User Style; Playing Styles Using The Entire Keyboard - Yamaha PORTATONE PSR-S500 Owner's Manual

User Style

This instrument features 11 internal Style categories, but it also allows you to import additional Styles
(only those with an ".sty" extension) that you've downloaded from the Internet or gotten from other
sources, and load them into a User Style and use them in the same way as the internal Styles.
For details on loading a Style file, see " Loading User Files and Style Files " on page 78 .
In order to load a Style file it is necessary to first either transfer the Style file to the instrument from a com-
puter, or connect a USB flash memory containing the Style file to the USB TO DEVICE connector. Refer to
"Transferring Performance Data to and from a Computer" on page 83 for details on the file transfer proce-
dure.
If you are using a USB flash memory device, refer to "Loading User Files and Style Files" on page 78.

Playing Styles Using the Entire Keyboard

In "Playing Along with a Style" on page 23 we described two methods of playing Styles (Multi, Full Key-
board) in which chords were either detected only to the left of the keyboard Split Point or over the entire
keyboard. By making the settings described below, chord detection for Style accompaniment occurs over
the entire range of the keyboard, allowing for even more dynamic Style performance. In this mode only
chords played in the normal way (page 25) can be detected.
1
Press the [ACMP] button for longer than
a second.
Hold for longer
than a second
Style (Auto Accompaniment) Functions
2
Use the dial to select 2 "FullKeyboard".
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