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 R-13 (FUNCTION) button, press one of the R-14 (–, +) buttons.

• This displays the transpose screen shown below.

2.While holding down the R-13 (FUNCTION) button, use the dial or the R-14 (–, +) buttons to change the setting value.

You can change the tuning of the keyboard within the range of –12 to 00 to +12.

3.Press the R-13 (FUNCTION) button.

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 R-20 (OCTAVE) button until the octave shift screen shown below appears on the display.

Octave shift amount (Octave unit)

Part name

This indicates you can change the UPPER 1 part octave.

2.Use the dial or R-14 (–, +) buttons to specify the octave shift amount.

You can shift the octave within the range of –2 to 0 to +2.

3.If you want to change the octave of the

UPPER 2 part, press the R-20 (OCTAVE) button.

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 R-20 (OCTAVE) button.

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 R-20 (OCTAVE) button or the R-15 (EXIT) button.

This exits the octave shift screen.

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