Yamaha Tyros (1) 61 Key Digital Keyboard inc TRS-MS01 Speaker System

This Pre-Owned Yamaha Tyros 1 keyboard sets a high standard in sound and performance with Yamaha’s MegaVoice Technology.

MegaVoice instruments reproduce the nuances of real instruments, from the “strum” of a guitar to the sound of a pick scratching the string. Music Score and Guide Mode displays the music as you play, and waits for you to find the correct notes.

USB computer connectivity makes it easy to connect to a PC. An extra-large, full colour LCD display shows notation, lyrics, and more in incredible detail. With over 1,100 sounds and GM2, XG, GS and SFF compatibility, the TYROS will fit into any studio environment. The TYROS is designed for any serious musician seeking the broadest musical palette. It is a truly fantastic keyboard.

Yamaha has taken some of the innovative concepts and features of its Clavinova, Synthesizer, Pro Audio and Portable Keyboard line, added a brand new technology called Mega Voice, and put it all together in a futuristic keyboard called TYROS. It’s ground breaking, it’s exciting, it’s cutting edge and it just may be the finest keyboard you have ever heard, seen or played. It combines the quality of sound, stylistic detail and ease of use of a Clavinova digital piano, incredible editing control over sounds and sequences like their professional Motif synthesizers, built-in mixer technology and DSP effects from their world-renowned Pro Audio experience, and the ability to carry it under one arm from their Portable Keyboard Department.

TYROS was the first keyboard from Yamaha to include a brand new technology called Mega Voice. So, what is Mega Voice Most digital keyboards create their sound from recording or sampling instruments and when you press the keys, you’re playing back the sample. Previous to Mega Voice Technology, in traditional sampling, an instrument’s pitch was recorded at different increments (C C# D D# etc.) and that was about it. Unfortunately, that leaves out a lot of the subtle nuances that make an instrument sound unique. For example, on a guitar, traditional sampling would miss the string and pick noise. Yamaha Mega Voice technology provides open and mute string sounds, dead notes, hammering effects, slide effects, harmonics and a wide range of strum and body noises – putting back the missing elements that take a sampled guitar from sounding like a guitar played on a keyboard to a Mega Voice sampled guitar that sounds like, dare we say, a guitar.

Once you hear the difference, you’ll never want to go back. In technical terms, Mega Voice duplicates an instrument’s behaviour. In sonic terms, this gives TYROS stunningly realistic sounds. With TYROS, the most visually compelling thing you notice right away is the screen. First, it’s colour – incredibly bold and clear colour. Secondly, the angle is adjustable. Third, it locks flat for transportation. And finally, you can adjust the contrast. This colour control centre is surrounded by the many buttons and switches that you use to operate the keyboard. Conveniently, many of the panel buttons have lights, making the keyboard easy to negotiate even in less-than-optimum lighting situations.

A keyboard’s most important feature is its sound. More Wave ROM (that’s where the voices are stored) usually translates to better sound. TYROS has an outstanding 96MB of Wave ROM packed with some of the finest voices you have ever heard – over 1100 voices in all. You’ll find many new Live!, Cool and Sweet voices and 36 Drum Kits in addition to the new Mega Voice sounds. The Organ Flutes on TYROS use Modelling Technology introduced on the 9000 PRO – a whopping 91 independently oscillating voices to simulate the rotating tone generation wheels found in classic organs. And now, with the colour screen, all of the functions like real time virtual drawbars and rotary speaker switches are photo-quality representations of the originals. You won’t believe your ears.

Of course, no professional Yamaha digital workstation would be complete without a full complement of XG voices and with TYROS you can be assured that XG and General MIDI sequences will sound their absolute best. In fact, TYROS is fully XG, GM and GM2 compatible.

The 300 musical Styles found in this digital workstation are best described as having a backup band at your fingertips. Choose a category of music (like Rock, Country or R&B), select a Style from the menu and play your favorite song. It’s that easy. Each Style has up to 8 different musical parts that provide drums, bass, guitar, horns, strings and any other musical instrument that suits the genre of music you have selected. TYROS also features many different types of Accompaniment Styles. Pro-styles provide professional and exciting arrangements combined with perfect playability. Session-styles automatically enrich the player’s chords with additional color notes or even harmonic progressions. Basic-styles cover a wide range of music while the arrangement is kept basic and generic, and therefore extremely versatile.

In addition to the many different chording techniques provided on previous Yamaha keyboards, TYROS also includes an AI (Artificial Intelligence) mode in both dedicated left hand mode and full keyboard mode. For example, in left hand mode, you can play chords using 2 notes and TYROS will select the correct chord, based on the previous chord, allowing you to do descending bass lines without switching to “On Bass” mode.

Yamaha has always had great Styles, but with TYROS, they are taken to new heights of realism because of the Mega Voice Technology. An example is the new Unplugged Styles. Because the Unplugged Styles are guitar-focused, a major amount of time and effort was dedicated to making sure that these Styles “voice” like a guitar would, on both regular and extended chords. For the ultimate realism, the guitar parts in these Styles were actually played (and programmed) by an LA session musician using a Yamaha Pacifica Guitar with a G50 MIDI converter! You can rest assured that their Global Style Programmers take all of the work out of making realistic band tracks that you can use for live performance, studio work, song writing and MIDI file creation. With TYROS, just do what you do best – sit back and play.

Getting where you want quickly, without pressing a lot of buttons, was first and foremost when designing the panel layout. For example, for live playing, the Music Finder feature lets you can call up a song by title, and TYROS will automatically set itself up with the right musical Style, tempo, sounds and DSP effects. All you have to do is start playing. One button press brings up well over 1400 entries – with room for many more of your own. In addition to that, four fully programmable One Touch Settings per style and unlimited Registration Memory locations (memory permitting) allow you to recall your favourite keyboard settings at the touch of a button, while the Disk Direct function eliminates having to wait for songs and styles to load.

The Direct Access button makes navigating through functions and menus easier and quicker than ever. For example, to change the foot pedal function, press Direct Access and press the foot pedal. The screen instantly changes to allow you to adjust the foot pedal parameters.

TYROS is equipped with a professional Vocal Harmony function, which transposes your voice in real time, allowing you to back up your singing performance with stunning 4-part harmony (including your original voice). In addition to ambient reverbs and lush choruses, a vast selection of dedicated vocal effects are provided, including insertion effects, noise gate, compressor and 3-band EQ. When using disks with lyric information, TYROS will display the lyrics in the colour VGA screen as well as output the lyric information to an external TV monitor. New features in TYROS allow the user to disable all screens the audience sees except the lyric screen – no more distractions while you setup the keyboard for the next song.

Keyboard: 61 Keys (C1 ~ C6) with Touch Response (Initial Touch / After Touch)
Polyphony: 128 notes max.
Display: Full Colour LCD. Contrast and Angle are Adjustable
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish (Demo & Help User Selectable)
1149 Preset: Voices + 36 Drumkits 403 Voices (393 Normal Voices + 10 Mega) + 10 Organ Flutes + 480 XG Voices + 256 GM2 Voices + 31 Drum Kits + 5 SFX Kits
Mega Voices: Steel Guitar, Hi String Guitar, 12 String Guitar, Clean Guitar, Overdrive, Distortion, Acoustic Bass, Finger Bass, Pick Bass, Fretless Bass
Sweet! Voices: Oboe, Violin, Harmonica, Mandolin, New Alto Sax, Mute Trumpet, Flugel Horn, Tenor Sax, Clarinet, Trumpet, Flute, Soprano Sax, Trombone, Pan Flute
Live! Voices: French Horns, Sax Section, Steel Guitar, Grand Piano, Brass Section, Nylon Guitar, Strings, Gospel Choir
Live! Drums: Live! Studio, Live! Standard, Live! Funk, Live! Brush, Live! Percussion
Cool! Voices: Clean Guitar, Jazz Guitar, Vintage Electric Guitar, Electric Piano, Jazz Organ
Sound Creator: Save to User Drive, Floppy Drive or Opt. HDD – Unlimited *1
Custom Voice: Normal Voice: 128 Max. *2, Drum Voice: 10 Max. *3
Organ Flutes: 10 User Organ Flutes presets in memory at one time (can be saved in any disk or user location) – Nine Footages using Modelling
Voice Layer: Right1, Right2, Right3 (You can layer up to 3 voices at a time)
Voice Split: Lower1 (with hold function)
Reverb: 34 Preset + 3 User
Chorus: 26 Preset + 3 User
DSP for Styles: 183 Preset
DSP Effect for R1: 183 Preset + 10 User
DSP Effect for R2: 183 Preset + 10 User
DSP Effect for R3: 183 Preset + 10 User
DSP Effect for Left: 183 Preset + 10 User
DSP for MIC: 183 Preset + 10 User
Poly/Mono: Yes – Portamento Time is adjustable in Mono Mode
Vocal Harmony: 60 Preset + 10 User (3 note polyphony max.)
MIC Effects: Noise Gate, Compressor, 3 Band EQ
Harmony/Echo: 17 Presets
Master EQ (5 Band): 5 Presets + 2 User
Part EQ (2 Band): 29 Parts (R1, R2, R3, Left, Style x 8, Song x 16, Multi Pads)
Master Compressor (3-Band): 5 Presets + 5 Users
Touch Response: 5 Presets (Off Level adjustable)
Tempo: 5 ~ 500
Transpose: -12 ~ 0 ~ 12 (Assignable Keyboard/Song/Master)
Tuning: 414.8 ~ 440Hz ~ 466.8
Upper Octave: -1, 0 +1
Part Octave: -2, -1, 0, +1, +2
Real-time Controllers: Pitch Bend Wheel, Modulation Wheel
Preset Styles: 300 Preset Styles in 10 Categories
User Styles: Save to User Drive, Floppy Drive or Opt. HDD – Unlimited *1
Disk Direct: Yes (Style will play direct from disk – just like the Internal Styles)
Format: SFF (Style File Format)
Control: SFF (Style File Format) Intro x 3, Fill In x 4, Break x 1, Main Sections x 4, Ending x 3, Fade In/Out, Tap Tempo, Sync Start, Sync Stop, Ritardando
Parts: 8 Parts with full mixer control
Fingering Types: Single Finger, Multi Finger, Fingered, On Bass, Full Keyboard, AI (Artificial Intelligence) Fingered, AI Full Keyboard
1-Touch Setting: 4 per Style – Fully Programmable
Music Finder: 1446 Records – Fully Programmable up to 2500 records
Registration Memory: 8 Switches Banks + Freeze Function (Save to User Drive, Floppy Drive or Opt. HDD – Unlimited *1)
Multi Pads: User Control Pads 1/2/3/4, & Stop (Save to User Drive, Floppy Drive or Opt. HDD – Unlimited *1)
Disk Direct: Disk Direct Playback with Ultra Quick Start function
Selection: Six dedicated buttons (user assignable) for Song Locations (FD, HD or User Drive) + Chain, Random and Next
Playback Control: SP (Song Position) 1-4 + Loop (Programmable) – Jump to 4 song positions. Loop playback available
Number of Songs: Unlimited *1 – Save to User Drive, Floppy Drive or Opt. HDD
Tracks :16
Recording: Quick Rec., Multi-track Rec., Step Rec., Chord Step
Capacity: Approx. 35,000 Notes
Lyric: Lyrics Display (For MIDI files that have lyrics)
Score: Zoom in/out, User can select which tracks to display; Note Names, Lyric & Chord Display On/Off
User Drive: 3.3MB – Max. 250 files & folders per folder.
Floppy Disk Drive: 3.5 in. 2HD/2DD – Max. 250 files & folders per folder. Max. 224 Files & Folder in the Root Directory.
Hard Disk Drive: Optional 2.5 in. IDE HD – Internal Max. 250 files & folders per folder. Max. Height 12.7 mm Max. Capacity: approx. 40 GB (Logical size: approx. 137 GB)
Video Out: NTSC, PAL – User selectable Screen Content (Lyrics only or LCD Contents Mirror)
USB: USB Slave x 1 (USB Version 1.1). MIDI x 2, Voice Edit, Storage drive maintenance (copy, paste, rename, move etc.)
MIDI: MIDI A In/Out, MIDI B In/Out
Foot Control – User Function Assignable: Foot Pedal 1 Default Sustain / 2 DSP Variation / 3 Volume
Audio:
Phones, Line Out Main (L/L+R, R), Sub 1/2
Loop: Send (L/L+R, R), AUX In Loop Return (L/L+R, R), Trim Vol.
To: Sub Woofer L/R, To Left/Right Speaker
MIC/Line In – Dynamic MIC (Imp. 250 ohm recommended) Trim, Input Volume, Signal/Over Indicator.
Power Supply: AC (Inlet)
Dimensions: 45.24 x 16.9 x 5.4 in. W x D x H (1,149 x 428 x 137 mm) Without Music Rest, Speakers & other projections
Weight:12.4 kg