Yamaha PSR-280 Owner's Manual - Page 22

DJ This exciting feature lets you instantly call up a dynamic DJ voice and style for playing contemporary dance music. Playing the DJ 1 Press the [DJ] button. 000 DJgame 1 Doing this automatically resets the entire instrument for playing the specially programmed DJ song and voice. 2 Turn on the Lesson feature, and select a Lesson step. Lesson steps 1 - 3 can be used with DJ play. Press either the [L] or [R] button, repeatedly if necessary, until the desired Lesson step is called up. The DJ voice is divided into "blocks" (as shown below). Each block has a different sound, and each block's sound is played with the "F" key. Block #1 Block #2 Block #3 Block #4 For Lesson 1, any note on the keyboard can be played. For the other Lesson steps, play "F" in the appropriate octave block. Once the song starts playing, play the appropriate block as indicated in the display. (When Talking is on, the blocks are also "announced" in Lesson 2.) Block number r1 1 32 33 When the DJ "teacher" is playing, the block numbers appear in the display one after another according to the rhythm. 3 Press the [START/STOP] button to stop the song. • If two sixteenth notes are to be played, the appropriate block numbers appear successively at the same position. If the same block is to be played twice as sixteenth notes, an equal sign appears after the block number (as shown below). Indicates that the 3 1 third block and first block are to be played as succesive sixteenth notes. Indicates that the 3 = third block is to be played as two sixteenth notes. • Since there are no left or right parts in the DJ song, the [L] and [R] buttons can be used interchangeably. Also for the same reason, Lesson 3 and Lesson 4 are identical. • Try playing one of the special DJ voices (#109 - #118) or the DJ songs. (#091 - #100) 22