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Custom Style Recording via an

External Sequence Recorder .......... 73
Connections .................................... 73
Creating the Data ............................73
Saving and Loading the Sequence
Data................................................. 75
Refining the Style ............................75
The Groove Style Creator 76
Procedure:
Creating a Groove Style..... 76

GROOVE STYLE CREATOR

Parameters ...........................................77
Exiting ............................................. 77
SETUP ................................................78
PART ON/OFF/TEMPO .................. 78
VOICE ............................................. 78
SETUP COPY .................................78
GROOVE ............................................79
GROOVE ........................................ 79
SETUP COPY .................................79
DYNAMICS......................................... 80
DYNAMICS ..................................... 80
SETUP COPY .................................80
STORE/CLEAR ..................................80
NAME.............................................. 80
STORE............................................ 81
GROOVE STYLE CLEAR ...............81
STORE AS CUSTOM STYLE .........81
CUSTOM STYLE CLEAR ............... 81
DRUM EXCHANGE............................ 82
DRUM EXCHANGE ........................ 82
SETUP COPY .................................82
Vocal Harmony 83
Using Vocal Harmony....................... 83
Setting Up ....................................... 83
The VOCAL/SAMPLING Buttons ....83
Selecting a VOCAL HARMONY
Type ................................................ 84
Producing the VOCAL HARMONY
Effect ............................................... 84
Editing the Vocal Harmony
Parameters ........................................84
The Vocal Harmony Modes............. 85
Sampling 88
PSR-8000 Waves & Waveforms ....... 88
Setting Up for Sampling ................... 89
Connecting the Source.................... 89
Setting Levels.................................. 89
Sampling & File Import..................... 90
Sampling New Material ................... 90
NAME/CLEAR................................. 92
Wave Edit........................................... 93
EDIT ................................................ 93
NAME/CLEAR/DISK ....................... 96
Waveform Edit................................... 97
EDIT ................................................ 97
NAME/CLEAR/DISK ....................... 98
STORE AS CUSTOM VOICE ......... 99
Song Playback 100
Procedure:
Song Playback ....................100
Enter Next Song .............................. 101
Pause, Fast Forward & Reverse .... 102
Lyric Display.................................... 102
The CHORD DETECT and VOCAL
HARM. Parameters.......................... 102
CHORD DETECT.......................... 102
VOCAL HARM. ............................. 102
Setting the Song Playback Order .. 103
MIXING CONSOLE Operation During
Song Playback ................................ 103
FADER .......................................... 103
FULL ............................................. 104
Song Recording 105
Procedure:
Song Recording ................. 105
Procedure:
Quick Record ...................... 106
THE TRACK INDICATORS........... 108
TRACK DELETE ...........................108
PLAYBACK ................................... 108
EXITING........................................ 108
Procedure:
Chord Step Recording...... 109
DELETING EVENTS..................... 110
INSERTING OR DELETING
MEASURES .................................. 110
SAVING THE CHORD STEP
DATA............................................. 110
Quick Record Mode Edit Functions111
RENAME SONG ........................... 111
SONG DELETE............................. 111
Procedure:
Multi Track Record ............ 111
THE TRACK INDICATORS........... 113
TRACK DELETE ...........................114
PLAYBACK ................................... 114
EXITING........................................ 114
Procedure:

Punch-In & Replace

Recording ...........................................114
Multi Track Record Mode Edit
Functions......................................... 116
RENAME SONG ........................... 116
QUANTIZE .................................... 116
TRACK MIX................................... 117
NOTE SHIFT................................. 117
SONG DELETE............................. 117
Multi Track Record Set Up ............. 118
VOICE ........................................... 118
OTHER SET UP PARAMETERS.. 118
The Multi Pads 119
MULTI PAD Playback...................... 119
Procedure:
MULTI PAD Recording ..... 119
MULTI PAD NAME........................ 121
MULTI PAD CLEAR ......................121
The Repeat & Chord Match Modes 121
REPEAT........................................ 121
CHORD MATCH ........................... 121
The PSR-8000 “Functions” 122
The FUNCTION Parameters........... 122
The [EXIT] Button.......................... 122
F1: MASTER TUNE/SCALE ............ 123
MASTER TUNE ............................ 123
SCALE (ARABIC).......................... 123
F2: SPLIT POINT/FINGERING ........ 123
SPLIT POINT ................................ 123
FINGERING .................................. 124
F3: CONTROLLER........................... 124
FOOT CONTROLLER................... 124
PANEL CONTROLLER................. 126
F4: REGISTRATION/ONE TOUCH
SETTING/VOICE SET ...................... 127
REGISTRATION ........................... 127
ONE TOUCH SETTING ................127
VOICE SET ...................................128
F5: HARMONY/ECHO...................... 129
F6: CUSTOMIZE LIST...................... 129
F7: TALK SETTING ......................... 130
F8: UTILITY ......................................131
F9: MIDI ............................................132
TEMPLATE ................................... 132
SYSTEM ....................................... 134
TRANSMIT.................................... 135
RECEIVE ...................................... 136
PANEL CONTROL........................ 138
Disk Operations 139
The DISK Parameters ......................139
Exiting ........................................... 140
LOAD FROM DISK........................... 140
SAVE TO DISK................................. 141
COPY FILE/FD ................................. 143
Copying Files ................................ 143
Copying Floppy Disks ................... 144
CHANGE SONG ORDER................. 144
RENAME FILE/SONG ......................145
DELETE FILE/SONG ....................... 145
FORMAT FD..................................... 146
EDIT DIRECTORY............................ 146
NEW DIR....................................... 146
RENAME....................................... 146
DELETE ........................................ 146
FORMAT HARD DISK...................... 147
CHECK HARD DISK ........................ 147
Troubleshooting 148
Index 150
Installing Options............................. 152
Optional SIMM Installation .............152
Optional Hard Disk Installation...... 156
Voice List ............................................159
Keyboard Drum Assignments ...... 166
Style List ............................................. 168
Direct Access Chart......................... 170
Parameter Chart................................ 171
Effect Signal Flow Chart ................ 176
MIDI Data Format.............................. 177
MIDI Implementation Chart............ 196

Audio Sampling Library CD

Contents.............................................. 200
Specifications.................................... 203