Keyboard Percussion - Yamaha PSR-520 Product Manual

Playing the PSR-520
The Data Dial
This is undoubtedly the easiest way to select a voice. Simply rotate the
dial clockwise to increment or counter-clockwise to decrement.
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Play & Adjust Volume ...................................................................................................................
You can now play the selected voice on the PSR-520 keyboard. Use the
[MASTER VOLUME] control to adjust the overall volume level.
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Keyboard Percussion

When one of the eight PERCUSSION KIT voices are selected — voice
numbers 142 through 149 — you can play drums and percussion instru-
ments on the keyboard. The drums and percussion instruments played by the
various keys are marked by symbols below the keys.
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The Percussion Kits
142 Standard Kit
143 Room Kit
144 Rock Kit
145
Electronic Kit
146 Analog Kit
Jazz Kit
147
Brush Kit
148
Classic Kit
149
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The optimum octave settings
(OVERALL function:
octave = 0)
are set to the keyboard for each
voice (except for keyboard per-
cussion).
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The keyboard volume can be
adjusted independently from the
accompaniment volume via the
"Kybd Vol" function in the OVER-
ALL function group — see page
67. "Kybd Vol" function can be
quickly selected by pressing and
holding the [VOICE] button.
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The Harmony/Echo and Dual
functions (pages 20 and 17)
cannot be turned ON while a
keyboard percussion voice is
selected, and will automatically
be turned OFF if a keyboard
percussion voice is selected
while they are ON.
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The TRANSPOSE parameter
(page 23) has no effect on the
keyboard percussion voices.
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See page 86 for a complete
listing of the keyboard percus-
sion drum instrument assign-