Yamaha PSR-225GM Owner's Manual - Page 5

Contents PANEL CONTROLS AND TERMINALS 6 • 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-225 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 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 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 INDEX 106 SONG SCORES (EZ Chord banks 1, 2 107 VOICE LIST 108 STYLE LIST 111 DRUM KIT LIST 112 MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART .. 114 SPECIFICATIONS 117 5