Contents

 

USING THE UNIT SAFELY

2

IMPORTANT NOTES

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Contents

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Panel Descriptions

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Before You Play

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Making Connections

8

Installing the Music Stand

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Connecting Pedals

10

Turning the Power On and Off

10

Adjusting the Sound’s Volume and Brilliance

11

Connecting Headphones

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Chapter 1 Playing the Keyboard

12

Listening to Internal Songs

12

Playing Back All Songs Continuously

 

(All Song Play)

12

Listening to Each Part Separately

13

Performing with a Variety of Sounds

14

Performing With Two Layered Tones (Dual Play)

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Performing With Different Tones in the Left and

 

Right Sides of the Keyboard (Split Play)

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Changing Tones

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Changing the Keyboard’s Split Point

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Changing the Volume Balance for Dual Play and

 

Split Play

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Changing the Keyboard’s Touch

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Adding Breadth to the Sound (Chorus Effect)

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Adding a Spinning Sound to Organ Tones

 

(Rotary Effect)

20

Changing the Depth of Chorus Effect

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Adding Reverberation to Sounds (The Reverb Effect) . 21

Changing the Depth of Reverb Effect

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Transposing the Key of the Keyboard (Key Transpose) 22

Using the Metronome

23

Changing the Tempo

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Changing the Beat of Metronome

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Changing the Volume

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Chapter 2 Playing Along with Rhythms25

What is Session Partner?

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Performing Along With Rhythms

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Performing Along With Drum Sounds

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Performing With Chord Parts

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About the lighting of the [Drum] and [Chord] button

 

indicators

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Selecting a Rhythm

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Changing Rhythms As You Perform

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Changing a Rhythm’s Tempo

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Selecting a Rhythm’s Chord Progression

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Performing With the Chord Progression Specified

 

in the Left Hand (Rhythm Split Play)

31

Changing the Volume Balance Between the Keyboard

and the Rhythm

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Chapter 3 Recording a Performance ...

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Recording a Performance

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Recording a Performance Using Rhythms

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Recording a Performance Using Rhythms

 

(in Split Play)

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Recording Selected Track buttons

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Erasing Recorded Performances

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Correspondence Between Recorded Performance and Track

Buttons

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Chapter 4 Other Functions

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Changing the Damper Pedal’s Resonance

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Changing How the Pedals Work

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Changing How the Pedal Effects Are Applied

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Changing the Pitch of the Lower Tone in Octave Steps

(Octave Shift)

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Tuning to Other Instruments’ Pitches (Master Tuning) .40

Adjusting the Tuning

40

Changing the Beat Pattern

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Connecting MIDI Devices

42

Appendices

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Troubleshooting

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Error Messages/Other Messages

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Tone List

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Rhythm List

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Chord Progression Pattern List

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Chord Fingering List

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Internal Song List

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Easy Operation List

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MIDI Implementation

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Main Specifications

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Index

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