key on the
Upper Keyboard to play the
Clarinet.
While holding it switch between Preset and User, with the buttons to the left, but below the display screen. You will notice that one tone is plain and bland and the other, built in by Yamaha engineers, is rich and 'more authentic'.
Also press the note harder, then release the pressure on the key and you will appreciate the variation available, because the
Touch Tone is active. If you check with the Condition Page, you will see that both
Touch Tone values are set to
4. This function reproduces the effect of the clarinettist blowing harder. Something else those engineers have created for us.
9 In the
Lead section, press
1 again.
10 Use the button to the right of the screen to move the
Page to the
left, until
Trumpet appears to the left hand side.
11 Select
Clas. Trumpet with the appropriate button at the bottom of the screen.
12 Now when you select
Condition (to the left of the screen) and
Vibrato (to the right of the screen) you will notice that the
User settings are identical as for the
Clarinet and nothing shows under
Vibrato for the
Preset setting. Again, press and hold any key on the
Upper Keyboard to play the
Trumpet.
While holding it switch between
Preset and
User, with the buttons to the left, and notice the variation in the sound produced.
13 One other thing. In the
Condition, from the
Condition Page, change the setting to
16' and switch on the
Slide and set it to
maximum. Play a few more notes if you wish.
14 Now, in a similar way as outlined above, select
Piano, by moving farther left through the
pages and then
Grand Piano. Then play a few more notes.
If you check in the
Condition page, you will see that all the
Condition settings all remain the same.
We have made significant alterations which sound dreadful for a piano, but this exercise demonstrates that when you make any changes like this, though not perhaps so dramatic, they are carried through. So if you set your clarinet to 16', and then use another instrument in a different registration memory, it may sound odd, because it is an octave out.
This further short exercise will help you to discover what we already have built in to our instruments, and how we can inadvertently carry over adjustments that we make to other registrations.
1 Choose
Organ Trumpet from
Classic Organ in the
Registration Menu.
2 Switch off all the Upper Keyboard Ensemble buttons
except Lead.
3 Using the above process go to the
Vibrato screen within the
Condition page, and while playing and holding a note on the upper keyboard, switch between
User and
Preset, to hear the difference.
4 Select
Oboe from the
Lead section. Again, go to the
Vibrato screen within the
Condition page, and while playing and holding a note on the upper keyboard, switch between User and
Preset, to hear the difference.
5 You can do this with other registrations. For instance, choose
Fiddle Ballard from
Country in the
Registration Menu and listen to the differences there.
In the following replies we review different instruments and ensure that we set them up correctly and use them wisely in our performances to achieve better sound authenticity.
Peter