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Yamaha EZ-TP Owner's Manual

Manual is about: Electronic Trumpet

Summary of EZ-TP

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    Owner’s manual bedienungsanleitung mode d’emploi manual de instrucciones owner’s manual bedienungsanleitung mode d’emploi manual de instrucciones.

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    2 ez-tp owner’s manual the followings are the titles, credits and copyright notices for six (6) of the songs pre-installed in this electronic trumpet: in the midnight hour words and music by steve cropper and wilson pickett copyright © 1965 irving music, inc. And cotillion music, inc. Copyright rene...

  • Page 3: Precautions

    Ez-tp owner’s manual 3 precautions please read carefully before proceeding * please keep this manual in a safe place for future reference. Warning always follow the basic precautions listed below to avoid the possibility of serious injury or even death from electrical shock, short-circuiting, damage...

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    4 ez-tp owner’s manual • do not expose the instrument to excessive dust or vibrations, or extreme cold or heat (such as in direct sunlight, near a heater, or in a car during the day) to prevent the possibility of panel disfiguration or damage to the internal components. • do not use the instrument i...

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    Ez-tp owner’s manual 5 congratulations and thank you for purchasing the yamaha ez-tp! Please read this owner’s manual carefully before using the instrument, in order to take full advantage of its various features. Make sure to keep this manual in a safe and handy place even after you finish reading,...

  • Page 6: Setting Up

    6 ez-tp owner’s manual setting up although the instrument will run either from the supplied ac adaptor or optional batteries, yamaha recommends use of an ac adaptor whenever possible. An ac adaptor is more environmentally friendly than batteries and does not deplete resources. ■ using an ac power ad...

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    Setting up ez-tp owner’s manual 7 • ac adaptor • midi adaptor cable • song book connections supplied accessories ux16 ez-tp in out midi out midi in caution • when connecting the ez-tp to external equip- ment make sure that the power to all equipment is turned off to prevent possible electrical shock...

  • Page 8: Controls & Features

    8 ez-tp owner’s manual controls & features q mouthpiece place your lips against the mouthpiece and sing when playing the instrument. W valves 1 ~ 3 the combination of valves pressed – i.E., the “fingering” – determines the pitch produced (page 12). E finger hooks the little and ring fingers of your ...

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    Controls & features ez-tp owner’s manual 9 y [-] and [+] buttons these buttons are used to select sound and song numbers, as well as to edit parameter values. When some parameters are selected the [+] and [-] buttons can be pressed simultaneously to recall the default setting. U play mode [1] button...

  • Page 10: Holding The Ez-Tp

    Holding the ez-tp 10 ez-tp owner’s manual !6 mic vol control adjusts the sensitivity of the instrument’s mouthpiece microphone to match your voice (page 15). !7 midi connector the supplied midi adaptor cable and an optional usb-midi interface and stan- dard midi cable can be connected here to connec...

  • Page 11: Playing The Ez-Tp

    Ez-tp owner’s manual 11 playing the ez-tp when all preparations have been properly made, turn on the power and try playing the ez-tp. 1 turn on the power. 2 place the mouthpiece against your lips and sing a note. This should produce a trumpet note. ⇒ refer to “setting the ez-tp to match your voice” ...

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    Playing the ez-tp 12 ez-tp owner’s manual finger the valves to produce the appropriate notes while singing the melody. * the numbers in the chart are the numbers of the valves that must be pressed to produce the cor- responding notes. “0” means that no valves should be pressed (page 8). ● fingerings...

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    Playing the ez-tp ez-tp owner’s manual 13 ● harmonics in the chart on the previous page you can see that the same fingering – valves 1 and 2 – is used to produce two different notes: e and a. Real trumpets function in the same way, allowing you to produce more than one note with each fingering. Thes...

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    Playing the ez-tp 14 ez-tp owner’s manual select the “0” or “1” setting to match the ez-tp to the pitch of your voice. There is generally a difference of about 1 octave between male and female voices. If the appropriate setting is not made for your voice, the notes you produce may be either too high...

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    Playing the ez-tp ez-tp owner’s manual 15 ● microphone volume adjustment this step matches the sensitivity of the instrument’s microphone to your voice. Rotate the control clockwise to make it easier for quiet voices to produce sound. If you rotate the control counter-clockwise a louder voice will b...

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    Playing the ez-tp 16 ez-tp owner’s manual the ez-tp has a range of 22 different sounds. You can play using trumpet sounds, or a variety of completely different sounds. 1 press the button so that the upper indicator lights. 2 press the [sound] button. The number of the currently selected sound will a...

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    Playing the ez-tp ez-tp owner’s manual 17 the default pitch of the ez-tp is b b – the same as most trumpets. This means that if you play a “c” on a piano-pitch score using the ez-tp, the note produced will be different from the same note played on the piano. If you set the pitch of the ez-tp to “c,”...

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    Playing the ez-tp 18 ez-tp owner’s manual the b b , c, e b , or f key setting will be retained even when the power is turned off. This setting can be changed during song playback, but in this case the new setting won’t be retained in memory when the power is turned off. ● check the pitch of the b b ...

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    Playing the ez-tp ez-tp owner’s manual 19 the tuning of the sound you play on the ez-tp can be adjusted from a = 425 hz to 453 hz in 1-hz increments. Use this feature when you want to tune the ez-tp to other instruments. 1 press the button so that the lower indicator lights. 2 press the [key] button...

  • Page 20: Playing Songs

    20 ez-tp owner’s manual playing songs the ez-tp features a selection of 10 songs that are ideal for trumpet per- formance. You can use the songs as accompaniment for your own perfor- mance, as described on page 22, but here we’ll describe how to select and play the songs. In addition to the internal...

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    Playing songs ez-tp owner’s manual 21 3 use the [-]/[+] buttons to select the song you want to listen to. Select a song from the song list provided below. 4 press the [demo] button. Playback of the selected song will begin. 5 press the [demo] button again to stop playback. ● song list some parts of ...

  • Page 22: Play With Song Accompaniment

    22 ez-tp owner’s manual play with song accompaniment select a song and then press one of the play mode buttons to select the play mode. The song will play without the melody (accompaniment only) so that you can play the melody yourself. There’s are even a mode in which the guide lamps show you which...

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    Play with song accompaniment ez-tp owner’s manual 23 in this mode you can play the melody by playing the appropriate valve fingerings in time with the song. There is no need to sing the melody in this mode. The guide lamps will show you which valves to press to finger each note. 1 select a song and ...

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    Play with song accompaniment 24 ez-tp owner’s manual if the tempo of a song is too fast to play comfortably, you can slow it down (or speed it up if you like) as follows. 1 press the button so that the lower indicator lights. 2 press the [tempo] button. 3 use the [-]/[+] buttons to set the tempo as ...

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    Play with song accompaniment ez-tp owner’s manual 25 the optimum sensitivity adjustment makes it easier to play with the broadest dynamic range in response to how loudly you sing into the mouthpiece. Sensitivity can be adjusted in five steps: a setting of “-1” or “-2” would suit a player with a loud...

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    26 ez-tp owner’s manual retained data & initialization although most settings revert to their default values when the ez-tp power is turned off and then on again, the following data are retained: • instrument key settings (b b , c, e b , f) ......................Page 17 • player’s voice matching ......

  • Page 27: Connecting to Midi Devices

    Ez-tp owner’s manual 27 connecting to midi devices the ez-tp features a midi connector that can be connected to other midi instruments and devices for expanded musical functionality. Midi (musical instrument digital interface) is a world-standard interface for com- munication between electronic musi...

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    Connecting to midi devices 28 ez-tp owner’s manual ● transfer song data to the ez-tp when the ez-tp is properly connected to a computer it becomes possible to use the computer to record or manipulate performance data played on the ez-tp, or to send performance data from the computer that will play t...

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    Connecting to midi devices ez-tp owner’s manual 29 the ez-tp includes preset songs p 1 ~ p10, but you can load other songs from your computer and use them in the same way as the preset songs. Song data can be transferred from your computer to the ez-tp using the free song filer application that can ...

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    Connecting to midi devices 30 ez-tp owner’s manual ■ using the song filer after installing the song filer application on your computer, connect the ez-tp as described below. Instructions for operating the song filer application are provided in the pdf file included with the song filer download packa...

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    Connecting to midi devices ez-tp owner’s manual 31 this procedure sets the midi channel via which the ez-tp data will be transmitted. The possible settings are: off, 1 ~ 16. 1 press the button so that the upper indicator lights. 2 press the [midi] button. 3 use the [-]/[+] buttons to select “off,” o...

  • Page 32: Cleaning The Ez-Tp

    32 ez-tp owner’s manual cleaning the ez-tp it is important to keep wind-type instruments like the ez-tp clean at all times. Refer to the instructions below. ● mouthpiece when the mouthpiece requires cleaning, remove it from the instrument and wash it in clean water. After washing dry the mouthpiece ...

  • Page 33: Troubleshooting

    Ez-tp owner’s manual 33 troubleshooting problem possible cause & solution no sound. • are the batteries depleted? (page 6) • is the overall volume turned up to an appropriate level? (page 11) • is a pair of headphones or cable plugged into the phones/ output jack? (page 7) • is the local control par...

  • Page 34: Message List

    34 ez-tp owner’s manual message list display message e 1 midi data receive error. E 2 midi buffer full. E 3 midi checksum error. E 4 midi device number error. E10 file open error. E11 the specified file is not smf. E12 smf header length error. E13 the specified file is not smf format 0. E14 type res...

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    Ez-tp owner’s manual / bedienungsanleitung / mode d’emploi / manual de instrucciones 35 sound list / soundliste / liste des sons / lista de sonidos ● maximum polyphony (simultaneous notes) the maximum number of notes that can be simultaneously produced by this instrument is 32. This includes song pl...

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    36 ez-tp owner’s manual / bedienungsanleitung / mode d’emploi / manual de instrucciones midi implementation chart / midi-implementierungstabelle / yamaha [ ez-tp ] date : 11-may-2004 model ez-tp midi implementation chart version : 1.0 transmitted recognized remarks function... Basic default 1 1 - 16...

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    Ez-tp owner’s manual / bedienungsanleitung / mode d’emploi / manual de instrucciones 37 feuille d’implémentation midi / gráfica de implementación midi prog o 0 - 127 o 0 - 127 change : true # ************** system exclusive x o : song pos. X x common : song sel. X x : tune x x system : clock x x rea...

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    38 ez-tp owner’s manual / bedienungsanleitung / mode d’emploi / manual de instrucciones midi data format / midi-datenformat / 1. Ez-tp functions as a 16-channel multi-timbral tone generator, and incoming data does not affect the selected sound or panel settings. However, the midi messages listed bel...

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    Ez-tp owner’s manual / bedienungsanleitung / mode d’emploi / manual de instrucciones 39 133 format des données midi / formato de datos midi 1. L’ez-tp fonctionne comme un générateur de sons multi-timbre à 16 canaux. De ce fait, la réception de données n'affecte ni le son sélectionné, ni les réglages...

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    40 ez-tp owner’s manual / bedienungsanleitung / mode d’emploi / manual de instrucciones specifications / technische daten / spécifications / especificaciones playing method: sing / operate valves. Sounds: 22 songs: 10 songs (other songs can be loaded into memory from a computer using an optional usb...

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    135 limited warranty 90 days labor 1 year parts yamaha corporation of america, hereafter referred to as yamaha, warrants to the original consumer of a product included in the cate gories listed below, that the product will be free of defects in materials and/or w orkmanship for the periods indicated...

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    136 please keep this manual this product utilizes batteries or an external power supply (adapter). Do not connect this product to any power supply or adapter other than one described in the manual, on the name plate, or specifically recommended by yamaha. This product should be used only with the co...

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