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Contents

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7.4 One Touch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Ignoring certain One Touch settings (Cancel Options) 100
Programming your own Tone selections (Memorize) .100

7.5 More refined Arranger settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

ARR(anger) Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Chord recognition area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Arranger Chord Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Bass Inversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Dynamic Arranger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103

7.6 Arranger Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

(Arranger) Tempo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Chord Family Assign, Alteratn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Intro& Ending Alteration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Musical Style playback: Wrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

7.7 Selecting Tones for the Arranger parts . . . . . . . . . . 107
7.8 Working with Styles on Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Programming your own Disk Link assignments . . . . . .108
Find: locating Styles on a Zip disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Rename (Style Options) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
Style Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

8. Mixer, effects and editing

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

8.1 Structure of the Mixer pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
8.2 Volume and pan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Global Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Muting parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Keybrd Mixer (volume of the Keyboard parts) . . . . . . .114
Style Mixer (volume of the Arranger parts) . . . . . . . . . .114
PanPot (stereo position). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
More locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

8.3 Output Assign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
8.4 Effects and Equalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Applying Reverb, Chorus, or Delay to a part . . . . . . . . .116
Effects settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117
Delay types & Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Equalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

8.5 Insertion effect (M-FX). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Using the insertion effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Selecting an M-FX type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

8.6 VariPhrase and Audio In effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
8.7 Sound Palette: editing Keyboard part parameters . 125

9. Registrations – User Programs

. . . . . . . . . 127

9.1 Writing your settings to a User Program . . . . . . . . . 127
9.2 Selecting User Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Free Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Selecting a User Program (Group, Bank, Number). . . .128
Selecting User Programs using the [DOWN][UP]

buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129

Selectively loading User Program settings (User

Program Cancel Options) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129

9.3 Automatic functions for User Programs . . . . . . . . . . 130

Song & MIDI (Set) Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
User Program selection at power-on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

10. Song Composer (the basics)

. . . . . . . . . . 132

10.1 A few remarks about recording songs . . . . . . . . . . 132

Formatting a disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

10.2 Song List: searching songs on disk (Find) . . . . . . . . 133

Play & Search: finding Songs by playing a few notes . . .133

10.3 Song playback functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Lyrics function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
Fast Forward, Rewind, and Reset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Loop playback (Markers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Changing the song tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Soloing and muting parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Song/Keyboard-part balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Transpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

10.4 Song Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Compiling or editing a Song Chain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
Playing back a Song Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Chain Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139
Deleting a Song Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

10.5 Song Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

P&S Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

11. Song Composer (16-track, etc.)

. . . . . . . 141

11.1 16-track Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

General considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141
Example 1: Recording a track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Saving your song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Example 2: Recording a song from scratch. . . . . . . . . . . 145

11.2 Editing 16-track songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Easy editing and useful functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
In-depth editing of a 16-track song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Utility: other useful functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

11.3 Style Converter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
11.4 Edit Lyrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

‘Utility’ functions for Edit Lyrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

11.5 Header Post Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

12. Programming User Styles

. . . . . . . . . . . . 163

12.1 Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Selecting the User Style Composer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

12.2 Recording User Styles from scratch. . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Selecting the track, the Mode, the Type and the

Division. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Record mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166
Specifying the key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166
Quantize. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166
Tone selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Time signature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Length: specifying the pattern length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167
Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169
Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169
Audition your pattern and then keep or redo?. . . . . . . .169
Saving your Style to disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Programming other parts and divisions . . . . . . . . . . . . .170
Muting parts while recording others. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170
Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171
Copying entire Styles using Load (all tracks) . . . . . . . . .172

12.3 Copying existing Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Copying individual Style tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172
Editing on the fly by recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

12.4 Editing User Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Edit functions that are not part of the User Style
Edit mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

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