Changing The Tone Of The Voice - Filter; Changing Pitch-Related Settings - Tune; Playing - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-A1000 Owner's Manual

Adjust the Volume Balance and Changing Voices — Mixing Console
Changing the Tone of the Voice — Filter
The operations for this page apply to step 2 of the procedure on page 112.
DIGITAL
STUDIO
SOUND CREATOR
DIGITAL RECORDING
MIXING CONSOLE
PART
Each press of this
button switches among
the various parts/
channels.
Changing Pitch-related Settings — Tune
The operations for this page apply to step 2 of the procedure on page 112.
PORTAMENTO TIME ............When the part is set to Mono (page 55, 80), this determines the Portamento time. The
PITCH BEND RANGE ...........Determines the range of the PITCH BEND wheel for the corresponding part. The range is
OCTAVE................................Determines the range of the pitch change in octaves, over two octaves up or down. The
TUNING...............................Determines the pitch of the instrument.
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PSR-A1000
Switches between the HARMONIC and BRIGHTNESS parameters.
A
B
C
D
E
1 2 3 4 5
Switches among the available parameters: PORTAMENTO
TIME, PITCH BEND RANGE, OCTAVE, and TUNING.
A
B
C
D
E
1 2 3 4 5
These increase/decrease (transpose) the pitch in semitone units.
MASTER ...Transposes both the pitch of the keyboard and that of the song playback.
SONG........Transposes the pitch of the song playback.
KBD ..........Transposes the pitch of the keyboard.
higher the value, the longer the time it takes for the pitch to change. Portamento is only
applied when you play legato (playing the next note before releasing the previous one).
from "0" to "12" with each step corresponding to one semitone.
value of this parameter is added to the value set via the [UPPER OCTAVE] button.
F
G
H
I
J
HARMONIC ........ Allows you to adjust the resonance effect
6 7 8
BRIGHTNESS .... Determines the brightness of the sound by
F
G
H
I
J
Refer to the explanation below.
6 7 8
For details about the Filter,
see page 81.
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Be careful with these con-
trols. Depending on the
selected voice, extreme set-
tings may result in noise or
distortion.
(see "Harmonic Content" on page 81).
adjusting the cutoff frequency (page 81).
Portamento is used to cre-
ate a smooth transition in
pitch from one note to the
next.