Operation Manual

F3 Lower Lock: Activating this, the Lower 1 & 2 sounds are ‘locked’, i.e. the voice used for the Lower voices remains the same, even if
you change the Style.
F4 Tempo Step: If selected with the relevant function push button and modified with the VALUE +/- push buttons, this function allows
you to define the value by which the Tempo is to be increased or decreased by each single press of the RIT ACC (TAP)
push button.
F5 Sync Time: This can be modified using the VALUE +/- buttons and allows you to define after how many milliseconds exactly the
Arranger continues playing with the SYNC STOP button activated and the chord played. If a chord is played for a peri-
od of time that is shorter than the value set, KEY STOP terminates the execution of the Style. In those musical styles
requiring quick intervals (like for the Tango) values around 150 milliseconds are recommended, in the slower ones like
the 16 Beats a value of about 500 or 600 milliseconds are recommended. Pressing the push buttons VALUE +/- togeth-
er, you restore the standard value of 250 milliseconds.
F6 Chord Mode: Pressing repeatedly the F6 function button modifies the chord acknowledgement mode, choosing among the follow-
ing four possibilities:
Fingered 1 acknowledges the chord only according to the notes actually played in the very moment, so that
even chords made up of two notes are acknowledged if one single note is released after playing a three notes
chord, with the other two notes still pressed down, even with HOLD activated.
Fingered 2 is similar to Fingered 1, but keeps all the notes of the chord played in memory. If in a chord of
three notes only one is released, the chord will remain still the original one.
Easy 1 performs a chord with a minimum of notes. If for example you play only the keynote, you obtain a
major chord; adding the third minor you create a minor chord, playing the seventh with the keynote you
obtain a seventh chord.
Easy 2 is similar to Easy 1 but acknowledges also chords to which further notes are added in addition to the
original ones, avoiding that you need to replay the hole chord again.
F7 Touch Ass:This function allows you to associate one of the six One Touch voice groups to the style in use, such that when the
Style is called up, the most suitable One Touch group is also called up.
F8 Touch Style:This is enabled by default. When the One Touch function is activated, the associated one of six One Touch groups is
displayed whenever a style is selected. In this way you may program first the single One Touch groups with the sounds
that are most suitable for the specific musical genre, and then you may assign the specific group to the Style you are
modifying.
ARRANGE VIEW MENU
From the main page of the display press F5 Arrange View to gain access to the four pages that allow you to modify sounds, volumes, reverb,
effects and pan of each single track making up the Style. When the modification procedure has been terminated, the new modifications to the
Style are saved overwriting the original Style. For easier programming, you may set the Arrange View pages while the Style is playing. The
tracks playing are indicated by a small blinking point. The single tracks of the automatic accompaniment, as well as Lower 1 and Lower 2, are
assigned to the relevant function push buttons. Use the PAGE +/- buttons to call up the next pages.
MODIFYING THE SOUNDS
From any of the four pages you may also modify the sound assigned to a track for the Arrange A, B, C, D, Intro 1, 2, 3, Ending 1, 2, 3 parts.
Modification can affect either the currently selected Arranger part (Single mode) or all parts (Global mode), except for the Drum Sets, whose
modifications affect all parts.
The sound can be selected while the Arranger is stopped for the Arrange A, B, C and D parts, whereas for the Intros and Endings you need to
start the Arranger, call up the Intro or the Ending and then, once you have started the part, select the sound you wish to modify.
Use the following procedure to change a sound:
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Select the Style you wish to modify and then press EXIT to go back to the main page of the display.
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Gain access to Arrange View by pressing the F5 ARRANGE VIEW button or by pressing the selected Style twice.
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To modify an Arranger part, select it using the dedicated function push buttons. The Arranger can either be playing or in stop statues.
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For the Intros and the Endings, the selection can be carried out only with the Arranger playing.
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To see which one of the melodic accompaniment tracks currently have data (melodic information), you may start the Arranger and observe
which tracks have a small blinking point associated with them.
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To select the track whose timbre is to be modified, use the relevant function push buttons to the side of the display, the selected track beco-
mes highlighted for about two seconds.
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Within these two seconds, you need to press one of the VOICES push buttons to call up the voice family. From that moment on there will be
no time limits to find the voice you want to associate with the selected accompaniment track.
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Select the voice using the VOICES push buttons (and, if required, the PAGE +/- buttons) prior to the function push buttons to select the exact
voice.
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