The Yamaha A3000 Version 2 is a powerful, versatile, and easy-to-use professional-level sampler with a sound and style all its own. Its realtime control knobs, intuitive panel design, easy-edit voice architecture,

multiple effects circuitry, dynamic filters, and many other great features give you the power and freedom you need to surprise yourself with your own creativity.

- Style And Substance

The A3000 puts everything you need at your fingertips, with all main functions printed on the matrix on the front panel. All para-meters are instantly accessible at the quick touch of a mode switch and function key, or at the simple twist of a control knob. A 40X2 LCD provides plenty of visual feedback at each step along the way.
And that's just the outside. Inside, you get 16-bit sampling with 64 notes of polyphony, 2MB of RAM (expandable to 128MB), dynam-ic filters, multiple effects circuitry, equalizers, and everything else you need to create spectacular phrases and breakbeats.

- Great Filters and Some New Functions

With Version 2, you get a total of 16 built-in dynamic filter types: from conventional low-pass and high-pass filters through to innov-ative 2-peak and other compound filters. You can set and edit fil-ters separately for each sample. and you can control the filter in realtime using MIDI controllers or the front-panel knobs.
Version 2 also provides two entirely new functions that will help you find new ideas. The intelligent LOOP REMIX function auto-matically divides a breakbeat into individual beats, then rearranges them to give you a smart new variation. The LOOP DIVIDE fea-ture automatically slices up a breakbeat pattern and maps the pieces along the keyboard, so that you can generate variations on your own in real time.

- Samples, Banks, and Programs

Recording a great sample is easy: Just plug in your stereo or mono source, set the sampling rate and other recording parameters, and there you go.
Each sample is stored as a combination of wave data and parame-ter settings: the wave data provides the basic sound, and the para-meters set the sample's note mapping, velocity limits, layer/split operation, MIDI channels, filtering, and so on. Since you can use the wave data from any one sample to build any number of other samples, you'll find that it's easy to create complex and highly cus-tomized breakbeats and phrases from the smallest amount of recorded data.
The A3000 will also let you copy samples into groups called sample banks that can be used to set up mulitsampled instruments and drum kits. Sample banks are also ideal for mapping related sam-ples across a keyboard for triggering in a realtime performance.
Once you have generated your samples and sample banks, you can arrange them into programs that you can play using external key-boards and other MIDI devices. The A3000 stores 128 programs in RAM at any given time, allowing you to switch instantly from one to the other. You can set up effects separately for each program.

- Effects and Modulations

The A3000's high-quality DSP system offers a wide variety of effects, together with sophisticated effects circuitry that lets you apply the selected effects either independently or in series. It also offers two LFO types: sample LFOs and program LFOs.
First, consider the effects implementation. You get 54 different effects: from old standards such as Hall, Room, and Stage, to more sophisticated effects such as Aural Exciter® , Pitch Change, and 3-Band EQ, to special techno and dance effects such as AutoSyn (synth sound), TechMod (ringing modulation), Radio (lo-fi radio static), and TurnTable (clicks and pops). You can apply extensive active.editing to each effect by adjusting its numerous parameters. You apply an effect by assigning it to one of the three independent effect blocks. You can then set these blocks to operate separately or in any of several combinations.
Next, consider the LFOs (low-frequency oscillators). Where Version 1 offered a separate LFO for each sample, Version 2 now includes another LFO that you can set up separately for each pro-gram. The sample-level LFO can be freely set to modulate the sample's filter, pitch, and amplitude. The new program-level LFO modulates the program's effect parameters and the entire set of sample parameters. The program LFO can be driven by an exter-nal MIDI clock, allowing an external sequencer to control the LFO frequency in real time.

- Powerful Editing Tools and Realtime Control

The A3000's powerful editing tools are perhaps its most impres-sive feature. You can carry out editing at all levels: on samples, on sample banks, and on programs. This gives you tremendous ability to control the final sound and operation. The unique Easy Edit feature, which works at the program level, lets you make quick adjustments to the program without affecting the underlying samples.
You can also Eedit as you go by adjusting the sound in real time during playback. The A3000's controller matrix functions allow you to assign various parameters to arbitrary MIDI controllers, so you can control the action from an external MIDI device.

- Song Sketchpad, Enhanced Data Compatibility,and Great Options

Versatile to the core, the A3000 includes a handy MIDI sequencer for quick and easy recording and playback of song sketches, and for playback of format-0 standard MIDI files imported from flop-py disk. It also gives you great data compatibility: you can load data from popular samplers such as Akai Roland and E-mu and you can load AIFF and WAV files from floppy disk. The A3000 supports installation of the optional AIEB1 I/O expan-sion board, offering six additional assignable outputs as well as coaxial and optical digital I/O. You can also install a SCSI hard disk. Version 2 now supports hard-disk sizes up to 8GB.
An easy - to - install upgrade kit is available for purchase by Version 1 owners. Aural Exciter is a registered trademark and is manufactured under license from Aphex System, Ltd. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.