There have been a few updates over the last weeks at Tyrosworld for those of you who do not follow the postings. Intitial shipments of the Tyros have already started here in the UK to dealers, though limited numbers at this stage. Delivery expectations for a few lucky customers are early next week. There have been many recent mp3 uploads including demos and songs played on tyros, most of these have now been archived at www.psrworld.com/tyrosdemos.htm. I have recently been trying out the software cd that is supplied with the tyros keyboard, amongst its contents are a voice editor, midi file format convertor, file convertor and manager. Of interest is the voice editor as it is apparent that the tyros voices now feature 8 elements per voice, i.e. there is the possibility of layering up to 8 different AWM waveforms. Of course using the full 8 elements would severly limit polyphony, but this should open up possibilities of creating some very fat sounds! The editor itself can either work stand alone or as a plug in with the latest midi sequencers supporting OPT. As well as controlling filters,envelopes and LFO's, you can even change the DSPs and edit drum kits! The USB interface provides fast data syncing to the tyros, plus the ability to run 32 midi channels without the need of a midi interface on the pc!
The midifile convertor is worthy of a mention, this converts format 0 to 1 and also allows you to retrieve the song name from the midifile and use it as a filename.
Other goodies include colourful "wallpaper" for the tyros's display, screensavers and desktop background images for pc, a short animated movie with a nice tyros soundtrack (different to the german flash website) and USB midi driver.
It is also interesting to note that UK tyros's have a disk supplied with them to convert the cryptic song names in the music database to proper ones. Not sure though if they are exactly the same song setups, though I would guess so. Perhaps we will see if this is included in other countries or not, I assume it depends on copyright laws.

Incidentally if you are interested at all in tyros, please visit tyrosworld.com and join the discussion group, you can also find photos, mp3's, xls files of voices/styles and cakewalk definitions tucked away in the files area.

Regards
Simon
SVPworld


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Simon G.K. Williams
simon@svpworld.com
Creative Music & Multimedia
http://www.svpworld.com
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