Add Harmony To The Right-Hand Melody; Select The Harmony Type - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-450 Owner's Manual

Add Harmony To the Right-hand Melody

Press the [HARMONY] button to turn the harmony function on to
automatically add harmony, trills, tremolo, and echo effects to
right-hand notes.

Select the Harmony Type

A total of 26 harmony types are provided, and the optimum one is automatically
selected whenever you select a voice, but you can change the harmony type selec-
tion as required by following the procedure below.
1
Use the [RIGHT MENU] button to select HARMONY.
Duet
01
2
Use the number buttons [0] ~ [9] or the [+] and [–] buttons to
select the desired harmony type.
A complete harmony type list is provided on page 79.
● Harmony Types (01 ~ 05)
These types are effective when a style is selected and accompaniment is on.
Harmony notes are added to single notes you play in the right-hand range of the keyboard,
based on chords you play in the left-hand range. Harmony is only applied to the last right-
hand note played.
● Trill Types (06 ~ 12)
A trill will be produced at the current tempo setting using the last two notes played in the
right-hand range of the keyboard.
● Tremolo Types (13 ~ 19)
All notes played in the right-hand keyboard range will be played tremolo style (repeated)
at the current tempo setting.
● Echo types (20 ~ 26)
An echo effect will be added to all notes played in the right-hand keyboard range at the
current tempo setting.
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Currently selected harmony type
STEP 5 • Play With a Variety Of Effects
NOTE
• Harmony will be turned off if the
dictionary function is used.
• The default harmony selection
for the currently selected voice
can be instantly recalled by
simultaneously pressing the [+]
and [–] buttons.
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