Additional Operations - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-225 Owner's Manual

Additional Operations

Recording Chords and Sections to the Chord Track:
1) Play a chord in the accompaniment section of the keyboard. ("Chord"
and the chord name appears in the display.)
Chords can be entered manually (with the Dictionary function), or played
with Multi Fingering. (See page 62, 56.)
2) Select a section by pressing the corresponding button.
When selecting an Intro or Ending section, the length is fixed, and need
not be entered in step 3 below.
3) Select the note (time) value with the numeric keypad.
Recording Triplets and Dotted Notes:
1) At the desired position, press the corresponding numeric keypad
button ("7" for dotted or "9" for triplets).
2) Press the numeric keypad button for the desired note value.
7 8
rest
0
velocity
BWD
NO
Recording Rests:
1) Select the desired position in the song with the +/- buttons.
2) Press the "8" (rest) button in the numeric keypad.
3) If you want to record a dotted rest or triplet rest, press the appropriate
numeric keypad button ("7" for dotted or "9" for triplets).
4) Press the numeric keypad button (1 - 6) corresponding to the desired
rest value. (The specified rest value appears as an icon in the display.)
8 + 4
rest
5) After recording the desired rest value(s), record the next note.
RECORD
ACMP ON
M
7
7 4
+
9 + 4
3
9
3
FWD
YES
MEASURE 001 201 -
1
Rest value icon (eighth-note rest)
• The Intro section can
only be recorded at the
beginning of a song.
• When an Ending
section is selected, no
further notes can be
recorded.
Triplets are three notes
within a single beat —
in other words, one beat
is divided up into three
equal units. Each note
(or rest) of a triplet must
be entered separately.
Two eighth notes (within a
quarter-note beat).
Dotted note
Triplet
Dotted notes extend the
length of a note by half
— in other words, the
length of a dotted
eighth note is an eighth
note plus a sixteenth
note.
If you want to enter two
or more consecutive
beats of rest, you can
simply use the + button
to move forward in the
track (for as many beats
rest as desired). This
saves you the trouble of
repeatedly entering rests
when there are several
beats or measures of
silence between notes.
SONG RECORDING
Three eighth-note triplets
(within a quarter-note beat).
= +
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