Keyboard Percussion - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-620 Owner's Manual

Playing the PSR-620
The Data Dial
This is undoubtedly the easiest way to select a voice. Simply rotate the
dial clockwise to increment or counter-clockwise to decrement.
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Play & Adjust Volume
You can now play the selected voice on the PSR-620 keyboard. Use the
[MASTER VOLUME] control to adjust the overall volume level.

Keyboard Percussion

When one of the eight PERCUSSION KIT voices are selected — voice
numbers 142 through 149 — you can play drums and percussion instru-
ments on the keyboard. The drums and percussion instruments played by the
various keys are marked by symbols below the keys.
The Percussion Kits
142 Standard Kit
143 Room Kit
144 Rock Kit
145 Electronic Kit
146 Analog Kit
147 Jazz Kit
148 Brush Kit
149 Classic Kit
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VOICE 142
STYLE
SONG
• The optimum octave settings
(OVERALL function: octave=0)
are set for each voice (except for
the keyboard percussion voices).
• The keyboard volume can be
adjusted independently from the
accompaniment volume via the
"Kybd Vol" function in the OVER-
ALL function group — see page
77. "Kybd Vol" function can be
quickly selected by pressing and
holding the [VOICE] button.
• The Harmony/Echo and Dual
functions (pages 20 and 17)
cannot be turned ON while a
keyboard percussion voice is
selected, and will automatically
be turned OFF if a keyboard
percussion voice is selected
while they are ON.
• The TRANSPOSE parameter
(page 23) has no effect on the
keyboard percussion voices.
• See page 98 for a complete
listing of the keyboard percus-
sion drum instrument assign-
ments.