Playing Styles; Playing A Style - Yamaha PORTATONE PSR-1000 Owner's Manual

Playing Styles

Playing Styles
The PSR-2000/1000 has a huge variety of musical "styles" that you can call upon to back up your
own performance. They give you anything from a simple, yet effective piano backing or percussion
accompaniment to a full band or orchestra.
Style related buttons

Playing a style

1
Select a style group and a style.
STYLE
POP & ROCK
BALLAD
For this example, Dance is
selected.
2
Turn ACMP on.
The specified left-hand section of the keyboard becomes the "Auto Accompaniment" section, and chords
played in this section are automatically detected and used as a basis for fully automatic accompaniment with
the selected style.
ACMP
28
Quick Guide
SWING & MARCH &
JAZZ BALLROOM WALTZ
DANCE LATIN USER
Split Point
Auto Accompaniment
section
A
B
C
D
E
For this example,
EuroTrance is selected.
Reference
on page 59
Press the [BACK]/[NEXT] button to
select the memory location of the
style. For this example, PRESET is
selected.
• The point on the keyboard
that separates the auto
accompaniment section
and the right-hand sec-
tion of the keyboard is
called the "split point."
Refer to page 138 for
instructions on setting the
split point.