Yamaha PSR-S900 Owner's Manual - Page 7

Table of Contents Introduction What can you do with the PORTATONE? ....... 12 Panel Controls 14 Playing the Keyboard 16 Power Supply 16 Powering Up 17 Setting Up 18 Music Rest 18 Using Headphones 18 Changing the Display Language 19 Display Settings 19 Handling the Floppy Disk Drive (FDD) and Floppy Disks 22 Handling the USB Storage Device (USB Flash Memory/Floppy Disk, etc 23 Quick Guide Playing the Demos 24 Operations in Basic Displays 26 Operation of the Main Display 26 Operation of the File Selection Display 27 Operation of the Function Display 28 Playing Voices 30 Playing Preset Voices 30 Practicing with the Preset Songs 36 Playing Back and Listening to Songs Before Practicing 36 Displaying Music Notation (Score 39 Muting the Right- or Left-hand Part Viewing the Score 40 Practicing with the Repeat Playback Function ....... 42 Recording Your Performance 43 Playing Backing Parts with the performance assistant Technology 44 Playing Accompaniment with the Auto Accompaniment Feature (Style Playback) ...... 46 Playing "Mary Had a Little Lamb" with the Auto Accompaniment Feature 46 The Multi Pads 52 Playing the Multi Pads 52 Using Chord Match 53 Voice Effects 53 Applying Harmony to Your Right-hand Melody (HARMONY/ECHO 54 Calling Up Ideal Setups for Each Song (Music Finder 55 Calling up the panel settings to match the Style (Repertoire 56 Singing Along with Song Playback (Karaoke) or Your Own Performance 57 Connecting a Microphone (PSR-S900 only 57 Singing with the Lyrics Display 58 Convenient Functions for Karaoke 59 Convenient Functions for Singing Along with Your Own Performance 61 Recording Your Performance as Audio (USB Audio Recorder) (PSR-S900 63 Recording Your Performance as Audio 63 Playing Back the Recorded Performance 65 Basic Operation Selecting Message Language 66 The Messages Shown in the Display 66 Instant Selection of the Displays -Direct Access 67 Basic Displays (Main Display and File Selection Display 68 Main Display 68 File Selection Display Configuration and Basic Operation 69 File/Folder Operations in the File Selection Display ... 72 Restoring the Factory-programmed Settings ... 79 Restoring the Factory-programmed System .......... 79 Restoring the Factory-programmed Settings Independently by Item 79 Saving and Recalling Your Original Settings as a Single File 80 Data Backup 81 Backup procedure 81 Reference Using, Creating and Editing Voices ..83 Voice Characteristics 83 Playing Different Voices Simultaneously ........ 84 Keyboard Parts (Right 1, Right 2, Left 84 Playing Two Voices Simultaneously (Right 1 and 2 Parts 85 Playing Different Voices with the Left and Right Hands (Right 1 and Left Parts 86 Changing Pitch 87 Transpose 87 Fine-tuning the Pitch of the Entire Instrument ...... 87 Scale Tuning 87 Selecting the Harmony/Echo type 89 Editing the Volume and Tonal Balance (MIXING CONSOLE 91 Basic Procedure 91 Voice Creating-Voice Set 99 Basic Procedure 99 Creating Your Original Organ Flutes Voices ........ 103 PSR-S900/S700 Owner's Manual 7