Yamaha PDP-400 Owner's Manual - Page 14
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10 Split Mode The split mode lets you play different voices with the left and right hands - bass with the left and pi- SPLIT ano with the right, for example. You can assign any of the PDP-400's voices to the left and right-hand sections of the keyboard. MASTER VOLUME MIN MAX DEMO MIDI/ TRANSPOSE REVERB ROOM HALL 1 HALL 2 COSMIC FOOT SWITCH SOFT SOSTENUTO START/STOP SOLO STYLEPLAY AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT RHYTHM BASS CHORD 1 CHORD 2 MAX MAX MAX MIN MIN MIN AUTO BASS CHORD FULL KEYBOARD SINGLE FINGER FINGERED START/STOP SYNCHRO START INTRO/ENDING NORMAL VARIATION SOLO STYLEPLAY STYLE POP JAZZ ROCK DANCE POP POWER HOUSE 16BEAT BALLAD 16BEAT POP ROCK'N' ROLL 16BEAT SHUFFLE SLOW ROCK ROCK SHUFFLE BLUEGRASS COUNTRY SHUFFLE DISK STYLE 1 SWING JAZZ BALLAD BIG BAND BOOGIE BOSSA SAMBA CHA-CHA RHUMBA MARCH POLKA WALTZ JAZZ WALTZ DISK STYLE 2 BEAT METRONOME TAP TEMPO VOICE PIANO 1 8 ORGAN CLAVINOVA TONE E.PIANO HARPSI 2 9 CHOIR 3 0 UPRIGHT BASS 4 ELEC BASS VIBES GUITAR STRINGS SPLIT 5 DRUMS 6 7 VOICE 13-60 SONG NUMBER DISK ORCHESTRA / PERFORMANCE MEMORY SONG SELECT PHRASE REPEAT GUIDE / START/STOP RIGHT/1TR LEFT/2TR ORCH/3-10TR RHYTHM REW F F PAUSE REC CHORD SEQUENCE DISK CONTROL COPY FORMAT s Engaging the Split Mode Left-hand section SPLIT F#2 w C3 Right-hand section When the [SPLIT] button is pressed and its indicator lights, the keyboard is split into left- and right-hand sections and different voices can be assigned to each. The split point is initially set at the F#2 key when the power is turned on, and the UPRIGHT BASS voice is initially assigned to the left-hand section of the keyboard (all keys up to and including F#2). The voice that was selected when the SPLIT mode was engaged is assigned to the right-hand section of the keyboard. The current settings are retained if the SPLIT mode is turned off (press the [SPLIT] button again) and on while the power remains on. s Changing the Split Voices LAVINOVA ONE E.PIANO HARPSI VIB 3 4 5 0 HOIR UPRIGHT BASS ELEC BASS DR SPLIT The right-hand voice can be changed simply by pressing the appropriate voice selector. The left-hand voice can be changed by pressing a voice selector while holding the [SPLIT] button. NOTES • All voices except BASS (voice numbers 10, 11, 49, 50, 51, and 52) and DRUMS (voice number 12) are shifted up one octave when assigned to the lower section of the keyboard (this function can be turned on or off via the "Octave Shift" utility function described on page 43). s Changing the Split Point The split point can be set at any key by pressing the desired key while holding SPLIT the [SPLIT] button. The split point key name will appear on the TEMPO display while the [SPLIT] button is held. Example: A-1 A≠1 C 2 C~2 C3 A-1 A#-1 C2 C#2 The default split point - F#2 - will always be set automatically whenever the power is initially turned on.
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