Preset/User Keyboard Percussion - Yamaha Electone EL-900 Owner's Manual

7 Keyboard Percussion
The Keyboard Percussion function features a total of 120 different drum
and percussion sounds, playable from the keyboards and Pedalboard.
Keyboard Percussion has two different modes, Preset and User. Preset
Keyboard Percussion lets you play 43 different sounds from the Lower
keyboard and Pedalboard, while the User Keyboard Percussion lets you
freely assign the 120 available sounds to any key or pedal you wish. The
two Keyboard Percussion buttons on the panel function as on/off switches
for both Keyboard Percussion modes.
1) To use the Preset Keyboard Percussion:
1
Turn off the Lower and/or Pedal voices by setting each voiceﾕs volume
to MIN.
2
Turn on the Keyboard Percussion function by pressing the LOWER/
1 and/or PEDAL/2 buttons in the KEYBOARD PERCUSSION section
on the left side of the panel.
3
Set the volume. The volume of the percussion sounds is set together
with that of the rhythm volume.
SEQ. SEQ. MARCH
1 2
USER 1
SEQ. SEQ. TANGO
3 4
USER 5
4
Play some notes on the Lower keyboard and/or Pedalboard. The 43
percussion sounds have been assigned to the keyboards as shown in
the chart below.
KEYBOARD
PERCUSSION
LOWER
1
PEDAL
2
RHYTHM
WALTZ SWING BOUNCE SLOW
ROCK
USER 2 USER 3 USER 4 A
LATIN 1 LATIN 2 8 BEAT 16 BEAT
USER 6 USER 7 USER 8 C
Pressing the KEYBOARD PERCUSSION
buttons calls up the Menu display shown
at left. You can select Preset (LK Preset or
PK Preset) or User (one of the eight Users
you created). If one of the Users is
currently active, select ﾒLK PRESETﾓ
(Lower Keyboard Preset) or ﾒPK PRESETﾓ
(Pedalboard Preset).
When the Rhythm Pattern Program
function (page 126) is engaged, different
drum and percussion sounds are available
on the upper keyboard.
VOLUME
MAX
1
B
2
D
MIN
NOTE:
NOTE:
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