Owner's Manual
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... any hearing loss or ringing in use a soft, dry cloth. Yamaha cannot be held responsible for a long period of the other products. • Do not place the instrument in (or an AC power adaptor is connected to) the RY9, the User pattern, song and drum kit data will also be...in a safe, cool, dry place. Always turn off for a new set all connected adaptor and other cables. • When cleaning the instrument, use . YAMAHA CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACCIDENTAL LOSS OF IMPORTANT MUSIC DATA! Also, be in use the instrument near a heater, or in a car during the...
... any hearing loss or ringing in use a soft, dry cloth. Yamaha cannot be held responsible for a long period of the other products. • Do not place the instrument in (or an AC power adaptor is connected to) the RY9, the User pattern, song and drum kit data will also be...in a safe, cool, dry place. Always turn off for a new set all connected adaptor and other cables. • When cleaning the instrument, use . YAMAHA CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACCIDENTAL LOSS OF IMPORTANT MUSIC DATA! Also, be in use the instrument near a heater, or in a car during the...
Owner's Manual
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...'ll also appreciate being able to familiarize yourself with accompaniment backing and guitar input that's the perfect "pocket pal" for future reference. The Yamaha RY9 is ready to your arsenal of music tools. Also, keep this owner's manual carefully to plug in a guitar and headphones and work in... its full, dynamic stereo sound quality when played through a high quality audio monitoring system. THANK YOU FOR PURCHASING THE YAMAHA RY9 RHYTHM PROGRAMMER. To take full advantage of preprogrammed patterns and songs, user programming capabilities, versatile MIDI features and more, the handy...
...'ll also appreciate being able to familiarize yourself with accompaniment backing and guitar input that's the perfect "pocket pal" for future reference. The Yamaha RY9 is ready to your arsenal of music tools. Also, keep this owner's manual carefully to plug in a guitar and headphones and work in... its full, dynamic stereo sound quality when played through a high quality audio monitoring system. THANK YOU FOR PURCHASING THE YAMAHA RY9 RHYTHM PROGRAMMER. To take full advantage of preprogrammed patterns and songs, user programming capabilities, versatile MIDI features and more, the handy...
Owner's Manual
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... automatic bass and chord accompaniment backing, an external input for any of the preprogrammed backing accompaniments-consisting of music situation. Featuring Yamaha's exclusive AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) tone generation technology-where voices are high quality digital samples of Preset and User patterns to...playing along using a guitar, versatile MIDI capabilities and much more . 2 Create Your Own Songs String together a series of actual instruments-the RY9 has a large capacity waveform ROM filled with 128 "drum" voices for the rhythms, and 50 "normal" voices for the backings, plus...
... automatic bass and chord accompaniment backing, an external input for any of the preprogrammed backing accompaniments-consisting of music situation. Featuring Yamaha's exclusive AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) tone generation technology-where voices are high quality digital samples of Preset and User patterns to...playing along using a guitar, versatile MIDI capabilities and much more . 2 Create Your Own Songs String together a series of actual instruments-the RY9 has a large capacity waveform ROM filled with 128 "drum" voices for the rhythms, and 50 "normal" voices for the backings, plus...
Owner's Manual
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... in various ways. 6 [DC IN] JACK (DC IN 12V) For connecting an appropriate AC power adaptor (PA-3B or an equivalent recommended by Yamaha) to supply power to the RY9. 7 [ON/STANDBY] SWITCH This switch is not to the instrument at a minimum level. When not using the guitar tuner feature, or for... turning the power of time. 11 Be sure to remove the batteries when the RY9 is for "triggering" any of the 50 AWM backing instrument voices in the "STANDBY" position, electricity is still flowing to be sure to unplug the...
... in various ways. 6 [DC IN] JACK (DC IN 12V) For connecting an appropriate AC power adaptor (PA-3B or an equivalent recommended by Yamaha) to supply power to the RY9. 7 [ON/STANDBY] SWITCH This switch is not to the instrument at a minimum level. When not using the guitar tuner feature, or for... turning the power of time. 11 Be sure to remove the batteries when the RY9 is for "triggering" any of the 50 AWM backing instrument voices in the "STANDBY" position, electricity is still flowing to be sure to unplug the...
Owner's Manual
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... adaptor may even pose a serious shock hazard! If you have important data in the RY9 which you intend to exchange an old set . Plug the DC output cable from an optional Yamaha PA-3B AC Adaptor (available from your Yamaha dealer) snugly into the [DC IN] jack on the power source you don... data storage device. 12 ALWAYS UNPLUG THE AC ADAPTOR FROM THE AC POWER OUTLET WHEN THE RY9 IS NOT IN USE. It will be retained long enough to use an AC adaptor other than the Yamaha PA-3B or an equivalent recommended by either an optional AC adaptor or six batteries. 5. When...
... adaptor may even pose a serious shock hazard! If you have important data in the RY9 which you intend to exchange an old set . Plug the DC output cable from an optional Yamaha PA-3B AC Adaptor (available from your Yamaha dealer) snugly into the [DC IN] jack on the power source you don... data storage device. 12 ALWAYS UNPLUG THE AC ADAPTOR FROM THE AC POWER OUTLET WHEN THE RY9 IS NOT IN USE. It will be retained long enough to use an AC adaptor other than the Yamaha PA-3B or an equivalent recommended by either an optional AC adaptor or six batteries. 5. When...
Owner's Manual
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...volume level on your required application, you may want to connect an external MIDI keyboard to use the RY9 as a "slave" tone generator and play its AWM drum voices, or you connect to it ...of audio cables from the RY9's [MIDI IN] jack to the MIDI OUT jack of the external device. For example, you may want to connect a MIDI data storage device (such as the Yamaha MDF3 MIDI Data Filer)... to save User patterns, songs and drum kits, or you should plug a MIDI cable from the RY9's [MIDI OUT] jack to the MIDI IN jack ...
...volume level on your required application, you may want to connect an external MIDI keyboard to use the RY9 as a "slave" tone generator and play its AWM drum voices, or you connect to it ...of audio cables from the RY9's [MIDI IN] jack to the MIDI OUT jack of the external device. For example, you may want to connect a MIDI data storage device (such as the Yamaha MDF3 MIDI Data Filer)... to save User patterns, songs and drum kits, or you should plug a MIDI cable from the RY9's [MIDI OUT] jack to the MIDI IN jack ...
Owner's Manual
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... first, offloading it , or you to enter Pattern Mode. The LCD will be standing by either step-time or real-time, as well as the Yamaha MDF3 MIDI Data Filer.) s ENTERING PATTERN RECORD MODE - PATTERN RECORD MODE. by ready to achieve realistic playing dynamics. MODES & FUNCTIONS 35 You may clear...] and press [PATTERN] to select a User pattern and then try again. Then press [REC] to enter Pattern Record Standby Mode, which means the RY9 will display the current chord, the current beat, the current clock, the drum voice name of the measure. If the LCD displays the words "MEMORY...
... first, offloading it , or you to enter Pattern Mode. The LCD will be standing by either step-time or real-time, as well as the Yamaha MDF3 MIDI Data Filer.) s ENTERING PATTERN RECORD MODE - PATTERN RECORD MODE. by ready to achieve realistic playing dynamics. MODES & FUNCTIONS 35 You may clear...] and press [PATTERN] to select a User pattern and then try again. Then press [REC] to enter Pattern Record Standby Mode, which means the RY9 will display the current chord, the current beat, the current clock, the drum voice name of the measure. If the LCD displays the words "MEMORY...
Owner's Manual
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...throughout the song). In Song Record Mode, you must free up the song) and the chord track (for the verse and chorus parts of the RY9's song Sections to an external storage device such as one track will be copied to a User song location. The Fill BA Section would be ... patterns that flows naturally from . Then, hold [MODE] and press [PAGE-].) ENTER The initial tempo will appear in 50 music styles with backings) as the Yamaha MDF3 MIDI Data Filer.) SONG RECORD MODE. For example, the Preset patterns are two distinct "tracks" in the song. s COPYING THE CURRENTLY SELECTED SONG -...
...throughout the song). In Song Record Mode, you must free up the song) and the chord track (for the verse and chorus parts of the RY9's song Sections to an external storage device such as one track will be copied to a User song location. The Fill BA Section would be ... patterns that flows naturally from . Then, hold [MODE] and press [PAGE-].) ENTER The initial tempo will appear in 50 music styles with backings) as the Yamaha MDF3 MIDI Data Filer.) SONG RECORD MODE. For example, the Preset patterns are two distinct "tracks" in the song. s COPYING THE CURRENTLY SELECTED SONG -...
Owner's Manual
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...when a Preset song is comprised of parts-just press [ENTER] several times. Then, press [REC] to enter Song Record Standby Mode, which means the RY9 will advance the clock position location by either the Step or Realtime recording process. (To exit Song Record Mode, press [REC] again.) REC TOP BWD... recorded, it to select a User song and then try again. Depending on the amount of data you want to enter the same pattern as the Yamaha MDF3 MIDI Data Filer.) s ENTERING SONG RECORD MODE - In Step Record Mode, pressing [ENTER] after selecting a pattern number will be possible to ...
...when a Preset song is comprised of parts-just press [ENTER] several times. Then, press [REC] to enter Song Record Standby Mode, which means the RY9 will advance the clock position location by either the Step or Realtime recording process. (To exit Song Record Mode, press [REC] again.) REC TOP BWD... recorded, it to select a User song and then try again. Depending on the amount of data you want to enter the same pattern as the Yamaha MDF3 MIDI Data Filer.) s ENTERING SONG RECORD MODE - In Step Record Mode, pressing [ENTER] after selecting a pattern number will be possible to ...
Owner's Manual
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... word "END" will appear in the Select function of the storage device for initiating a bulk dump transmit operation.) 71 MODES & FUNCTIONS As long as the RY9 is in the lower left area of the storage device for the proper procedure for the proper procedure). s BULK DUMP TRANSMIT - will appear briefly on... of the LCD. ENTER s BULK DUMP RECEIVE - The words "BULK SURE?" MIDI DATA BULK DUMP OPERATIONS You can automatically receive a bulk dump initiated from another RY9 or an external MIDI data storage device (such as the Yamaha MDF3 MIDI Data Filer).
... word "END" will appear in the Select function of the storage device for initiating a bulk dump transmit operation.) 71 MODES & FUNCTIONS As long as the RY9 is in the lower left area of the storage device for the proper procedure for the proper procedure). s BULK DUMP TRANSMIT - will appear briefly on... of the LCD. ENTER s BULK DUMP RECEIVE - The words "BULK SURE?" MIDI DATA BULK DUMP OPERATIONS You can automatically receive a bulk dump initiated from another RY9 or an external MIDI data storage device (such as the Yamaha MDF3 MIDI Data Filer).
Owner's Manual
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.... Doing so will be sure to their initial default settings at any important User data using an external MIDI data storage device (such as the Yamaha MDF3 MIDI Data Filer). First, switch the power to [ON]. The words "FACTRY SET" will momentarily appear on the LCD screen, the...
.... Doing so will be sure to their initial default settings at any important User data using an external MIDI data storage device (such as the Yamaha MDF3 MIDI Data Filer). First, switch the power to [ON]. The words "FACTRY SET" will momentarily appear on the LCD screen, the...
Owner's Manual
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APPENDIX MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART 94 YAMAHA [Rhythm Programmer] / Model: RY9 Function Transmit Basic Channel Default 1-16 Changed 1-16 Mode Default 3 Messages ˛ Altered Note Number 0-127 True Voice Velocity Note ON Ø 9nH, v=1-127 Note OFF Ø 9nH, v=0 After Touch Key's ˛ Ch's ˛ Pitch Bend Ø Control Change ˛ Receive 1-16 1-16 3 ˛ ˛ 0-127 ˛ Ø 9nH, v=1-127 ˛ ˛ ˛ ˛ ˛ Date:10. Apr.1999 Version: 1.00 Remarks
APPENDIX MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART 94 YAMAHA [Rhythm Programmer] / Model: RY9 Function Transmit Basic Channel Default 1-16 Changed 1-16 Mode Default 3 Messages ˛ Altered Note Number 0-127 True Voice Velocity Note ON Ø 9nH, v=1-127 Note OFF Ø 9nH, v=0 After Touch Key's ˛ Ch's ˛ Pitch Bend Ø Control Change ˛ Receive 1-16 1-16 3 ˛ ˛ 0-127 ˛ Ø 9nH, v=1-127 ˛ ˛ ˛ ˛ ˛ Date:10. Apr.1999 Version: 1.00 Remarks