Using, Creating and Editing Songs

Practicing Songs with the Guide Functions

For Keyboard Performance

Follow Lights

When this is selected, Song playback pauses, waiting for you to play the notes cor- rectly. When you play the correct notes, Song playback continues. Follow Lights was developed for the Yamaha Clavinova series. This function is used for practicing purposes, with built-in lamps on the Clavinova keyboard indicating the notes to be played. Even though the PSR-OR700 does not have these lamps, you can use the same function by following the indications in the displayed notation with the Song Score function.

Any Key

With this function, you can play the melody of a Song just by pressing a single key (any key is OK) in time with the rhythm. Song playback pauses and waits for you to play any key. Simply play a key on the keyboard in time with music and the Song playback continues.

For Singing

Karao-key

This function lets you control the Song playback timing with just one finger, while you sing along. Song playback pauses, waiting for you to sing. Simply play a key on the keyboard (any key is OK) and the Song playback continues. (For this func- tion, the notes of the keyboard do not sound.)

Turning playback channels of the Song on and off

A Song consists of 16 separate channels. You can independently turn each channel of the selected Song playback on or off. Usually, CH 1 is assigned to [TR 1] button, CH 2 is assigned to [TR 2] button, and CH 3–16 are assigned to the [EXTRA TR] button.

1Press the [CHANNEL ON/OFF] button to call up the Song CHANNEL ON/OFF display.

If the display shown below does not appear, press the [CHANNEL ON/OFF] button again.

2Use the [1π†]–[8π†] buttons to turn each channel on or off.

If you want to play back only one particular channel (muting all other chan- nels), press and hold down one of the [1π†]–[8π†] buttons corresponding to the desired channel. To cancel solo playback, press the same button again.

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