Yamaha reface, Manual

Page 1: ...Information Guide about the reface Mini Mobile Keyboards 06 2015 r e fa c e E s s e n t i a l K n o w l e d g e Create your sound any pl ace any time ...

Page 2: ...REFACEessentialknowledge06 2015 YAMAHA COM 2 Text Hans Peter Henkel Yamaha Layout editing Björn Meyer June 2015 Yamaha Music Europe GmbH Siemensstraße 22 34 25462 Rellingen Germany ...

Page 3: ... Speaker Output 29 Specifications 30 Accessories 31 reface create your sound any place any time 4 reface CS 6 The Oscill ators 6 Filter Envelope 7 Advanced Oscill ator par a meters 7 Effects Porta mento LFO 8 Looper Pitch Bend 8 Pr actical hints 9 reface DX 13 The tone gener ator 13 Memory Oper ating Concept 14 Oper ators Algorithms 16 Edit Mode Effects 16 Functions Looper 17 Pr actical hints 17 S...

Page 4: ...y originals and now revived by instruments in an extremely compact form Another target group are young musicians singers songwriters who use these handy instruments to be able to practically always and everywhere develop their ideas jam or record The synthesizer oriented reface models are very interesting for electronic music producers who like to connect via the Internet exchange sounds and publi...

Page 5: ... 5 mm mini jack input is built in The signal from here is also output via the output jacks The data exchange with the outside world is done via USB and MIDI For the MIDI connector a Y cable is supplied which provides DIN connectors for the usual MIDI interfaces On the device side the connection is made via a mini DIN connector To operate without batteries an external power supply is included Right...

Page 6: ...features include AN Tone Generator Analog Physical Modeling Eight note polyphony switchable to monophonic mode Five Oscillator Types Four effects LFO with four destinations Phrase Looper The Oscillators The following Oscillator Types are available Multi Saw Pulse Oscillator Sync Ring Modulation Frequency Modulation The left slider of the OSC section is used to select the Oscillator Type colored LE...

Page 7: ...sonance adjust the respective values between 0 lower slider position and 127 upper slider position The envelope EG is set by the ADSR principle Attack Decay Sustain Release with four sliders Again the range of values is from 0 to 127 Multi Saw TEXTURE Adds a Sub Oscillator that is detuned by minus one octave MOD Layers multiple sawtooth waveforms to make a thicker sound In addition the detuning of...

Page 8: ...er PORTAMENTO controls two functions Since Portamento is only useful for monophonic sounds its first stage switches from POLY to MONO mode but still does not activate Portamento Only the next stage activates the first of five selectable Portamento values The LFO can affect the following four areas Amplitude AMP Filter Pitch Oscillator OSC The sliders DEPTH SPEED control the intensity and the speed...

Page 9: ...n spare you one or another bead of sweat on your forehead With the app reface Capture the description follows at the end of this document on an iPad or iPhone you could send a working Voice to the reface CS via Bulk Dump If you just have nothing like that tangible An easy to remember way is to actually bring all the sliders to their central position From there it is easy to grope for new settings ...

Page 10: ...ttings If you want the result of your personal settings held save use the app reface Capture which is described at the end of this guide for all reface models If you return a Voice saved in this way to the reface CS it is very likely that there is no relationship between the actual sound and the current positions of the sliders And there s no visual indication of the current values apart from the ...

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Page 13: ...ations for Voices Seven Effects two can be used in parallel LCD display 128x64 pixels Touch sliders switch Phrase Looper The tone generator A detailed description of FM synthesis is neither possible in the course of this guide nor necessary Nevertheless certain basic knowledge is helpful Frequency Modulation is based on the principle that a base frequency is modulated by a second frequency and the...

Page 14: ...our Banks are sequentially selected using the Bank button the buttons 1 8 select the respective Voice All 32 memory slots contain a Voice on delivery These are overwritten when you save your own creations Using a Factory Reset you can restore those Factory Presets Of course there is a module for reface DX within the Capture app making data exchange possible Between Display and Bank section the FM ...

Page 15: ...ation it s possible to work in a very intuitive way All buttons are backlit many are especially in Edit mode assigned with multiple functions which are reached by pressing the buttons repeatedly In the upper right corner of the display some dots indicate the number of pages that are assigned to the button and which of them is currently active In this example the solid dot indicates that page 1 of ...

Page 16: ...t with STORE As long as only Factory Presets are present in the memory nothing can get lost If the memory is already occupied with your own Voices the Capture app can help to archive the currently edited Voice Edit Mode Effects reface DX has a very extensive set of parameters It would go beyond the scope of this guide to describe the individual parameters and their impact in detail However I would...

Page 17: ...ntuitive operating concept reface DX has the potential to bring the FM synthesis close to even those musicians that would not necessarily be described as synth nerds For the demonstration it may be useful under certain circumstances to focus initially on a single Operator In order to isolate it acoustically just change the Level of the other Operators to 0 Choose one of the Presets for example Ban...

Page 18: ...uch area Use ABC with the touch arrow keys to select a letter Use the switches left right to select the letter you want to modify The button on the far left in the touch field store lets you return to the choice of the memory slot Select a memory slot using the Bank and number buttons If necessary use the previously described Check function Press STORE with the right switch in touch area ...

Page 19: ...tage Effects Five parallel Effects 128 note polyphony Design and controls with retro feel The tone generator Voices In reface CP the Tone Generator SCM Spectral Component Modeling AWM2 is used This Tone Generator has already conquered the stages of the world in recent years with the big brother the Yamaha CP1 and has since been implemented in other instruments of the CP series Six excellent soundi...

Page 20: ...ch pair a three stage switch is available At the center position none of the Effects is active Bypass Switching it up down turns on the corresponding Effect The LED indicates that the Effect is active the knobs are used to control its parameters The Effects are individually tailored to the different Voices Tremolo Wah The Tremolo Effect works as Stereo Panner for the Voices RdI RdII and Cp For the...

Page 21: ...ffects Remember to demonstrate the very dynamic Voices and their details like key off noises etc on a good speaker system In such a demonstration please ensure that the Effects are really turned off since they otherwise have an influence on the sound even if their knobs are turned all to the left Consider moreover that a Voice transmitted from the Capture app might under certain circumstances acti...

Page 22: ...an Flutes Five different organ models Nine drawbar sliders Leslie simulation Two Effects Distortion Reverb 128 note polyphony Percussion 4 and 2 2 3 with adjustable length Vibrato and Chorus with adjustable intensity Tone Generator Operation Effects The five organ models are inspired by corresponding originals and are named with the following abbreviations H Classic sinus organ sound V Transistor ...

Page 23: ...ro position of the sliders corresponds to a bypass setting Since we are not dealing here with a church organ the last paragraph has the motto No organ without Leslie This Effect which is colloquially known as Rotary Speaker throughout the world although rarely the speaker itself rotates is not missing in reface YC It is located on the far left in the same spot where the Pitch Bend stick is located...

Page 24: ...l rotor If you do not belong to the connoisseurs of the organ it is advisable to have some typical sound examples from the manual at hand In addition of course here too the Capture app on an iPhone or iPad provides good help Otherwise as with reface CS a piece of paper and a pen should do it Even and especially if you are traveling perhaps with battery operated reface but without iOS Device On the...

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Page 26: ...re and can be sorted differently Even a search function is implemented reface Capture iOS App By means of a Set List the Voices can be arranged in a particular order and accessed in succession by simply tapping on them Noteworthy is the exchange of Voices using QR codes The code can be generated for a stored Voice and then released in the iOS typical ways For example you can send it via e mail or ...

Page 27: ...the instrument to the app is triggered The Voice section for reface YC After a successful data transfer you get back to the Voice screen The currently transmitted Voice is automatically named with the current date Selecting the arrow next to the name lets you enter another name and insert a picture The image can be taken from the photo collection or taken with the integrated camera In addition eac...

Page 28: ...ouTube and Vine are supported An integrated search engine provides the search for Voices and or users In a wider area Voice names and descriptions are searched The targeted search for Voices by their tags and attributes is also implemented Soundmondo Create your Soundmondo Inspire and be inspired reface DX gets a browser based Voice Editor All parameters are displayed on a clearly structured page ...

Page 29: ...ory settings Factory Reset Unsecured data and settings will be lost The LEDs in the sections OSC CS TYPE CP and WAVE YC will flash to comfirm the operation In the DX the display displays Factory Reset The process works with one hand Auto Power Off By default all instruments are switched off after 30 minutes of inactivity If you want this function to be disabled use the key C2 While all other speci...

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Page 31: ...REFACEessentialknowledge06 2015 YAMAHA COM 31 Accessories Gig Bag Strap Kit This kit enables you to attach a guitar strap to the reface to use it in keytar style ...

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