Yamaha VL Visual Editor, Manual

Page 1: ...s tered trademarks of their respective companies Notices Yamaha makes no representations or warranties with regard to the use of the software and documentation and cannot be held responsible for the results of the use of this manual and the software The windows and illustrations in this manual are for instructional purposes only and may slightly different from the ones shown on your software About...

Page 2: ... Edit z Select the combination of the Driver Pipe Strings and Variation to synthesize in the Synthesis Window x Switch to the Edit Window after the selection This process auto matically creates a voice a set of new voice parameters c Make detailed changes on the parameters in the Edit Window to complete the new voice ...

Page 3: ...Set the same MIDI Port Device Number and Transmit Channel as the ones you set for the tone generator The Visual Editor is valid for the VL voice assigned to Part 1 Set the VL voice to Part 1 by operating the mother synthesizer tone generator Select MIDI or Choose Input Output from the Window Menu to open the follow ing dialog boxes Windows Windows Macintosh Macintosh ...

Page 4: ...ayed via the connected tone generator The transmitted voice will sound briefly when the data has been successfully transmitted When the transmission process is completed the Visual Editor informs you of it by play ing a broken chord using the transmitted voice You can audition the edited voice as a broken chord by clicking the composite image The DRIVER Options The Visual Editor provides 6 DRIVER ...

Page 5: ...d principle i e sound is gen erated by the air turbulence produced by blowing across a solid edge Bow A bow drawn across a string causes the string to vibrate thereby generating rubbed string instrument sound violin cello contrabass etc Selecting the Bow DRIVER and String PIPE STRINGS combination allows you to select Analog synthesizer waves in VARIATION Pluck Guitar mandolin and harp are all pluc...

Page 6: ...aperture gradually expanding to a relatively large bell Conical small This conical pipe has a much smaller taper than the above more like the type of pipe used in an oboe Straight double ended A flute pipe for example is essentially straight along its length but is driven at a point somewhere between its two ends This type of pipe is double ended Straight single ended Similar to a clarinet pipe dr...

Page 7: ...mbouchure the way he uses his lips String A drawn string like the type used on a violin or guitar The final result depends on the DRIVER selected but the string generally has a relatively long decay The VARIATION Options Depending on the DRIVER and PIPE STRINGS combination selected two or more VARIATIONs corresponding to different instrument sizes and characteristics may be available If the DRIVER...

Page 8: ...n audition the edited voice as a broken chord by clicking the composite image The Patch Palette When the Edit window is selected a smaller floating window labelled Pickup will appear to its left This is the Patch Palette containing 8 menu pages for editing Pickup Filter Resonator Combination 1 Combination 2 Variation Chorus Reverberation Click on the left and right facing arrows at the top of the ...

Page 9: ...or Combination Variation Chorus Reverberation right most Selecting the Combination item while the Variation Chorus and or Reverberation items are selected resets or deletes the Variation Chorus and or Reverberation items On the contrary simultaneously selecting all three items the Variation Chorus and Reverberation while the Combination item is selected deletes the Combination item When you are us...

Page 10: ...ctric guitar pickup Humbucking A simulation of a double coil humbucking electric guitar pickup Mouthpiece The effect produced by attaching a pickup to the mouthpiece of a wind instrument BreathNoiseAmp This pickup picks up the amplitude of the noise components of the breath noise FlowRate The saturation component of the air flow within the instrument s mouthpiece is con verted to sound and amplifi...

Page 11: ... driver is selected this pickup amplifies the friction of the bow Reed Aperture The flexing of the reed is converted to sound and amplified 2 Filter The sound can be shaped with basic low pass filters usually found on analog syn thesizers The frequency and resonance of the filter can be adjusted via the Tweak edit page described later ...

Page 12: ...dit Window 3 Resonator These patches add for example the resonance of a violin or guitar body to the sound 4 Combination 1 2 A range of effect combinations are provided for use with different types of music ...

Page 13: ...ndow 5 Variation Mainly delay type effects based on the Variation Effect of the mother synthe sizer tone generator 6 Chorus Chorus type effects based on the Chorus Effect of the mother synthesizer tone generator ...

Page 14: ...ick on the Envelope tab to access the Attack Rate Delay and Release envelope parameters The Decay parameter is only available when the Pluck driver is selected Each of these parameters can be adjusted from 16 to 16 33 steps The higher the value the faster the rate A value other than 0 must be selected to produce any effect With some DRIVER and PIPE STRINGS combinations however only positive or neg...

Page 15: ... can be adjusted from 16 through 16 33 steps Additional parameters may also appear according to the selected patches When you use the synthesizer tone generator compatible with Modular Synthesis Plug in System some items on the Tweak pages have no effects Recall Clicking the Clear button resets the Patch Palette Envelope Control and Tweak parameters Clicking Recall button restores the parameters w...

Page 16: ...mmands For example copied voices by using VL Voice Copy command can be pasted to a new location by using VL Voice Paste or selected voices can be deleted by using VL Voice Delete File Management The Voice List can be saved in the same way as any other file on the computer Its file extension is LIB Select VL Voice Save from the File menu to save the current Voice List Select VL Voice Save as to spe...

Page 17: ...er of creation and are automatically saved up to the last existing voice location when the Voice List is saved When a new voice is synthesized after performing edit operations the existing voice in the Voice List may be overwritten Voice Names Comments The Voice Name window can be selected by double clicking on the desired voice in the Voice List while holding the Ctrl key A voice name of up to 8 ...

Page 18: ...in the Voice List is shown in the voice Two SMF format types are available format 0 and format 1 only format 0 for Macintosh x x x x Designate the file name and the folder to which you want to save the voice Selecting VL Voice Export when the voice is not specified in the Voice List allows you to save the currently editing voice In this case the voice number is not available Loading the Voice Data...

Page 19: ...Data in Songs The voice data created by the VL Visual Editor can be inserted in the specified position in the track of a song This function is enabled when you use the Visual Editor as Plug in Editor on Windows sys tems z z z z After selecting the desired voice from the Voice List select Insert VL Voice Parameters from the Setup Menu The following dialog box appears x x x x Select the track number...

Page 20: ... Synthesis or Edit Window to quit the VL Visual Editor application If the currently synthesized or edited voice is not saved a dia log box asking you to confirm whether you want to save the current Voice List will appear Select the appropriate response to quit the program ...

Page 21: ... box You can name the file and save it as Voice List file extension LIB VL Voice Export Saves the voice data in the SMF format VL Load Voice Loads the currently edited voice to the VL tone generator as the Custom Voice Exit Closes the window and shuts down the application If you use the VL Visual Editor as Plug in Editor the menu item is disabled Click the Close button of the Synthesis or Edit win...

Page 22: ...ice Paste The voice data on the clipboard will be pasted to the specified place in the Voice List VL Voice Delete The voice selected in the Voice List will be deleted VL Voice Select All All voices in the Voice List will be selected Sort VL Voice List The voices selected in the Voice List will be sorted Though the menu names differ slightly for Macintosh systems the basic functions are the same ...

Page 23: ...etails see the OMS manual in PDF format Insert VL Voice Parameters The voice data created by the VL Visual Editor can be inserted in the specified position in the track of a song This function is enabled when you use the Visual Editor as Plug in Editor on Windows sys tems VL Voice Number The number of voices in the Voice List can be predetermined Window Menu VL Synthesis Opens the Synthesis Window...