Yamaha PLG150-DX Owner's Manual page 53

Portamento
These three parameters are used to set portamento (glide) and glissando (stepped
glide) effects, and to control certain sustain characteristics of the keyboard. The
particular effects available will change, depending on the
voice.
•The Portamento parameters are
• Mode
Settings:
In Mono mode:
Fingered Porta
Full Time Porta
In Poly mode:
Sus-Key P Follow
Sus-Key P Retain
When the keyboard is in
Time Porta." Fingered Portamento is glide that occurs only when you play legato — in
other words, playing successive notes smoothly, not releasing a previously played note
until after the next note is played. Full Time Portamento produces glide from one note to
the next even when you play staccato (releasing one note before playing the next).
When the keyboard is in
"Sus-Key P Retain." In Sustain-Key Pitch Follow mode, if you play a note or chord and
then play another note or chord, the sustain from the original note/chord glides to the
pitch of the most recently played note/chord. In Sustain-Key Pitch Retain mode, the pitch
of the new note or chord glides from that original pitch(es) without interrupting the sustain
of the original note or chord.
• Glissando (Step)
Settings: OFF, 1 ... 12 (semitones)
When Glissando is set to 1...12, the glide in pitch occurs in discrete semitone steps. This
effect is best heard with a slower rate and when two widely separated notes are played
one after the other. When Glissando is set to "OFF," normal (continuous) Portamento is
available.
• Time
Range: 0 ... 99
This determines the time of the Portamento or Glissando effects. A setting of "0" pro-
duces no effect, while a setting of "99" produces the longest (slowest) pitch changes.
This is contrary to the operation of most PLG150-DX rate controls for which higher val-
ues result in faster (shorter) times. In order to turn Portamento or Glissando off, make
sure to set this to "0."
Parameters /
Function mode parameters in the Edit Panel window.
Mono mode, the available settings are "Fingered Porta" and "Full
Poly mode, the available settings are "Sus-Key P Follow" and
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Parameter Descriptions
Poly/Mono setting of the