Contents
Cod
Important Safety Instructions
Federal Communications Commission
Stock Code
Contents
Ii Contents
Reference Guide
Midi 10
Appendix
Sample / Record
Congratulations
PS1500 How to use the manual
Multimedia Facilities
Specifications
Polyphony & multitimbricity
Sampling
Important Information
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System Reset
Important Preliminary Notes
Vi Introduction
User Guide
General Safety Instructions
Power UP and GET to Know the Basics
At this point, PS1500 is ready to play
Adjusting the General Volume
Initial Status Default
Initial status / Adjusting the General Volume
Play with Auto Accompaniment Styles
Press Single Touch Play
Select a Style
Automatic Accompaniment
Play a different chord
Automatic Accompanment
Demo Style
Listen to the Demo Styles
Select a Style with the corresponding Function button
Demo Style
Multimedia
Select a Song by rotating the Dial
Select the Song with the corresponding Func- tion button
Dial scrolls through all the songs present on disk
Song Edit
Selecting Instrument Sounds
Press the Grand Piano button
Press a Sound Groups button
Sound plays across the full keyboard
Repeat and listen to other Sounds
Select the Preset called GrandP
Selecting the Programmable Presets
Selecting the Programmable PRE- Sets
Play on the keyboard
Press the Upper 2 activator
Press the Lower activator
Second sound is introduced String, lay- ered with the first
Observations
Play the Programmable Pads
Change the Touch Sensitivity
Press a deactivated button
Bypass
To activate an effect
Play with Effects or bypass them
Play with Headphones
Plug a set of headphones into the left headphone socket
All three pedals are switch action controls
Headphones/Pedals
General Effect volumes and loudness
Rev=Reverb F1/F2, Eff=Effect F3/F4, Loud=Loudness F5/F6
Transpose the Instrument SEMI- Tones
Clear the keyboard transpose setting
Transpose the instrument
Play All Songs
Insert a PS Songs disk or MidiFile data disk into the drive
Press Play ALL Songs
Playback stops instantly
Song Play Direct from Disk
Press the Disk button
Select the Song a or MidiFile b option from the Load
Song Play Direct from Disk
Scroll through the files and select a Song or MidiFile
Don’t forget to remove the Floppy disk from the drive
This is the quickest and most direct recording method
Recording a Song/Style
Recording a Song/Style
Press Record in the Sequencer
Start playing after the one bar lead
Any notes you play during the lead-in will not be recorded
Use the Fills Change Variation
Save the Song/Style to disk
Buttons with Leds
Buttons Without Leds
Front panel Control panel
Powerkeyboard
Display
Style Song Groups Volume Accompaniment
Left section
Central section
Transpose
Control panel Right section
Sound Groups Edit
Front Panel buttons & controls
VAR 1, VAR 2, VAR 3, VAR
Display Contrast
Onds if no selection has been made
Edit
Quantize an auto corrector of timing errors
Disk
Rear Panel model with Speakers box
Svhs Video output in SVHS/Composite Video stand- ard
Rear Panel Connections
Speakers for PS1500 models with Speakers box
Play Modes STYLE/PRESET, SONG/ Style & Song
STYLE/PRESET Mode
PS1500 offers three different play modes
SONG/STYLE Mode
Style Lock off. Selecting a Preset selects live
Style lock
Single Touch Play
Song Mode
Presets
Grand Piano preset
Programmable Presets Real Time
Style Preset
Song/Style Preset
Song Preset
Presets via MIDI?
Tracks
Sounds
Edit Modes
Edit modes
Power Supply
Output
Pedals
Midi
Input
Right/M, Left + Volume
Computer
Headphones
Speakers
AUDIO/VIDEO Interface
RGB, S-VHS Video outputs
Main display
Selection windows
Other types of Selection windows
Display
Record Windows
User Messages and Warnings
Edit Pages
These messages are closed with Enter or ES- Cape
Navigating
Data Entry
Data Entry
Modifying On/Off parameters with the Function button
Modifying parameters with the Dial
Modifying parameters with the Sliders
Name write situations
Inserting Alphanumeric Data
Previous entry
ENTER/ESCAPE
Inserting measures
Sounds and Tracks
Full Mode
Keyboard modes
Keyboard Activators
Ways of Selecting Sounds
Keyboard Activators
Selecting Single Sounds
Press one of the Select buttons
Assign a Sound to a keyboard track
Selecting Single Sounds
Select the desired Sound or Drumkit with the Function button
Assigning a Sound to the Grand Piano preset
To assign Sounds to tracks other than the key- board tracks
Select a Preset using the corresponding Function button
Selecting Presets
Selecting Presets
To Select the Presets
Press PAGE-/Bank- to select the previous Pre- set
Grand Piano Preset
Select Grand Piano in Preset mode
Select Grand Piano in Style mode
Grand Piano Preset
Select an item
Press Display Hold
Select other items as required
Programming the Presets
How to Program Presets
HOW the Sounds are Arranged
Press Preset in the Edit section
Timeout display shows 8 Sounds to choose from
Assigning Sounds to Tracks
Assigning Sounds to tracks
Press Escape to close the Edit Preset Program Change
New situation is permanently memorized
Changing the Track Status
Keyboard tracks Upper 1, Upper 2, Lower
To change the status of the keyboard tracks
Changing the Track status
Change the status of a Style, Song/Style or Song track
Song tracks correspond to tracks 1
Changing the Keyboard Mode
Following example outlines how to select the keyboard modes
Changing the Keyboard Mode
Press and hold Easy PLAY/SPLIT
Press Escape to close the window
Rotate the Dial to set Mode to Full or Split as required
Set
Lock the mixer setting for all Presets
Changing Track Volumes
+ value = transpose UP, value = trans- pose Down
Transposing the Tracks by Semitones
Transposing Tracks
Store Preset
How to Store Presets
For example
Press Store Preset
Saving Changes to the Current PRE- SET
You can choose from the 64 memory loca- tions available
Change the Name of a Preset
Press PRESET. in the Edit section
Change the Preset name using the keys of the keyboard
Current Preset name is shown at the Old name position
Restoring the Original Preset SET- Tings
Restore Preset
User Guide
Style Display
About PS1500 Styles
User Styles are discussed in a separate chapter
Selecting Styles
Selecting Styles
Turn off Single Touch Play
Select Presets to recall Styles
Sounds of the live keyboard tracks re- main unchanged
Select a Style with the PROGRAM- Mable Presets
Select a Preset
Deactivate Style Lock
If on, Single Touch Play deactivates au- tomatically
To view the Accompaniment tracks
Accompaniment tracks
Auto Accompaniment tracks
Style Controls
START/STOP
KEY START/CONTINUE
KEY Start can be turned off by
To vary the Tempo
Intro
Ending
Dial Tempo
Variation, Fill, Style Lock
Variation 1,2,3,4
FILL, FILL, FILL/TAP Tempo
Style Lock
Accompaniment section
Easy Play / Split
Piano Style
Two keyboard modes Full and Split
Memory
Mixer Lock
Lower Memory
Tempo Lock
Grand Piano Preset recalls the Free mode by default
One Finger Chords
There are four possible chord recognition modes available
Chord Recognition modes
Modifying the Chord Recognition Modes
Modifying the Chord Recognition mode
Press and hold Piano Style
Split Point is
Changing the Split Point
Changing the Split Point
Single Touch Play
Harmony
On/Off
Harmony Type
How to select a Harmony Type option
How to select the Harmony Type
Press Harmony Type
Select the option with the corresponding Func- tion button
Selecting Programmable Presets During Style Play
Examples Selecting Presets during Style play
Activate Single Touch Play
Activate Style Lock
Press INTRO, Ending or Fill to activate the in- troduction
Select other Programmable Presets
Play freely
Stop the accompaniment with Ending or START/ Stop
Press each button to cancel the LED
Mute ONE or More Accompaniment Tracks
Deactivate tracks 3, 4
Start to play the Style
Changing Style Without Stopping Accompaniment
Examples Changing Style without stopping the accompaniment
Play normally
Play freely with the new Style Press FILL, Intro or Ending
Press START/STOP or Ending to stop the accom- paniment
Save the Tempo to a Preset
Press Store Preset to save the Preset
Current tempo setting can be saved to a Pre- set
Tempo
Press F5 or F6 to select the Preset command