Yamaha PSR-2700 Owner's Manual - Page 26

Auto Accompaniment The PSR-1700 and PSR-2700 have 100 accompaniment styles that can be used to provide fully- orchestrated Auto Accompaniment. When the Auto Accompaniment function is turned ON, the PSR-1700 and PSR-2700 create fully-orchestrated rhythm, bass, and chord accompaniment based on chords you play with the left hand in the Auto Accompaniment section of the keyboard (i.e. all keys to the left of the Auto Accompaniment split point). The right-hand section of the key- board is available for normal playing. The default Auto Accompaniment split point is the G2 (55) key. The Auto Accompaniment section of the keyboard consists of all keys to AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT Auto Accompaniment w Normal its left. The Auto Accompaniment split point can be set to any other key as described in "Setting the Auto Accompaniment Split Point" on page 25. Left-hand fingering specifies The right-hand plays the auto accompaniment chords. normally. NOTES • The PSR-1700/PSR-2700 also has a special "Full" Auto Accompaniment fingering mode in which chords played anywhere on the keyboard determine the Auto Accompaniment chords. See page 28 for details. SYNC-START/STOP START/STOP FADE IN/OUT AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT STYLE FINGE- ACCOMP SELECT RING VOLUME ....M...O...D...E... 1 CHORD 1 2 CHORD 2 3 SINGLE 4 MULTI AUTO 5 FULL REVOICE ACCOMP RHYTHM 1 2 BASS RHYTHMIC CHORD 1 2 PAD CHORD PHRASE 1 2 TRACK INTRO FILL IN 1 FILL IN 2 BREAK ENDING VARIATION ACCOMPANIMENT CONTROL A B s Selecting a Style Any of the 100 accompaniment styles can be selected via the normal editing procedure. This can be done either before or during accompaniment playback. See page 78 for descriptions of all 100 styles. NOTES • Eight additional styles are provided on floppy disk. These can be loaded, one at a time, into the PortaTone's "Custom Style" memory location - style number "00" - and used in the same way as the 100 preset styles. See page 60 for instructions on loading styles from disk. ZPress the [STYLE SELECT] Button ... STYLE When you press the [STYLE SELECT] button the currently selected SELECT style number and name will appear on the LCD display panel. PSR-1700 Styl=0-8:Showtune PSR-2700 08:Showtune 001:GrandPno AccOff Styl=0-8:Showtune AUTO ACCOMP XSelect a Style Number ... -+ RESET 012 Use the [+] and [-] buttons, the number buttons, the data dial, or the [STYLE SELECT] button itself to select the required style number (see page 9 for editing procedure details). 24