Yamaha PSR-270 - Manual (Page 5)

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Contents
SELECTING AND PLAYING
SONGS — THE SONG MODE
75
SELECTING AND PLAYING A SONG 75
CHANGING THE TEMPO ................ 76
ABOUT THE BEAT DISPLAY ............. 77
ADJUSTING THE SONG VOLUME ... 78
SONG RECORDING 79
RECORDING A USER SONG —
REALTIME RECORDING .................. 80
• Using the Metronome ............ 81
• Additional Operations ............ 83
RECORDING A USER SONG —
STEP RECORDING ........................... 84
Recording Notes ........................... 85
• Additional Operations ............ 87
Replacing a Note or Rest .............. 88
Entering Velocity Curves ............... 89
• Velocity Curve Chart ............... 89
CLEARING A SONG ......................... 90
FOOTSWITCH 91
• Footswitch Assign Functions ... 92
MIDI FUNCTIONS 93
WHAT IS MIDI? ............................... 93
Channel Messages ........................ 94
System Messages .......................... 94
• MIDI Terminals ....................... 94
CONNECTING TO A PERSONAL
COMPUTER ..................................... 95
FUNCTION PARAMETERS — MIDI .. 96
USING BULK DUMP SEND
TO SAVE DATA ................................ 99
Saving Bulk Data .......................... 99
Loading Bulk Data ...................... 101
USING INITIAL SETUP SEND
WITH A SEQUENCER .................... 102
Sending Initial Setup Data .......... 102
TROUBLESHOOTING .................... 104
DATA BACKUP & INITIALIZATION 105
SPECIFICATIONS ........................... 106
SONG SCORES
(EZ Chord banks 1, 2) ................... 107
VOICE LIST .................................... 108
STYLE LIST .................................... 111
DRUM KIT LIST ............................. 112
MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART .. 114
INDEX ........................................... 117
EFFECTS 40
REVERB ............................................ 40
CHORUS .......................................... 41
DSP ................................................. 42
HARMONY ...................................... 43
Function Parameters — Effects ...... 44
• Effect Types ............................ 45
AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT —
THE STYLE MODE
47
SELECTING A STYLE AND
PLAYING THE ACCOMPANIMENT .. 47
ACCOMPANIMENT CONTROLS ..... 52
USING THE AUTO
ACCOMPANIMENT FEATURES ........ 52
CHANGING THE TEMPO ................ 53
ACCOMPANIMENT SECTIONS
(MAIN A, MAIN B AND FILL-INS) ... 54
ADJUSTING THE
ACCOMPANIMENT VOLUME ......... 55
USING AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT —
MULTI FINGERING .......................... 56
Single Finger Chords .................. 56
Fingered Chords ......................... 56
SETTING THE ACCOMPANIMENT
SPLIT POINT ................................... 58
Function Parameter —
Accompaniment Split Point .......... 59
WHAT IS A CHORD? ....................... 60
WRITING CHORD NAMES .............. 61
The Intervals of the Scale ........... 61
Other Chords .............................. 61
CHORD GUIDE ................................ 62
Dictionary ................................... 62
Smart ........................................... 64
• Smart Chord List .................... 65
EZ Chord ..................................... 66
EZ Chord — Playback ................... 66
• Bank Chain ............................. 67
EZ Chord — Recording ................. 68
• Recording a Space .................. 69
• Playing the Accompaniment
During EZ Chord Recording ... 69
• HINT — Using Spaces............. 70
Clearing an EZ Chord Bank ........... 71
ONE TOUCH SETTING (OTS) 72
ONE TOUCH SETTING — USER ...... 72
Recording a User One Touch
Setting ......................................... 72
Recalling a User One Touch Setting 73
• Selecting a User Bank ............. 73
ONE TOUCH SETTING — PRESET ... 74
Selecting a Preset One Touch
Setting ......................................... 74
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PANEL CONTROLS AND
TERMINALS
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• Front Panel ............................... 6
• Rear Panel ................................ 7
SETTING UP 8
POWER REQUIREMENTS ................. 8
TURNING ON THE POWER ............. 8
ACCESSORY JACKS ......................... 9
Quick Guide —
How to Use Your New
PSR-270 PortaTone
10
Step 1 Voices ............................. 10
Step 2 Auto Accompaniment .... 12
Step 3 Chord Guide .................. 14
Step 4 Songs ............................. 16
Step 5 Function Parameters ...... 18
Step 6 MIDI ............................... 20
PANEL DISPLAY INDICATIONS 22
• Music Stand ........................... 23
PORTABLE GRAND 24
PLAYING THE PORTABLE GRAND .. 24
USING THE METRONOME .............. 24
• Setting the Metronome
Time Signature ....................... 25
• Adjusting the Metronome
Volume ................................... 26
PLAYING VOICES —
THE VOICE MODE
27
PLAYING A VOICE — MAIN VOICE 27
• About Panel Voices and
GM Voices .............................. 29
• Drum Kit Voice Chart
(voices 101 - 110) .................. 30
Function Parameters — Main Voice 30
TRANSPOSE AND TUNING ............. 32
Transpose .................................... 32
Tuning ......................................... 33
PLAYING TWO VOICES —
DUAL VOICE ................................... 34
Function Parameters — Dual Voice 35
PLAYING TWO VOICES —
SPLIT VOICE .................................... 36
Function Parameters — Split Voice 37
ADDITIONAL VOICE
FUNCTIONS — VOICE SET AND
TOUCH SENSITIVITY ...................... 38
Function Parameters —
Voice Set and Touch Sensitivity ..... 39
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