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PSR-K1 Owner’s Manual 57
Making your own song arrangements
(Easy Song Arranger)
Easy Song Arranger is an exciting new feature that lets you easily change the feel of
a song by applying your favorite accompaniment styles.
For example, you could spice up a ballad by giving it a house arrangement, or trans-
form a jazz standard into a hip-hop tune. Naturally, you can also have the lyrics dis-
played.
About Easy Song Arranger
Easy Song Arranger automatically plays the accompaniment by reading the chords
in the song data and translating that into chord data for the accompaniment features.
The Melody Left and Right parts of the song play from Tracks 1 and 2.
Both the song and accompaniment play simultaneously while Easy Song Arranger
is used.
•When the time signature (beat) of the accompaniment does not match that of the
song, the time signature of the song takes precedence.
The voices used for your keyboard performance and the melody of the song can be
freely changed from the MAIN, MELODY L and MELODY R settings in the
VOICE section.
The Easy Song Arranger settings (Style Number, Melody Voice) can be saved to
SmartMedia card.
Channels 1 - 5 are assigned to Tracks 1 - 5, respectively. Channels 6 - 8 are
assigned to Track A, and channels 9 - 16 are not used (ignored). For the initial set-
tings, Tracks 1 and 2 are set to ON, while Tracks 3 - 5 and A are set to OFF (muted).
Using Easy Song Arranger
Selecting a song
Call up the Easy Song Arranger MAIN display by pressing the [EASY SONG
ARRANGER] button. The SONG row is highlighted.
Call up the Song List by holding down the [EASY SONG ARRANGER] button.
Select the desired song.
Selecting the accompaniment style
To call up the Style List, press the [EASY SONG ARRANGER] button while the
Song List (above) is displayed.
Select the desired style.
Only the song data is used for
chord recognition; as a result,
accompaniment does not change
when you play keys in the accom-
paniment section of the keyboard.
The [ACMP ON/OFF] button does
not function, either.
Easy Song Arranger cannot be
used with the User songs (101 –
105). However, if you convert the
songs to Standard MIDI File for-
mat and store them to SmartMedia
card (page 64), the feature can be
used.
NOTE
Press and hold
The STYLE row is highlighted
when pressing the [EASY SONG
ARRANGER] button in the Easy
Song Arranger MAIN display.
NOTE