Table of Contents

Introduction

 

What can you do with the PORTATONE? .......

12

Panel Controls .................................................

14

Playing the Keyboard ......................................

16

Power Supply ...............................................

16

Powering Up ................................................

17

Setting Up .......................................................

18

Music Rest ...................................................

18

Using Headphones .......................................

18

Changing the Display Language ..................

19

Display Settings ...........................................

19

Handling the Floppy Disk Drive (FDD) and

 

Floppy Disks ....................................................

22

Handling the USB Storage Device

 

(USB Flash Memory/Floppy Disk, etc) ............

23

Quick Guide

 

Playing the Demos ..........................................

24

Operations in Basic Displays ...........................

26

Operation of the Main Display .............................

26

Operation of the File Selection Display .................

27

Operation of the Function Display ........................

28

Playing Voices .................................................

30

Playing Preset Voices ............................................

30

Practicing with the Preset Songs ....................

36

Playing Back and Listening to Songs Before

 

Practicing .............................................................

36

Displaying Music Notation (Score) .......................

39

Muting the Right- or Left-hand Part Viewing the

 

Score ....................................................................

40

Practicing with the Repeat Playback Function .......

42

Recording Your Performance ................................

43

Playing Backing Parts with the performance

 

assistant Technology .......................................

44

Playing Accompaniment with the Auto

 

Accompaniment Feature (Style Playback) ......

46

Playing “Mary Had a Little Lamb” with the Auto

 

Accompaniment Feature ......................................

46

The Multi Pads ................................................

52

Playing the Multi Pads ..........................................

52

Using Chord Match ..............................................

53

Voice Effects ....................................................

53

Applying Harmony to Your Right-hand Melody

 

(HARMONY/ECHO) ..............................................

54

Calling Up Ideal Setups for Each Song

 

(Music Finder) .................................................

55

Calling up the panel settings to match the Style

 

(Repertoire) ..........................................................

56

Singing Along with Song Playback (Karaoke)

 

or Your Own Performance ..............................

57

Singing with the Lyrics Display .............................

57

Convenient Functions for Karaoke ........................

58

Convenient Functions for Singing Along with

 

Your Own Performance ........................................

58

Setting an Oriental Scale ................................

59

Basic Operation

 

Selecting Message Language ..........................

60

The Messages Shown in the Display ..............

60

Instant Selection of the Displays

 

— Direct Access ..............................................

61

Basic Displays (Main Display and File

 

Selection Display) ............................................

62

Main Display ........................................................

62

File Selection Display Configuration and Basic

 

Operation .............................................................

63

File/Folder Operations in the File Selection

 

Display .................................................................

66

Restoring the Factory-programmed Settings ...

72

Restoring the Factory-programmed System ..........

72

Restoring the Factory-programmed Settings

 

Independently by Item .........................................

72

Saving and Recalling Your Original Settings as a

 

Single File .............................................................

74

Data Backup ....................................................

75

Backup procedure ................................................

75

Reference
Using, Creating and Editing Voices ..77

Voice Characteristics .......................................

77

Playing Different Voices Simultaneously ........

78

Keyboard Parts (Right 1, Right 2, Left) ..................

78

Playing Two Voices Simultaneously

 

(Right 1 and 2 Parts) ............................................

79

Playing Different Voices with the Left and Right

 

Hands (Right 1 and Left Parts) ..............................

80

Changing Pitch ................................................

81

Transpose .............................................................

81

Fine-tuning the Pitch of the Entire Instrument ......

81

Selecting the Harmony/Echo type ..................

82

Editing the Volume and Tonal Balance

 

(MIXING CONSOLE) ........................................

84

Basic Procedure ....................................................

84

Voice Creating — Voice Set ............................

92

Basic Procedure ....................................................

92

Creating Your Original Organ Flutes Voices ..........

96

Using Oriental Scales

 

— Scale Setting/Scale Tuning/

 

Scale Memory .................................

99

Setting an Oriental Scale — Scale Setting ......

99

Scale Tuning ....................................................

99

Memorizing the Scale Setting

 

— Scale Memory ...........................................

101

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