Operations for Song Playback

■Queuing the Next Playback Song

While a Song is playing back, you can queue up the next Song for playback. This is convenient for chaining it to the next Song smoothly during stage performance. Select the Song you want play next in the Song Selection display, while a Song is playing back.

The “NEXT” indication appears at the upper right of the corresponding Song name. To cancel this setting, press the [8†] (Cancel) button.

■Using the Auto Accompaniment Features with the

Song Playback

When playing back a Song and a Style at the same time, channels 9–16 in the Song data are replaced with style channels — allowing you to play the accompaniment parts of the Song yourself. Try playing chords along with the Song playback as shown in the instructions below.

1 Select a Song (page 36).

2 Select a Style (page 46).3 Press the STYLE CONTROL [ACMP] button to turn on the AutoAccompaniment function.4 Press the STYLE CONTROL [SYNC START] button to enable standby

—letting you simultaneously start the accompaniment as soon as you start playing.

5 Press the SONG [F/K] (PLAY/PAUSE) button to start playback.6 Play chords along with the Song.

The chord name is indicated in the Main display. To return to the Main dis- play, press the [DIRECT ACCESS] button, then press the [EXIT] button.

When the Song playback is stopped, the Style playback is also stopped at the same time.

•Tempo for playing back a Song and a Style at the same time

When playing back a Song and a Style at the same time, the tempo value set in the Song is automatically used.

Playing Songs with the Quick Start function

With the default settings, the Quick Start function is turned on. On some commercially available Song data, certain settings related to the Song (such as voice selection, volume, etc.) are recorded to the first measure, before the actual note data. When Quick Start is set to “ON,” the instrument reads all initial non-note data of the Song at the highest possible speed, then automatically slows down to the appropriate tempo at the first note. This allows you to start playback as quickly as possible, with a minimum pause for reading of data. When Quick Start is set to “ON,” a Song is played back directly from the first note (which may be in the middle of a measure). If you want to play from the beginning of the measure that has silence prior to the first note, turn Quick Start “OFF.”

1Call up the operation display. [FUNCTION] → [B] SONG SETTING2Press the [7†] (QUICK START) buttons to turn the Quick Start “OFF.”

Parameter Lock

You can “lock” specific parameters (e.g., effect, split point, etc.) to make them selectable only via the panel controls (page 133).

For songs without chord data, the chord name will not be displayed in the Main display during Song playback.

Songs Editing and Creating Using,

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