Nice try, but no vibrato on aftertouch, no falls at the end of notes, no glissandos,
lol... take it from me an Irish man, that's as real as you can get from any keyboard. Real Uilleann pipes also don't do vibrato either. You can only flutter the notes and that's not the same thing as vibrato at all as you cannot use your breath to control it, you can only flutter notes with your fingering.
That said, it is all there if you listen again. Go to 2:28 seconds and you will hear a slow glissando as well as straight notes fluttering.
It's also not what the TrEx or Kronos has out of the box.
Correct, but for in around 100 Euro I purchased an entire library of sounds like this that cover all Celtic and most Ethnic Instruments. Nooo.... Workstation or Arranger even comes remotely close to producing sounds like that out of the box... none.
So they way I'd be looking at this is, if you take everything the Kronos has and if you find it's a little weak in a certain area, a small investment will solve that problem forever.
I'm not saying that you can't improve what they have by adding samples and some programming. There will be the issue of how to invoke these articulations like falls dynamically (not a mere pitchbend - an actual sampled fall) by adding them to the end of notes that are already playing.
Prgoarmming will obvisouly give you far more control, but there's a lot you can do with a good sample library just be loading it straight. The World Winds library I was running on the Triton Extreme above uses velocity switching and sounds offering dual tuning spanned over more than one octave. So you can achieve quite a lot before resorting to programming.
He's activating layers by switches. As you know, since the Trinity Series SW 1 and SW2 on your KORG can do the same thing.
There are many ways to do the same things, what Yamaha are doing here is not a technology. I was doing all that on my AKAI Samplers 20 years ago.
It boils down to one thing and one thing only here, Samples. If you have them, then there's nothing stopping you from producing the most amazing sounds in the work from a Kronos. People need to realise the Sampler function of the Kronos is meant to be use for things like this. If anyone find it a little weak in a certain area, buy a AKAI disk. Problem solved.
You can load samples on the Tyros too, by the way.
Err... That's not exactly true. The Tyros does not support a single commercial format that can retain multisample or program data at all. It can only load basic WAVE files one by one where you must then assemble by hand into a multisample, and then create the program yourself.
The Tyros is as basic as hell when it comes to anything out side of selecting a factory preset.
Either that or buy sounds from someone else that has done all the donkey work for you and saved the data in Tyros format. That's a very very rare thing to find though.
But you can't create SuperArticulation voices because Yamaha hasn't exposed any way to do the programming for the articulation behavior for custom voices with samples.
Only because the sound engine interface is also as basic as hell. They have intentionally locked away the keyboards full abilities from the end user.
To that I say... WTF...!!!
Tyros users are like sheep being milked like Cows. The Tyros 5 will have more SA voices, all of which they could sell on a memory stick for 100 bucks, but nope... people will have to shell out 4 grand for the pleasure of a few extra sounds and a incremental upgrade that goes with it.
They won't unlock the sound engine because there are so few new sounds actually released in the new Tyros 4, it would take someone only a nights work to sample them and load them into a Tyros 3.
Obviously, I'm not saying that Yamaha is the be all and end all of sample articulation, they're just more progressed than most workstations and arrangers I've seen. Softsynths are quite a bit more powerful for articulation programming than any of the workstations.
KORG's DNC and RX Technology far exceed what Yamaha have already
Let's make a list of all the articulated voices that come with the Kronos, out of the box.
Also depends on your view. I could say for example that every single COMBI sound is a SA Voice and much more. That's before even going onto prog mode.
I'll leave it at that and one more mp3.
http://www.irishacts.com/lionstracs/worldwinds.mp3
That's what a selection of 100 bucks offers.
Regards
Sharp.
