IBM PS1500 owner manual Play With Auto Accompaniment Styles, Quick guide, Press SINGLE TOUCH PLAY

PLAY WITH AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT STYLES

PS1500 has 96 auto accompaniment Styles with four Variations four Intros, a Fill and four End- ings for each Style. You can also load up to 16 disk based User Styles of your choice into the 2 User Style banks available.

1.Press SINGLE TOUCH PLAY.

Pressing this button activates the KEY START function automatically. The EASY PLAY and MEMORY buttons will activate if not already on.

When SINGLE TOUCH PLAY is on, the sound memorized in the Style Preset are assigned to all the tracks. Selecting a Style changes the sounds of the accompaniment section as well as those of the keyboard sec- tions.

2.Press a Style Group button in the SONG/STYLE GROUPS (Swing, Country, Rock, etc.).

3.Select a Style.

Use Function buttons F1…F8 under the dis- play to select one of the 8 Style names.

4.Play a single note or a chord (at least three notes) below the Chord Split Point (note F#3) to start Style play.

A single note or chord triggers a fully orches- trated auto accompaniment pattern. The KEY START function allows you to start the Style by playing a note or chord on the keyboard area below the Split point.

In default conditions, the keyboard’s chord recognition mode is set to “One Finger” which allows you to play Styles using “one finger” chords on a split keyboard.

You can change the chord recognition mode from “One Finger” to “Fingered1”, “Fingered

Automatic Accompaniment

1	SINGLE TOUCH PLAY	KEY START
		CONTINUE
	INTRO	ENDING

START / STOP

	EASY PLAY					MEMORY
		SPLIT
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			STYLE	SONG GROUPS
SWING	COUNTRY	ROCK	FUNK		DANCE	POP		USER 1–8	USER 9–16
8 BEAT	16 BEAT	LATIN 1	LATIN 2		WORLD	ETHNIC	SONG /STYLE		SONG
3	MetalR		SlowRk		Boogie			SlBlue
OpenRk		HardRk		SoftRk			Blues
F1	F2	F3	F4		F5	F6		F7	F8

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