Playing Styles; Playing A Style - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-A1000 Owner's Manual

Playing Styles

Playing Styles
The PSR-A1000 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.
For this example, DANCE &
BALLROOM is selected.
2
Turn ACMP on.
The specified left-hand section of the keyboard becomes the "Auto Accompaniment" area, and chords played
in this area are automatically detected and used as a basis for fully automatic accompaniment with the
selected style.
ACMP
28
Quick Guide
Split Point
Auto Accompaniment
area
A
B
C
D
E
For this example,
VienneseWaltz is selected.
Reference
on page 56
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 area and
the right-hand area of the
keyboard is called the
"split point." Refer to
page 122 for instructions
on setting the split point.