Yamaha Portatone Entertainment Station Kitchen Entertainment Center User Manual


 
PSR-K1 Owner’s Manual 47
Style Functions
In the section “Try out the Style” (page 30) of the Quick Guide, we introduced you to
the basic operations of the auto accompaniment styles. Here, we’ll explain some
interesting and useful ways of sounding the styles, and ways to adjust the accom
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paniment level and the chords.
Sounding only the percussion
You can have just the percussion parts of the accompaniment play by pressing the [ACMP
ON/OFF] button—so that auto accompaniment is OFF (the ACMP display is unlit)—and
starting the style. Playing the keyboard sounds the Main Voice with no bass or chord
sounds, even when playing in the auto accompaniment section of the keyboard.
Sounding accompaniment without percussion
Press the [ACMP ON/OFF] button to turn on auto accompaniment, and press the [SYNC START] button twice to set Syn-
chro Start to OFF. When you play keys in the auto accompaniment section of the keyboard, the bass and chord sounds are
heard without percussion.
Setting the accompaniment volume
Enter the FUNCTION display by pressing the [FUNCTION] button and call up the
Style Volume page by using the CATEGORY buttons [ ]/[ ].
Set the accompaniment volume (range: 000 – 127).
Using external Style Files
Style number 136 is specially reserved for use with external Style Files, designated with the “.sty” file extension.
Save the desired Style File to SmartMedia card using a computer (with an appropriate SmartMedia reader/writer) and
load the Style File from the SmartMedia card to style number 136 on the instrument. For details, see page 63.
The special Pianist styles do not
have any percussion parts.
NOTE
The ACMP display goes out.
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This can be set when the style is
selected.
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