The Conductor - Yamaha PORTATONE PSR-400 Owner's Manual

FEATURE REFERENCE

THE CONDUCTOR

The SONG MEMORY CONDUCTOR function allows
CHORD and MEMORY banks to be "chained" and auto-
matically played back in any order.
Recording
1.
Press the [CONDUCTOR] button while holding the
[RECORD] button to engage the CONDUCTOR
record ready mode. The [CONDUCTOR] button indi-
cator will flash. The indicators of all CHORD and
MELODY banks that contain recorded data will also
flash.
• The CONDUCTOR record ready mode can not be engaged
if none of the CHORD and MELODY banks contain data.
2.
Press the CHORD and/or MELODY bank buttons that
you want to begin playback with — the selected bank
indicators will light continuously.
3.
Press the SONG MEMORY [PLAY/STOP] button to
begin recording.
4.
Press the CHORD and MELODY bank buttons at the
appropriate times in the order that you want them to
play (playback will actually begin from the beginning
of the next measure). Any MELODY bank on/off
events recorded in a chord bank remain active in a
CONDUCTOR chain.
5.
Recording will end when a complete ending in the data
is encountered, or when the SONG MEMORY
[PLAY/STOP] button is pressed.
• If the memory becomes full during CONDUCTOR recording,
"End" will appear on the MULTI DISPLAY and recording will
stop. The CONDUCTOR memory capacity is approximately
200 "events" — each button press (on or off) is an event.
30
(SONG MEMORY)
Playback
1 .
To playback the CONDUCTOR sequence simply
press the [CONDUCTOR] button so that its indicator
flashes, and then press the SONG MEMORY [PLAY/
STOP] button.
2.
CONDUCTOR playback will stop automatically when
the end of the sequence is reached. You can also stop
playback at any time by pressing the SONG
MEMORY [PLAY/STOP] button.