Yamaha DGX-505, DGX-305 manual Change the Key Of a Song, Song Fast Forward, Fast Reverse, and Pause

Reference Song Settings

Change the Key Of a Song

◆Large Pitch Changes (Transpose)

The overall pitch of the instrument can by shifted up or down by a maximum of 1 octave in semitone incre- ments.

1 Press the [FUNCTION] button to call up the FUNCTION display.

2 Use the CATEGORY [f ] and [r ] buttons to select the Transpose item.

Transpose item.

3 Use the dial or the [0] – [9] number buttons to set the transpose value between -12 and +12 as required.

NOTE

• The pitch of Drum Kits voices cannot be changed.

◆Small Pitch Changes (Tuning)

The overall tuning of the instrument can by shifted up or down by a maximum of 100 cents in 1-cent increments (100 cents = 1 semitone).

1 Press the [FUNCTION] button to call up the FUNCTION display.

2 Use the CATEGORY [f ] and [r ] buttons to select the Tuning item.

Tuning item.

3 Use the dial or the [0] – [9] number buttons to set the tuning as required.

NOTE

• The pitch of Drum Kits voices cannot be changed.

Song Fast Forward, Fast Reverse, and Pause

These are just like the transport controls on a cassette deck or CD player, letting you fast forward [ f ], rewind [r ] and pause [ ❙ ❙ ] playback of the song.

Press the	Press the fast	Press the fast
pause button	reverse button	forward button
to pause play-	rapidly return	to rapidly skip
back.	to an earlier	ahead to a
	point in the	later point in
	song.	the song.

NOTE

•When an A-B repeat range is specified the fast reverse and forward function will only work within that range.

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