Yamaha PSR-A300 Owner's Manual - Page 29

Step 7 Using Oriental Scales The Oriental Scales feature lets you simply and easily raise or lower the pitches of specific notes and create your own scales. You can change the scale settings at any time-even when you are playing. Up to four scale settings can be stored for instant recall, whenever you need them. 27 Step 7 Using Oriental Scales Quick Guide Setting an Oriental Scale-Scale Setting The ORIENTAL SCALE [SETTING] buttons, located at the top left side of the panel, simulate a one-octave keyboard (C through B). Pressing each button turns the Scale Setting feature of the specific note on/off. The Scale Setting feature affects all the notes having the same note name in all octave registers. When this is set to on (the indicator above the selected button is lit), you can play the keyboard in the Oriental scale. The default scale setting (tuning) for each note is -50 cents. You can also adjust the scale tuning by 1 cent as follows. NOTE • The Scale Setting function is always turned off, whenever the power switch is turned on. • Scale tunings are not effective for song playback, Split Voices or keyboard percussion. Adjusting the Scale Tuning 1 Call up the Scale Tuning function by pressing and holding the desired "note" button (C-B) in the Scale Tuning section for longer than a second. Current cent value 00 Tune D NOTE • You can also access the Scale Setting display by pressing the [FUNCTION] button several times. Hold for longer than a second. 2 Adjust the Scale Tuning. Use the [+]/[-] or number buttons to adjust the desired tuning. The range is from "-64" to "63" cents (one cent is one hundredth of a semitone). PSR-A300 Owner's Manual 29