Yamaha AN200 User Manual

Yamaha Musical Instruments

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Document Outline

Cover
PRECAUTIONS
Contents
How to Use This Manual
Panel Controls
Quick Start Guide
Parameter Structure
Tone Generator Signal Flow & Effect Block Diagram
Chapter 1 Pattern Basics
- Tip 1 Playing a Pattern
- Tip 2 Exploring other Patterns
- Tip 3 Switching Patterns on the fly
- Tip 4 Playing it backwards
- Tip 5 Changing the bpm
- Tip 6 Messing with the Beat
- Tip 7 Double time, half time
Chapter 2 Song Playback
- Tip 8 Playing a Song
Chapter 3 The Keyboard
- Tip 9 Playing the keyboard
- Tip 10 Changing octaves
- Tip 11 Playing the Rhythm track
- Tip 12 Velocity
Chapter 4 Scene Basics
- Tip 13 Switching Scenes
- Tip 14 Morphing
Chapter 5 Effects
- Tip 15 What is an Effect?
- Tip 16 Playing with the Effects
- Tip 17 Distortion
Chapter 6 Filter (VCF)
- Tip 18 Cutoff and Resonance
- Tip 19 Wild, wild filter sweeps — VCF Types
- Tip 20 FEG Depth
Chapter 7 Nuts and Bolts
- Tip 21 Show Value
- Tip 22 Original Value
- Tip 23 Panic! (or “Uh-oh...What do I do now?”)
- Tip 24 Factory Reset
Chapter 8 Pattern Playback
- Tip 25 Adjusting the Gate Time
- Tip 26 Transposing the key
- Tip 27 Swing
- Tip 28 Muting tracks
- Tip 29 Muting notes during playback
- Tip 30 Mixer controls — Pan and Volume
- Tip 31 Assigning Patterns to the keyboard buttons
Chapter 9 LFO Modulation
- Tip 32 Modulating the volume
- Tip 33 Modulating the Filter
- Tip 34 Modulating the pitch
- Tip 35 Changing the LFO wave
Chapter 10 EG Basics
- Tip 36 Shaping the sound with EG
- Tip 37 Using EG to control the Filter (FEG)
- Tip 38 More about FEG Depth
- Tip 39 Going negative — with FEG Depth
Chapter 11 Advanced Sound Shaping Controls
- Tip 40 Portamento — the famous gliding pitch effect.
- Tip 41 Metallic sounds and more — with FM Depth
- Tip 42 Balancing the waves — VCO 1 and 2
- Tip 43 Noise Level
- Tip 44 Making waves — VCO 1 and VCO 2
- Tip 45 Fat, phatter and phattest!
- Tip 46 Sync Mode and Sync Pitch
- Tip 47 Creating your own original Scenes — and saving them
Chapter 12 Free EG
- Tip 48 Free EG
- Tip 49 Changing the Length of your Free EG tracks
Chapter 13 Pattern Power Tips
- Tip 50 Hit the top of the Pattern!
- Tip 51 Shake, Retrigger, and Roll!
- Tip 52 Selecting a Voice (Copy Voice)
- Tip 53 Starting a Pattern on a different note
- Tip 54 Transposing the pitch of a Pattern
- Tip 55 Copying a Pattern (Sequence)
Chapter 14 Pattern Recording
- Tip 56 Erasing a Pattern — and starting from scratch
- Tip 57 Setting the Metronome lead-in
- Tip 58 Recording a Pattern in real time
- Tip 59 Step Recording
- Tip 60 Storing your new Pattern
Chapter 15 Song Recording
- Tip 61 Erasing a Song — and starting from scratch
- Tip 62 Creating a Song
- Tip 63 Setting the BPM (tempo) for your new Song
- Tip 64 More Song editing features
- Tip 65 Adding Patterns to your Song — Insert Pattern
- Tip 66 Taking Patterns out of your Song — Delete Pattern
- Tip 67 Storing your new Song
Chapter 16 Speed Tips for Power Users
- Tip 68 Using [SHIFT] with the [DATA] knob — for leaps and bounds!
- Tip 69 Using [SHIFT] to “hold” a setting
- Tip 70 Gang-editing a group of Steps
Chapter 17 Real World Tips
- Tip 71 Adjusting the Gate Time with the [DATA] knob
- Tip 72 Adjusting the pitch with the [DATA] knob
- Tip 73 Changing the pitch with the keyboard
- Tip 74 Stutter fill-in 1
- Tip 75 Stutter fill-in 2
- Tip 76 Stutter fill-in 3
- Tip 77 Assigning Patterns for your gig
- Tip 78 Chord progressions with Pattern Assign
Chapter 18 Master Class 1 — Onstage
- Tip 79 Sync the AN200 to your sequencer
- Tip 80 Changing the MIDI channels
- Tip 81 Loopfactory setup — with the SU200
- Tip 82 Loopfactory sync system — with the DX200
- Tip 83 Loopfactory sampling
- Tip 84 Full DJ system — turntable and all!
- Tip 85 Loopfactory megasetup — with MIDI Thru
Chapter 19 Master Class 2 — Advanced Music Production
- Tip 86 Playing the AN200 as a synthesizer
- Tip 87 Recording to a sequencer
- Tip 88 Recording AN200 knob moves to a sequencer88 Recording AN200 knob moves to a sequencer
- Tip 89 Editing the AN200 from a computer
- Tip 90 MIDI sequencer controls — Start, Continue, Stop
- Tip 91 Saving Patterns and Songs to a MIDI data filer
- Tip 92 Loading back your saved Patterns and Songs
Appendix
- Function Index
- About the Included CD-ROM
- Specifications
- Error Messages
- Troubleshooting
- Analog Physical Modeling Synthesis and the AN200
- MIDI Data Format
- MIDI Implementation Chart
- Rhythm Track Instrument List
- Pattern List