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Important Features Digital Effects • A comprehensive set of professional-sounding digital effects are built into the PSR-540, letting you enhance the sound of your performance in a wide variety of ways. These include Reverb, Chorus, DSP and Harmony/Echo. (→ Page 46) * Reverb recreates the rich spacial ambiance of various performance environments, such as a concert hall or a night club. (→ Page 46) * Chorus enriches the voices by making them sound warmer and thicker - as if several instruments were playing together at the same time. (→ Page 48) * The DSP effects let you process the sound in special, unusual ways - such as applying distortion or tremolo to a specific part. (→ Page 49) * Harmony/Echo lets you enhance your right-hand melodies with a variety of harmony and echo effects. (→ Page 50) Disk Drive • The PSR-540 also features a built-in disk drive that lets you save all your important original data (such as User songs, User styles, User Multi Pads, Registration Memory, etc.) to floppy disk for future recall. (→ Page 57) MIDI • MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a worldwide standard interface that allows various electronic music instruments, computers and other devices to communicate with each other. The MIDI features let you seamlessly integrate the PSR-540 into a variety of systems and applications: * Play other instruments from the PSR-540. (→ Page 108) * Play the sounds of the PSR-540 (including the auto accompaniment) from a connected keyboard. (→ Page 108) * Connect the PSR-540 directly to a computer, for advanced recording, editing and playing back of song data. (→ Page 110) * Use pre-programmed templates to instantly configure the PSR-540 for your specific MIDI system/application. (→ Page 112) Panel logos The logos printed on the PSR-540 panel indicate standards/formats it supports and special features it includes. GM System Level 1 "GM System Level 1" is an addition to the MIDI standard which guarantees that any data conforming to the standard will play accurately on any GM-compatible tone generator or synthesizer from any manufacturer. XG XG is a new Yamaha MIDI specification which significantly expands and improves on the GM System Level 1 standard with greater voice handling capacity, expressive control and effect capability while retaining full compatibility with GM. By using the PSR-540's XG voices, it is possible to record XG-compatible song files. DOC The DOC voice allocation format provides data playback compatibility with a wide range of Yamaha instruments and MIDI devices, including the Clavinova series. Style File Format The Style File Format - SFF - is Yamaha's original style file format which uses a unique conversion system to provide high-quality automatic accompaniment based on a wide range of chord types. The PSR-540 uses the SFF internally, reads optional SFF style disks, and creates SFF styles using the Style Recording feature. 9 7

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Important Features
Panel logos
The logos printed on the PSR-540 panel indicate standards/formats it supports and special features it includes.
GM System Level 1
“GM System Level 1” is an addition to the MIDI standard which guarantees that any
data conforming to the standard will play accurately on any GM-compatible tone
generator or synthesizer from any manufacturer.
XG
XG is a new Yamaha MIDI specification which significantly expands and improves on
the GM System Level 1 standard with greater voice handling capacity, expressive
control and effect capability while retaining full compatibility with GM. By using the
PSR-540’s XG voices, it is possible to record XG-compatible song files.
DOC
The DOC voice allocation format provides data playback compatibility with a wide
range of Yamaha instruments and MIDI devices, including the Clavinova series.
Style File Format
The Style File Format — SFF — is Yamaha’s original style file format which uses a
unique conversion system to provide high-quality automatic accompaniment based on a
wide range of chord types. The PSR-540 uses the SFF internally, reads optional SFF
style disks, and creates SFF styles using the Style Recording feature.
Digital Effects
•
A comprehensive set of professional-sounding digital
effects are built into the PSR-540, letting you enhance the
sound of your performance in a wide variety of ways.
These include Reverb, Chorus, DSP and Harmony/Echo.
(
→
Page 46)
*
Reverb recreates the rich spacial ambiance of various
performance environments, such as a concert hall or a
night club.
(
→
Page 46)
*
Chorus enriches the voices by making them sound
warmer and thicker — as if several instruments were
playing together at the same time.
(
→
Page 48)
*
The DSP effects let you process the sound in special,
unusual ways — such as applying distortion or tremolo
to a specific part.
(
→
Page 49)
*
Harmony/Echo lets you enhance your right-hand
melodies with a variety of harmony and echo effects.
(
→
Page 50)
Disk Drive
•
The PSR-540 also features a built-in disk drive that lets
you save all your important original data (such as User
songs, User styles, User Multi Pads, Registration Memory,
etc.) to floppy disk for future recall.
(
→
Page 57)
MIDI
•
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a worldwide
standard interface that allows various electronic music
instruments, computers and other devices to communi-
cate with each other.
The MIDI features let you
seamlessly integrate the PSR-540 into a variety of
systems and applications:
*
Play other instruments from the PSR-540.
(
→
Page
108)
*
Play the sounds of the PSR-540 (including the auto
accompaniment) from a connected keyboard.
(
→
Page
108)
*
Connect the PSR-540 directly to a computer, for
advanced recording, editing and playing back of song
data.
(
→
Page 110)
*
Use pre-programmed templates to instantly configure
the PSR-540 for your specific MIDI system/application.
(
→
Page 112)