Yamaha EL-100 Owner's Manual - Page 45
Rhythm and Accompaniment, 1 Selecting Rhythms from the Panel
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4 Rhythm and Accompaniment The Rhythm features of the Electone use actual drum and percussion sampled sounds to automatically play various rhythms. Automatic Accompaniment functions are used with the rhythms, providing appropriate and completely automatic accompaniment to match the style of the selected rhythm. Moreover, the Electone has a Keyboard Percussion feature that allows you to play drum and percussion sounds from the Lower keyboard and Pedalboard. 1 Selecting Rhythms from the Panel Ten different rhythm categories in various styles can be instantly selected from the front panel. The Electone has many more 'hidden' rhythms, however. A total of 66 rhythms are available, and can be selected by using the display. 1) To select and play a rhythm: 1 Press any of the RHYTHM buttons once. RHYTHM SEQ. 1 SEQ. 2 MARCH WALTZ SWING BOUNCE SLOW ROCK MAX SEQ. 3 SEQ. 4 TANGO LATIN 1 LATIN 2 8 BEAT 16 BEAT MIN NOTE: In addition to 10 different rhythm styles, four types of metronome sounds, simple metronome, two four, three four and four four, are assigned to the SEQ 1 - 4 buttons, respectively, as the defaults. 4 Rhythm and Accompaniment Designated Rhythm Menu page will be displayed. DATA CONTROL 8Beat1 8Beat2 DancePop1 DancePop2 DATA CONTROL The first letter of the currently selected rhythm will start blinking. 2 Press the Data Control button corresponding to the rhythm you wish to play, as you do with the voices. The first letter of the selected rhythm will start blinking. Dance Pop 1 is selected here, for example. DATA CONTROL DATA CONTROL 8Beat1 8Beat2 DancePop1 DancePop2 NOTE: The chord/bass patterns matching with the designated rhythm will be selected automatically when the A.B.C. function is turned on. (Refer to the Auto Bass Chord section, page 52, for details on Auto Bass Chord and Memory.) 45