Playing Rhythm Songs - Yamaha V50 Authorized Product Manual

This section explains how to play a rhythm song.
Note:
When the power is turned on, the rhythm song me-
mory is empty. To play a rhythm song, you must create
a rhythm song or load an existing rhythm song from
card or disk. Page 72 explains how to create a rhythm
song. To load rhythm data, see page 98 (from card)
or page 105 (from disk).
Here we will explain the procedure for playing
a song from the beginning. If you want to play a
rhythm song from a measure other than the beginning,
you can specify the starting measure while making
settings for steps (2)–(4). (Move the cursor to
">Meas" and specify the starting measure, or press
to specify the starting measure:)
(1) Press
(rhythm song play).
If the following display appears, press the
below "toSONG" to get the above display.
(2) With the cursor at "SONG", select one of the 8
rhythm songs.
The "w" after the rhythm song number indicates
that data has already been written for this song. If
no "w" is displayed, no data exists for that rhythm
song.
(3) Move the cursor to ">Tempo" and set the playing
tempo. The tempo is indicated as the number of
quarter notes per minute. 30 is the slowest tempo,
and 240 is the fastest tempo.
(4) Move the cursor to ">KBD" and set the function
of the keyboard (the keyboard mode). This will
determine what sounds the keyboard will play when
you are in song play mode. Select one of the fol-
lowing two choices.

PLAYING RHYTHM SONGS

to get the following display
RHY The keyboard will play the rhythm sounds
......
assigned to each key.
SYN ....... The keyboard will play the performance
or voice selected before
pressed.
(5) Press and the selected rhythm song will begin
playing. The ">toPTN" display will disappear, and
the currently playing measure number and pattern
name will be displayed. When you play the key-
board, you will hear the sound selected in (4).
(6) Press and the rhythm song will stop playing.
To continue from where you stopped, press
. To begin start from the beginning, press
and
together, and then press
While a rhythm song is playing, you can do the following.
Change the tempo
When the cursor is at ">Tempo", you can change
the tempo. You can also modify the tempo using
the data entry slider while holding
Change the keyboard mode
When the cursor is at ">KBD", you can set the
keyboard mode, selecting whether the keyboard will
play rhythm sounds or synthesizer sounds. This
setting is effective only when in rhythm mode.
Whether the keyboard plays rhythm sounds or
synthesizer sounds is determined by the transmit
channel of the keyboard and the receive channel
of each section. If this keyboard mode is set to
"RHY", the keyboard will always play rhythm
sounds when in rhythm mode
transmit channel and receive channel settings.
While the rhythm machine is playing, you can press
or
ance play mode or single play mode while continuing
to play the rhythm machine. (You will be able to select
and edit performances or voices.) To stop rhythm ma-
chine playback, press
thesizer edit mode, return to play mode and then press
regardless
of the
to move to perform-
However, when in syn-
Using the rhythm machine
was
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