Yamaha W5 Electronic Keyboard User Manual


 
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
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SYSTEM LOGIC
MUSICIAN S WORKSTATION
The W5/W7 Music Synthesizer is a true music workstation designed with the com-
poser as well as performer in mind. In one streamlined, easy-to-use package is bundled all
the tools a musician needs to concentrate on making music
naturally
whether compos-
ing, recording, performing or practicing rather than being distracted by lots of machines
and cables.
The W5/W7 comes equipped with 32-note polyphonic keyboard, 16-track, 16-song
sequencer, full voice and song editing capabilities, studio quality digital effects, powerful
stereo sound mixing features, large memory capacity, on-board floppy disk drive, GM
compatibility, and more everything a musician needs for any modern music situation. Its
AWM2 tone generation, which includes hundreds of high quality digital samples that form
the core wave of sound elements from which the synthesizer voices are constructed,
provides rich, dynamic and powerful,
professional
quality sound.
With the W5/W7, there is no single prescribed method of working the way you use
it will be dictated by the needs of your particular music session. All operations are per-
formed within a song multi , or configuration of all parameter settings and other data
which make up a song , that can be stored in one of the 16 internal song memories and
saved to floppy disk.
One key to the W5/W7 s ease of operation is its intuitive, friendly user interface.
Through a balance of easy reach, multi-purpose buttons, sliders and controllers, plus a
large LCD screen, the W5/W7 allows you to go directly to any function, whether it s voice
editing, recording, song editing, or others, in usually the touch of a single button, and
rarely more than two or three.
Another key to the W5/W7 s ease of operation is the flexible nature of the song multis.
A song multi is a specific configuration of all settings you make for a particular music
session whether composing, recording, performing or practicing which you store in the
16 song memories, and can save to floppy disk in a variety of ways.
Finally, with the W5/W7 you can literally perform any operation on the fly , moving
around within functions and jumping from mode to mode intuitively switching back and
forth between the various modes freely as you work. You can even switch into Voice Edit
Mode while the sequencer is running, in order to make specific voice editing parameter
adjustments during song mixdown.