Quick Guide
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TYROS Owner’s Manual
Reference on page 88
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Song Playback
Playback of Song Disks
1Insert the disk containing MIDI song
data into the disk drive.
2Press any of the SONG buttons to call up the song selection dis-
play.
3Select a song on the floppy disk.
Selecting a song is done in the same way as selecting a voice or style.
4Press the SONG CONTROL [START/STOP] button to start the
selected song.
5Press the SONG CONTROL [START/STOP] button again to stop the
song.
■ Viewing Song Lyrics and Score
● When the song data contains lyric data, you can view it by using the [Lyrics] LCD
button on the Main display...................................................................................................Page 46
● You can also view the song score (notation) by using the [Score] LCD button
on the Main display..............................................................................................................Page 49
You can play MIDI song data directly from the
TYROS. This includes not only the preset demo
songs, but also commercially available song data
on floppy disk, as well as songs you’ve created with
the Song Recording function (page 54) or Song Cre-
ator function (page 94). (For information on com-
patible song data, see page 8.)
• Make sure to read the section
“Using the Floppy Disk Drive
(FDD) and Floppy Disks” on
page 6.
SONG
BACK NEXT
If necessary, use
the [BACK]/[NEXT]
buttons to call up
the FD (Floppy
Disk) page.
• The song selection display shown
here is called the “Open/Save”
display for the song. The Open/
Save display actually has two dif-
ferent display modes: 1) a direct
selection display (shown at left),
and 2) a numeric input display that
lets you select the voice by input-
ting the song number. For details,
see page 71.
SP1 SP2 SP3
START/
STOP
SYNC START
NEW SONG
SP4
REC TOP REW FF
LOOP
SONG CONTROL These buttons let you use markers in the song
data — for easy navigation, and for setting up
playback loops.
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Moves forward one measure when pressed
briefly, or scrolls forward continuously (fast for-
ward) when held.
Press this button to call up the SONG POSI-
TION pop-up window on the LCD display.
Moves back one measure when pressed
briefly, or scrolls backward continuously (fast
reverse) when held.
Press this button to call up the SONG POSI-
TION pop-up window on the LCD display.
This button lets you record your keyboard per-
formance as a song MIDI song data.
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During playback, you can have the song
return to the top and play back again from the
beginning by pressing this button. When play-
back is stopped, pressing this button returns
the song to the beginning.