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 Important Safety Instructions
 Federal Communications Commission
 Stock Code
 Contents
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 Midi 10
Reference Guide
 Sample / Record
Appendix
 Congratulations
PS1500 How to use the manual
Multimedia Facilities
 Polyphony & multitimbricity
Specifications
 Sampling
 Baldwin Piano & Organ Company 1996. All rights reserved
Important Information
 Important Preliminary Notes
System Reset
 Vi Introduction
 User Guide
 General Safety Instructions
 At this point, PS1500 is ready to play
Power UP and GET to Know the Basics
 Adjusting the General Volume
Initial Status Default
Initial status / Adjusting the General Volume
 Automatic Accompaniment
Play with Auto Accompaniment Styles
Press Single Touch Play
Select a Style
 Automatic Accompanment
Play a different chord
 Demo Style
Demo Style
Listen to the Demo Styles
Select a Style with the corresponding Function button
 Dial scrolls through all the songs present on disk
Multimedia
Select a Song by rotating the Dial
Select the Song with the corresponding Func- tion button
 Song Edit
 Sound plays across the full keyboard
Selecting Instrument Sounds
Press the Grand Piano button
Press a Sound Groups button
 Repeat and listen to other Sounds
 Play on the keyboard
Select the Preset called GrandP
Selecting the Programmable Presets
Selecting the Programmable PRE- Sets
 Observations
Press the Upper 2 activator
Press the Lower activator
Second sound is introduced String, lay- ered with the first
 Change the Touch Sensitivity
Play the Programmable Pads
 Play with Effects or bypass them
Press a deactivated button
Bypass
To activate an effect
 Headphones/Pedals
Play with Headphones
Plug a set of headphones into the left headphone socket
All three pedals are switch action controls
 Rev=Reverb F1/F2, Eff=Effect F3/F4, Loud=Loudness F5/F6
General Effect volumes and loudness
 Transpose the Instrument SEMI- Tones
Clear the keyboard transpose setting
Transpose the instrument
 Playback stops instantly
Play All Songs
Insert a PS Songs disk or MidiFile data disk into the drive
Press Play ALL Songs
 Song Play Direct from Disk
Song Play Direct from Disk
Press the Disk button
Select the Song a or MidiFile b option from the Load
 Don’t forget to remove the Floppy disk from the drive
Scroll through the files and select a Song or MidiFile
 This is the quickest and most direct recording method
Recording a Song/Style
Recording a Song/Style
 Use the Fills Change Variation
Press Record in the Sequencer
Start playing after the one bar lead
Any notes you play during the lead-in will not be recorded
 Save the Song/Style to disk
 Buttons Without Leds
Buttons with Leds
 Front panel Control panel
Powerkeyboard
Display
 Left section
Style Song Groups Volume Accompaniment
 Transpose
Central section
 Sound Groups Edit
Control panel Right section
 VAR 1, VAR 2, VAR 3, VAR
Front Panel buttons & controls
 Onds if no selection has been made
Display Contrast
 Edit
Quantize an auto corrector of timing errors
Disk
 Rear Panel model with Speakers box
 Svhs Video output in SVHS/Composite Video stand- ard
Rear Panel Connections
Speakers for PS1500 models with Speakers box
 Play Modes STYLE/PRESET, SONG/ Style & Song
STYLE/PRESET Mode
PS1500 offers three different play modes
 Single Touch Play
SONG/STYLE Mode
Style Lock off. Selecting a Preset selects live
Style lock
 Programmable Presets Real Time
Song Mode
Presets
Grand Piano preset
 Presets via MIDI?
Style Preset
Song/Style Preset
Song Preset
 Sounds
Tracks
 Edit modes
Edit Modes
 Midi
Power Supply
Output
Pedals
 Input
Right/M, Left + Volume
Computer
 RGB, S-VHS Video outputs
Headphones
Speakers
AUDIO/VIDEO Interface
 Display
Main display
Selection windows
Other types of Selection windows
 Record Windows
 User Messages and Warnings
Edit Pages
These messages are closed with Enter or ES- Cape
 Navigating
Data Entry
Data Entry
 Modifying On/Off parameters with the Function button
Modifying parameters with the Dial
Modifying parameters with the Sliders
 Name write situations
Inserting Alphanumeric Data
Previous entry
 Inserting measures
ENTER/ESCAPE
 Sounds and Tracks
Full Mode
Keyboard modes
 Keyboard Activators
Ways of Selecting Sounds
Keyboard Activators
 Selecting Single Sounds
Selecting Single Sounds
Press one of the Select buttons
Assign a Sound to a keyboard track
 Select the desired Sound or Drumkit with the Function button
 To assign Sounds to tracks other than the key- board tracks
Assigning a Sound to the Grand Piano preset
 Select a Preset using the corresponding Function button
Selecting Presets
Selecting Presets
 Press PAGE-/Bank- to select the previous Pre- set
To Select the Presets
 Grand Piano Preset
Grand Piano Preset
Select Grand Piano in Preset mode
Select Grand Piano in Style mode
 Select an item
Press Display Hold
Select other items as required
 Programming the Presets
How to Program Presets
HOW the Sounds are Arranged
 Assigning Sounds to tracks
Press Preset in the Edit section
Timeout display shows 8 Sounds to choose from
Assigning Sounds to Tracks
 New situation is permanently memorized
Press Escape to close the Edit Preset Program Change
 Changing the Track status
Changing the Track Status
Keyboard tracks Upper 1, Upper 2, Lower
To change the status of the keyboard tracks
 Song tracks correspond to tracks 1
Change the status of a Style, Song/Style or Song track
 Press and hold Easy PLAY/SPLIT
Changing the Keyboard Mode
Following example outlines how to select the keyboard modes
Changing the Keyboard Mode
 Press Escape to close the window
Rotate the Dial to set Mode to Full or Split as required
Set
 Changing Track Volumes
Lock the mixer setting for all Presets
 + value = transpose UP, value = trans- pose Down
Transposing the Tracks by Semitones
Transposing Tracks
 Store Preset
How to Store Presets
For example
 Saving Changes to the Current PRE- SET
Press Store Preset
 You can choose from the 64 memory loca- tions available
 Current Preset name is shown at the Old name position
Change the Name of a Preset
Press PRESET. in the Edit section
Change the Preset name using the keys of the keyboard
 Restore Preset
Restoring the Original Preset SET- Tings
 User Guide
 Style Display
About PS1500 Styles
User Styles are discussed in a separate chapter
 Selecting Styles
Selecting Styles
 Turn off Single Touch Play
Select Presets to recall Styles
Sounds of the live keyboard tracks re- main unchanged
 If on, Single Touch Play deactivates au- tomatically
Select a Style with the PROGRAM- Mable Presets
Select a Preset
Deactivate Style Lock
 To view the Accompaniment tracks
Accompaniment tracks
Auto Accompaniment tracks
 KEY Start can be turned off by
Style Controls
START/STOP
KEY START/CONTINUE
 Dial Tempo
To vary the Tempo
Intro
Ending
 Style Lock
Variation, Fill, Style Lock
Variation 1,2,3,4
FILL, FILL, FILL/TAP Tempo
 Two keyboard modes Full and Split
Accompaniment section
Easy Play / Split
Piano Style
 Tempo Lock
Memory
Mixer Lock
Lower Memory
 Chord Recognition modes
Grand Piano Preset recalls the Free mode by default
One Finger Chords
There are four possible chord recognition modes available
 Modifying the Chord Recognition Modes
Modifying the Chord Recognition mode
Press and hold Piano Style
 Split Point is
Changing the Split Point
Changing the Split Point
 Harmony Type
Single Touch Play
Harmony
On/Off
 Select the option with the corresponding Func- tion button
How to select a Harmony Type option
How to select the Harmony Type
Press Harmony Type
 Activate Style Lock
Selecting Programmable Presets During Style Play
Examples Selecting Presets during Style play
Activate Single Touch Play
 Press INTRO, Ending or Fill to activate the in- troduction
Select other Programmable Presets
Play freely
 Stop the accompaniment with Ending or START/ Stop
 Start to play the Style
Press each button to cancel the LED
Mute ONE or More Accompaniment Tracks
Deactivate tracks 3, 4
 Examples Changing Style without stopping the accompaniment
Changing Style Without Stopping Accompaniment
 Play freely with the new Style Press FILL, Intro or Ending
Play normally
 Press START/STOP or Ending to stop the accom- paniment
 Tempo
Save the Tempo to a Preset
Press Store Preset to save the Preset
Current tempo setting can be saved to a Pre- set
 Press F5 or F6 to select the Preset command