Tyros4

Tyros4's acoustic grand piano is based on the world famous Yamaha CFIIIs Concert Grand. Multi sampling has been used to provide natural expressive tonal changes with velocity, and a new touch curve makes it incredibly easy to hit the sweet spots of the piano voice. Super Articulation adds damper pedal sustain samples and key-off sounds.

A full classical bowed string orchestra of 1st violins, 2nd violins, violas, cellos and contrabasses, with sections overlapping creating a full rich sound. There are three dynamic levels and Super Articulation provides legato phrasing.

Watch how Super Articulation 2 technology automatically chooses the correct playing style or articulation depending on what you play, to enhance the realism of this beatiful Celtic Violin.

Super Articulation 2 technology creates this stunningly realistic violin sound around what you play, this particular sound lends itself well to light jazz music.

This beautiful classical boys choir sound was originally sampled in Estonia. Ambient sampling techniques were used to capture the sound of the room together with the choir, making for an even more natural sound. Super Articulation provides legato phrasing.

The Voice blends from one sound to another over time, producing this lush and smooth Latin vocal sound.

A pop vocal sound featuring both male and female voices. Super Articulation Wave Cycling means that each subsequent note is a different sound, so you can create vocal effects such as scat vocalists.

A pop vocal sound featuring male and female voices. Super Articulation Wave Cycling means that each subsequent note is a different sound, so you can create many vocal effects such as ShooBeeDooBah!

The horn section of a symphony orchestra: great for big themes, as in movie or show tunes as well as in classical music.

A beatifully sweet soprano sax which comes to life as you play, thanks to Super Articulation 2 technology.

Classic solid-body guitar played, with a plectrum through powerful distortion DSP.

Classic two-pickup solid-body guitar, with chorus DSP, played with fingers produces this light and spritly sound.

Classic two-pickup solid-body guitar, played with fingers through amp simulated DSP, produces an ideal guitar sound for country music.

Classic two-pickup solid-body guitar, played with a pick together with slap techniques produces that percussive sound.

Stereo sampled drums played using brushes - very suitable for gentle jazz music. Even the toms and cymbals are played with brushes in this drum kit.

The vibraphone has a very distinctive modulation which is very difficult to emulate with digital effects, but in this voice the vibrato is sampled from the original instrument, creating a rich and vibrant jazz solo, or a warm accompaniment

Many of the chromatic percussion instruments in Tyros4 have been refreshed and you can almost smell the wood when you hear this new xylophone!

A new Euro Organ joins the Sine and Vintage Organ Types in the Organ Flutes category. For each Organ Type, nine flute pitches can be combined and effects such as percussion and vibrato can be added to produce a huge range of sounds.

Super Articulation 2 Voices can now be used in Style Intros and Endings. Here, the SA2 clarinet is played by the Style and is also selected as the melody voice by the One Touch Setting feature.

The new Vocal sounds are used to great effect in this classic 1950's style.

Middle of the road 70's pop ballad, featuring Tyros4's Vocals.

The new Gospel singers bring this 6/8 style to life.

Simple 8 Beat ballad for all your favourite boy band tracks!

Free Play Styles do not have a strong rhythm which means you can play freely without being rushed, or slowed down by the Styles tempo.

One of Tyors4's many classical Styles, the Choral Symphony features new classical choirs and strings.

Mellow, slow groove, contemporary R&B Style featuring the new Pop Vocals.

The new Super Articulation Latin Vocals, called up by the One Touch Setting feature, perfectly match to this laid back Samba Style.

This uptempo swing features the new Real Brushes drum kit, acoutic bass and Scat Vocalists.

New Special FX create the sound of a live crowd enjoying this driving 80's rock Style. The One Touch Setting feature is used to automatically set the melody sound.

Featuring Tyros4's new Dance Kit and synth sounds.

A driving Euro Pop styles featuring Tyros4's new synth voices.

The GospelAdLibs add a new dimension to the sound field of this lively style.

Euro party style featuring Tyros4's new synth voices.

A mid-tempo schlager style

This style captures the sound field of central European pop.

A light and breezy schlager accompaniment.

Featuring the Vintage Pick Guitar MegaVoice, this style captures the sound of Southern California's youth culture of the 1960s.

Featuring Tyros4's new synth voices.

A laid back easy listening style suitable for many standards.

A driving Euro Pop styles featuring Tyros4's new synth voices.

A driving Euro Pop styles featuring Tyros4's new synth voices.

A mid-tempo schlager style

This style captures the sound field of central European pop.

A light and breezy schlager accompaniment.

Featuring Tyros4's new synth voices.

A laid back easy listening style suitable for many standards.

Tyros4 features several new synth Voices, here they are used in a Style to create an ambient synth texture.

The GospelAdLibs add a new dimension to the sound field of this lively style.

Featuring Tyros4's new synth voices.

Synonymous with the German Organ Heroes of the 70’s and 80’s, this crisp full organ Voice lends itself to organ pop hits.

Pure and percussive, this organ voice is perfectly suited for easy listening popular music.

GoldenBars is a warm, rich organ combination well suited to many types of music and shown here in a European ballad style.

Watch how easy it is to play Tyros3 as a traditional US home organ with this Single Tab Voice set to different pitches in the 3 keyboard parts (Right 1, Right 2, Right 3).

FullTabs recreates the rich lush sound of the US home theater organ.

This flute tabs combination was sampled through an external rotary speaker producing a full and throaty tone ideal for swing and jazz.

One of the most recognizable styles of the Euro Organ.

Wonderfully captures the style of the most famous Euro organist of all time.

This up-tempo foot-tapping quickstep is perfect for strict tempo ballroom music.

After enjoying the nostalgic introduction, play any song at your own pace with this freeplay HomeOrganBallad style.

This Latin influenced style is evocative of UK organists of the 60's and 70's.

Whether you're playing a plaintive hymn or a festive carol, this haunting church choir is all you need to set the scene. Listen to how Super Articulation technology delivers perfect legato phrasing.

The versatile HahLegato choir is as at home with classical music as it is with this evergreen middle of the road pops orchestra.

Not just great for melodies! Why not use this soulful close harmony group as your personal backing vocalists.

Not only do the vocal sounds work well in their own right, they blend perfectly with Tyros3's internal sounds and styles. Listen to how we have recreated the cool and sophisticated sound of the Bossa Nova.

Why not create your own movie score or big production piece using this ambient Celtic style. See how you can control the vowel sounds with the Modulation Wheel or footswitch.

A middle of the road ballad style evoking the sound of the most famous vocal group of all time.

Journey back to the 1960's with this legendary vocal group sound.

A typical 1970's studio production of a male soul group.

The Romanian Pan Flute has featured in countless romantic ballads and movie themes and thanks to Super Articulation 2, you can recreate its timeless beauty with the expressive Ballad Pan Flute.

The Super Articulation 2 Latin Pan Flute, perfectly recreates the harder attack and overblown octave jumps synonymous with Latin American folk music.

Lush, warm and unbelievably real, the SA2 Trombone is ideal for easy listening music.

The SA2 Trombone is well suited to many types of music and is featured here in Jazz style.

Here the SA2 Trombone is seamlessly blended with Tyros3's internal voices and styles to recreate the sound of a marching brass band.

Transport yourself back to ballroom dancing of the 1950s with this up tempo quickstep style.

Typically French in character, this mid tempo style is great for swing standards.

Marches are a staple of both concert and marching bands, with the American marches of John Phillips Sousa perhaps being the most widely heard. With a brass and woodwind heavy arrangement suitable to the sound of either a marching band or concert band, this style will work equally well in accompanying a Sousa march or, for example, a college fight song.

Smooth is definitely the perfect word to describe this style. Whether you use it to play jazz or pop, what you'll get is a laid back sound with sparse, tasteful drumming, bass and guitar over which you're free to play your own solos.

The disco music of the 70s is all about big speakers, big shoes, and living the high life: at heart, disco is all about celebration. And with an unmistakable treble heavy disco guitar, along with funky bass and horn lines this style is perfect for celebrating anything at all.

Some of the biggest ballads of the 60s came out of Detroit and Motown records. Detroit put a distinctive soulful pop spin on ballads in songs like “My Girl”, and “I Second That Emotion” that you can hear in this style. Using lots of backing vocals alongside prominent drums and horns, the Motown sound is unique but sounds great accompanying a wide variety of ballads.

A cappella music appears most often these days in the form of barbershop and vocal jazz. The a cappella swing sound has been taken up recently by groups like Take 6 and the Manhattan Transfer, and this style is a perfect accompaniment to use in creating your own a cappella tracks. Using only human voices for harmony and finger snaps for percussion, this style recreates the sound of a barbershop quartet with amazing realism and expressiveness. Add your own voice to create new “a capella” songs!

With the youthful rebellion of exciting, raucous music and the dance to go along with it, the twist sums up perfectly the feel of early rock and roll. You can easily create the same feel easily with this style, which puts doo wop backing vocals at the forefront of the accompaniment. For a more piano heavy take on the twist, try the 60s Twist style.

A more relaxed yet precocious style of Big Band music had taken shape in the 1950’s. Pioneered by band leaders such as Count Basie, 50’s era swing produced amazing musicians like Buddy Rich, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, and too many others to name. This Style has a gentle, matter-of-fact swing quality that makes it really unique. Clarinet voices are featured prominently in addition to a breathtakingly authentic Big Band brass section, and the world famous Yamaha piano sound.

Memphis Soul Music of the 1960’s and 70»s was defined by artists like Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, and Booker T. & The M.G.”s. This upbeat Style showcases the groovy bass and “in the pocket” drums that are the foundation of the Memphis Sound. With this Style’s sultry organ and funky horn voices you’ll have all the tools to make shimmering soul music!

A Jodel-voice that uses the legato - function. Different samples are used if it’s played staccato or legato. G3 is the splitpoint for breast and falsetto voice, the falsetto voice cycles "Ho" and “Hi”. Press the ART.1 and the ART.2 buttons for FX!

A bright lead sound sampled from Yamaha’s legendary SY99. A combination of Hard Piano and Bells. Use DSP to switch of the delay.

A big and bright lead sound sampled from Yamaha’s legendary SY99, combined with tubular bells. Use DSP to switch of the delay.

The Masses at your Fingertips. The Crowd Legato voice uses different samples if you play legato or staccato. Press the ART.1 and the ART.2 buttons for crowd shouts!

You really can’t talk about Reggae music without talking about Bob Marley. The Wailers, (a band featuring Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer) successfully made the transition through Ska and Rocksteady music before becomming one of the most quintessential Reggae groups of all time. The Reggae Jam Premium Style is inspired by one of Bob Marley and the Wailers biggest hits: “Jamming”, though it is extremely versatile in the Reggae genre. This Style features electric piano, warm organ, and vintage guitar sounds so you can jam along!

Boogaloo is a Latin music genre that was popular in the US in the 1960’s. This style of music was born in New York City when R&B and Soul music was mixed with Mambo and Son Montuno grooves. The biggest Boogaloo hit from the 60’s was “Bang Bang” by the Joe Cuba Sextet. The Hip Boogaloo Premium Style captures the rhythm and pairs it with bright piano, jazz organ, and saxophone voices!

80s RootRock2 is a versatile style with a strong backbeat in 4/4 time and It works great for any I, IV, V song structure. Featured lead voices include rock saxophone and a soaring rock guitar!

SynthPop took shape in the late 70’s and early 80’s as a sub genre of the New Wave movement, due to the introduction and commercial acceptance of electronic instruments. This style features a classic driving electronic 16 beat, synth strings, and muted synth bass, that bring to mind SynthPop groups such as The Human League, Erasure, Depeche Mode, and the Thompson Twins.

I have been playing with this style all day! It’s a burning hot blues rock style with some unexpected bells and whistles! Status Rock was inspired by the 1977 Classic Rock hit “Rockin’ All Over The World” by Status Quo(Though written and originally recorded by John Fogerty). The driving blues rock vibe of this Style gives it a real fist-pumping quality, which is complimented by the subtle vocal harmonies that enter the second variation.

My favorite variation is the fourth, where the entire Style transforms to give us dramatic synchronized hits that create a high energy moment, while leaving space for little bluesy licks.

The One Touch Voice Settings could not be more perfectly paired! You get two scorching lead guitars, a rock organ, and a golden saxophone! Check out the demonstration video below, but the fun won’t really start until you load Status Rock into your Yamaha keyboard!

The softer side of rock is no less versatile. Here we have a light, airy Style that lends itself easily to ballads, but it suits any mid-tempo piano rock tune with a few taps of the tempo button. Though this Style is based on Katie Melua’s “The Closest Thing To Crazy”, I quickly played through some of my favorite ballads including “Everything I Do(I Do It For You)” and “Unchained Melody”, just to have fun trying some familiar songs with a new Style.

Soft Piano Beat builds consistently through each variation, with One Touch Settings that match the added layers of complexity with subtle intensity. Featured voices include the world famous Yamaha Grand Piano, soothing flutes, and a warm string section.

This Style has a great “oompah” vibe with a “tic toc” 8 beat feel. Inspired by the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest winner “Puppet On A String” by Sandie Shaw, 60’s EuroPop nods to a time when pop music was really orchestral. You’ll find that this Style has been thoughtfully programmed with the perfect voices to reproduce this signature sound, including symphony horns, flutes, a woodwind section, and a string section. Try 60’s EuroPop with some simple major chord progressions and use it to practice your scales, or try to capture the magic of the sweet late 60's orchestral pop.

Baker Beat was inspired by the 1978 hit song “Baker Street” from ex Stealers Wheel frontman Gerry Rafferty. This style captures the essence of the song perfectly without compromising the versatility that allows Styles to be used for other songs. The light congas add so much to the rhythm of this style, giving it just the right amount of groove. Featured voices include a rock sax (perfect for the ripping lead of Baker Street), suitcase electric piano, and wire synth lead.

Here we have a mid-tempo soul groove that starts off sparse in the first variation. The sound grows exponentially through each variation, adding piano, gospel vocals, and handclaps, while the drums switch from a snare hit on the 2nd and 4th beat to that classic 4 beat snare rhythm that was so popular in 1960's soul music. Featured voices include a vintage electric piano, organ, blues guitar, and a growling saxophone!

This Style was inspired by the hit song “Take It To The Limit” by the Eagles. The first variation is a mild 6-8 with crisp studio drums, warm piano and some lovely string section pads. As the Style progresses through the variations, you’ll hear some slight rhythmic changes. This gives you some room to build your song’s intensity over time, and play dynamically. Featured voices include harmonica, electric piano, a warm string section, and an awesome pedal steel!

Here’s a great mid tempo Style that’s suitable for lots of Indie Rock and Pop tunes, though inspired by the Arctic Monkey’s smash hit “Fluorescent Adolescent”. The drums have a really groovy rock feel that plays around with 16 beats on the high hat, and the rhythm is carried by a moving bass line, consistent rhythm guitar, and some melodic guitar accents. The energy of this Style is positively toe-tapping, with featured voices that include 2 different electric guitar tones, a rockin' sax and warm organ.

This Style was inspired by the song “Mr. Blue Sky” by Electric Light Orchestra, and it has all the bells and whistles! The Style grows in intensity beginning with 8 beat handclaps in the first variation, and finishing up with those awesome hits on the first and second beats in the fourth variation. This Style is absolutely driving, and features a Yamaha grand piano voice, in addition to a bright synth lead, a vocal patch, and ripping lead guitar!