SPX2000

The SPX2000 has a wide variety of uncompromising, superior reverb and spacial ambience effects, including ER (early reflection). These provide not only exceptionally natural real-world ambience but a stunning selection of other-worldly effects as well.

The REV-X presets in particular all 17 of them were redesigned completely from the ground up, with new reverb algorithms. The Hall presets (#1 - 7) provide various natural, high-density reverb programs, while the Plate programs (#16 - 18) give you a crisp, well-defined sound perfect for vocals. The seven Room presets (#27 - 33) feature realistic recreations of various environments, with fine parameter control over room size, as well as a variety of wall materials and sound-absorption characteristics.

Each and every one of these programs boasts incredibly rich tone and a super-smooth, grain-free decay giving you authentic ambience for enhancing the original sound. Moreover, various parameters provide detailed, comprehensive control over the processed sound.

• The SPX2000 also features: Stereo Reverb, Gate Reverb and special Drum Machine Reverb programs refined and updated from the SPX990.
• ER group effects especially for enhancing drums, percussion and guitar, as well as creating powerful, in-your-face sounds. These include #34 Fat Reflections, #41 Full Metal Gate (a dynamic gated reverb program), and #42 Reverse Gate.
• The Classic bank offers 4 basic reverbs Hall, Room, Vocal and Plate, as well as the early reflection, gate reverb and reverse gate programs from the early SPX models.

The Delay/Echo presets feature versatile, high-quality delay effects allowing you to tap out a tempo for the delay time with the [TAP] button or a footswitch, or synchronize the SPX2000 to the tempo and note values from an external MIDI device.

A full selection of delays is provided, with mono, stereo, and a special stereo with center channel (#50, Delay L, C, R) for creating three-dimensional ambience. There’s also a Stereo Phasing preset (#66) that allows you to modulate the delay sound with a sine or triangle wave for complex, unique delay effects.

The Classic bank also effers two popular programs from the early SPX models: Delay L, R and Stereo Echo.

These programs give you sophisticated, high-quality pitch shift effects at your fingertips, updating the original SPX programs with enhanced sound, greater musical control and dynamic expressiveness. The new effects have many functions such as mixing of the sounds, feedback, and synchronizing to tempo. The Classic bank includes Pitch effects from the early SPX models, giving you MIDI note control over the pitch change.

A wide variety of modulation effects are included on the SPX2000 for fattening the sound, enhancing it, giving it animation and depth, or completely transforming it. Programs include Flanger, Phaser, Chorus, Symphonic, Tremolo, Auto Pan, Ring Modulation and Modulation Filter. The Rotary Speaker program (#71) faithfully recreates that rich rotating speaker sound for organ and other instruments. Special Dynamic Modulation programs, such as Dyna Flange (#76) and Dyna Phaser (#77), let you vary, respectively, the delay time and the frequency of the effect sound with the dynamics of your playing or MIDI velocity for even greater expressive control. Also included are combination programs such as #62 Reverb + Symphonic, gives you Yamaha's original multiple chorus effect with modulated delay time, and a high-quality reverb. Preset #64 Chorus + Reverb also lets you use both chorus modulation and reverb simultaneously.

The Classic bank features the original modulation programs of early SPX models.

These new programs include Dynamic Filter, Multi Filter and Multi-band Dynamic Processor. Program #78 Dyna Filter gives you powerful control over the sound by allowing you to vary the central frequency of the filter with the signal itself or via MIDI velocity. The Multi-band Dynamic Processor is also exceptionally versatile, giving you independent control over the dynamic range for three separate frequency bands each with an expander/compressor/limiter allowing you to create extremely fat, full and rich sounds.

The SPX2000 also has your distortion bases covered, with an Amp Simulator effect (#83) for recreating vintage guitar amps, and a special new Distortion program (#82) featuring five different distortion characteristics (DST1/DST2/OVD1/OVD2/CRUNCH), a noise gate, and comprehensive control over the tone. The SPX2000 also has combination effect programs, #84 Distortion _ Flanger and #85 Distortion _ Delay, letting you combine distortion with modulation or delay effects for an even wider sonic palette.

A variety of multi effect programs give you even greater signal processing flexibility and creativity, putting reverb and modulation together, or combining delay with ambience. These combination effects are provided in two different types, one routing the signal in parallel (for example, #94 Delay + Reverb), the other using serial processing of the signal (for example, #95 Delay _ Reverb).

The Freeze effect turns the SPX2000 into a phrase sampler, ideal for looping parts during live performance. Quality is exceptionally high (96 kHz), even for long phrases up to nearly 3 seconds. The sampled audio can be played by pressing a panel button or by using an external MIDI trigger. You can even specify the number of playback repeats, up to 100 and shift the pitch of the sample (in semitones). The Classic bank brings 2 programs from the early SPX models. Preset #23 Freeze A lets you set the start and end points, while #24 Freeze B allows you to finely change the playback pitch of the sample in 1-cent units (1/100 semitone).