Yamaha CVP107 Owners Manual - Page 86

Other Auto Accompaniment Functions X Turn on the Auto Accompaniment. Press the [ACMP ON] button. The [ACMP ON] lamp lights, and the current accompaniment mode is indicated at the left edge of the main display. The [SYNCHRO] lamp also lights, indicating that you can start the Auto Accompaniment with the Synchronized Start function (page 65). Also, a keyboard lamp shows the current split point. C Start playing. Press the [START/STOP] button, or start playing the keyboard. The Auto Accompaniment starts playing automatically, including any section changes and chord changes indicated by the previously recorded Accompaniment Assistance data. Play the keyboard part in the right-hand range of the keyboard, along with the Auto Accompaniment. (The left-hand range can be used to indicate chords, as described below in "Playing the Chords Yourself.") s Other Ways to Use Accompaniment Assistance............ q Playing the Chords Yourself Since the Clavinova will respond to the chords you indicate in the left range of the keyboard when the [ACMP ON] lamp is lit, you can manually change chords even if the Accompaniment Assistance data already includes chord changes. The Auto Accompaniment will always play the most recently detected chord, regardless of whether that chord was indicated by the Accompaniment Assistance data or the keyboard. If you want to play all the chord changes (while the Accompaniment Assistance function controls the style changes for you), simply don't include any chord changes in the Accompaniment Assistance data. q Using the Entire Keyboard To play a keyboard part using the entire range of the keyboard, just omit step 2 of the procedure above. (You will also have to press [SYNCHRO] before you start playing if you want to use the Synchronized Start function.) You won't be able to indicate chords manually, but the Auto Accompaniment will still play according to the Accompaniment Assistance data. q Playing the Style Without Auto Accompaniment By combining the two techniques described above, you can have the Accompaniment Assistance control only the style changes played by the rhythm section without using the other accompaniment parts, to provide an automatic percussion-only accompaniment. Just don't include any chord changes in the Accompaniment Assistance data, and leave the [ACMP ON] button off when you start playing. You will be able to play along to a simple percussion accompaniment, using the entire range of the keyboard. You can play back song data and Accompaniment Assistance data at the same time. However, you will not be able to use the [REW] or [FF] buttons, or any of the Repeat (page 122) and Guide Control (page 125) functions that are normally available during song playback. Moreover, the style changes and time signature information in the Accompaniment Assistance data will take priority over those in the song; any rhythm, bass, and chord parts recorded in the song will therefore not play back. The playback tempo will be determined by tempo data in the song, however. If you have already included chords in your Accompaniment Assistance data, but later decide that you want to play the chords yourself, you don't have to go to the trouble of erasing them. You can achieve the same result by adding an "accompaniment off" event at the top of the first measure (see page 84), then starting the Auto Accompaniment as described in "Playing with Accompaniment Assistance," above. As was mentioned above, if you have already programmed chords in your Accompaniment Assistance data, you can achieve the same result by adding an "accompaniment off" event at the top of the first measure (see page 84). s Saving and Loading Your Data Since the Clavinova's memory can only hold one set (up to 999 measures) of Accompaniment Assistance data at a time, you may want to save your data on a disk so that you can load it again after programming other sets. You can save and load Accompaniment Assistance data using the functions in the FUNCTION [DISK 1] display (see page 192). You can also record the Accompaniment Assistance data to a floppy disk using the Song Record function. 86 CVP-109/107/105/700 84