Style Setting - KETRON SD1 User Manual

one foreseen, the complete FILL or INTRO will be performed. If instead you play a very short chord, the Arranger is
immediately stopped. If also the KEY START LED is lit, as soon as you remove your hand from the section on the left
from the split point, the Arranger is stopped and will be restarted as soon as you play a note or a chord to the left
of the splint point. The time elapsing before the Key Stop becomes active can by programmed in Sync Time in the
Arrange Mode menu. Please refer to the relative section.
TAP/RIT/ACC: Tapping four fourths on this button identifies the Tempo value to be assigned to the Arranger and to the Sequencer,
while they are in Stop condition. As soon as the Tempo value is identified, the performance is started. The minimum
number of bars depends on the time signature, i.e. a 3/4 Style requires three bars, a 4/4 Style needs four bars. Some
Styles will not accept the coplete range of Tempo values due to the fact that they contain Live Drums. If two high val-
ues are used, they will be rounded down to the permitted limit. If the Arranger and the Sequencer are playing, this
button allows you to increase the Tempo by steps of five points on each press (Accelerando). Keeping TAP pressed
down, the increase direction is changed (you can see this from the arrow near to the Tempo value), i.e. the Tempo is
decreased by steps of five points on each press (Ritardando).
FADE IN/OUT: AIf the Arranger is activated, this generates the fading out effect, i.e. this function brings the volume of all sections,
including the Right section, from the present volume down to zero. If the Arranger is off, this function produces the
fading in effect, i.e. it brings all the sections from volume zero to their programmed volume level. Pressing this but-
ton repeatedly will not cause any abrupt volume changes.
PIANIST: Generally speaking it is preferable to have one keyboard portion dedicated to chords acknowledgement and the other
one to the solos and the lead. For the true pianist player, however, it may not be sufficient to have a length of near-
ly four octaves available. The Pianist function deletes this division and dedicates the complete keyboard to the tim-
bre assigned to the Right section and to the chords acknowledgement. Obviously the best results are obtained with
pianist timbres such as the Grand Piano or the Vintage electric piano. Pianist allows you to use the complete exten-
sion of the keyboard for just one timbre, and at the same time it also allows you to control the Arranger. There are
two different operating modes for Pianist: Auto and Standard. These modes can be set in the F3 Utility menu, Page
2/3, F5 Pianist..
Auto: The mode requires at least a chord of three notes, played no matter where, to acknowledge a chord. Once the chord
has been acknowledged, this can be maintained playing a melody with not more than two notes played at the same
time.
Standard: The Standard mode, set by default, is obtained using the Sustain pedal. If the Sustain pedal is pressed right after
having set the chord on the keyboard, the Arranger uses only the chord that was acknowledged before the Sustain
was activated. You may even keep the chord stored without activating Sustain: simply press both the * and # push
buttons down at the same time.
It is possible to disable the Sustain on the timbre in use to utilise the Sustain pedal exclusively for the Pianist func-
tion. This parameter is set in the F4 Arrange Mode menu, Page 2/3, F7 Pianist Sustain and is described in the fol-
lowing:

STYLE SETTING.

This function can be very handy during live performance, to call up those timbres of the Right section that are used
more frequently for a Style. The Style Setting function allows you to associate to each Style up to ten timbres that
can be directly called up with the relevant function buttons. The SD1 has 48 Style Setting memories. Each of them
can be associated with any Style. On changing the Style, even while the Arranger is playing, the timbres will be updat-
ed. The settings of all Style Settings can be freely programmed in the F4 Arrange Mode menu. To use the Style
Settings, first of all select the Style with the STYLES push buttons and the function push buttons, then activate
STYLE SETTING (the LED lights up). The display shows ten timbres you can choose from using the relevant function
buttons. Press EXIT to return to the main page. As long as STYLE SETTING is activated, it will be impossible to call
up any timbres from the VOICES banks, and indeed the display shows the Style Setting timbres. In order to disable
Style Setting, press the relevant push button again (the LED goes off).
It is possible to assign each Style one of the 48 Style Settings on the second page of F4 Arrange Mode.
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