GETTING STARTED —
PLAYING THE DEMO SONGS
The PortaTone has a huge variety of Demo songs, specially recorded to showcase the dynamic sounds and rhythms and give you an idea of what you can do with the instrument.
First, turn on the power.
Press the STANDBY/ON button. Whenever the power is turned on, the Voice mode is automatically called up and set to play Voice 1 (GrandPno).
Set the Volume.
Initially, turn the MASTER VOLUME control about a third of the way up. You can adjust the control for optimum level once the songs start playing.
Press the DEMO button.
All 100 songs will play in sequence. You can play along on the keyboard with the songs. If the Voice Change function is on (page 27), the key- board voice will change to match the changes in the song of the melody voice.
The current song name and number appear at the left of the display. Notice also that the display indicates both the chords (except for song #1, “StarWars”) and the melody notes (in the music staves and the keyboard diagram) as they change during the song. (Scores for the Demo songs are provided.)
Song number | Song name | To stop playback, press the START/STOP (>/■) |
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| button. For information on selecting and playing |
001 | StarWars | individual songs, see page 20. |
| MEASURE 002 | While the Demo song is playing... |
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| Many features of the PortaTone can be used while the |
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| Demo songs are playing. These include: |
Current chord | Keyboard diagram |
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| (current note is dark) | • Tempo (page 21) |
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Melody notation |
| • Song volume (page 23) |
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| • Tuning (page 19) |
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| • Pause (❙❙), Rewind (r), Fast Forward (f) (page 24) |
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| • Voice Change (page 27) |
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