Table Of Contents - Yamaha Portatone PSR-340 Owner's Manual

PANEL CONTROLS AND
TERMINALS
• Front Panel ............................... 6
• Rear Panel ................................ 7
SETTING UP
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POWER REQUIREMENTS ................. 8
TURNING ON THE POWER ............. 8
ACCESSORY JACKS ......................... 9
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Quick Guide -
How to Use Your New
PSR-340 PortaTone
Step 1 Using the Built-in Floppy
Disk Drive ....................... 10
Step 2 Songs ............................. 12
Step 3 Voices ............................. 14
Step 4 Auto Accompaniment .... 16
Step 5 Chord Guide .................. 18
Step 6 Function Parameters ...... 20
PANEL DISPLAY INDICATIONS 22
• Music Stand ........................... 23
PORTABLE GRAND
PLAYING THE PORTABLE GRAND .. 24
USING THE METRONOME .............. 24
• Setting the Metronome
Time Signature ....................... 25
• Adjusting the Metronome
Volume ................................... 26
PLAYING VOICES -
THE VOICE MODE
PLAYING A VOICE - MAIN VOICE 27
• About Panel Voices and
GM Voices .............................. 29
• Drum Kit Voice Chart
(voices 101 - 110) .................. 30
Function Parameters - Main Voice 30
TRANSPOSE AND TUNING ............. 32
Transpose .................................... 32
Tuning ......................................... 33
PLAYING TWO VOICES -
DUAL VOICE ................................... 34
Function Parameters - Dual Voice 35
PLAYING TWO VOICES -
SPLIT VOICE .................................... 36
Function Parameters - Split Voice 37
ADDITIONAL VOICE
FUNCTIONS - VOICE SET AND
TOUCH SENSITIVITY ...................... 38
Function Parameters -
Voice Set and Touch Sensitivity ..... 39
EFFECTS
REVERB ............................................ 40
Contents
CHORUS .......................................... 41
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DSP ................................................. 42
HARMONY ...................................... 43
Function Parameters - Effects ...... 44
• Effect Types ............................ 45
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AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT -
THE STYLE MODE
SELECTING A STYLE AND
PLAYING THE ACCOMPANIMENT .. 47
ACCOMPANIMENT CONTROLS ..... 52
USING THE AUTO
ACCOMPANIMENT FEATURES ........ 52
CHANGING THE TEMPO ................ 53
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ACCOMPANIMENT SECTIONS
(MAIN A, MAIN B AND FILL-INS) ... 54
ADJUSTING THE
ACCOMPANIMENT VOLUME ......... 55
USING AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT -
MULTI FINGERING .......................... 56
Single Finger Chords .................. 56
Fingered Chords ......................... 56
SETTING THE ACCOMPANIMENT
SPLIT POINT ................................... 58
Function Parameter -
Accompaniment Split Point .......... 59
WHAT IS A CHORD? ....................... 60
WRITING CHORD NAMES .............. 61
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The Intervals of the Scale ........... 61
Other Chords .............................. 61
CHORD GUIDE ................................ 62
Dictionary ................................... 62
Smart ........................................... 64
• Smart Chord List .................... 65
EZ Chord ..................................... 66
EZ Chord - Playback ................... 66
• Bank Chain ............................. 67
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EZ Chord - Recording ................. 68
• Recording a Space .................. 69
• Playing the Accompaniment
During EZ Chord Recording ... 69
• HINT - Using Spaces ............. 70
Clearing an EZ Chord Bank ........... 71
ONE TOUCH SETTING (OTS) 72
ONE TOUCH SETTING - USER ...... 72
Recording a User One Touch
Setting ......................................... 72
Recalling a User One Touch Setting 73
• Selecting a User Bank ............. 73
ONE TOUCH SETTING - PRESET ... 74
Selecting a Preset One Touch
Setting ......................................... 74
SELECTING AND PLAYING
SONGS - THE SONG MODE
SELECTING AND PLAYING A SONG 75
CHANGING THE TEMPO ................ 76
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ABOUT THE BEAT DISPLAY ............. 77
ADJUSTING THE SONG VOLUME ... 78
SONG RECORDING
RECORDING A USER SONG -
REALTIME RECORDING .................. 80
• Using the Metronome ............ 81
• Additional Operations ............ 83
47 RECORDING A USER SONG -
STEP RECORDING ........................... 84
Recording Notes ........................... 85
• Additional Operations ............ 87
Replacing a Note or Rest .............. 88
Entering Velocity Curves ............... 89
• Velocity Curve Chart ............... 89
CLEARING A SONG ......................... 90
DISK OPERATIONS
Using the Floppy Disk Drive
(FDD) and Floppy Disk ................. 92
DISK SONG PLAYBACK ................... 93
SAVE ................................................ 94
LOAD ............................................... 96
UTILITY - DELETE .......................... 97
UTILITY - FORMATTING AN
UNFORMATTED DISK ..................... 98
UTILITY - FORMATTING A PREVI-
OUSLY FORMATTED DISK .............. 99
FOOTSWITCH
• Footswitch Assign Functions . 101
MIDI FUNCTIONS
WHAT IS MIDI? ............................. 102
Channel Messages ...................... 103
System Messages ........................ 103
• MIDI Terminals ..................... 103
WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH MIDI . 104
CONNECTING TO A PERSONAL
COMPUTER ................................... 105
FUNCTION PARAMETERS - MIDI 106
USING INITIAL SETUP SEND
WITH A SEQUENCER .................... 108
Sending Initial Setup Data .......... 108
TROUBLESHOOTING .................... 110
DATA BACKUP & INITIALIZATION 111
SPECIFICATIONS ........................... 112
SONG SCORES (EZ Chord banks 1, 2) . 113
VOICE LIST .................................... 114
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STYLE LIST .................................... 117
DRUM KIT LIST ............................. 118
MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART .. 120
INDEX ........................................... 123
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