User Manual
Table Of Contents
- PRECAUTIONS
- Main Features
- Included Accessories
- About the Manuals
- Using the PSR-SX900/SX700—A Broad Overview
- Contents
- Key Functions and Terms
- Panel Controls and Terminals
- Starting Up
- Display Structure
- Basic Operations
- Workflow Guide—For Performing on the PSR-SX900/SX700
- Playing with Styles—Setting Up
- Setting up Styles
- Optimum Panel Settings for the Current Style (One Touch Setting)
- Setting up Keyboard Parts
- Selecting a Voice for Each Keyboard Part
- Creating Original Organ Flutes Voices
- Setting up Keyboard Harmony/Arpeggio
- Setting up Multi Pads
- Memorizing Original Panel Settings to One Touch Setting
- Changing the Pitch of the Keyboard
- Setting up Assignable Controllers
- Playing with Styles—Operations While Performing
- Singing with Song Playback—Setting Up
- Singing with Song Playback—Operations While Performing
- Adjusting the Parameters of Each Part— Mixer
- Song Recording
- Storing and Calling up Custom Panel Setups—Registration Memory, Playlist
- Customizing for Optimum Performance
- System Settings
- Connections—Using Your Instrument with Other Devices
- Connecting a Microphone or Guitar ([MIC/GUITAR INPUT] jack)
- Using an External Speaker System for Playback (MAIN OUTPUT jacks, SUB (AUX) OUTPUT jacks (PSR-SX900))
- Listening to Audio Playback by the External Device through the Instrument’s Speaker
- Connecting Footswitches/Foot Controllers (FOOT PEDAL jacks)
- Connecting USB Devices ([USB TO DEVICE] terminal)
- Connecting to an iPhone/iPad ([USB TO DEVICE], [USB TO HOST], or MIDI terminals)
- Viewing the Instrument’s Display on an External Monitor (PSR-SX900)
- Connecting to a Computer ([USB TO HOST] terminal)
- Connecting External MIDI Devices (MIDI terminals)
- Function List
- Appendix
- Index
PSR-SX900/SX700 Owner’s Manual 71
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Singing with Song Playback—Setting Up
5 Follow the steps below, depending on which Type (and mode)
you selected.
If you selected the Chordal Type:
5-1
Make sure that the [ACMP] button is turned on.
5-2 Play back a Style while playing chords, or play back a Song which contains
chords.
Vocal harmonies based on the chords are applied to your singing.
If you selected the Vocoder or Vocoder-Mono Type:
5-1
As necessary, change the “Keyboard” setting to “Off,” “Upper,” or “Lower.”
When “Upper” or “Lower” is selected, playing the right-hand or left-hand
section of the keyboard will control the Vocoder effect. When “Off” is
selected, playing the keyboard will not control the Vocoder effect.
5-2 Play melodies on the keyboard or play back a Song, and sing into the micro-
phone.
You’ll notice that you don’t actually have to sing pitched notes. The Vocoder
effect takes the words you say and applies them to the pitch of the instrument
sounds.
Using Synth Vocoder
These are special effects that graft the characteristics of your voice onto synthesizer and other sounds, for unusual
machine‐like or robotic effects, as well as unique choir sounds, which you can control with your own singing and playing.
1 Execute steps 1–3 in “Using Vocal Harmony” on page 70.
2 From the Vocal Harmony Type Selection display, select the
Synth Vocoder category from the sub categories.
3 Touch the desired Synth Vocoder Type to select it.
4 Try holding down a note on the keyboard and speak or sing into
the microphone.
Also, try changing notes as you say/sing different words, hitting a separate note for
each word.
For Vocoder Types, the effect is applied
to a maximum of three notes of the
chord you play; for Vocoder-Mono, the
effect is only applied to single notes
(last note applied).
NOTE
You can change the Keyboard setting
(Off/Upper/Lower), determining which
part of the keyboard (or Song) controls
the effect. For details, refer to the Refer-
ence manual on the website.
NOTE