The Yamaha TF3 Digital Mixer allows sound engineers to respond to the music and artists on stage with unprecedented speed and freedom, taking live sound reinforcement to a new level of refinement.
 
Intuitive User Interface Optimized for Touch Panel Operation
In developing the Yamaha TF3 Digital Mixer, Yamaha engineers built from their existing base of acclaimed high-end mixer interfaces, adding intuitive control in an interface optimized for the type of touch panel control that has become a familiar feature in a wide range of applications. Allowing most operations to be carried out via the touch panel alone, the interface will become second nature to users. The availability of physical controls surrounding the touch panel further enhances control versatility and precision.
 
Touch & Turn Knob Offers Extra Control Precision
When you need extra precision, the physical Touch & Turn knob is available. There are also four User Defined Knobs that can be assigned to control compressor threshold, EQ gain, or other parameters you need fast, direct access to while mixing.
 
Traditional Overview and Selected Channel Interfaces
Like the CL series consoles, operation is based around Overview and Selected Channel windows. The overview display shows the parameters for eight channels at a time, while the Touch & Turn knob provides direct access to gain, 1-knob EQ™, 1-knob COMP™, gate threshold, effect send level, pan, and other parameters. 
 
1-knob COMP™ & 1-knob EQ™: One Knob to Dial In the Ideal Sound
With the 1-knob COMP, you can quickly use compression to bring a guitar to life, add punch to bass, or tighten up a snare, without the need to juggle multiple parameters. The 1-knob COMP and 1-knob EQ are provided on the output channels too, so you can quickly achieve overall output compression or EQ. The output 1-knob EQ has a Loudness Mode in place of the Vocal Mode, effectively increasing the sound pressure level while maintaining optimum sound. Both the 1-knob COMP and 1-knob EQ provide quick access to the full compressor and EQ displays.
 
GainFinder™ Supports Precision Gain Setup
Gain is the first adjustment the input signal sees, and the way it is set up influences how subsequent parameters will affect the signal. Yamaha has developed a way to make fast, accurate setup of this important basic parameter easier than ever. The new GainFinder feature facilitates optimum gain setup for individual input signals. Of course the level meters also perform their traditional function, so standard gain setup procedure can be followed if preferred.
 
Practical Presets and Scenes
The Yamaha scene memory that stores mix settings for instant recall is included. There’s also a range of channel presets that provide starting points for achieving great sound. 
 
Comprehensive Fader Bank Section
Two INPUT banks and one OUTPUT bank are provided, and the GROUP bank can be selected by pressing both the INPUT bank buttons simultaneously. The GROUP bank allows the levels of multiple channels to be controlled from a single DCA fader. There’s also a CUSTOM fader bank where you can assign any input, output, and DCA group to any fader.
 
DCA Roll-out Enhances Group Control
When the GROUP fader bank is selected, all faders other than DCA masters 1 through 8 function as Roll-out faders. Selecting one of the DCA groups instantly “rolls out” the input channels belonging to that group to the Roll-out faders. This useful function makes it easy to adjust the level and other parameters of individual channels while using the eight DCA faders for overall mixing.
 
Channel Name and Color
A display panel located above each channel fader shows the assigned channel name or ID, the port name, and the current fader setting. Phantom power status as well as gate and comp operation can also be displayed. A color bar that shows the assigned channel color makes visual navigation a breeze, and prevents confusion when fader banks are changed or scenes are recalled.
 
Applications that Work Seamlessly with the Console
Separate software applications that allow wireless mixing, personal monitor mixing, or offline setup of digital live mixing consoles have become fairly common. The Yamaha TF3 goes a step further with three dedicated apps – TF Editor, TF StageMix, and MonitorMix – that feature user interfaces that seamlessly extend the console’s own on any device.
 
Personal Monitoring with MonitorMix
The MonitorMix application for the Yamaha TF3 Digital Mixer allows individual wireless AUX mixing from up to 10 iPad, iPhone, iPod touch or Android devices simultaneously. Each performer can have convenient control over the AUX buses assigned to them, without having to deal with complex settings or parameters. 
 
Recallable D-PRE™ Microphone Preamplifiers
The Yamaha TF3 Digital Mixer features new recallable versions of Yamaha’s acclaimed D-PRE microphone preamplifier. The circuit is based on a discrete inverted Darlington pair configuration that achieves clean, precise amplification with consistently low noise and distortion at all signal levels. While some microphone preamps are built specifically to impart a unique character of their own, the D-PRE preamplifier has been painstakingly designed with a flat, wide frequency response that retains the tone and nuance of the original sound.
 
8 Powerful Processing/Effect Units and More…
In addition to channel processors, the Yamaha TF3 Console features eight powerful processing/effect units. All the units feature the same type of SPX processors that have become standards in recording and live sound applications, offering 19 programs ranging from reverb and delay, through modulation effects such as flanger and chorus, to multiband compression. 
 
Various Mix to Multiple Speaker Systems - Matrix Out Channels with Delay
Four matrix out channels with delay parameters that are ideally suited to setting up delay compensation for live sound speaker systems at large venues, installations where separate mixes are fed to a main hall and lobby, and many other situations that require some degree of delay compensation.
 
Additional Output Delay for Ins FX
TF V2.5 also includes a simple Output Delay that can be used as an Ins FX on the AUX 9/10 ~ AUX 19/20 buses to manage the timing of signals sent to speakers at different locations for improved intelligibility and clarity.
 
Nuendo Live Multi-Track Live Recording Software is Bundled
Steinberg’s Nuendo Live multi-track live recording software is bundled with the Yamaha TF3 digital mixing console. Nuendo Live multi-track recording software is ideal for use in live sound applications, from club gigs to concert halls and festivals.