User manual YAMAHA VLVISUALEDITOR

[. . . ] Also, uncheck the "Smooth all fonts on screen" check box. Copyright (c) 2001 Yamaha Corporation. Version 1. 0, 2001 YAMAHA CORPORATION Editing Procedure The Visual Editor mainly consists of two windows: the Synthesis Window and Edit Window. Synthesis 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 automatically creates a voice (a set of new voice parameters). [. . . ] You can also select VARIATION by double-clicking, and it takes you to Edit window automatically. 7 Edit Window Press the [Edit ->] button in the lower right corner of the "Synthesis" window to go to the "Edit" window. This window allows further editing of the basic voice created in the "Synthesis" window. The labelled "menu tabs" in the lower section of the "Edit" window provide access to corresponding edit pages. By clicking each menu tab you can display various editing "pages". You can 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 window to switch menus as required. You can also select a menu by clicking on the solid section showing the menu name to open the pop-up menu and directly choosing a menu from it. 8 Edit Window A menu contains several icons (patches), each of which is assigned with specific effects. Editing will be executed by selecting the icons from various menu pages and arranging them in the patch holder row in the center of the Edit Window (above the labelled "menu tabs"). Double-clicking on any of the icons in the "Patch Palette" causes that icon to appear in the patch holder, and the corresponding effect will be applied to the current voice. The items in the "Patch Palette" menu icons can also be moved to the patch holder by clicking and dragging. The icons can be selected, or moved to the patch holder according to the following rules: · Only one item can be selected from the same type menu. If one of these icons is selected while a previous icon of the same type exists in the patch holder, the new selection will replace the previous selection. · The selected icons lines up from left to right in the predetermined order: Pickup (left most), Filter, Resonator, 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 using the synthesizer/ tone generator compatible with Modular Synthesis Plugin System, the Combination, Variation, Chorus and Reverberation items have no effects. To remove an item from the patch holder chain, simply click and drag it to the trash can icon. If you want to remove all patch icons and start from scratch, click on the [Clear] button. Clicking [Recall] button restores the items deleted. · Please note that when "Clear" is executed the other "Edit" parameters -- "Envelope", "Control" and "Tweak", to be described later -- are also cleared. · The "Patch Palette" will always appear in front of any other open windows, but, like any other window, it can be closed by clicking on its close button. Once closed it can be re-opened by selecting [VL Show Patch Palette] from the [Window] Menu. 9 Edit Window The various patches are described briefly below. <1> Pickup Changing pickups is like changing pickups on a guitar or changing the position of a pickup on a brass or woodwind instrument. The Visual Editor provides 8 pickup types. · Single A simulation of a "single-coil" electric 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 converted to sound and amplified. · Beatin' The beating or "buzzing" of the mouthpiece reed is selectively amplified. 10 Edit Window · Slit/Friction The variation in the gap between the reed and mouthpiece is converted to sound and amplified. When the "Bow" 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 synthesizers. [. . . ] If the currently synthesized or edited voice is not saved, a dialog box asking you to confirm whether you want to save the current Voice List will appear. Select the appropriate response to quit the program. 20 Menu Bar [File] Menu · VL Voice New Opens a new Voice List. · VL Voice Open Displays the "Open" dialog box and you can select the desired Voice List file (extension . LIB). · VL Voice Close Closes the Voice List currently displayed. · VL Voice Save Saves the Voice List currently displayed. · VL Voice Save As Displays the "Save As" dialog 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" window to quit the application. Though the menu names differ slightly for Macintosh systems, the basic functions are the same. 21 Menu Bar [Edit] Menu · Undo Undoes the most recent edit operation. · Redo You can redo operations that you have undone. · VL Voice Copy Copies the voice selected in the Voice List to the clipboard. · VL Voice 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. 22 Menu Bar [Setup] Menu · VL Visual Editor MIDI You can make the MIDI settings for the VL Visual Editor. [. . . ]