Selecting and Using Built-in Tones

Splitting the Keyboard between Two Tones

You can assign different tones to keys on the left side and the right side of the keyboard.

 

Split Point

 

 

Strings

Grand Piano

1

Use the procedure under “Selecting a Tone” to select

 

the tone you want to assign to the right side of the

 

keyboard.

 

 

Example: To select Grand Piano, press the PIANO button,

 

and then rotate the dial until “Grand Piano” is

 

displayed as the tone name.

2

Press the SPLIT button.

 

 

• This causes the SPLIT indicator lamp to light.

3

Select the tone you want to assign to the left side of the

 

keyboard.

 

Example: Strings

Now you can play using the two tones.

Using Layer and Split Together

You can use the following procedure to layer two tones on the left side of the keyboard (left main tone + left layered tone), and two other tones on the right side (right main tone + right layered tone).

 

Split point

 

 

Split Tone

Main Tone

 

+

+

 

Layered Split Tone

Layered Tone

1

Use the procedure under “Selecting a Tone” to select

 

the right main tone.

 

2

Use the procedure under “Splitting the Keyboard

 

between Two Tones” to select the left main tone.

3

Press the SPLIT button to temporarily turn off split (SPLIT

 

indicator lamp unlit).

4

After you are finished using the split keyboard, press

 

the SPLIT button again to unsplit it.

• This causes the SPLIT indicator lamp to go out.

4

Use the procedure under “Layering Two Tones” to select

 

the left layered tone.

To specify the keyboard split point

1 While holding down the SPLIT button, press the keyboard key where you want the left limit of the high range (right) tone to be.

Left limit of the high range

Low range High range

A note does not sound when you press a keyboard key at this time.

S p l i t 0 P o i n t : 0 0 0 0 0

F # 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

NOTE

The split point is the boundary between the Auto Accompaniment area (pages E-11, E-12) and the melody area of the keyboard. You can change the location of the split point, which also changes the sizes of the keyboard areas.

5

Press the LAYER and SPLIT buttons as required so the

 

indicators of both buttons are lit.

6

Use the procedure under “Layering Two Tones” to select

 

the right layered tone.

7

Use the procedure under “To specify the keyboard split

 

point” to specify the split point.

8

Now you can play using your layered tones and split

 

keyboard.

• After you are finished using layer and split, press the LAYER button to unlayer it and the SPLIT button to unsplit it.

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