The scat voices on Roland are wonderful. You can press lightly for doo, a little harder for wop, and still harder for pow. You can control the "words" with key pressure. Works great on E50, E89 G70 and BK7m.
DonM

Lots of fun - very impressive the first time you play it to someone and then what....................?????

Great marketing Yam, but some improvements to that old old Tyros OS would have been much more appreciated......

Pete

Yamaha provided a large no. of scat type voices, and for me most of them are to be avoided apart from curiosity. Being very selective can help, trying to avoid those that are very repetitive and especially those that promote the "annoyingly intrusive sibilance of Shoo"
If you get the right mix of voices they can be very responsive,
and can be addictive to play in the privacy of your own home, although not maybe to push your luck in a public performance!

Here's an mp3 of some doodles using an ensemble of different voices in R1,2,3 and the Left voice. There's no multi recording/overdubbing involved.

http://www.box.com/s/4c5466yv3gg6fr22v97n


John

Good points John,

I use the Latin Voices on the chorus of Girl From Ipanema and it really gives a nice fullness feel to the song. Like everything else, somethings are appropriate, and some are not. But I like you, like to have some fun at times!!!

Nice work, John...you use those voices properly.

Like anything else, that is so easily turned into a novelty, the "voices" must be used sparingly and judiciously.

You certainly haven't lost your touch...good to see you posting.

Ian

PS...I'm glad I popped in...no work today...snow, and lots of it.

Head west, Ian. One cold snap all winter, just two weeks ago. Setting records here. +7 by Friday. Pass the sunblock. :-)

A guy from Ontario was talking to a Cape Bretoner about playing golf during the various seasons of the year.

" The courses close down, and we don't play in the winter time...we have to wait until spring."

"Why, on Cape Breton Island we can even play in the winter time. Snow and cold are no object to us," said the Cape Bretoner.

"Well, what do you do, paint your balls orange?" asked the guy from Ontario.

"No," said the Cape Bretoner, "We just put on an extra sweater or two."

Ian

Regarding this winter golf thing....

I know DonM, who is an avid golfer, will probably chime in and tell us that your shots travel a greater distance if your balls are warm.

This seems to bear this out... http://www.lifeintherough.com/2008/02/16/golf-balls-and-cold-weather/

This has lead to some of the winter playing locals demanding ball warmers in their golf carts (along with snow tires for the really bad days), and some players even have their caddies hold their balls in their bare hands to keep them warm.

In fact, some old timers have been known to stuff one or two balls down inside their winter boots, but apparently this leads to a bit of discomfort on longer courses.

All in all, dedicated golfers in Cape Breton are a hardy bunch indeed.

Ian

And those ball-washers are always positioned too high for me.

Here are the Roland "Scat" in use..the backing track was recorded about 9 years ago...