Yamaha RY30, Authorized Product Manual

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About the Manual
This operation manual is broadly divided into two main sections — TUTORIALS and REFERENCE.
What's In the
TUTORIALS Section The TUTORIALS section contains 8 separate tutorials that take you through the
main features and procedures you will need to know to become familiar with your
RY30:
1. SETTING UP YOUR SYSTEM [page 13]
Make basic audio and MIDI connections to the RY30 — and listen to the
demos when you’re set up.
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THE PRESET VOICES [page 17]
How to play the RY30 voices, and how to select different “pad banks” con-
taining different sets of instruments.
PLAYING PATTERNS [page 19]
Playing the preset patterns.
RECORDING & EDITING PATTERNS [page 21]
Using the Real-time Record, Step Record, Parameter Record, and Clock
Move modes to create and edit your own patterns.
RECORDING, EDITING & PLAYING SONGS [page 32]
As the title says — how to record, edit, and play complete songs consisting
of a sequence of patterns.
VOICE EDITING FUNDAMENTALS [page 41]
The RY30 has sophisticated voice editing capabilities — this section
explains how the voices are organized so you’ll be able to use the VOICE
EDIT mode functions to create your own sounds.
RECORDING & USING MACROS [page 43]
Key macros help to make using the RY30 a smooth, fast process. This sec-
tion describes how you kan record and reproduce key sequences to perform
complicated tasks by simply “playing” a macro.
MULTI CHANNEL MIDI DRIVE [page 45]
An introduction to the RY30’s advanced MIDI control capabilities.
We recommend that you go through the tutorials in sequence while actually
carrying out procedures on your RY30. Once you’ve gone through the entire
TUTORIALS section in this way, you should be familiar enough with the RY30
to need only the REFERENCE section in future.
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