Song Mode - Williams SYMPHONY GRAND Owner's Manual

2. Press the CHORD button.
3. Press a key on the left side of the keyboard
(try the C below middle C). You should start
hearing a musical arrangement playing along
with the drumbeat.
4. As you play individual notes on the keyboard
you can hear the arrangement transpose to a
new key.
Musically Controlling the Styles
1. Press the SYNC button. The LED will light.
2. Press the Intro/End button. It's LED will light.
3. Play a C key on the left side of the keyboard.
The Style will start playing the intro and then
automatically a regular accompaniment in the
key of C.
4. Play G key. At this point the accompaniment
will change to the key of G.
5. Press the Fill1 button. The accompaniment
will now play a fill and continue to play.
6. Press the Fill2/Variation button. There will be
another fill and there will be a variation of the
arrangement.
7. Press the Intro/End button. The arrangement
will now play to the end and then stop.
Other Style Functions
Harmony - When Chord mode is enabled
the right hand part will automatically create a
harmony based on the note you are playing.
OTS - (One Touch Sound) - When this is
enabled the right hand part sound will be
automatically selected to compliment the
arrangement that is selected. You can change
this assignment if desired by selecting a
different voice.
Chord - When enabled the key of the rhythmic
arrangement will be based on the root note of
what is played by the left hand. For instance
if you play the C note octave below middle C,
the chords will be C. To play harmonies other
than major chords you will need to play the
interval that will change the chord from a major
to a minor. For instance if you play a C, Eb and
G the C chord will become minor. If you play
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C and Bb the Chord will become C7. See the
appendix, pages 36 and 37, for examples of
playing harmonies.
Fade - When you press this button the
arrangement volume can be faded in or faded
out.
For Fade ins, press the SYNC button then press
the Fade button. When you play a note on
the left side of the keyboard you will hear the
arrangement fade in.
For Fade outs, simply press the Fade button.
You will hear the arrangement fade out.

SONG MODE

There are two different functions in the Song
Mode of the Symphony Grand, Internal and
USB Song modes.
If you have a USB drive inserted into the HOST
USB drive slot on the front panel you can switch
between these two modes. If you don't have a
USB drive inserted you will only be in Internal
Mode.
USB Song Mode
The Symphony Grand 2 can play standard MIDI
files directly from a USB storage drive* (the USB
Drive should be formatted in a Windows FAT 32
format).
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