Yamaha PSR-270

Contents

SELECTING AND PLAYING

SONGS — THE SONG MODE 75

SELECTING AND PLAYING A SONG

CHANGING THE TEMPO ................76

ABOUT THE BEAT DISPLAY.............77

ADJUSTING THE SONG VOLUME... 78

SONG RECORDING 79

RECORDING A USER SONG —

REALTIME RECORDING ..................80

•Using the Metronome ............ 81

•Additional Operations ............ 83

RECORDING A USER SONG —

STEP RECORDING........................... 84

Recording Notes........................... 85

•Additional Operations ............ 87

Replacing a Note or Rest .............. 88

Entering Velocity Curves............... 89

•Velocity Curve Chart ...............89

CLEARING A SONG......................... 90

FOOTSWITCH 91

•Footswitch Assign Functions ... 92

MIDI FUNCTIONS 93

WHAT IS MIDI?............................... 93

Channel Messages........................ 94

System Messages.......................... 94

•MIDI Terminals ....................... 94

CONNECTING TO A PERSONAL

COMPUTER..................................... 95

FUNCTION PARAMETERS — MIDI..96

USING BULK DUMP SEND

TO SAVE DATA................................ 99

Saving Bulk Data ..........................99

Loading Bulk Data...................... 101

USING INITIAL SETUP SEND

WITH A SEQUENCER .................... 102

Sending Initial Setup Data.......... 102

TROUBLESHOOTING.................... 104

DATA BACKUP & INITIALIZATION105

SPECIFICATIONS........................... 106

SONG SCORES

(EZ Chord banks 1, 2)................... 107

VOICE LIST.................................... 108

STYLE LIST ....................................111

DRUM KIT LIST............................. 112

MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART..114

INDEX ...........................................117

EFFECTS 40

REVERB............................................ 40

CHORUS.......................................... 41

DSP .................................................42

HARMONY...................................... 43

Function Parameters — Effects...... 44

•Effect Types ............................ 45

AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT —

THE STYLE MODE 47

SELECTING A STYLE AND

PLAYING THE ACCOMPANIMENT..47

ACCOMPANIMENT CONTROLS .....52

USING THE AUTO

ACCOMPANIMENT FEATURES........52

CHANGING THE TEMPO ................53

ACCOMPANIMENT SECTIONS

(MAIN A, MAIN B AND FILL-INS)... 54

ADJUSTING THE

ACCOMPANIMENT VOLUME .........55

USING AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT —

MULTI FINGERING.......................... 56

Single Finger Chords ..................56

Fingered Chords .........................56

SETTING THE ACCOMPANIMENT

SPLIT POINT ...................................58

Function Parameter —

Accompaniment Split Point ..........59

WHAT IS A CHORD? .......................60

WRITING CHORD NAMES ..............61

The Intervals of the Scale........... 61

Other Chords.............................. 61

CHORD GUIDE................................ 62

Dictionary ...................................62

Smart........................................... 64

•Smart Chord List .................... 65

EZ Chord .....................................66

EZ Chord — Playback................... 66

•Bank Chain ............................. 67

EZ Chord — Recording................. 68

•Recording a Space .................. 69

•Playing the Accompaniment

During EZ Chord Recording ...69

•HINT — Using Spaces .............70

Clearing an EZ Chord Bank........... 71

ONE TOUCH SETTING (OTS) 72

ONE TOUCH SETTING — USER...... 72

Recording a User One Touch

Setting ......................................... 72

Recalling a User One Touch Setting

•Selecting a User Bank ............. 73

ONE TOUCH SETTING — PRESET... 74

Selecting a Preset One Touch

Setting ......................................... 74

PANEL CONTROLS AND

TERMINALS 6

•Front Panel ............................... 6

•Rear Panel ................................ 7

SETTING UP 8

POWER REQUIREMENTS................. 8

TURNING ON THE POWER............. 8

ACCESSORY JACKS......................... 9

Quick Guide —

How to Use Your New

PSR-270 PortaTone 10

Step 1 Voices............................. 10

Step 2 Auto Accompaniment.... 12

Step 3 Chord Guide .................. 14

Step 4 Songs ............................. 16

Step 5 Function Parameters...... 18

Step 6 MIDI ............................... 20

PANEL DISPLAY INDICATIONS

•Music Stand ........................... 23

PORTABLE GRAND 24

PLAYING THE PORTABLE GRAND.. 24

USING THE METRONOME.............. 24

•Setting the Metronome

Time Signature....................... 25

•Adjusting the Metronome

Volume................................... 26

PLAYING VOICES —

THE VOICE MODE 27

PLAYING A VOICE — MAIN VOICE27

•About Panel Voices and

GM Voices.............................. 29

•Drum Kit Voice Chart

(voices 101 - 110) ..................30

Function Parameters — Main Voice

TRANSPOSE AND TUNING............. 32

Transpose.................................... 32

Tuning......................................... 33

PLAYING TWO VOICES —

DUAL VOICE ................................... 34

Function Parameters — Dual Voice

PLAYING TWO VOICES —

SPLIT VOICE.................................... 36

Function Parameters — Split Voice37

ADDITIONAL VOICE

FUNCTIONS — VOICE SET AND

TOUCH SENSITIVITY ...................... 38

Function Parameters —

Voice Set and Touch Sensitivity..... 39