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1382.0. "Yamaha SPX90 II Patch Exchange Note" by ANGORA::JANZEN (Tom LMO2/O23 296-5421) Sun May 15 1988 17:25

This is an Yamaha SPX-90-II  patch exchange.
This is my actual patch set-up, as used in performances.  
Later, I may add some other patches culled from various sources.
If Balance is not given, it is 100%.
Output Level is always 100%.  I don't have a mixer (or serious synths).
I use the SPX with acoustic pianos and on voice.  I use it hooked up in
series with other equipment: mic->preamp->Digitech RDS1900mixout->SPX->AMP.

The SPX90 comes with 30 usuable patches, and 60 spaces for user patches.
Yamaha published a Yamaha SPX90 Digital
	Multi-Effect Processor Artist, Engineer, and Producer Applications
	Guidebook but only a couple are from there.
	The SPX90 Digital Multi-Effect Processor Yamaha Programming Guide
	is a shorter instructional booklet.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	Balance	
Laurie	Pitch A	pitch-5	fine 0	del .1m	FBGain 0Base C3	100%
	When dumb reviewers said Laurie Anderson spoke through a 
	vocoder (which she did at times, such as in O, Superman)
	they usually meant the Eventide Harmonizer.  I de-harmonized
	her voice from recordings to estimate this interval,
	although she may have used another interval or changed it
	over the years.  This was done on the Language of the Future
	Recording in United States.  One critic said she lowered her
	voice an octave.  If she had, it would have been nearly
	unintelligible.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	
5th DownPitch A	pitch-7	fine 0	del .1m	FB 0	Base C3
	Play violin through it; major thirds, fifths, single notes.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	
Harold		Mod F .9DMdepth	AM depth
Budd			99%	21%
	Based on a recording of piano of Budd.  Is transcribing effects by
	ear more difficult than trascribing the notes and rhythms?

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	Balance
Triads	Pitch B	1 Pitch	1 Fine	1DLY	2Pitch	2Fine	2Delay	57%
		+4	0	.1ms	+7	0	+.1ms
	Single notes in, Parallel triads out.
Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5
John	DelayLR	Lch DLY	LchFB	Rch DLY	RchFB	HI
Giorno		.1ms	0	.5s	0	1
	Hear "You're the Man I want to share my money with" album.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	Balance	
5ths	Pitch A	Pitch+7	Fine 0	Del .2s	FB 60%	BASE C3	50%
Arpegii
Up
	Chimey.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	Balance
5THS 	PITCH A	PITCH-7	FINE 0	DEL .2S	FB 60%	BASE C3	50%
ARPEGII
DOWN
	Ominous.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	
FLUTTER	ADSRGATETRGLVL	DLY 0	MASK	ATTACK	DECAY	DECAY LEVEL 
		45%		44MS	5MS	5MS	100%
7	8	9	Balance
HOLD	RELEASE	MIDITRG	100%
21M	5MS	OFF
	Ever listen to a distant FM radio station while you're driving.
	I do it deliberately; I love this sound.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	Balance	
BAM 	REV	REV TIMEHI	DELAY	HPF	LPF	24%
	VOCAL	1.6S	.5	50M	5KHZ	8KHZ
	(BAM=Brooklyn Academy of Music off the Laurie Anderson United States
	Album. I don't know which hall, probably the mid-sized one judging
	by the photo of folding chairs).

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	Balance
Double	Pitch B	1 Pitch	Fine	1 Delay	2 Pitch	Fine	2 Delay	60%
Octave		+12	0	.1m	-12	0	.1ms
	Makes a piano a gamelan.  Note that pitch transposition changes
	interval with input pitch, therefore is slightly out-of-tune.
	This might be used for big robots on Saturday morning cartoons.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	Balance
Choral	Pitch B	1 Pitch	Fine	1 Delay	2 Pitch	Fine	2 Delay	67%
Reading		+1	0	50ms	-2	0	25m
	3 people reading at once.  Not totally convincing, may need tweaking.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	
Long	Rev	Rev TimeHi	Delay	HPF	LPF
Sustain		99s	.5	45ms	80	8K
	Oh, you know.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4		
Forbidd	Flange	MODFREQ	MODEPTH	MODELAY	FB GAIN
en Planet	20HZ	100%	100M	95%
	Did you see Forbidden Planet?  It's record came out a couple years
	ago.  Curtis Roads has said he was influenced by it.  I don't
	actually have the record, but I think this reminds me of the
	sound I heard in the movie in 1969 and again last fall, but
	that was oscillators FM modulated by the Barrons.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	
SEASICK	FLANGE	MODFREQ	MODEPTH	MODELAY	FB GAIN
		.3HZ	100%	100M	95%

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
LOOP&	FREEZEB	RECMODE	TRGDELY	RECORD	OVERDUB	PLAY	PITCH0	fine0	base
THRU			-50MS
Balance
50%
	The SPX90 has no built-in loop size variability (cf below).
	So this loops 500ms on a SPX-90 and 2000ms on a SPX-90 II.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	Balance
MAX	DELAY	Lch DEL	Lch FB	Rch Del	Rch FB	HI	50%
DELAY		2000ms	0	2000ms	0	1
	One echo.

Prog	Type	1	2	3		
WIDEPAN	AUTOPAN	SPEED	DIRECTIODEPTH
		.2HZ	L<->R	100%
	Back and forth, left to right, slowly.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	
FRANKIE	PANAUTO	SPEED	DIRECTIODEPTH
		15HZ	L<->R	100%
	Ever listen to "Ruby" from ZBS Foundation?  I'm not promising this is
	right, but it sounds like the dying Frankie (robot) to me.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	
PULSE	ADSR	TRG LVL	TRG DEL	TRGMASK	ATTACK	DECAY	DECAYLVL
		50	0	131MS	5M	65M	50	1M	
7	8	9	Balance
HOLD	RELEASE	MIDI	75%
1M	65MS	OFF
I played slow sustained violin into this at the end credits of my TV version
of my piece "Fame: Can You Handle It?" showing in Cambridge and Somerville
cable in the next 3-6 weeks.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5
CHOPIN'SREV	REVTIME	HIGH	DELAY	HPF	LPF
PILLOWS		99SEC	.5	45MS	80HZ	8KHZ
For my piece, Chopin's Pillows.  A long sustain.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
MaxEcho	Delay	LchDLY	LchFB	Rch DLY	Rch FB	HI
		.5s	+49%	.5s	+49%	1.0

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
low E	Echo	Lch DLY	Lch FB	Rch DLY	Rch FB	High
		24.3ms	50%	24.3ms	49%	1
	Should gross out on your low guitar string.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
New Age	ADSR	Attack	Decay	DecayLVLHold	Release	Midi	triglvl	TrgDel
		2400ms	5ms	100%	1ms	3400ms	off	65%	-7ms
9
Mask
5m
	All this does is slowly turn up the volume on an attacking input,
	to soften the input.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Lodge 	Hall	RevTime	Hi	Del	HPF	LPF
Hall		.6s	1	24ms	thru	thru

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Under	CHORUS	MODFREQ	DMDEPTH	AMDEPTH
Water		11.2	21%	29%
	I think I got this from the Yamaha SPX90 Digital
	Multi-Effect Processor Artist, Engineer, and Producer Applications
	Guidebook.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Springs	REV	revtime	hi	delay	HPF	LPF
		5s	1	50m	thru	thru
	To replace the PAiA spring reverb I used in "Slowasleep"

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
chimes	pitcha	pitch	fine	delay	fb	base
		+12	0	100ms	65%	c3
	More chimes from piano inputs.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Gamelan	pitcha	pitch	fine	delay	fb	base
		-12	0	10.20ms	80%	c3
	Input a piano, get out a gamelan.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Tear	Pitch A	Pitch	fine	delay	fb	base
Drops		0	+20	60ms	80%	c3
	rising pitch output on a steady pitch input.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Tear	Pitch A	Pitch	fine	delay	fb	base
Drops2		0	-20	60ms	80%	c3
	Slowly falling pitch bend output on a steady pitch input.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Quarter	Pitch A	Pitch	Fine	Delay	FB	Base
Tone		0	+50	.4s	0	c3
Canon
	The input is answered with a voice a quarter-step higher.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Wype	PitchA	Pitch	Fine	Delay	FB	Base
		0	+1	.1m	90%	C3
	Not good for anything or attractive.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Theatre	Reverb	RevTime	Hi	Del	HPF	LPF
		1.6s	.5	203ms	1k	8kHz
	I use this to make movies on TV sound like a movie theater.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
DigitechStereo	Lch Del	Lch FB	Rch Del	Rch FB	Hi
RDS1900	Echo	1780m	+40%	1780ms	+40%	1
	Just a long echo.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Mush	Early	Type	RoomSizeLivenessDelay	LPF
	Reflect	Random	20	10	442.2m	thru
	Play an echoing box into it to build up sonorities.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
HindemithPitchB	1pitch	fine	1delay	2pitch	fine	2delay
		-7	0	900m	+7	0	1800ms
	Instant 20th-century counterpoint on a single line input.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
VariableFreezeA	RecMode	Trg Del	Record	Overdub	Play	Start	End	Input
Loop		Auto	0				0	2000ms	trgoff
Mask
10ms
This only works if you have hardware triggering the pedal input regularly.
I built a 555-based circuit to do this, delivering variable rates of
TTL pulses into the pedal trigger.  It becomes a variable loop.

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
LowD	Echo	Lch Del	FB	RchDel	FB	Hi
		13.6ms	50%	13.6ms	49%	1

Prog	Type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Phone	EQ	HPF	Mid FreqMidGain	Mid Q	HiFreq	HiGain	HiQ	LPF
		1kHz	4kHz	+15dB	1	8kHz	+15dB	1	thru	
		Delay
		.1ms
	I used this in Fame: Can You handle It? to do a phone patch.

Tom Janzen Digital Equipment Corp 111 Locke Drive Marlboro MA 01752