Local Control; Using Initial Setup Send With A Sequencer; External Clock; Bulk Data Send - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-290 Owner's Manual

Local Control

This function lets you enable or disable keyboard control over the PSR-290's
voices in the Function mode (page 76). This would come in handy, for example,
when recording notes to MIDI sequencer. If you are using the sequencer to play
back the voices of the PSR-290, you would want to set this to "off" — in order to
avoid getting "double" notes, both from the keyboard and from the sequencer.
Normally, when playing the PSR-290 by itself, this should be set to "on."

Using Initial Setup Send with a Sequencer

The most common use for the Initial Setup Send function is in recording a song
on a sequencer that is intended for playback with the PSR-290. Essentially, this
takes a "snapshot" of the PSR-290 settings and sends that data to the sequencer.
By recording this "snapshot" at the start of the song (before any actual perfor-
mance data), you can instantly restore the necessary settings on the PSR-290 in
the Function mode (page 76). Provided there is a pause in the song, you could
also do this in the middle of a song — for example, completely changing the PSR-
290 settings for the next section of the song.

External Clock

This determines whether the style and song playback functions are controlled by
the PortaTone's internal clock (off) or by MIDI clock data from an external
sequencer or computer (on).
This should be set to on when you want to have style or song playback follow the
external device (such as a rhythm machine or a sequencer). The default setting is
off.
These settings can be made in the Function mode (page 76).

Bulk Data Send

This lets you save important PortaTone data and settings to another device (such
as a sequencer, computer, or MIDI data filer).
These settings can be made in the Function mode (page 76).
G Bulk Data Receive
Send the Bulk Data from computer or sequencer to the PSR-290.
MIDI Functions
• No sound is output from the
PSR-290 when Local ON/OFF
is set to OFF.
• When the Initial Setup Send
operation is completed, the PSR-
290 automatically returns to the
previous panel condition.
• If External Clock is set to ON,
style or song playback will not
start unless external clock are
received.
• Keep in mind that all recorded
Song data and One Touch Set-
ting data operations replace
the data.
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