20
Playing Along With A Song

Using the Metronome

The HPi-7 contains a versatile metronome function.

While a song or accompaniment (Pianist function, p. 32) is playing, the metronome will sound at the

corresponding tempo and time signature (Beat).

fig.panelmetro

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Press the [Metronome] button.

The button’s indicator will blink according to the time signature (Beat), and the metronome will sound.

To stop the metronome, press the [Metronome] button, getting its indicator to go dark.

fig.metroe

In this screen you can make the following settings.

Item Setting
Volume

OFF (no sound)-10

Beat

2/2, 0/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 3/8, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8

* It is not possible to change the “Beat” setting while a song is playing.

Sound

Click, Electronic, Voice (Japanese) (“1,” “2,” “3” in Japanese),
Voice (English) (“1,” “2,” “3” in English), Animal, Wood Block, Triangle & Castanets, Hand Claps

Pattern

Normal, (dotted half note), (half note), (dotted quarter note),
(quarter note), (dotted eighth note), (eighth note), (sixteenth note),
Double (note added to back beat of the first beat),
Triple (added notes sound the first beat as a triplet),
Shuffle (notes added to create a shuffle)

Beat LED

On (The [Metronome] button’s light flashes in time with the beat.), Off (Dark)
1
Volume
Set the metronome
volume.
Beat LED
Set the metronome button’s
indicator on or off.
Beat
Set the beat.
Sound
Specify the
metronome sound.
Pattern
Specify the timing
interval of the
metronome’s weak beats.
Select the item to set
Change the setting
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