Sampling - Yamaha PSR-9000 Owner's Manual

Sampling

This function lets you record your own sounds via a microphone or line source to be played from the key-
board.
During use, sampled sounds are kept in the internal wave RAM memory. The PSR-9000 comes with a 1-
megabyte wave memory which can be expanded up to a maximum of 65 megabytes by installing optional
SIMM memory modules — see page 160 for details. Sampled wave data can be saved to floppy or hard
disk. Wave files in standard WAV or AIFF format produced using other equipment can also be used by the
PSR-9000.
Setting up
Use the same operation as in "Vocal Harmony" on pages 32 and 68.
The notes and cautions contained on page 68 in "Vocal Harmony" also apply to Sam-
pling.
Guidelines for Sampling
What is sampling ?
Technically, sampling is making a digital recording of a sound. The sound could be
your voice or an acoustic instrument (taken from a microphone), or a recorded sound
(from a CD or cassette player). Once it is recorded, the resulting "sample" can be
played at various pitches from a keyboard.
Sampling
Can be expanded by
installing optional SIMM
memory modules (page 160).
Auto Trigger Level
Actually, the PSR-9000 does not start sampling immediately when the [START] LCD
button is pressed (in step #11 on page 41). Once the [START] LCD button is pressed,
the PSR-9000 waits for a signal of a suitable level (set by the trigger level). When it
hears such a signal, it starts sampling.
The Trigger Level can be set in step #10 on page 40.
The higher the trigger level, the louder the signal must be to start (trigger) sampling.
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Reference
WAV
AIFF
Import
Internal Memory (RAM)
Wave data
Wave Edit
Waveform Edit
See next page.
Store as a Custom Voice
to Flash ROM (page 80)
Play
Reference
Disk
SCSI device connected
to the PSR-9000
Save
Save the Custom Voice
with the sample (wave
data) via the Disk Save
function (page 129).
• The PSR-9000 records at a
sample rate of 44.1 kHz.
• Although the wave memory of
the PSR-9000 can be
expanded to 65 megabytes
(page 160), the maximum size
of a single sample recording is
32 megabytes.
Quick Guide
on page 40