Voices

■VARIATION

This control changes the Variation effect settings, letting you alter some aspect of the effect, depending on the selected type. For example, when the Rotary Speaker effect is selected (page 124), this lets you switch the rotor speed between slow and fast.

■HARMONY/ECHO

This control adds Harmony or Echo effects to the voices played on the right hand section of the keyboard (page 143).

The Portamento effect creates a smooth pitch glide between successively played notes.

■MONO

This control determines whether the voice is played monophonically (only one note at a time) or polyphonically for each part (MAIN/LAYER/LEFT). This is set to MONO when the lamp is lit, and set to polyphonic when the lamp is off. When set to MONO, only the last note played will sound. This lets you play wind instrument voices more realistically.

Depending on the selected voice, the MONO setting also lets you effectively use the Portamento effect, when playing in legato.

■LEFT HOLD

This function causes the left part voice to be held even when the keys are released — the same effect as when the sustain pedal is pressed. This function is especially effective when used with the auto accompaniment. For example, if you play and release a chord in the auto accompaniment section of the keyboard (with the left part on and the Left voice set to Strings), the strings part sustains, adding a natural richness to the overall accompaniment sound.

You can add special emphasis to melody lines you play over chords by using the Layer function with a monophonic voice. Set the Main voice to play polyphonically and set the Layer voice to play monophonically (MONO). In this case, the melody you play — including the top notes of any chords

—sounds monophonically. Try this using the following voices.

MAIN voice: Brass Section (polyphonic) + LAYER voice: Sweet Trump (monophonic)

PITCH BEND Wheel & MODULATION Wheel

Use the PSR-2000/1000 PITCH BEND wheel to bend notes up (roll the wheel away from you) or down (roll the wheel toward you) while playing the keyboard. The PITCH BEND wheel is self-centering and will automatically return to normal pitch when released.

The Modulation function applies a vibrato effect to notes played on the keyboard (PSR- 2000). Moving the MODULATION wheel all the way towards yourself minimizes the depth of the effect, while rotating it away from yourself increases it.

PITCH BEND

The maximum pitch bend range can be changed (page 123).

MODULATION

In order to avoid accidentally applying modulation set the depth to its minimum setting.

Adjusting the Octave setting

The [UPPER OCTAVE] button allows the MAIN and LAYER parts to be simultaneously transposed up or down by one octave.

UPPER OCTAVE

RESET

More detailed octave-related settings for each part can be made by using the Mixing Console function

(page 123).

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