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ContentsContents
Panel Controls 10
Connections & Music Stand 12
The Demonstration 17

The PSR-8000 Display &

Display-based Controls 19
The MIXING CONSOLE Buttons ....19
The [EXIT] Button............................ 20
The [DIRECT ACCESS] Button ......20
The [LCD CONTRAST] Control ......20
The 5-language Help Function........ 20
Display Messages ...........................21
Name Entry .....................................21
Playing the PSR-8000 22
Before You Begin ............................22
The PSR-8000 Parts & Voices......... 22
Part Poly/Mono Modes & Mono
Note Priority ....................................22
The XG Voices ................................23
The Organ Flute Voice ....................23
Keyboard Percussion and Special
Effects ............................................. 24
Procedure:

Part Selection and Voice

Assignment ..........................................24
Voice Effects........................................ 26
Other Play Mode Functions............. 26
Master Transpose ...........................26
Octave Change ...............................27
Left Hold.......................................... 27
Pitch Bend & Modulation Wheels.... 27

Using the Accompaniment

Section 28
Procedure:
Auto Accompaniment......... 28
Auto Accompaniment Fingering
Modes ............................................. 30
Auto Accompaniment Start Modes.. 33
The MAIN A and MAIN B Sections
and Fill-ins....................................... 34
Tempo Control ................................35
Fade-ins and Fade-outs ..................35
Synchronized Stop ..........................35
Accompaniment Volume .................36
Accompaniment Part Switching ......36
Virtual Arranger ...............................36
Harmony/Echo ................................ 37
One Touch Setting ..........................38
The Mixing Console 39
Mixing Console Parameters ............39
VOLUME/PAN/EQ.............................. 40
VOLUME ......................................... 40
PANPOT ......................................... 40
EQ LOW.......................................... 40
EQ HIGH .........................................40
HPF1 ............................................... 40
HPF2 ............................................... 40
FILTER ...............................................41
HARMONIC CONTENT ..................41
BRIGHTNESS................................. 41
EFFECT DEPTH................................. 41
REVERB (DSP1)............................. 41
CHORUS (DSP2)............................ 41
DSP3............................................... 42
DSP4-7............................................ 42
EFFECT TYPE.................................... 42
Type Page....................................... 42
EFFECT BLOCK & TYPE ........... 42
TYPE LIST ..................................42
Parameter Page ..............................42
BLOCK ........................................ 42
TYPE ........................................... 42
PARAMETER .............................. 43
VALUE ........................................ 43
LEVEL ......................................... 43
USER SET ..................................43
TUNING ..............................................44
TRANSPOSE .................................. 44
TUNING .......................................... 44
OCTAVE ......................................... 44
PITCH BEND RANGE..................... 44
PORTAMENTO TIME .....................44
MASTER EQ....................................... 45
EQ1 … EQ5 ....................................45
Q & FREQ .......................................45
TOTAL GAIN ADJUST.................... 45
STORE............................................ 45
Registration Memory 46
Registering the Panel Settings....... 46

Recalling the Registered Panel

Settings .................................................47
The Freeze Function.......................... 47
Organ Flute Voice Editing 48
ORGAN TYPE................................. 48
ROTARY SP SPEED ......................48
VIBRATO ON/OFF.......................... 48
VIBRATO DEPTH ...........................48
FOOTAGE....................................... 48
VOLUME & ATTACK ...................... 49
EFFECT & EQ SETTINGS.............. 49
Custom Voice Creator 51
Procedure:

Engaging the Easy/

Full Edit Mode ..................................... 51
The Easy Edit Parameters ............... 52
EDIT.................................................... 52
FILTER............................................ 52
EG ................................................... 52
VIBRATO ........................................ 53
VOLUME ......................................... 53
STORE/CLEAR ..................................53
NAME.............................................. 53
STORE............................................ 53
CLEAR CUSTOM VOICE ............... 54
The Full Edit Parameters.................. 54
ELEMENT SELECTION
(not available for the Drum Kits) ..................54
VOICE................................................. 55
MASTER VOLUME .........................55
INITIAL TOUCH CURVE................. 55
SCALE CURVE............................... 55
MODULATION ................................ 55
AFTER TOUCH............................... 55
E1:WAVEFORM .................................56
WAVEFORM
(INSTRUMENT for the Drum Kits)................ 56
COARSE TUNE/FINE TUNE ..........56
VOLUME ......................................... 56
KEY ON DELAY.............................. 56
PAN................................................. 56
NOTE LIMIT
(not available for the Drum Kits) ..................56
VELOCITY LIMIT
(not available for the Drum Kits) ..................56
E2:EG .................................................57
AMP RATE
(Amplitude Envelope Rate) .............57
AMP LEVEL
(Amplitude Envelope Level) ............57
PITCH RATE (Pitch Envelope Rate)58
PITCH LEVEL .................................58
FILTER RATE .................................58
FILTER LEVEL................................ 58
E3:FILTER.......................................... 59
FILTER1 & FILTER2 .......................59
RESONANCE ................................. 59
TOUCH TO FILTER ........................59
E4:LFO ...............................................59
LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator) .....59
DELAY (Delay Vibrato) ................... 60
VOICE SET......................................... 60
REVERB, CHORUS, and DSP
DEPTH ............................................ 60
DSP TYPE and VARIATION ...........60
EQ LOW and HIGH......................... 60
STORE/CLEAR ..................................61
NAME.............................................. 61
STORE............................................ 61
CLEAR CUSTOM VOICE ............... 61
The Custom Style Creator 62
Procedure:
Custom Style Recording.... 62

CUSTOM STYLE CREATOR Param-

eters .......................................................66
Exiting ............................................. 66
BASIC................................................. 66
SECTION/PATTERN LENGTH/
BEAT/TEMPO ................................. 66
PART COPY ................................... 67
SETUP ................................................67
VOICE ............................................. 67
SETUP COPY .................................68
EDIT.................................................... 68
QUANTIZE ...................................... 68
VELOCITY CHANGE ......................69
MEASURE COPY ...........................69
MEASURE CLEAR ......................... 69
REMOVE CONTROL EVENT .........69
REMOVE DUPLICATE NOTES ......70
STORE/CLEAR ..................................70
NAME.............................................. 70
STORE............................................ 70
CLEAR CUSTOM STYLE ...............70
PARAMETER EDIT ............................71
PART/SOURCE ROOT/SOURCE
CHORD ........................................... 71
NTR/NTT......................................... 71
HIGH KEY/NOTE LIMIT.................. 72
RTR................................................. 72