Yamaha PSR-I500 PSR-I500 Owners Manual - Page 8

Table of Contents Setting Up Quick Guide Special Features 8 Compatible Format and Functions 10 Included Accessories 10 About the Manuals 11 Setting Up Panel Controls and Terminals 12 Setting Up 14 Power Requirements 14 Turning the Power On/Off 16 Adjusting the Master Volume 16 Using a Keyboard Stand 16 Quick Guide Basic Operation and Display Items 17 Basic Operation 17 Display Items 18 Try Playing a Variety of Instrument Voices 19 Selecting a Main Voice 19 Resetting the Voice settings to Default (Playing the Harmonium Voice 19 Playing the Grand Piano Voice 19 Layering a Dual Voice 19 Playing a Split Voice in the Left Hand area 20 Using the Metronome 20 Adding Harmony/Triggering Arpeggios 21 Changing the Harmony and Arpeggio types 22 Adding DSP Effects 23 Creating Original Sounds via the Knobs 24 Assigning Functions to the Knobs 24 Switching the Target 24 Using the Knobs 24 Playing Styles 25 Playing Songs 26 Listening to a Demo Song 27 Selecting and Playing Back a Song 27 Song Fast Forward, Fast Reverse, and Pause 27 Playing a Specified Section of a Song Repeatedly (A-B Repeat 28 Turning Each Track On/Off 28 Using the Song Lesson Feature 29 Three Types of Song Lesson 29 Practicing with Song Lesson 29 Making Practice Perfect-Repeat & Learn 30 Playing the Riyaz 31 Playing with Quick Sampling 32 Playing back the Samples 32 Getting Ready for Sampling 32 Sampling External Audio Sound 33 Restoring the Default Samples 35 Saving a Sample to a USB Flash Drive 35 Loading a Sample from a USB Flash Drive 36 Deleting a Sample in the USB Flash Drive 36 Recording Your Performance 37 Track Structure of a Song 37 Quick Recording 37 Recording to a Specified Track 38 Clearing a User Song 39 Clearing a Specified Track from a User Song 39 Audio Playback and Recording 40 Playing back an Audio File in a USB Flash Drive .......... 40 Recording/Saving Audio Files to a USB Flash Drive ..... 41 Deleting Audio Files from the USB Flash Drive 42 Memorizing Your Favorite Settings (Registration Memory) 43 Memorizing Panel Settings to the Registration Memory .... 43 Recalling Panel Settings from the Registration Memory .... 43 Freezing the Style settings even if a different Registration number is selected 44 Freezing the Transpose settings even if a different Registration number is selected 44 Special Features Play the keyboard with any one of the amazingly rich and wide-ranging 801 voices. ( Page 19) Take your performance to new levels-whatever music you play-with 282 auto accompaniment Styles. ( Page 25) Riyaz Page 31 The 10 DSP (Digital Signal Processor) effects provide powerful ways to enhance and totally change the sound. ( Page 23) The two Live Control Knobs let you add dynamic sound variations-including classic filter effects, distortion and reverb-giving you the tools to completely transform the sound. ( Page 24) Loaded with a wide variety of Indian phrases using real Tabla and Tanpura sounds. Also includes extensive lesson functions using the RAGA SCALE Songs. You can expand the expressive range by using various functions, including Live Controls and Portamento, a continuous pitch change that is essential to Indian music. 8 PSR-I500 Owner's Manual Reference Appendix