Keyboard Settings

Transposing the Keyboard

Using Touch Response

Transpose lets you raise and lower the overall key of theWhen touch response is turned on, the relative volume of
keyboard in semitone units. If you want to play ansound output by the keyboard is varied in accordance with
accompaniment for a vocalist who sings in a key that’sthe amount of pressure applied, just like an acoustic piano.
different from the keyboard, for example, simply use

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

transpose to change the key of the keyboard.

 

To turn touch response on and off

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To transpose the keyboard
1 Press the TRANSPOSE/FUNCTION button.

1 Press the TRANSPOSE/FUNCTION button.

 

 

• This causes a pointer to appear on the display next to

 

 

 

TRANSPOSE/FUNCTION.

 

 

• This causes a pointer to appear on the display next to

2 Use the [￿] and [￿] CURSOR buttons to display

 

 

 

TRANSPOSE/FUNCTION, and displays the

 

 

 

transpose setting screen.

 

 

the touch response setting screen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

T r a n s .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

T o u c h

 

 

 

 

2 Use [+] and [–] to change the transpose setting of3 Use the [+] and [–] buttons to select the touch

 

 

the keyboard.

 

 

response sensitivity level.

 

 

Example: To transpose the keyboard five semitones

 

 

• “1” outputs powerful sound even with light key

 

 

 

 

upwards.

 

 

 

pressure, while “3” requires very heavy key pressure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to output powerful sound.

 

 

 

 

T r a n s .

 

 

 

 

• Pressing [+] and [–] at the same time returns

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sensitivity to the “2” setting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• When you select “oFF”, the tone does not change

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Pressing the TRANSPOSE/FUNCTION button exits

 

 

 

regardless of how much pressure you apply to the

 

 

 

 

 

keyboard.

 

 

 

the transpose screen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE

 

 

 

NOTE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Touch response not only affects the keyboard’s internal

The keyboard can be transposed within a range of –24

 

sound source, it also is output as MIDI data.

 

(two octave downwards) to +24 (two octave upwards).

 

 

Song Memory playback, accompaniment, and external

The transpose setting also affects playback from song

 

MIDI note data do not affect the touch response setting.

 

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.

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