IBM PS1500 owner manual User Guide, Selecting Instrument Sounds, Press the GRAND PIANO button

Selecting instrument sounds

SELECTING INSTRUMENT SOUNDS

PS1500 has almost 400 instrument Sounds, in- cluding orchestral, percussion and contemporary musical instruments. You can customize any sound to your tastes with the built in sound edit capabilities.

1.Press the GRAND PIANO button.

The display shows the GRAND PIANO PRE- SET for a short period then returns to the de- fault situation automatically with the EASY PLAY, MEMORY and STYLE LOCK buttons activated (LED on) and VARIATION 2 of Style Soul BB from the POP group selected.

The GRAND PIANO button always returns you to a single instrument sound (Piano 1) playing across the full keyboard. You may use the “Grand Piano” button as a ‘return to start’ button whenever you wish to have only one sound active across all 88 keys.

The Grand Piano Preset is discussed in de- tail in chapter 4, “Sounds and Presets”.

2.Press a SOUND GROUPS button.

Select a Sound by pressing the Function but- ton corresponding to the Sound name in the display (Organ 2 in this example).

3.Play on the keyboard and listen to the Sound

The Sound plays across the full keyboard

1				GRAND PIANO
* *		GRAND PIANO PRESET							* *
178	SoulBB		***********			Bk1: SLOSTR
GPiano		POP	Bk1: SLOSTR			Bk1: PIANO1
2				SOUND GROUPS
PIANO	MALLET	ORGAN		GUITAR	BASS	STRINGS		ENSEMBLE	BRASS
REED	FLUTE	SYN LEAD		SYN PAD	SYN SFX	ETHNIC	PERCUSSIVE		SFX
Bk1	ORGAN2		CHURCH		MUSETT			BANDON
ORGAN1		ORGAN3		REEDOR			HARMON
F1	F2	F3		F4	F5	F6		F7	F8
3
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