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Tutorial
Playing in Realtime (Without using Automatic Accompaniment)
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Start the Style!
Play a chord, and press the START/STOP button.
Then begin playing.
Usually (when the SPLIT LED is on) chords are recognized
under the split point, i.e. on the Lower part of the keyboard.
With the UPPER or FULL Chord Scanning mode, you must
play three or more notes to have a chord recognized.
4
Play your chords and your melody.
Go on playing. As you may notice, the Liverpool features a
very sophisticated chord recognition engine. Recognized
chords are shown in the display.
5
Make a break—or should we say "a fill"?
During your playing, you are free to call a one-bar break. Try
it:
PRESS BREAK
Do you see? Music stopped for one bar. Then, it is back again.
After a while, let's go for something different...
PRESS FILL1 OR FILL2
No silence, this time. Liverpool plays a complex passage to let
you take a breath. FILL1 is the simpler one, where FILL2 is
more sophisticated. Usually, you will use FILL1 when play-
ing with Variations 1 and 2 (the most easy), FILL2 when
working with Variations 3 and 4 (more complex ones).
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Select other Variations.
There are four VARIATION buttons. These are four different
versions of the same Style. Try them all!
You can go to a Variation after a Fill. Just press a FILL button,
then, immediately after press a VARIATION button.
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Stop it!
OK, you could say: "Oh, that's easy, I know how to do it, I can
just press that big red START/STOP button again".
Yes, you are perfectly right. But that's the easy way. Let us
suggest a more colorful way:
PRESS ENDING1 OR ENDING2
An ending is instantaneously called, and will begin playing,
to lead the Style to a colorful end. As usual, ENDING1 is pre-
programmed, while ENDING2 asks for your chord progres-
sion.
In Sync
"What if I want to avoid all that START/STOP stuff? I mean, I pre-
fer to have my hands free for playing music!"
Good point. The SYNCHRO button is there right for this pur-
pose.
1
While the Style is stopped, press the SYN-
CHRO button.
The SYNCHRO-START LED begins blinking. The Synchro
Start function is enabled.
2
Play a chord on the keyboard.
You must play a chord for the chord recognition engine. Usu-
ally, it will be to the left of the split point, but it depends on
the CHORD SCANNING section (see "CHORD SCANNING
section" on page 7).
The Style starts.
3
Stop the Style using your chosen method.
PLAYING IN REALTIME
(Without using Automatic Accompaniment)
As soon as you turn your Liverpool on, it is in Style Play
mode, and you can play it in realtime. Please follow me...
1
Play on the keyboard.
When you turn the Liverpool on, Performance 1-1 is automat-
ically selected.
Performance bank-number
This sets the Realtime (Keyboard) tracks for you. In this case
you get the Upper 1 track playing on the full keyboard range,
with the Grand Piano Program selected.
As you may know, there are four available Realtime tracks:
Upper 1–3 and Lower. Upper Realtime tracks may play on
the full range of the keyboard (the selected KEYBOARD
MODE shall be FULL UPPER). Otherwise, the Lower track
plays on the left of the Split Point, and the Upper tracks on
the right (KEYBOARD MODE shall be SPLIT).
If you are not satisfied with this setting at startup, you can
simply select another Performance. Or change the track's set-
tings—as you will see in this tutorial—and save them into
Performance 1-1. You'll soon see how to do it.
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Select a different Performance.
Is the PERFORM. LED on?
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