Keyboard Settings
Transposing the Keyboard |
| Using Touch Response |
Transpose lets you raise and lower the overall key of the keyboard in semitone units. If you want to play an accompaniment for a vocalist who sings in a key that’s different from the keyboard, for example, simply use transpose to change the key of the keyboard.
To transpose the keyboard
1. Press the TRANSPOSE/FUNCTION button.
This causes a pointer to appear on the display next to TRANSPOSE/FUNCTION, and displays the transpose setting screen.
2.Use [+] and
Example:
To transpose the keyboard five semitones upwards.
Pressing the TRANSPOSE/FUNCTION button exits the transpose screen.
The keyboard can be transposed within a range of
The transpose setting also affects playback from song memory and Auto Accompaniment.
The allowable pitch range you can transpose within depends on the tone you are using. If a transpose operation causes a note to be outside of the pitch range for the tone being used, the keyboard automatically plays the same note in the nearest octave that falls within the pitch range of the tone you are using.
When touch response is turned on, the relative volume of sound output by the keyboard is varied in accordance with the amount of pressure applied, just like an acoustic piano.
To turn touch response on and off
1. Press the TRANSPOSE/FUNCTION button.
This causes a pointer to appear on the display next to TRANSPOSE/FUNCTION.
2. Use the [ ] and [ ] CURSOR buttons to display the touch response setting screen.
3. Use the [+] and
“1” outputs powerful sound even with light key pressure, while “3” requires very heavy key pressure to output powerful sound.
Pressing [+] and
When you select “oFF”, the tone does not change regardless of how much pressure you apply to the keyboard.
Touch response not only affects the keyboard’s internal sound source, it also is output as MIDI data.
Song Memory playback, accompaniment, and external MIDI note data do not affect the touch response setting.
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