System Examples

Laying down tracks for solo musicians, producers, small project studios
Inspiration can come at any time. But it can also leave—if you have to spend too much time fiddling with your equipment. Not so with the MW. With the included Cubase LE software, the MW gives you a simple yet comprehensive system for recording all your musical ideas to computer—and recording your moments of inspiration before they have a chance to leave!

Plug in a guitar, a microphone, a keyboard, even a CD player. Use the threeband EQ to tweak your sound, and connect your favorite effect device to the send/return jacks for further processing. The familiar mixer layout lets you stay in your comfort zone and work efficiently. Recording to Cubase LE is a breeze, too—especially with the downloadable low-latency ASIO driver, which lets you use your plug-in software synths and effects in real time.

The MW is also ideal for collaborating with others. Just bring it along with your laptop and guitar, and you’ve got a complete, portable mobile studio—ready to go anywhere and record with anyone.

Capturing the moment for recording backup singers, multi- instrument parts
Music is a succession of magic moments—made even more magical and exciting when you get several musicians and singers together. The MW lets you capture those moments, mixing down the performance of several backup singers or instrumentalists and recording them directly to a two-channel stereo track in Cubase LE.

With the MW and a laptop, the whole world becomes your personal recording studio. Portable, self-contained, flexible, comprehensive—the MW mixers give you virtually everything you need to make great recordings. Since Cubase LE gives you 48 tracks of audio to work with, you can build up songs part-by-part and easily create professional sounding arrangements.

Use the MW as a keyboard submixer when you play live, or use it as a utility mixer for events, gatherings and small rehearsals —and even record these events direct to stereo on your computer.

Enjoying total control for club music, DJ work, mixing straight to CD
If you’re a DJ and have a standard two-turntables-and-a- microphone setup, the MW can help keep your beats flowing. The MW has enough connectors for bigger live rigs as well—letting you add a couple of synths and a CD player, and still have room for more.

The big-brother MW12 is even more capable, handling up to 12 simultaneous inputs. It features a paired bus (Group 1/2) for assigning channels to a separate grouped output. There’s also a PFL (Pre-Fader Listen) switch that lets you conveniently cue up tracks—so you can monitor the sound of a source through your headphones before letting your audience hear it.

At home, use the MW with Cubase LE to record your personal mixes, then burn them to CDs for your friends and fans. This system is perfect for creating custom remixes, too. With the full audio editing capabilities of Cubase LE—including automatic tempo matching and stretching of audio parts—plus multitrack recording of up to 48 tracks, you’ve got all you need to record, edit and mix your musical masterpieces.

Cubase LE

Cubase LE is a full-featured music production software based on the award-winning Cubase SX and SL programs. It gives you up to 48 simultaneous audio tracks and 64 MIDI tracks, plus a variety of VST plug- in software synths and effects, as well as full VSTi compatibility, with support for up to eight VST instruments.

Just as the Yamaha MW USB Mixing Studio is your all-in-one solution to mixing and recording tracks to computer, the powerful Cubase LE provides all you need to record, edit, process and mixdown your masterpieces. At the center of Cubase LE is a full-fledged audio/MIDI sequencer, which allows you to record audio (vocals, guitar, etc.) along with MIDI data (from keyboards, synthesizers, etc.) and have everything in perfect sync.

What’s more, Cubase LE also includes built-in virtual sound modules, letting you play and record MIDI tracks with software synths. The LM-7 provides drum and percussion kits, while the VB-1 has a variety of bass sounds. And the Universal Sound Module has a comprehensive set of instrument sounds in every category, mapped according to the standard GM format. These VST instruments give you the power to create full arrangements —without the need for external tone generators.

Cubase LE also has a complete set of builtin virtual effects to process your sound —everything from reverb, chorus and delay effects to distortion, rotary speaker, filter and modulation—plus many different and unusual variations within. All of the effects are software based, so you can enhance and transform the sound all inside your computer!

The editing features of Cubase LE give you further control over your recordings, providing a number of different ways to rearrange your parts and tracks. Use the main Project window to record and do basic work on your tracks (such as cutting, copying and moving sections), and use the other editing windows for more detailed work. The Sample Editor, for example, lets you easily manipulate your audio recordings. For MIDI recordings, there are a variety of options—the Key Editor (in piano roll form), the Drum Editor (with convenient event and drum mapping indications), the Score Editor (for notation based editing), and the detailed List Editor (showing all MIDI events).

The power and versatility of Cubase LE is truly amazing, when you take a look at all the different projects and applications it can handle. If you’re into video production, you can easily use Cubase LE to create complex soundtracks and sound effect beds for your projects. Simply import the video (from your camcorder, for example) into Cubase LE and record narration and music on top—and have all your tracks synchronize perfectly with the images. Then creatively enhance your projects with the effects in Cubase LE—making huge explosive sounds with the help of reverb, or using the Vocoder effect for robot-like voices. Since the MW lets you record your analog sources (microphone, etc.) to computer in digital form, this compact setup is perfect for podcasting applications as well. Produce your own Internet radio programs, create custom remixes, and record your own CDs—the possibilities are endless.

Cubase LE is compatible with both the Mac and Windows PC platforms, and since Cubase LE projects are completely upward compatible with the professional level Cubase SX and SL, you can still use your LE songs if and when you decide to upgrade.

Cubase LE is the perfect way to enter the world of computerbased recording, giving you all the tools to produce professional level recordings—quickly and easily—while providing a system that you can expand into the future!

Note: If you want to connect a MIDI keyboard, the optional Yamaha UX16 USB/MIDI interface provides a very simple, inexpensive way to get MIDI data into and out of your computer.

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