Nice feature.
S900 can play ANY .wav file from Pen drive.
I tryed play some .wav songs recorded in my 4GB pen drive.
Very nice experience.

Cheers
Chico

Can you sync their start with the sequencer?

Might be handy for audio alongside an SMF...

And can you drop Markers into it?

What is the maximum recording time with 1GB pen drive?

Sunny

1 min stereo file is 10 mb, 4 min - 40 mb

1000 mb = 100 min of stereo files . - more than 20 songs of stereo full CD quality (44.1khz, 16 bit) (if they ae around 4 min).Of course will double if it's mono(ie- 200 min).

I've only looked at the manual (cos I'm still using a 3k) but I see nothing extra in regard of wave playback; there's no mention of sync start, markers, or anything else to do with wave playback other than the fact that it is possible.

It's just a player. I don't see a way to sync it or edit it at all.
DonM

You can play R1 R2 and left voices, set transpose and equalizer before the sequencer starts Then you can play while the .wav file is running.
Today I made an experience playing Ravel's Bolero with a German gran Orchestra. )

Chico ... we would LOVE to hear THAT !!!
t.

Hi Tony.

I am still at learning step.
Give me some time and I promise to post a that news.
Today, I am trying to play Girl from Ipanema (S900)+ an obligatto with acoustic guitar(eletric) via input mic. That's another experience.
Cheers
Chico

Is it possible to find a good scat voice that will load in my S900 via a .wav file?

zuki

There's no sampler in the S900, is there? Didn't think so, anyway...

The .wav playback is for tracks. Kind of redundant if it has mp3 (just use 256kbps or higher, and there's no way the electronics of the S900 can make the .wav sound better!), but there's no way to load a keyboard sample set in there.

Now the T2 and PA800/2X have samplers, so that is doable (and Roland have some scat voices in sampler format, but nothing that Yamaha read easily - or Korg, for that matter), but don't they have scat sounds already?

Of course, if you HAVE a Roland with scat voices, you could always prepare up an mp3 (or .wav) of a sequence, with the Roland scat voices in it, but you can't PLAY it...

Diki,

You're over my head, as usual It really sucks not to have a good scat voice on the S900. I do miss that Roland feature. Why is it so difficult to incorporate those incredible human voices in a Yamaha like Roland has.

Hi Zuki
I was talking to the Roland Rep at one of the UK Festivals and apparently the Scat voices on Roland’s are actually copyrighted.
Regarding Yamaha, try some of the dedicated forums as various third party sounds are available. (Don’t know if there are any Scat voices though)
BTW the first Scat voices on a keyboard with accompaniment were actually introduced in 1989 with the Wersi Live style sound sample system that could be fitted on their CD line instruments.

Bill

Since scats were mentioned here's a little scatty stuff:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/whiskarellafarm/demos/aescatty.zip

Tyros 2 Quick record using a couple of IrishActs Female Voices

John


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