Step; Play With A Style; Selecting A Rhythm Of A Style - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-A300 Owner's Manual

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Play with a Style

Selecting a rhythm of a Style

The Style feature provides built-in backing and rhythm parts in 135 different musical styles, cover-
ing a wide variety of musical categories, including rock, blues, techno and much more. You can
also load commercially available Style Files to the instrument. To do this load the Style files from
computer, and then register a style data to Style number 136. (Refer to the information on transfer-
ring data on page 67 and registering Styles on page 61.)
Here's how to play a rhythm of a Style. The rhythm sound consists of percussion instruments.
● STYLE FILE
The Style File Format "SFF" is Yamaha's original style file format which
uses a unique conversion system to provide high-quality automatic
accompaniment based on a wide range of chord types.
1
Press the [STYLE] button.
The Style number and name are displayed.
2
Select a Style.
Select the desired Style by using the number buttons [0]-[9], [+],
[-].
Refer to the Style List on page 83.
3
Press the [START/STOP] button.
The Style rhythm will start.
You can stop playback at any time by pressing the [START/
STOP] button.
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Style number
001
016
Swing H
Style name
8BtModrn
001
Appears when
the Style mode is
active.