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■Other Ways to Use Accompaniment Assistance............
●Playing the Chords Yourself
Since the Clavinova will respond to the chords you indicate in the left
range of the keyboard when the [ACMP ON] lamp is lit, you can manu-
ally change chords even if the Accompaniment Assistance data already
includes chord changes. The Auto Accompaniment will always play the
most recently detected chord, regardless of whether that chord was indi-
cated by the Accompaniment Assistance data or the keyboard.
If you want to play all the chord changes (while the Accompaniment
Assistance function controls the style changes for you), simply don’t
include any chord changes in the Accompaniment Assistance data.
If you have already included chords in
your Accompaniment Assistance data,
but later decide that you want to play the
chords yourself, you don’t have to go to
the trouble of erasing them. You can
achieve the same result by adding an
“accompaniment off” event at the top of
the first measure (see page 84), then
starting the Auto Accompaniment as
described in “Playing with Accompani-
ment Assistance,” above.
●Using the Entire Keyboard
To play a keyboard part using the entire range of the keyboard, just omit
step 2 of the procedure above. (You will also have to press [SYNCHRO]
before you start playing if you want to use the Synchronized Start func-
tion.) You won’t be able to indicate chords manually, but the Auto Accom-
paniment will still play according to the Accompaniment Assistance data.
Other Auto Accompaniment Functions
XTurn on the Auto Accompaniment.
Press the [ACMP ON] button.
➔The [ACMP ON] lamp lights, and the current accompaniment
mode is indicated at the left edge of the main display.
The [SYNCHRO] lamp also lights, indicating that you can start the
Auto Accompaniment with the Synchronized Start function (page 65).
Also, a keyboard lamp shows the current split point.
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CStart playing.
Press the [START/STOP] button, or start playing the keyboard.
➔The Auto Accompaniment starts playing automatically, including
any section changes and chord changes indicated by the previ-
ously recorded Accompaniment Assistance data.
Play the keyboard part in the right-hand range of the keyboard, along
with the Auto Accompaniment. (The left-hand range can be used to
indicate chords, as described below in “Playing the Chords Yourself.”)
●Playing the Style Without Auto Accompaniment
By combining the two techniques described above, you can have the
Accompaniment Assistance control only the style changes played by the
rhythm section without using the other accompaniment parts, to provide an
automatic percussion-only accompaniment. Just don’t include any chord
changes in the Accompaniment Assistance data, and leave the [ACMP
ON] button off when you start playing. You will be able to play along to a
simple percussion accompaniment, using the entire range of the keyboard.
As was mentioned above, if you have
already programmed chords in your
Accompaniment Assistance data, you
can achieve the same result by adding
an “accompaniment off” event at the top
of the first measure (see page 84).
■Saving and Loading Your Data...........................................................
Since the Clavinova’s memory can only hold one set (up to 999 measures)
of Accompaniment Assistance data at a time, you may want to save your data
on a disk so that you can load it again after programming other sets.
You can save and load Accompaniment Assistance data using the func-
tions in the FUNCTION [DISK 1] display (see page 192).
You can play back song data and Ac-
companiment Assistance data at the
same time. However, you will not be able
to use the [REW] or [FF] buttons, or any
of the Repeat (page 122) and Guide
Control (page 125) functions that are
normally available during song playback.
Moreover, the style changes and time
signature information in the Accompani-
ment Assistance data will take priority
over those in the song; any rhythm, bass,
and chord parts recorded in the song will
therefore not play back. The playback
tempo will be determined by tempo data
in the song, however.
You can also record the Accompaniment
Assistance data to a floppy disk using the
Song Record function.