Hi Bogdan --
Thanks for posting your analysis. Using one's ears is always a good thing.![:)]( "Smile")
Here's another method which can be applied to non-SA voices -- examine the UVF files which ship with YEM. The UVF files contain voice data in XML format, which can be read (or modified!) with a text editor. You'll find the UVF files in "C:\Program Files\Yamaha\Expansion Manager\voices" when YEM is installed. The UVF files for GM2 and XG voices are there, too.
The UVF data breaks into three main sections: voice element parameters, voice set parameters and effect set parameters. The voice set and effect set parameters can also be found in the VCE file for a voice. (YEM generates VCE from these data sections.)
You can find out all sorts of good stuff. For example, "ConcertGrand" (0/115/0) has three elements with the velocity levels: 2-89, 90-103, and 104-127. You'll also find the waveform number for each element.
The bad news: We don't have a directory for the waveforms. Sometimes a waveform is explicitly reused in two or more voices, sometimes not. That doesn't mean the same samples aren't used in two or more waveforms, however. We simply can't track reuse by waveform number.
Have fun browsing around. Soon you won't have any life (like me) and be part of the anorak brigade.![(Y)]( "thumbs-up")
-- pj
Thanks for posting your analysis. Using one's ears is always a good thing.
Here's another method which can be applied to non-SA voices -- examine the UVF files which ship with YEM. The UVF files contain voice data in XML format, which can be read (or modified!) with a text editor. You'll find the UVF files in "C:\Program Files\Yamaha\Expansion Manager\voices" when YEM is installed. The UVF files for GM2 and XG voices are there, too.
The UVF data breaks into three main sections: voice element parameters, voice set parameters and effect set parameters. The voice set and effect set parameters can also be found in the VCE file for a voice. (YEM generates VCE from these data sections.)
You can find out all sorts of good stuff. For example, "ConcertGrand" (0/115/0) has three elements with the velocity levels: 2-89, 90-103, and 104-127. You'll also find the waveform number for each element.
The bad news: We don't have a directory for the waveforms. Sometimes a waveform is explicitly reused in two or more voices, sometimes not. That doesn't mean the same samples aren't used in two or more waveforms, however. We simply can't track reuse by waveform number.
Have fun browsing around. Soon you won't have any life (like me) and be part of the anorak brigade.
-- pj
Statistics: Posted by pjd — Fri Aug 16, 2024 7:13 pm