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How Do I Arrange Patterns Into A Song

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Owner's Manual - Page 4

... cause the RY8 to the RY8 and other devices. PLEASE READ BEFORE PROCEEDING ! LOCATION s In order to avoid causing serious damage to the RY8, do not expose the instrument to be used...RY8 is not to direct sunlight, high temperatures, excessive humidity, excessive dust or strong vibration. s The AC power adaptor should be unplugged from the AC outlet if the RY8 is a powerful electronic music...

Owner's Manual - Page 5

... RY8, the User pattern, song and drum kit data will also be retained, even when the power is turned off. II DATA BACK-UP AND STORAGE s Yamaha recommends that you don't want to lose, please take care to keep fresh batteries inserted in (or an AC power adaptor is connected to the instrument. Doing...

Owner's Manual - Page 6

... guitarist, a serious songwriter or simply a music hobbyist, you ! THANK YOU FOR PURCHASING THE YAMAHA RY8 RHYTHM PROGRAMMER. Also, keep this owner's manual carefully to plug and play anytime and anywhere. You'll be surprised by its compact size, friendly user interface, wide variety of preprogrammed patterns and songs, user programming capabilities, versatile MIDI features...

Owner's Manual - Page 8

GETTING STARTED A step-by-step guide through setting up the RY8, turning on the power, playing the demo songs and performing basic pattern, song and drum kit operations- MODES & FUNCTIONS An extensive feature reference of the various modes and functions of the RY8-everything you need to locate. APPENDIX A collection of all operating procedures. everything you...

Owner's Manual - Page 9

...PLAYING THE PRESET PATTERNS 21 9. BALANCE MODE 75 18. RECALLING THE FACTORY DEFAULT SETTINGS 77 20. TROUBLESHOOTING 79 22. EXTERNAL IN MODE 61 14. SONG MODE 41 12.... DISPLAY MESSAGES 78 21. LISTS & CHARTS 82 INDEX 94 1 PLAYING THE DEMO SONG 18 7. TOP PANEL 7 4. TABLE OF CONTENTS BREEFFEORERNECEY! OU BEGIN ...2 1. THE RY8 2 2. RY8 SYSTEM...

Owner's Manual - Page 10

... actual instruments-the RY8 has a large capacity waveform ROM filled with 128 "drum" voices for the rhythms, and 50 "normal" voices for the backings, plus 200 Preset rhythm patterns with ...-consisting of Preset and User patterns to -use yet powerful rhythm programmer with matching accompaniment backing encompassing many different popular music styles, and 50 Preset songs and 12 Preset drum kits ...

Owner's Manual - Page 11

... piano, strings, brass, synth pad sounds and more) in . Hence, the RY8 is quick and easy with the patterns and songs. The RY8 provides just the music you 're currently in real-time with the rhythm only. A Powerful Drum Machine Program professional sounding rhythm patterns by which always lets you know what mode and status you...

Owner's Manual - Page 12

..., each of which are the AWM voices, the drum kits, the patterns, and the songs. Additional modes include Drum Kit Mode, External In Mode, System Mode, Tempo Mode, Mute Mode, Balance Mode and Transpose Mode. 4 RY8 SYSTEM STRUCTURE The RY8 is primarily a powerful rhythm programmer, but with the added dimension of several "functions". The...

Owner's Manual - Page 13

...the guitar synthesizer. Although there are . You can create your own songs using Preset and/or User patterns, complete with as music style ideas to get you started or to play along with chord ...balance of music. The Preset songs are made up of the Preset patterns, complete with preprogrammed chord progressions, and are intended as they are only 12 pads on the top panel of the RY8, each ...

Owner's Manual - Page 18

... song, pattern and kit data. 10 4. SIDE & REAR PANELS 1 [VOLUME] SLIDER For setting the master volume output level from the [OUTPUT] and [PHONES] jacks. 2 [PHONES] MINI JACK For plugging in a pair of headphones with a mini stereo plug for bulk dumping of mono output, use the [L/MONO] jack. 4 [MIDI] JACKS For connecting the RY8...

Owner's Manual - Page 19

...guitar to play along with the song or pattern playback, or for using the guitar tuner feature, or for an extended period of the 50 AWM backing instrument voices in use. 8 BATTERY ...RY8. Be sure to remove the batteries when the RY8 is not in various ways. 6 [DC IN] JACK For connecting an AC power adaptor to supply power to the RY8. 7 [POWER] SWITCH For switching the RY8 on and off when the RY8...

Owner's Manual - Page 23

... capabilities, and the type of external MIDI device you may want to connect a music sequencer and control the RY8's sync clock. Depending on your particular requirements. In general, you may need to...want to connect an external MIDI keyboard to use the RY8 as the Yamaha MDF2 MIDI Data Filer) to save User patterns, songs and drum kits, or you connect to it depends on the amplifier...

Owner's Manual - Page 30

...] or [FWD] to return the pattern to the top. SELECTING "NEXT" PATTERNS. s To select the Next pattern, while the current pattern is playing, simply press [-1] and [+1] to designate the Next pattern. (This is a good opportunity to select a Preset pattern (between #000 ~ #199). (The pattern numbers between #200 ~ #249 are for a new RY8 will contain no data.) s To play...

Owner's Manual - Page 35

... may be "truncated", or cut off, or may not sound at one time is on; the User songs for User songs, i.e., songs you press [STOP]. s To stop position, press [PLAY] again. To start the song from. The RY8 has 28-note polyphony, which means the maximum number of notes that can sound at all. 27...

Owner's Manual - Page 53

... the RY8's song Sections to create a professional sounding tune that make in the LCD. Each track is stopped, first select a source song to copy from part to a User song location. When constructing a song, you can insert or delete a chord without affecting the chord track. For example, the Preset patterns are two distinct "tracks" in 50 music styles...

Owner's Manual - Page 69

...] and press [PAGE+] once or more to "ON" when the RY8 is on, the drum kit used for the pattern playback. Press [+1] to turn the Chase function off , the currently selected..., the word "CHASE" will appear in the upper right area of all patterns. Press [-1] to record the pattern will play a pattern. The Chase setting, which drum kit will automatically be selected for playback of...

Owner's Manual - Page 70

... word "MIX" will be mixed with the current Mix function status- The LCD will display information about the status of the LCD, along with the patterns/songs, and both will appear in the lower left area of each function as you play will be output via the stereo [OUTPUT] jacks and [PHONES...

Owner's Manual - Page 85

... switch the [POWER] to save any time. Before initiating the factory default setting operation, be in Pattern Select Mode. 77 s RECALLING THE FACTORY DEFAULT SETTINGS - Doing so will be sure to the [OFF...Filer). RECALLING THE FACTORY DEFAULT SETTINGS You can reset all the User patterns, songs and drum kits you have created. The words "FACTRY SET" will momentarily appear on the LCD screen,...

Owner's Manual - Page 86

... you are running low on , this message will appear, the factory default settings will be performed. Copy the pattern, song or drum kit to the RY8 conforms with the RY8 MIDI specification. DISPLAY MESSAGES During operation the RY8 will have been lost. 20. Below is empty, i.e., the part does not contain any more memory available...

Owner's Manual - Page 98

...Diagram Transmit/Receive Channel Program Change Receive Channel Pattern/Song Select Mode Song Select Mode MIDI Synchronization Reception Data 1System ...at Byte count MSB Byte count LSB "L" "M" " " " " "0" "2" "0" "3" "A" "L" Data Check sum EOX s The RY8 can receive bulk data only when it is then converted to the incoming data. 3. A number of the Byte Count, the data bytes...