‘The V50 brings all the essentials of into ¢ verything you need for creating, controlling, and performing music. Vith the V50 supporting your musical creativity, main functions are just a push of a button away; ac- your inspir The V50 puts an ent a single unit—music under your control @ight-timbre 16-note polyphonic FM ynthes ©G1-note velocity and pressure keyboard DSP (digital signal proc with reverb and other editable ack 16,000 note sequel d track editing chine with 61 PCM Vo0—all-aroujnd music power!~~ Synthesizer section The eight-timbral 16 note polyphonic synthesizer section of the V50 has plenty of music-making power. | a 4-operator 8-wave: form FM synthesis technology, for dynamite sounds even with just a single voioe—there's no need to cut your polyphonic capabilities in half just to get a good sound. ‘And up to 300 voices can be available for instant selection; 100 presets, 100 user memories, and 100 more in an optional RAM card. Programming your own voices is easter than ever before, with a Quick Edit feature that lets you make overall adjustments in brilliance, volume, altack time, or release time. ‘The large LCD will be especially appreciated by serious pro- grammers, for example allowing you to simultaneously view ss for an operator, Since V50 voice data Is upwards compatible with the XII and TXBIZ, you can take advantage of the thousands of voices already existing for these instruments. Plus, new parameters such as an extended ultra-low operator fre: uency range, and negative keyboard level sealing have been added, for even more versatility Performance mode is where you assign the VSO to fact as up to 8 independent instruments, each producing a intone: A andl being controlled from its own area of the Keyboard (or by a different MIDI channe). This allows you to program some amazing voic stacks and splits as well. All sixteen notes of polyphony are dynamically allo- cated, 80 voioes not being played by one instrument are available for the other Instruments to use—meaning that you'll hear every note of even those big two-handed chords, and your lavish or chestrations will be played just the way you want them. Specified instruments in a performance can use one of the 18 micro tune a scales. Bleven scales such as Mean Tone, Werckmeister and Pythagorean are preset, and two user-definable scales are also provided You can play historical or non-western music using the scale it was intended for, or perform your own experiments in micro-tonality One of three types of performance effect can be selected for use in a performance memory. Pan allows you to periodically shift the sound between left and right, as determined by an LFO, note velocity. or note pitch ‘Transposed delay adds delayed and transposed notes to a note, with control over delay, transposition, and feedback Chord set assigns a four-note chord to be sounded by a single note, with a different chord for each of twelve notes, ‘The built-in es ee processor) utilizes the same type of circuitry that made Yamaha's studio signal processors famous. Thirty-two types of effect are provided, including reverb. delay, early reflection, distortion, multi-effect combination programs, and even two types of digital equalizer. You have total con- trol over individual DSP parameters like reverb time, delay, room size, and LPF. Each voice memory can be given its cown DSP settings, for just the right effect. In addition, the DSP can be applied to specified instru- ments in a performance memory. PRESET VOICES Sins 7 wah z 5 a RT| ae] [csr ‘lariat ma? rm i eB eee | (E Te Hy Bee BEF Bee e\y FE E leleigia| FeReG e s i : 2 2 | [ite | [iain] Cee [sins | alg Pe A 7 3 i EPRESET PERFORMANCES, Te TexGuitar pss Wbass | aly tas Pn ‘oto V bras 1 Witeass 2 Hang ‘cms Poaran “Wires Salen Twarmstas vaMawa osc Weald seca ‘Dew Tey Dragon | x Meal Paps ‘wireano od Funk eo Fugue Rk | Dalai Saw | Benth) Lain Ear Tyo 50 Dem | ViePins Tena Ea Sian Bash seed Rhythm section The V50's rhythm machine utiiaes 61 PCM recorded sam ples, ranging from traditional drum kit instruments to ga. ted drums, timpani, latin percussion, glass crash, and other special effects. Up to eight of these rhythm sounds can be played at once, and each of the 61 sounds has its own independent settings for volume, par and MIDI note number. The DSP can also be applied to rhythm sounds. Rhythm instruments can be played from the V50's velocity senskive keyboard (using one of the three prese or two user-edited setups), or from rhythm patiers in a riythm song. A rythm pattern is from one to four ures long, and can use a time signature of 1/4—8/4, /8—168, or 1/16—32/16, 100 preset rhythm patterns are provided, and 100 of your own patterns c You can create your own rhythm patterns [aaa by realtime recording (with looping and selectable quantize), or using step recording with a graphic display of pattern Volume changes can also be inserted, and by inserting marks into a rhythm song, you can instantly jump to seven different locations, such as a specific chorus or coda. Riiythm song editing functions allow you to insert, lelete and copy parts, and also give a name to the song, Up to eight separate rhythm songs can be held in memory, and played back together with the sequencer songs. note position. Individual notes of individual instruments in a pattern can have their own accent setting. which can be edited fre —e provided to clear instruments from a pattern hese patterns can be arranged to form a rhythm song of up to 999 parts, In addition to patterns, a song can contain begin and end repeat marks with a specified number of repetitions (nested if desired). Tempo changes can be inserted, and allow you to specify the time requited for the change, making smooth accelerandos or rtardandos. RHYTHM VOICES a os a cosh aM Aas Boe] Fw a BOS Fin (Be in 2 MR Taneen eS a ce Co ec 2 ER oc SDA] 8 (lope imp eat es EE POS] F Tn! QM) coos BaOee i ec eo CESequencer section ‘The eight-track sequencer is the perfect sketch pad for your musical ideas, or can function as the control center that drives a live performance, The memory will hold approxi- mately 16.000 notes in eight separate songs for instant selection and playback, ensuring that tightly-paced stage sets will be smooth and trouble-free. Realtime recor- SE 2: just as you play them, and records aftertouch, pitch bend, modulation wheel, and program changes as well. In real- time recording, you have a choice of Replace or Overdub, modes, Punch-in recording allows you to re-record selected measures instead of redoing an entire track. Minor mistakes can also be corrected using the step recording mode, ao you a graphic display of individual note positions and lengths, and shows program changes as well. Step record ing mode also allows you to record complex parts or chords that would be impossible for human hands to play. ‘Simply press a note length button and play a key. The note will be entered at the cursor position. Editing notes is just as easy. ‘operations makes it easy to put a song together. Tracks can be mixed down or quantized, and specified measures can be deleted or inserted from all tracks. Measures in a track can be copied, erased, or removed (With the option of removing only specified controllers, pitch bend, of aftertouch data). Sinoe each track of the sequencer has its own trans mit channel setting, you can control external MIDI tone generator modules and synthesizers in addition to the V50's cown tone generator. The V50 sequencer can serve as the master timing source for other sequencers, or synchronize itself to an external sequencer or rhythm machine. ‘The V50 sequencer can use sequence data from the QXSFDIQXS sequencers, and also from the sequencer built into the ¥S200/B200 (via memory card), Utility functions ‘The card slot will accept commercially available ROM cards, and allows you to use an optional RAM card (MCD32 or MCD64) to store your own voice, performance, or rhythm pattern and rhythm song data for instant access. In addition to saving and loading synthesizer, se- quencer and rhythm data, the 720 Kbyte disk drive will function as an ae | all-purpose MIDI ing you to store any type of bulk data on disk. A full complement of MIDI functions makes the V50_ an ideal master controller for any setup. In addition to in- dependent settings for receive and transmit channels, local on/off allows you to disconnect the V50's keyboard from the internal tone generator. Control changes, aftertouch, and pitch bend received on a specified global channel can affect each instrument in a performance memory, for ‘compatibility with advanced devices such as MIDI guitar controllers. A program change table lets you specify which voices or performances will be selected in response to in ‘coming program change messages. MIDI transmission capabilities are equally advanced, and you can assign the front panel data entry slider to twansmit any MIDI control change. Bight different velocity response curves can be selected (including reverse veloci ty), allowing you to adjust Keyboard sensitivity to respond to fit your playing style, and you can also set a fixed value to be transmitted regardless of playing velocity DIGITAL SYNTHESIZERSPECIFICATIONS ‘esyattester section Tera memory: 6Kbyte apoxmeely 16000 noes) eyboant ‘te 100, ‘Rythm section ‘elt and pressure sete ‘ne generation: PEAL "oe genera: 4-oprtrB-lgrtm FM, 8 seb wos Palyheny: 8 mes Palyhory: 16 nus maximum simotanens. st ne py. Ineral merory: 10 peset pater ‘S.wice multisite 100 ier pater Tera memory: 100 eral voces ‘omnes 100 pet ves Dial eas: 2 types (parameters programmable ir ech woe 100 inal perfranoes anipsh 100 peset performances Teinas ‘OUTPUT LMONO, OUTPUT R, VOLE FC FS, 12.8 types 4 ech perfrmanne ets STARSTOR MDI IN, OUT, THR BREATH (iy an, cor) ‘OONTROL, PHONES 2 mio ting ote, a) Dis 4 eharacter 2 tne, backit Program change able Power consumption: 25 W sysem setup over regimens: USA an Gnadan mode 120 V 60 Ha ‘esequencer section (General mode; 220—240 V 50 He ‘acs ‘8 maximum 18 note poyphortock, maximum 22 Dimesions note tal phony al tris) (wxe0xth 1002 mm 326 x98 mm (9-12" x 12-78" 3-78") Sones: 8 Wet: 112 Ke 4B 11 0) Reson ‘92th nt ternal cick) ‘86th me CID lc) Sd me wor OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES a | McD 32, MCD 64 ‘YFD 20D Lat00 Ks10 Memory Card Floppy Disk Keyboard stand ‘Ssciatone subject a change wihout nat a YAMAHA PBST Searels ey re rts