Full Description

You'll hear something different as soon as you play Tyros4's classical choir Voices: the sound is incredibly natural thanks to Ambient Sampling. For sampling, microphones are normally positioned close to the instrument to capture a direct sound which includes very little of the rooms ambience. For Tyros4's new classical choirs, the microphone positions were carefully adjusted to capture not only the sound of the choir but also the ambience of the room, resulting in unprecedented clarity and realism of sound.

Together with technologies such as Super Articulation, Tyros4's pop vocals use Yamaha's latest voicing technology, Wave Cycling, to bring hugely versatile vocal creativity to your performances. Tyros4 is packed with different vocal articulations such as Aah, Bah, Bee, Doh etc., and Wave Cycling varies the articulation of the Voice as you play. This means that you can now play incredibly realistic "shoo-bee-doo-bah" and scat vocals with remarkable ease!

The Tyros4 has an expanded and enhanced set of exceptionally authentic Voices, and gives you the means to play these Voices more naturally and with greater expressiveness. In particular, the instrument has many new Super Articulation Choir Voices, with amazingly realistic and natural human voice sounds - giving you even more expressive capability.

Powerful, professional Auto Accompaniment Styles

The Styles of the Tyros4 have been vastly enhanced with the expert use of new Super Articulation and Super Articulation 2 Voices. Greater and more expressive variations in the MegaVoices have been employed as well, particularly in the Scat and Gospel Voices.

Dynamic and Versatile Vocal Harmony feature - with Synth Vocoder

The newly enhanced Vocal Harmony 2 (VH2) processing engine delivers superior sound, lightning-fast processing, and comprehensive, flexible control of the harmonies applied to your singing voice. It also has a Synth Vocoder feature, providing the dynamic, popular vocoder effect for a variety of luscious and even other-worldly sounds. Moreover, the rear-panel combo jack lets you easily connect either XLR mic cables or 1/4" phone plug.

Click on the link below to view an introductory video to the Yamaha Tyros 4:

Voice expandability

Tyros4 is an open-ended instrument that lets you continually expand the available content for your creative explorations. Yamaha has an online service website (http://service.music.yamaha.com) featuring Premium Voices, Waves, Songs and Styles, etc. (called Premium Pack data) that can be purchased and loaded to the Tyros4. (In order to use the additional Waves and Voices you purchased, you?ll need to install the optional Flash Memory Expansion Module.)

Audio recording and playback

Tyros4 lets you record your performances as audio data, with two different methods, Simple (quick and easy recording to a single audio track) and Multi Track (overdub recording for complex songs). Since the created audio data is saved in WAV file format, you can edit your recordings on computer and share it over the Internet or burn your own original CD. The instrument also allows you to play back MP3 data.

Convenient, easy-to-use Music Finder function

With the enormous wealth of data available on the instrument (including your own Song and Audio data), the Music Finder function lets you instantly find and call up what you need. Not only can you get ideal setups (Voice, Style, etc.) for each song - searching by song title/genre - you can also easily retrieve your original Song and Audio data (registered beforehand). Additional new panel settings for the Tyros4 can be directly downloaded from the Internet.

Enhanced features for directly connecting to the Internet

The Tyros4 can also be directly connected to the Internet with the Internet Direct Connection function, allowing you to download special content without the need for a computer. Enhancements include a convenient, easy-to-use IDC Setup Wizard, as well as new security options, with WPA2 and WPA.

AudioRecording

No need for separate recording hardware - you can record your keyboard performance as well as your own singing or the sound of other instruments directly to the Tyros4! The audio is captured to the built-in hard disk drive as digital audio data - with absolutely noise-free audio quality. With computer and audio editing software, you can also edit the sound file as needed, and then re-import it to the Tyros4. Since the created audio data is saved in WAV file format, you can easily share your performances over the Internet or burn your own original CD. The instrument also supports MP3 data, allowing you to play back files in that popular format.

Features/Specifications:

• 61 keys FSX keyboard and 128-note polyphony
• Accompaniment styles powered by SA2 and Mega voices (Total 500 accompaniment styles)
• Super Articulation 2 Voices for ultimate realism
• Audio Recorder / Player with MP3 playback integrated with Hard Disk Recorder
• Large TFT Color Display with RGB/Video output
• Includes SFF GE Styles for super realistic Guitar phrases

Further Specs:

Control Interface:

• Keyboard:
      Number of Keys: 61
      Type: FSX
      Aftertouch: Yes
      Touch Response: Yes

• Other Controllers:
      Pitch Bend: Yes
      Modulation: Yes
      Multi Pads: Yes
      Sliders: 9 (including 1 assignable)
      Art. Switches: 2

• Display:
      Type: Full Dot TFT LCD
      Size: 640 x 480 dots
      Colour: Colour
      Score Display Function: Yes
      Lyrics Display Function: Yes
      Text Viewer Function: Yes
      OTS Viewer: Yes
      Voice Information: Yes
      Wallpaper Customization: Main/Lyrics
      Language: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
      Panel Language: English

• Polyphony:
      Number of Polyphony (Max.): 128

• Preset:
      Number of Voices: 993 Voices + 30 Organ Flutes + 480 XG Voices + 256 GM2 Voices + 44 Drum/SFX Kits (And GS Voices for GS Song playback)
      Featured Voices: 15 S.Articulation2! Voices (AEM technology), 164 S.Articulation Voices, 43 MegaVoices, 30 Sweet! Voices, 101 Live! Voices, 44Drums (including SFX Kits), 71 Cool! Voices, 30 Presets Organ Flutes!

• Custom:
      Voice Edit: Yes

• Compatibility:
      XG: Yes
      GS: Yes
      GM: Yes
      GM2: Yes
      XF: Yes

• Types:
      Reverb: 44 + 3 User
      Chorus: 106 + 3 User
      DSP: DSP1?7 : 285 Presets, DSP8?9 : 285 Presets (for Style)
      Master Compressor: 5 Presets + 5 User
      Master EQ: 5 Bands : 5 Preset + 2 User

• Functions:
      Dual/Layers: Voice layer (RIGHT 1-3)
      Split: Separete split points for Chord and Voice (LEFT)
      Panel Sustain: Yes
      Mono/Poly: Yes

• Accompany Style Related:
      Vocal Harmony: VH2: 44Preset + 10 U

• Preset:
      Number of Preset Styles: 500
      Featured Styles: 403 Pro Styles, 47 Session Styles with MegaVoices (used by preset styles)
      Fingering: Single Finger, Fingered, Fingered On Bass, Multi Finger, AI Fingered, Full Keyboard, AI Full Keyboard
      Style Control: INTRO x 3, MAIN VARIATION x 4, FILL x 4, BREAK, ENDING x 3

• Custom:
      User Styles: Yes
      Style Creator: Yes

• Other Features:
      Music Finder: Yes
      One Touch Setting (OTS): 4 for each style

• Preset:
      Number of Preset Songs: 5

• Recording:
      Number of Songs: Unlimited (depending on the storage media's capacity)
      Number of Tracks: 16
      Data Capacity: approx. 300KB
      Recording Function: Quick Recording, Multi Recording, Step Recording, Song Editing

• Compatible Data Format:
      Playback: SMF (Format 0 & 1), ESEQ, XF, Style File
      Recording: SMF (Format 0)

• Other Features:
      Hard Disk Recording: Yes (Play: 2 stereo tracks, Rec: 1 stereo track)

• Registration:
      Number of Buttons: 8 x unlimited banks (depending on the storage media's capacity)
      Control: Bank +/-, Regist Sequence, Freeze
• Lesson/Guide:
      Lesson/Guide: Follow Lights, Any Key, Karao-Key, Vocal CueTIME
      Performance Assistant Technology (PAT) Yes

• Demo/Help:
      Demonstration: Yes

• Overall Controls:
      Metronome: Yes
      Tempo Range: 5 - 500, Tap Tempo
      Transpose: Yes
      Tuning: Yes
      Octave Button: Yes
      Scale Type: 9 presets

• Miscellaneous:
      Direct Access: Yes

• Storage:
      Internal Memory: 6MB
      Hard Disk Drive: 250GB or more
      External Drives: Optional USB Flash Memory, USB Hard Disk Drive, etc. (via USB to DEVICE)

• Connectivity:
      Headphones: x 1
      Microphone: Mic./Line in Stereo
      MIDI: MIDI A (IN/OUT), MIDI B (IN/OUT)
      AUX IN: L/L+R, R(LEVEL FIXED) or LOOP RETURN L/L+R, R
      AUX OUT: L/L+R, R(LEVEL FIXED) or LOOP SEND L/L+R, R (Selectable)
      AUX Pedal: (optional) Switch or Volume x 3
      LINE OUT: MAIN OUT (L/L+R, R), Sub Output 1, 2
      VIDEO OUT: RGB Out, NTSC / PAL
      RGB OUT: Yes
      Loop Return: Yes
      USB TO DEVICE: USB 2.0 HighSpeed x 2 (Front /Back)
      USB TO HOST: USB 2.0 HighSpeed x 1
      LAN: Yes
      External Speaker: To Satellite Speaker (L/R), To Sub Woofer (L/R)

• Amplifiers: Optional Speaker (TRS-MS04)

• Speakers: Optional Speaker (TRS-MS04)

• Power Supply: AC Inlet

• CD-ROM: Yes

• Internet Direct Connection ( IDC ): Yes

• Tone Generating Technology: AWM Stereo Sampling

• Custom:
      Optional Wave Capacity: 4MB (Pre-installed) / MAX 1,024MB (Optional)
      Sampling: Custom Voice
      Sound Creator/Voice Set: Yes

• Types:
      Part EQ: 2 Bands: 29 Parts (R1, R2, R3, Left, MultiPad, Style x 8, Song x 16)
      Others: Mic effects: Noise Gate x 1, Compressor x 1, 3Band EQ x 1

• USB Audio Recorder:
      Playback: .wav, .mp3
      Recording: .wav

• Storage:
      Optional Memory: Flash Memory Expansion Module FL1024M/FL512M x 1 (MAX1024M)

• Dimensions:
      Width: 1,140mm
      Height: 143mm
      Depth: 450mm

• Weight:
      Weight: 14.5kg