Selecting and Playing a Tone
Raising and Lowering Keyboard Tuning (Transpose)
The transpose feature lets you raise or lower the overall tuning of the keyboard in semitone steps. You can use this feature to adjust keyboard tuning to a key that better matches a vocalist, another musical instrument, etc.
1.While holding down the
• This displays the transpose screen shown below.
2.While holding down the
•You can change the tuning of the keyboard within the range of
3.Press the
•This exits the transpose screen.
•Setting a transposed value other than 00 will cause the B indicator to appear on the display.
•The current transpose setting is applied to the notes of all parts (UPPER 1, UPPER 2, LOWER, Auto Accompaniment, etc.) played on the keyboard. The MIDI out note number when a keyboard key is pressed is also shifted in accordance with the transpose setting.
Using Octave Shift
You can use octave shift to individually change the octave of the UPPER 1, UPPER 2, and LOWER parts. You can use octave shift to raise or lower the octave of a song, to assign different octaves to the left side and right side keyboards while the keyboard is split, or to play two notes in different octaves while the keyboard is layered.
1.Hold down the
Octave shift amount (Octave unit)
Part name
•This indicates you can change the UPPER 1 part octave.
2.Use the dial or
•You can shift the octave within the range of
3.If you want to change the octave of the
UPPER 2 part, press the
•This will cause “UPPER 2” to appear on the display, indicating that you can change the UPPER 2 part octave. Perform the same operation as in step 2 to specify the octave shift amount.
4.If you want to change the octave of the LOWER part, press the
•This will cause “LOWER” to appear on the display, indicating that you can change the LOWER part octave. Perform the same operation as in step 2 to specify the octave shift amount.
5.Press the
•This exits the octave shift screen.