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RHYTHM PROGRAMMER
OWNER’S MANUAL
BEDIENUNGSANLEITUNG
MODE D’EMPLOI
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PDF01_E.qx 6/2/99 5:42 PM Page 2 SPECIAL MESSAGE SECTION This product utilizes batteries or an external seating only. No other uses are recommended. power supply (adapter). DO NOT connect this NOTICE: product to any power supply or adapter other Service charges incurred due to a lack of than one described in the manual, on the knowledge relating to how a function or effect name plate, or specifically recommended by works (when the unit is operating as designed) Yamaha. are not covered by the
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PDF01_E.qx 6/2/99 5:42 PM Page 3 Note: Check with any retailer of household serial number, and the date of purchase in the type batteries in your area for battery disposal spaces provided below and retain this manual information. as a permanent record of your purchase. OUTPUT MIDI Disposal Notice: OUT IN R L/MONO EXT IN DC IN ON STANDBY Should this product become damaged beyond repair, or for some reason its useful life is considered to be at an end, please observe all local, state, and fed
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PDF01_E.qx 6/2/99 5:42 PM Page 4 PRECAUTIONS PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING * Please keep these precautions in a safe place for future reference. WARNING Always follow the basic precautions listed below to avoid the possibility of serious injury or even death from electrical shock, short-circuiting, damages, fire or other hazards. These precautions include, but are not limited to, the following: • Do not open the instrument or attempt to disassemble the internal parts or modify them
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01_IntroE.qx 7/2/99 6:02 PM Page 5 • Do not attempt to recharge batteries that are not intended to be charged. • If the instrument is not to be in use for a long time, remove the batteries from it, in order to prevent possible fluid leakage from the battery. • Keep batteries away from children. • Before connecting the instrument to other electronic components, turn off the power for all components. Before turning the power on or off for all components, set all volume levels to minimum. Also,
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PDF01_E.qx 6/2/99 5:42 PM Page 6 THANK YOU FOR PURCHASING THE YAMAHA RY9 RHYTHM PROGRAMMER. The Yamaha RY9 is a full-featured, high quality, low-priced, hand-held stereo rhythm programmer with accompaniment backing and guitar input that’s the perfect “pocket pal” for the guitarist on the go. With its compact size, friendly user interface, wide variety of preprogrammed patterns and songs, user programming capabilities, versatile MIDI features and more, the handy RY9—which easily slips into a
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PDF01_E.qx 6/2/99 5:42 PM Page 7 CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS MANUAL. In order to keep confusion to a minimum, there are a few basic conventions used in the feature explanations in this manual, as follows: n Names of key features are written in the cap-low style; e.g., Pattern Mode, Song Record Mode, System Mode Sync function, User patterns, etc. n Names of controls and connectors are written in all-caps within brackets; e.g., [EXT IN] jack, [VOLUME] slider, [DELETE] button, etc. n Special prompt
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PDF01_E.qx 6/2/99 5:42 PM Page 8 HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL. The RY9 Owner’s Manual is designed to travel alongside the RY9 itself. It includes information about all the RY9’s features and operation procedures, organized in such a way as to permit quick and easy access to any feature you need to locate. The main sections of the Owner’s Manual are as follows: BEFORE YOU BEGIN A brief overview of the RY9’s capabilities and system structure, as well as descriptions of all panel features—everything y
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PDF02_E.qx 6/2/99 5:47 PM Page 1 BEFORE YOU BEGIN..............................................2 1. THE RY9 ................................................................2 2. RY9 SYSTEM STRUCTURE ......................................4 3. TOP PANEL ............................................................7 4. SIDE & REAR PANELS ..........................................10 GETTING STARTED ..............................................12 5. SETUP & POWER-ON ................................
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN PDF02_E.qx 6/2/99 5:47 PM Page 2 1. THE RY9 The RY9 is an easy-to-use yet powerful rhythm programmer with automatic bass and chord accompaniment backing, an external input for playing along using a guitar, versatile MIDI capabilities and much more. Featuring Yamaha’s exclusive AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) tone generation technology—where voices are high quality digital samples of actual instruments—the RY9 has a large capacity waveform ROM filled with 128 “drum” voices for the
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PDF02_E.qx 6/2/99 5:47 PM Page 3 The RY9’s many other features include song chaining and loop repeating, rhythm “swing” function for a realistic human feeling, guitar tuner and guitar synthesizer, 28-note polyphony, stereo outputs, headphone jack, and a large LCD screen which always lets you know what mode and status you’re currently in. Hence, the RY9 is the ideal music tool that’s useful in practically any music situation. You can use it as: A Practicing Companion Plug a guitar directly int
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN PDF02_E.qx 6/2/99 5:47 PM Page 4 2. RY9 SYSTEM STRUCTURE The RY9 is primarily a powerful rhythm programmer, but with the added dimension of automatic backing accompaniment, song programming capability and a guitar synthesizer. The key components that make up the RY9’s operating system are the AWM voices, the drum kits, the patterns, and the songs. The main operating modes are Pattern Mode and Song Mode, each of which are made up of several “functions”. Additional modes includ
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PDF02_E.qx 6/2/99 5:47 PM Page 5 THE AWM VOICES. There are 128 “drum” voices and 50 “normal” AWM voices. The drum voices are assigned to the drum kits. The normal voices are assigned to the backing accompaniments and to the guitar synthesizer. THE DRUM KITS. There are 12 Preset drum kits and 4 User drum kits. Although there are only 12 pads on the top panel of the RY9, each drum kit is made up of 24 drum voices, organized in two “Pad Banks”—a “Drum Pad Bank” and a “Percussion Pad Bank”—with 1
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN PDF02_E.qx 6/2/99 5:47 PM Page 6 THE MODES AND FUNCTIONS. The RY9’s features are for the most part organized into nine modes accessible by holding [MODE] and pressing one of the drum pads (the names of the modes are printed on the various pads). All modes except Tempo Mode and Transpose Mode contain several pages of functions which you can select by holding [MODE] and pressing [PAGE-] and [PAGE+]. Most routine operations can be performed from either within Pattern Mode or Son
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PDF02_E.qx 6/2/99 5:47 PM Page 7 3. TOP PANEL 1 REPEAT SONG PART BEAT CLOCK MEAS CHAIN KIT MUTE PTN NEXT SONG EMPTY PAD RHYTHM PROGRAMMER REC TOP BWD STOP PLAY FWD 2 3 4 ACCENT MODE PATTERN 0 SONG 1 KIT 2 EXT IN 3 SYSTEM 4 TEMPO 5 ENTER HH HH DELETE AUDITION TOM1 TOM2 TOM3 CLOSED1 OPEN RIDE PAGE 6 PAGE 7 8 MUTE 9 BALANCE 10 TRANS- 11 CHORD PAD BANK POSE HH BD1 BD2 SD1 SD2 CLOSED2 CRASH 1 LCD SCREEN High contrast, easy-to-read Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) provides large-content visual feedba
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN PDF02_E.qx 6/2/99 5:47 PM Page 8 SONG PART REPEAT BEAT CLOCK MEAS CHAIN KIT MUTE PTN NEXT SONG EMPTY PAD RHYTHM PROGRAMMER REC TOP BWD STOP PLAY FWD 5 6 7 ACCENT MODE PATTERN 0 SONG 1 KIT 2 EXT IN 3 SYSTEM 4 TEMPO 5 ENTER 8 9 % HH HH DELETE AUDITION TOM1 TOM2 TOM3 CLOSED1 OPEN RIDE ) ! ^ PAGE 6 PAGE 7 8 MUTE 9 BALANCE 10 TRANS- 11 CHORD PAD BANK POSE HH @ # BD1 BD2 SD1 SD2 CLOSED2 CRASH & $ 5 [STOP] BUTTON For stopping the song or pattern playback or realtime recording. 6 [P
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PDF02_E.qx 6/2/99 5:47 PM Page 9 ) [DELETE] BUTTON For deleting individual drum beats in Pattern Record Mode. Simply hold [DELETE] and press [ENTER] or the appropriate drum pad to delete the drum voice at the current cursor location. When Chord Assign is active, holding [DELETE] and pressing [ENTER] will delete the chord at the current cursor location. ! [AUDITION] BUTTON For “auditioning”, or checking, drum sounds in Pattern Step Record Mode before you record a drum beat. While pressing and
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BEFORE YOU BEGIN PDF02_E.qx 6/2/99 5:47 PM Page 10 4. SIDE & REAR PANELS 1 2 MIN VOLUME MAX PHONES 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 private listening. 3 4 5 6 7 MIDI OUTPUT OUT IN R L/MONO EXT IN DC IN ON STANDBY 8 3 [OUTPUT] JACKS For connecting the RY9 to a mixer, or a stereo amplifier, or amplified speakers. In the case of mono output, use
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PDF02_E.qx 6/2/99 5:47 PM Page 11 5 [EXT IN] JACK For plugging in a guitar to play along with the song or pattern playback, or for using the guitar tuner feature, or for “triggering” any of the 50 AWM backing instrument voices 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 for turning the power of the RY9 on and off (page 17). Even when th
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GETTING STARTED 02_GetStartE.qx 7/16/99 11:22 AM Page 12 5. SETUP & POWER-ON The RY9 can be powered by either an optional AC adaptor or six batteries. Follow the instructions below based on the power source you intend to use. USING A POWER ADAPTOR. 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 rear panel, then plug the adaptor into a convenient wall AC power outlet. EXT IN DC IN ON STANDBY AC power out
