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Owner’ s Manual Bedienungsanleitung Mode d’emploi Manual de instrucciones Owner’ s Manual Bedienungsanleitung Mode d’emploi Manual de instrucciones.
2 EZ-TP Owner’s Manual The follo wings are the titles, credits and copyright notices for six (6) of the songs pre-installed in this electronic trumpet: In The Midnight Hour W ords and Music by Steve Cropper and Wilson Pickett Copyright © 1965 IR VING MUSIC, INC.
EZ-TP Owner’s Manual 3 PRECAUTIONS PLEASE READ CAREFULL Y BEFORE PROCEEDING * Please keep this manual in a saf e place f or future reference . W ARNING Always follow the basic precautions listed below to avoid the possibility of serious injury or even death from electrical shock, short-circuiting, damages, fire or other hazards.
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.
EZ-TP Owner’s Manual 5 Congratulations and thank you for purchasing the Y amaha EZ-TP! Please read this o wner’ s manual carefully bef ore using the instrument, in order to tak e full advantage of its various features.
6 EZ-TP Owner’s Manual Setting Up Although the instrument will run either from the supplied A C adaptor or optional batteries, Y amaha recommends use of an A C adaptor whenev er possible. An AC adaptor is more en vironmentally friendly than batteries and does not deplete resources.
Setting Up EZ-TP Owner’s Manual 7 •A C 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 shoc k or equipment damage.
8 EZ-TP Owner’s Manual Contr ols & Features q Mouthpiece Place your lips against the mouthpiece and sing when playing the instrument. w V alves 1 ~ 3 The combination of v alves pressed – i.e., the “fingering” – determines the pitch produced (page 12).
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 v alues. When some parameters are selected the [+] and [-] buttons can be pressed simultaneously to recall the default setting.
Holding the EZ-TP 10 EZ-TP Owner’s Manual !6 MIC V OL Control Adjusts the sensiti vity of the instrument’ s mouthpiece microphone to match your voice (page 15).
EZ-TP Owner’s Manual 11 Playing the EZ-TP When all preparations have been pr operl y made, turn on the power and try playing the EZ-TP . 1 T urn on the power . 2 Place the mouthpiece against y our lips and sing a note. This should produce a trumpet note.
Playing the EZ-TP 12 EZ-TP Owner’s Manual Finger the v alves to produce the appropriate notes while singing the melody . * The numbers in the chart are the numbers of the valv es that must be pressed to produce the cor - responding notes. “0” means that no valv es should be pressed (page 8).
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 – valv es 1 and 2 – is used to produce two dif ferent notes: E and A. Real trumpets function in the same way , allowing you to produce more than one note with each fingering.
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 dif ference of about 1 octav e between male and female v oices.
Playing the EZ-TP EZ-TP Owner’s Manual 15 ● Microphone V olume Adjustment This step matches the sensiti vity 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 v oice will be required to pro- duce sound.
Playing the EZ-TP 16 EZ-TP Owner’s Manual The EZ-TP has a range of 22 dif ferent sounds. Y ou can play using trumpet sounds, or a v ariety of completely dif ferent sounds. 1 Press the button so that the upper indicator lights. 2 Press the [SOUND] button.
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 dif ferent from the same note played on the piano.
Playing the EZ-TP 18 EZ-TP Owner’s Manual The B b , C, E b , or F ke y setting will be retained e ven when the po wer is turned of f. This setting can be changed during song playback, but in this case the ne w setting won’ t be retained in memory when the po wer is turned of f.
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 lo wer indicator lights.
20 EZ-TP Owner’s Manual Playing Songs The EZ-TP features a selection of 10 songs that are ideal f or trumpet per- formance. Y ou can use the songs as accompaniment for y our own perf or- mance, as described on page 22, but here we’ll describe ho w to select and play the songs.
Playing Songs EZ-TP Owner’s Manual 21 3 Use the [-]/[+] buttons to select the song y ou want to listen to. Select a song from the song list provided belo w . 4 Press the [DEMO] button. Playback of the selected song will begin. 5 Press the [DEMO] button a gain to stop pla yback.
22 EZ-TP Owner’s Manual Play With Song Accompaniment Select a song and then press one of the PLA Y MODE buttons to select the play mode. The song will play without the melod y (accompaniment only) so that y ou can play the melod y y ourself .
Play With Song Accompaniment EZ-TP Owner’s Manual 23 In this mode you can play the melody by playing the appropriate valv e fingerings in time with the song. There is no need to sing the melody in this mode. The guide lamps will sho w you which valv es to press to finger each note.
Play With Song Accompaniment 24 EZ-TP Owner’s Manual If the tempo of a song is too fast to play comfortably , you can slo w it do wn (or speed it up if you like) as follo ws. 1 Press the button so that the lo wer indicator lights. 2 Press the [TEMPO] button.
Play With Song Accompaniment EZ-TP Owner’s Manual 25 The optimum sensiti vity adjustment makes it easier to play with the broadest dynamic range in response to how loudly you sing into the mouthpiece.
26 EZ-TP Owner’s Manual Retained Data & Initialization Although most settings re vert to their def ault v alues when the EZ-TP po wer is turned of f and then on again, the follo wing data are retained: • Instr ument K ey Settings (B b , C, E b , F) .
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 f or expanded m usical functionality . MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a world-standard interf ace for com- munication between electronic musical instruments and music devices.
Connecting to MIDI Devices 28 EZ-TP Owner’s Manual ● T ransfer 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 the EZ-TP .
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 be do wnloaded from the URL below .
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 belo w . Instructions for operating the Song Filer application are provided in the pdf file included with the Song Filer do wnload package.
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: of f, 1 ~ 16. 1 Press the button so that the upper indicator lights. 2 Press the [MIDI] button.
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 belo w . ● Mouthpiece When the mouthpiece requires cleaning, remov e it from the instrument and wash it in clean water .
EZ-TP Owner’s Manual 33 Tr oubleshooting Prob lem P ossible Cause & Solution No Sound. • Are the batteries depleted? (Page 6) • Is the ov erall volume turned up to an appropriate le v el? (P.
34 EZ-TP Owner’s Manual Message List Display Messa ge E1 MIDI data receiv e error . E2 MIDI buf fer full. E3 MIDI checksum error . E4 MIDI device number error . E10 File open error . E11 The specified file is not SMF . E12 SMF header length error .
EZ-TP Owner’s Manual / Bedienungsanleitung / Mode d’emploi / Manual de instrucciones 35 Sound List / Soundliste / Liste des sons / Lista de sonidos ● Maximum P olyphony (Sim ultaneous Notes) The maximum number of notes that can be simultaneously produced by this instrument is 32.
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.
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.
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 af fect the selected sound or panel settings.
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 de panneau.
40 EZ-TP Owner’s Manual / Bedienungsanleitung / Mode d’emploi / Manual de instrucciones Specifications / T echnische Daten / Spécifi cations / Especificaciones Playing method: Sing / operate v alves .
135 L imited W arr anty 90 DA YS LABOR 1 YEAR P AR TS Ya maha Corporation of America, hereafter referred to as Y amaha, 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.
136 PLEASE KEEP THIS MANU AL This product utilizes batteries or an external power supply (adapter). DO NOT connect this product to any pow er supply or adapter other than one described in the manual, on the name plate, or specifically recommended by Y amaha.
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