Using Oriental Scales - Scale Setting/Scale Tuning/Scale Memory; Setting An Oriental Scale - Scale Setting; Adjusting The Scale Tuning - Scale Tuning - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-A1000 Owner's Manual

Using Oriental Scales – Scale Setting/Scale
Tuning/Scale Memory
The Oriental Scales feature lets you simply and easily raise or lower the pitches of specific notes and create your own
scales. You can change the scale settings at any time — even when you are playing. Up to six scale settings can be
stored for instant recall, whenever you need them.
Setting an Oriental Scale — Scale Setting
The [SCALE SETTING] buttons simulate an one-octave keyboard (C through B).
You can easily change the scale setting at any time by pressing one of the [SCALE
SETTING] buttons, located at the left side of the panel.
Pressing each button turns the Scale Setting feature for the specific note on and off.
The Scale Setting feature affects all the notes having the same note name in all
octaves. When set to on (the selected button itself is lit), you can play the keyboard
in the selected oriental scale.
The scale setting for each note is -50 cents. You can also adjust the scale tuning in
1-cent units in the SCALE TUNE display.
Adjusting the Scale Tuning — Scale Tuning
You can select a desired scale template including oriental scales and create your own scales by fine tuning the scale
notes.
Press the [SCALE TUNING] button located at the right side of display to call up the SCALE TUNE display.
Selects the
desired scale
template. BAYAT
and RAST are
two typical
oriental scale
settings.
Determines the base
note for each scale.
When the base note is
changed, the pitch of
the keyboard is
transposed, yet
maintains the original
pitch relationship
between the notes.
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Selects the note When you adjust the scale tuning, the scale template name
to be tuned. shown at the top of the display will change to "EDITED
SCALE" indicating some adjustment has been done from the
preset scale template.
Selects which parts should
be affected by the scale
setting. Select the part to be
set by pressing 6 or 7 [
and set the function ON or
OFF by pressing [8
Adjusts the scale tuning of
the selected note.
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[4 / ] : in 50-cent steps
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[5 / ] : in 1-cent steps
(–64 through
7 8
+63)
Press the 4 or 5 [
buttons simultaneously to
instantly reset the value to
the factory setting.
The [SCALE SETTING] buttons
will light or go out according to
the song playback data.
The Scale Setting function has
no effect on the Drum Kit/SFX
Kit voices.
The [SCALE SETTING]
buttons will light when the
tuning values of the
corresponding notes are set to
something other than "0". Also,
the values you set by using the
[SCALE SETTING] buttons are
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automatically reflected in the
SCALE TUNE display.
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Cent
A unit of pitch equal to 1/100 of
a semitone (100 cents = 1
semitone).
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scale tunings to a REGISTRA-
TION MEMORY button. To do
this, checkmark "SCALE" in the
REGISTRATION MEMORY
display (page 76).