Chapter 9 Various Settings

Chapter 9

Enabling the Moving Key

Changing the Moving Key

Settings

You can have the keyboard play automatically along with the

performance.

1.Switch to the Basic screen, or press the One Touch Program [Piano] button.

2.Touch <Functions>.

When you touch <Functions> on the Basic screen, the first page displayed shows the parameters for the Automatic Accompaniment settings (p. 155).

When you touch <Functions> on the Piano screen, the parameters for the piano performance settings continue into the second page (p. 152).

3.Touch <Moving Key>.

4.Touch to turn the setting ON, or OFF.

Display

Keyboard Function

 

 

 

 

ON

The keys play along with the performance.

 

 

OFF

The keys do not move.

 

 

5.Touch <Exit> to return to the Functions screen.

You can also select <Moving Key> from the Menu

screen.

1.Press the [Menu] button. The Menu screen appears.

2.Touch <Moving Key>.

The Moving Key screen appears.

Changing the Part That Makes the Keys Move

Using the Track Buttons to Choose the Part That Makes the Keys Move

Upon power-up, the instrument is set so the keys move along with the performances of the Whole, Upper, and Lower tracks. You can choose a different part to make the keys move by pressing the Track buttons, and changing the buttons that are lighted.

1.Choose the song to play (p. 77).

2.Press the Track button you want to have associated with key movement a number of times, until the button’s light is flashing.

Each time you press a Track button, its light changes to the next state, in this order: lighted extinguished flashing lighted ....

The following shows the relationship between the Track buttons, played parts, and keyboard movement.

Indicator

Keyboard

Sound

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indicator flashing

Movement

Sound

 

 

 

Indicator on

No movement

Sound

 

 

 

Indicator off

No movement

No sound

 

 

 

3.Press the [ (Play/Stop)] button.

Song playback starts, and the keys move along with what is played as a result of the flashing Track button or buttons.

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