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CVP-509/505/503/501 Owner’s Manual 41
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Voices – Playing the keyboard –
• SA2 Voices (S. Articulation2!) (CVP-509)
Mainly for wind instrument Voices, a special Yamaha technology called
AEM has been used, which features detailed samples of special expressive
techniques used on those specific instruments—to bend or slide into notes, to
“join” different notes together, or to add expressive nuances at the end of a
note, etc.
You can add these articulations by playing legato or staccato, or by jumping
in pitch by around an octave. For example, using the Clarinet Voice, if you
hold a C note and play the Bb above, you’ll hear a glissando up to the Bb.
Some “note off” effects are also produced automatically when you hold a
note for over a certain time.
You can also use the pedals to add articulations to the SA and SA2 Voices (page 43).
For details on how to best play each SA and SA2 Voice, call up the information
window (pressing the [7 ▲] (INFO) button in the Voice Selection display).
NOTE
The characteristics of SA2 Voices
(default vibrato setting and articula-
tion effects applied by the pedals) are
effective for real-time performance;
however, these effects may not be
completely reproduced when you play
back a Song which has been recorded
using SA2 Voices.
AEM Technology
When you play the piano, pressing a “C” key produces a definite and relatively
fixed C note. When you play a wind instrument, however, a single fingering may
produce several different sounds depending on the breath strength, the note
length, the adding of trills or bend effects, and other performance techniques.
Also, when playing two notes continuously—for example “C” and “D”—these
two notes will be smoothly joined, and not sound independent as they would on a
piano.
AEM (Articulation Element Modeling) is the technology for simulating this
characteristic of instruments. During performance, the most appropriate sound
samples are selected in sequence in real time, from huge quantities of sampled
data. They are smoothly joined and sounded—as would naturally occur on an
actual acoustic instrument.
This technology to smoothly join different samples enables the application of
realistic vibrato. Conventionally on electronic musical instruments, vibrato is
applied by moving the pitch periodically. AEM technology goes much further by
analyzing and disaggregating the sampled vibrato waves, and smoothly joins the
disaggregated data in real time during your performance.