Yamaha 's Vocal Multipad Secret

[beykock]

Hi,

I wonder how Yamaha are creating Midi Vocal Multipads.
I love them.

Wished I found the software to make my own New Midi Vocal Choir Multipads.

Wishful thinking, I guess ?😯

Babette

[Toril S]

I love them too.

[Normanfernandez]

I'm a little lost.

Which keyboard are we talking about?

[beykock]

I am almost sure Joergen S and Michael B know how to make this type of multipad.

Convert wav to midi, perhaps ?

T4, T5 and GENOS are the present kbs with vocal mps.

Babette

[Bill]

I'm also a little lost.  Do you mean audio link multipads.

These are very easy to set up, providing you have the right sort of audio track that you are after.

Bill

[panos]

Neither have I heard of any midi choir pads before.

If it's just audio multipads then you can record anything as long as you don't want the pads to follow the chords but just the specific tempo of the style.

Edit
In case you are wondering how something (e.g a song,a pattern etc) can be stretched to fit exactly to any tempo and at the same time keeping the pitch of the audio because we don't want Pavarotti to sound like... Popeye the sailor man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkQsicyJMac

[Toril S]

They must follow the chords!

[beykock]

The built in vocal T4, T5 and Genos multipads are all midi, follow chords etc.

Babette

[pjd]

Hi --

There are three major sources of vocal sounds on Genos (or Tyros 5).

1. Voices in the Choir catgeory (e.g., BoysChoirOoh, JazzScatVocals, etc.)
2. MegaVoices (e.g., GospelChoir, MaleVoiceChoir, PopHaa, PopDaa, PopBaa, etc.)
3. Drum kits (e.g., VocalBeatBox, VocalEffectsKit, GospelAdLibs)

All of these respond to MIDI. Of course, one needs to learn how to trigger the vocal effect or phrase that is needed.

Voices (#1) are the easiest to use because the sounds are triggered by playing the keyboard. MegaVoices are trickier because the voice response is broken into multiple MIDI velocity ranges. (See the MegaVoice maps in the Data List.) It may (will!) be necessary to edit the note velocities in order to get the precision necessary for accurate control. MegaVoices are nearly impossible to play accurately from the keyboard.

The vocal drum kits are lesser-known. Here, the programmer needs to look at the drum map and know how the MIDI note numbers map to vocal sounds.

Hope this is enough to get started! With three different techniques, that's three different learning curves. Specific questions might get better answers.

All the best -- pj

[Toril S]

Thanks pj!

[beykock]

Hi PJ,

Many thanks for your very interesting and useful reply.

Owning a Tyros5, I would like to make my own new midi vocal choir multipads, e.g. like " THIS IS THE END " or
" WHY SHOULD I ".

Am I dreaming ? Wishful thinking ? or ... is it possible ?
If possible ... how to proceed ?

Is there a pc program available to make such multipads ?

If not, how do Yamaha create them ( see vocal preset multipad spoken examples e.g. ) or is there no information available at all ?

Your comments/suggestions are most welcome.
Best regards, Babette