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Style Play
Start-up settings
The Style Play mode is the boot-up operating mode. When in
this mode, you can play along with the Styles (i.e. automatic
accompaniments), using up to four tracks (Upper 1-3 and
Lower) to play on the keyboard. You can choose different
Sounds and Effects by selecting Performances and STSs. Four
Pads will provide single-shot sounds or repeating patterns in
sync with the Style. You can also use the SongBook to automati-
cally select Styles suited for a particular song.
Start-up settings
Since the “My Setting” Performance is automatically selected
when turning the instrument on, you can save your preferred
start-up settings to it.
Select the Sounds, Effects, and other settings you would like to
see automatically selected when turning the instrument on.
Then keep the MY SETTING button pressed for about one sec-
ond. When the Write Startup Settings window appears, confirm
by touching OK.
Note: If you like some settings to be preserved even when choosing
different Performances, STSs and Styles, turn on the desired
“locks” to avoid changes to the selected parameters (see “General
Controls: Lock” on page 149).
Styles and Pads
Each Style includes four Pads. Each time you select a Style, the
four Pads it contains are assigned to the four PAD buttons. The
Style and the Pads will play using the same Tempo value.
Master Volume and Balance
While the MASTER VOLUME knob controls the general vol-
ume of the instrument, you can use the BALANCE knob to bal-
ance the Style’s Accompaniment and Pad tracks against the
Keyboard tracks.
Factory, Favorite and User Styles
There are three different types of Style locations:
• Factory Style banks are the preloaded Styles, that you can’t
usually edit (unless you want to do so by turning off the
protection, see “Factory Style and Pad Protect” on
page 154).
• Favorite Style banks are Styles that can be loaded from an
external device. You can rename the tabs in the Style Select
window to create places for custom banks, or for additional
music genres that are not already included among the sup-
plied banks. See “The Favorite banks” on page 110 for
information on how to manage these Styles.
• User Style banks are, like the Favorite banks, Styles loaded
from an external device. These are banks conceived as a
‘workbench’ – a place where to manage Styles and banks
before saving them to a final location.
Style Play
Overall instrument’s
volume
Balance of Style and
Pad tracks against the
Keyboard tracks
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