Playing The Psr-4000; Before You Begin; Selecting & Playing Voices - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-4000 Owner's Manual

Playing the PSR-4000

Before You Begin

Before playing your PSR-4000 for the first
time, it might be a good idea to re-initialize it to
the original factory settings just in case these have
been changed at some point before you receive
the instrument. To do this, turn the [POWER]
switch ON while holding the [DEMO] and [EXIT]
buttons.
When the display shown to the right appears
press the LCD button.
• When the above initialization procedure is carried
out, all internal data (e.g. REGISTRATION, CUS-
TOM ACCOMP, CUSTOM VOICE, MULTI PAD) will
also be initialized and therefore lost!
The PSR-4000 allows you to individually select and play up to four "orchestra parts" at the same time in a number
of ways. A range of voices can be assigned to each orchestra part.
RIGHT ORCHESTRA 1
RIGHT ORCHESTRA 2
LEAD
LEFT ORCHESTRA
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Selecting & Playing Voices
Both the RIGHT 1 and RIGHT 2 voices are polyphonic voices which can be played over
the entire keyboard or to the right of a specified split point. The default split point is the F#2
key. Either voice can be played alone, or both can be played simultaneously. The RIGHT 1
and RIGHT 2 voices can be selected from a range of 243 voices organized in 12 groups.
This is a monophonic voice which can be played over the entire keyboard or to the right of
a specified split point. The default split point is the F#2 key. The LEAD voice can be played
alone, or simultaneously with either or both of the RIGHT ORCHESTRA voices. The LEAD
voice can be selected from a range of 110 voices organized in 6 groups.
When only the LEAD voice is being played it has "last note priority". That is, only the last
note played will sound. When the LEAD voice is being played with a RIGHT ORCHESTRA
voice it has "highest note priority" — the highest note is played by the LEAD voice.
A polyphonic voice which can be played to the left of a specified split point while the
RIGHT 1, RIGHT 2, and/or LEAD voices are played to the right of the split point. The de-
fault split point is the F#2 key. The LEFT voice can be selected from a range of 200 voices
organized in 6 groups.
DEMO
EXIT
* Voice numbers include Custom Voice.
POWER