Style Functions

In the section “Try out the Style” (page 30) of the Quick Guide, we introduced you to the basic operations of the auto accompaniment styles. Here, we’ll explain some interesting and useful ways of sounding the styles, and ways to adjust the accompaniment level and the chords.

Sounding only the percussion

You can have just the percussion parts of the accompaniment play by pressing the [ACMP ON/OFF] button—so that auto accompaniment is OFF (the ACMP display is unlit)—and starting the style. Playing the keyboard sounds the Main Voice with no bass or chord sounds, even when playing in the auto accompaniment section of the keyboard.

NOTE

•The special Pianist styles do not have any percussion parts.

The ACMP display goes out.

Sounding accompaniment without percussion

Press the [ACMP ON/OFF] button to turn on auto accompaniment, and press the [SYNC START] button twice to set Syn- chro Start to OFF. When you play keys in the auto accompaniment section of the keyboard, the bass and chord sounds are heard without percussion.

Setting the accompaniment volume

Enter the FUNCTION display by pressing the [FUNCTION] button and call up the

Style Volume page by using the CATEGORY buttons [f ]/[r ].

Set the accompaniment volume (range: 000 – 127).

NOTE

•This can be set when the style is selected.

Using external Style Files

Style number 136 is specially reserved for use with external Style Files, designated with the “.sty” file extension. Save the desired Style File to SmartMedia card using a computer (with an appropriate SmartMedia reader/writer) and load the Style File from the SmartMedia card to style number 136 on the instrument. For details, see page 63.

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