Reference; Playing A Variety Of Instrument Voices; Selecting A Main Voice; Playing The "Harmonium/Piano - Yamaha PSR-I300 Owner's Manual

Playing a Variety of Instrument Voices

Reference

In addition to piano, organ, and other "conventional" keyboard instruments, this instru-
ment has a large range of Voices that includes guitar, bass, strings, sax, trumpet, drums
and percussion, and even sound effects—giving you a wide variety of musical sounds.

Selecting a Main Voice

1
Press the [VOICE] button.
The Voice number and name will be shown.
Voice number
001
Voice name
The Voice shown here
becomes the Main
Voice for the instrument.
NOTE
• is not displayed alone. It is always displayed
with or
2
Use the number buttons [0]–[9], or
[+/YES] and [-/NO] buttons to select the
desired Voice.
Refer to the Voice List on page 70.
Shehnai
004
Select the Voice you want to play
3
Play the keyboard.
Preset Voice Types
001–030
Used for Indian music performance.
(Indian Voices)
001–259 Instrument Voices (including sound effects).
Various drum and percussion sounds are
assigned to individual keys, from which they can
260–279
be played. Details on the instruments and key
(Drum Kit)
assignments of each Drum Kit can be found on
page 72.
Arpeggios are automatically reproduced by
280–299
simply playing the keyboard (page 21).
300–644 XGlite Voices (page 73)
One Touch Setting
The One Touch Setting feature automatically
selects the most suitable Voice when you
000 select a Style, Riyaz or Song (excepting Songs
and Styles input from other devices). Simply
select Voice number "000" to activate this fea-
ture.
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Harmnum1
Always
appears on
the display.
. Refer to page 15.

Playing the "Harmonium/Piano"

When you want to reset various settings to default
and simply play a Harmonium sound, press the
[HARMONIUM/PIANO] button.
The Voice "001 Harmonium Single" is selected auto-
matically as the Main Voice. When "001 Harmonium
Single" is already selected, "031 Live! Concert Grand
Piano" is selected instead.

Using the Metronome

The instrument features a built-in metronome (a
device that keeps an accurate tempo), convenient for
practicing.
1
Press the [METRONOME] button to start
the metronome.
2
Press the [METRONOME] button again to
stop the metronome.
To change the tempo:
Press the [TEMPO/TAP] button to call up the Tempo
value, and then use the number buttons [0]–[9], or
[+/YES] and [-/NO] buttons.
090
Tempo
Current Tempo value
Press the [+/YES] and [-/NO] buttons simultaneously
to call up the default tempo value of the current Style,
Riyaz or Song.
To set the Time Signature:
Press and hold the [METRONOME] button to call up
"TimeSigN" (Functions 032; page 56), and then use
the number buttons, or [+/YES] and [-/NO] buttons.
To set the Metronome Volume:
Call up Function number 034 (page 56).