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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
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Contents
Contents
USER GUIDE
4 Sounds & Presets
ii Contents
5 The Styles
6 Disk
Contents
REFERENCE GUIDE
APPENDIX
iv Contents
Regulating the Mic/Line signal
Play all Songs 20. Restore
CONGRATULATIONS
How to use the manual
MULTIMEDIA FACILITIES
Introduction
ii Introduction
SPECIFICATIONS
Introduction
Updateable Operating System OS from floppy disk
Sampling
Karaoke
iv Introduction
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
HOLD
SYSTEM RESET
IMPORTANT PRELIMINARY NOTES
Introduction
vi Introduction
1 Guick Guide 2 Layouts 3 Basic concepts
4 Sounds & Presets 5 Styles 6. Disk
7. Songs & MIDI Files 8 Song/Styles
9 Digital Effects 10 MIDI
GENERAL SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
User Guide
1 Quick Guide
POWER UP AND GET TO KNOW THE BASICS
Quick guide
ADJUSTING THE GENERAL VOLUME
THE INITIAL STATUS DEFAULT
1 2 User Guide
Quick guide
PLAY WITH AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT STYLES
1.Press SINGLE TOUCH PLAY
3.Select a Style
5.Play a different chord
14 User Guide
LISTEN TO THE DEMO STYLES
Demo Style
Quick guide
Demo Style
16 User Guide
Multimedia
3.Select a Song by rotating the DIAL
Multimedia
8.Press TEXT in the Song Edit section
Quick guide
Multimedia
SONG EDIT
SELECTING INSTRUMENT SOUNDS
18 User Guide
1.Press the GRAND PIANO button
2.Press a SOUND GROUPS button
4.Repeat step 2 and listen to other Sounds
Quick guide
Selecting instrument sounds
SELECTING THE PROGRAMMABLE PRE- SETS
2.Select the Preset called “GrandP”
110 User Guide
3.Play on the keyboard
4.Press the UPPER 2 activator
Quick guide
5.Press the LOWER activator
Observations
PLAY THE PROGRAMMABLE PADS
2.Select the setting required
112 User Guide
CHANGE THE TOUCH SENSITIVITY
2.Press a deactivated button
Quick guide
PLAY WITH EFFECTS OR BYPASS THEM
Bypass
PLAY WITH THE PEDALS
PLAY WITH HEADPHONES
SOFT SOSTENUTO DAMPER
114 User Guide
2.Press the PAGE+/BANK button once
Quick guide
TRANSPOSE THE INSTRUMENT SEMI- TONES
Clear the keyboard transpose setting
1 16 User Guide
Quick guide
Play All Songs
2.Press PLAY ALL SONGS
Play all Songs
a b a
Song Play - Direct from Disk
1 18 User Guide
2.Press the DISK button
Quick guide
120 User Guide
Recording a Song/Style
Recording a Song/Style
4.Press RECORD in the Sequencer
Quick guide
6.Start playing after the one bar lead
Save the Song/Style to disk
1 22 User Guide
Recording a Song/Style
BUTTONS WITH LEDS
2 Front & Rear Panel
BUTTONS WITHOUT LEDS
Front & Rear panel
alphanumeric configuration Stereo Headphones
powerkeyboard
Front panel
control panel
left section
Control panel
Front & Rear panel
VOLUME
24 User Guide
central section
Control panel
Front & Rear panel
Control panel right section
PROGRAMMABLE PRESETS
SOUND GROUPS
Front Panel buttons & controls
1. VOLUME SLIDERS
26 User Guide
2. ACCOMPANIMENT SLIDERS
10. DISPLAY CONTRAST
Front & Rear panel
11. PAGE+/BANK+, PAGE-/BANK
12. THE DISPLAY
30. STORE PRESET
28. PROGRAMMABLE PRESETS
28 User Guide
23. SOUND GROUPS
Rear Panel model with Speakers box
Rear Panel
Front & Rear panel
1. AUDIO/VIDEO INTERFACE
2 10 User Guide
2. COMPUTER
3. MIDI
PLAY MODES STYLE/PRESET, SONG/ STYLE & SONG
STYLE/PRESET MODE
3 Basic concepts
Basic concepts
Single Touch Play
Style lock
SONG/STYLE MODE
32 User Guide
Grand Piano preset
PRESETS
Programmable Presets Real Time
SONG MODE
Song/Style Preset
Style Preset
Song Preset
The Presets via MIDI?
SOUNDS
TRACKS
Basic concepts
Rom-Sound
3 6 User Guide
EDIT MODES
Connections
POWER SUPPLY
OUTPUT
PEDALS
INPUT
Right/M, Left + Volume
COMPUTER
3 8 User Guide
SPEAKERS
HEADPHONES
AUDIO/VIDEO INTERFACE
Basic concepts
3 10 User Guide
The Display
The main display
Selection windows
Basic concepts
RECORD WINDOWS
The Display
312 User Guide
EDIT PAGES
USER MESSAGES AND WARNINGS
The Display
NAVIGATING
Data Entry
Basic concepts 3
Data Entry
MODIFYING THE PARAMETER VALUES
314 User Guide
Modifying parameters with the DIAL
Modifying parameters with the Sliders
INSERTING ALPHANUMERIC DATA
Basic concepts
3 16 User Guide
ENTER/ESCAPE
Inserting measures
Sounds & Presets
4 Sounds & Presets
THE SOUNDS AND TRACKS
FULL MODE
WAYS OF SELECTING SOUNDS
KEYBOARD ACTIVATORS
4 2 User Guide
Keyboard Activators
Selecting Single Sounds
Sounds & Presets 4
1.Press one of the SELECT buttons
Assign a Sound to a keyboard track
5.Play on the keyboard
44 User Guide
Assigning a Sound to the GRAND PIANO preset
Sounds & Presets
Selecting Single Sounds
46 User Guide
Selecting Presets
Selecting Presets
Sounds & Presets
TO SELECT THE PRESETS
USE PAGE+/BANK+ AND PAGE-/BANK
1.Press PAGE+/BANK+ select the next Preset
Select Grand Piano in Preset mode
THE GRAND PIANO PRESET
48 User Guide
Select Grand Piano in Style mode
2/3/4
Sounds & Presets
1.Press DISPLAY HOLD
3.Select an item
4 10 User Guide
How to Program Presets
HOW THE SOUNDS ARE ARRANGED
Programming the Presets
1.Press PRESET in the EDIT section
Sounds & Presets
ASSIGNING SOUNDS TO TRACKS
3.Press a SOUND GROUPS button
STORE 6 PRESET
412 User Guide
Assigning Sounds to tracks
The new situation is permanently memorized
CHANGING THE TRACK STATUS
Sounds & Presets
To change the status of the keyboard tracks
Changing the Track status
The Song/Style tracks correspond to tracks
414 User Guide
Changing the Track status
The Song tracks correspond to tracks
CHANGING THE KEYBOARD MODE
Sounds & Presets
1.Press and hold EASY PLAY/SPLIT
4.Press ESCAPE to close the window
4 16 User Guide
display shows an appropriate timeout warn
Each Preset can store a different configura
Lock the mixer setting for all Presets
Sounds & Presets
TRANSPOSING THE TRACKS BY SEMITONES
4 18 User Guide
1.Press PRESET in the EDIT section
5.Escape «Edit Preset» by pressing ESCAPE
Sounds & Presets
How to Store Presets
SAVING CHANGES TO THE CURRENT PRE- SET
1.Press STORE PRESET
4 20 User Guide
Store Preset
1.Press STORE PRESET
Sounds & Presets
Store Preset
3.Press ENTER to confirm, or ESCAPE to cancel
1.Press PRESET. in the EDIT section
CHANGE THE NAME OF A PRESET
4 22 User Guide
Store Preset
Sounds & Presets
RESTORING THE ORIGINAL PRESET SET- TINGS
Restore Preset
The display shows “Restore Original Preset”
4 24 User Guide
ABOUT PS1500 STYLES
5 The Styles
THE STYLE DISPLAY
Styles
52 User Guide
Selecting Styles
Selecting Styles
Styles
Select Presets to recall Styles
1.Turn off SINGLE TOUCH PLAY
3.Select a Preset
SELECT A STYLE WITH THE PROGRAM- MABLE PRESETS
5 4 User Guide
1.Deactivate STYLE LOCK
Styles
The Accompaniment tracks
To view the Accompaniment tracks
Auto Accompaniment tracks
START/STOP
The Style Controls
KEY START/CONTINUE
5 6 User Guide
INTRO
To vary the Tempo
ENDING
THE DIAL TEMPO
VARIATION 1,2,3,4
Variation, Fill, Style Lock
FILL , FILL, FILL /TAP TEMPO
STYLE LOCK
EASY PLAY / SPLIT
The Accompaniment section
PIANO STYLE
Styles
MIXER LOCK
MEMORY
LOWER MEMORY
TEMPO LOCK
C major
One Finger Chords
C dim
C maj7
512 User Guide
MODIFYING THE CHORD RECOGNITION MODES
1.Press and hold PIANO STYLE
Modifying the Chord Recognition mode
Styles
CHANGING THE SPLIT POINT
Changing the Split Point
HARMONY
SINGLE TOUCH PLAY
5 14 User Guide
On/Off
Styles
How to select a Harmony Type option
1.Press HARMONY TYPE
516 User Guide
SELECTING PROGRAMMABLE PRESETS DURING STYLE PLAY
1.Activate SINGLE TOUCH PLAY
2.Activate STYLE LOCK
Styles
8.Select other Programmable Presets
6. Play freely
Examples Selecting Presets during Style play
518 User Guide
Styles
MUTE ONE OR MORE ACCOMPANIMENT TRACKS
1.Select a Style
2.Deactivate tracks 3, 4 and
5 20 User Guide
CHANGING STYLE WITHOUT STOPPING THE ACCOMPANIMENT
1.Select a Style
FILL
4. Play normally
Styles
6.Play freely with the new Style
7.Press FILL, INTRO or ENDING
522 User Guide
4.Press STORE PRESET to save the Preset
SAVE THE TEMPO TO A PRESET
Tempo
Styles
RESTORING THE ORIGINAL PRESET SET- TINGS
5 24 User Guide
Restore Preset
The display shows “Restore Original Preset”