User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- PRECAUTIONS
- Main Features
- Included Accessories
- About the Manuals
- Using the PSR-A5000—a Broad Overview
- Contents
- Major Functions and Terms
- Panel Controls and Terminals
- Starting Up
- Display Structure
- Basic Operations
- Workflow Guide—for Performing on the PSR-A5000
- 1 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
- 2 Playing with Styles—Operations While Performing
- 3 Singing with Song Playback—Setting Up
- 4 Singing with Song Playback—Operations While Performing
- 5 Selecting and/or Creating a Temperament (Scale Tune)
- 6 Adjusting the Parameters of Each Part— Mixer
- 7 Song Recording
- 8 Storing and Calling up Custom Panel Setups—Registration Memory and Playlist
- 9 Customizing for Optimum Performance
- 10 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)
- 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 a smartphone/tablet ([USB TO DEVICE], [USB TO HOST], or MIDI terminals)
- Connecting to a Computer ([USB TO HOST] terminal)
- Connecting External MIDI Devices (MIDI terminals)
- Function List
- Appendix
- Index
PSR-A5000 Owner’s Manual 79
5
Selecting and/or Creating a Temperament (Scale Tune)
You can select various scales for playing in custom tunings for specific historical periods or music genres.
1 Select the desired Scale type (temperament).
2 Change the following settings as necessary.
Selecting or Creating a Temperament from the Preset Types (Main Scale)
2
1
Parts to which the Main Scale
setting are applied
Type • Equal: The pitch range of each octave is divided equally into twelve parts, with each half-step
evenly spaced in pitch. This is the most commonly used tuning in music today.
• Pure Major, Pure Minor: These tunings preserve the pure mathematical intervals of each scale,
especially for triad chords (root, third, fifth). You can hear this best in actual vocal harmonies—
such as choirs and a cappella singing.
• Pythagorean: This scale was devised by the famous Greek philosopher and is created from a
series of perfect fifths, which are collapsed into a single octave. The 3rd in this tuning is slightly
unstable, but the 4th and 5th are beautiful and suitable for some leads.
• Mean-Tone: This scale was created as an improvement on the Pythagorean scale, by making the
major third interval more “in tune.” It was especially popular from the 16th century to the 18th
century. Handel, among others, used this scale.
• Werckmeister, Kirnberger: This composite scale combines the Werckmeister and Kirnberger
systems, which were themselves improvements on the mean-tone and Pythagorean scales. The
main feature of this scale is that each key has its own unique character. The scale was used
extensively during the time of Bach and Beethoven, and even now it is often used when per-
forming period music on the harpsichord.
• Bayati, Rast, Rast Jaharka, Rast Nawa, Rast Hosseini: Use these tunings when playing Arabic
music.
Base Note Determines the base note for each scale. When the base note is changed, the pitch of the keyboard is
transposed, yet maintains the original pitch relationship between the notes.
Tune Touch the desired key of the keyboard illustration on the display, and then tune it in cents.
The boxes at the upper and lower side of each key determines whether the tune setting is applied to
the note. You can turn this on/off by touching it when the value is something other than 0. If you edit
this parameter, “(Edited)” is shown at the right of “Type” in step 1.
Bypass Turning this on with the [BYPASS] button or [Bypass] on the Scale Tune display disables all the
Scale Tune settings temporarily. This lets you hear the sound for comparison purposes.
Parts
(Left, Right 1, etc.)
Checkmark the part to which the Main Scale setting is applied.
In musical terms a “cent” is 1/100th of a semitone. (100 cents equal one semitone.)
NOTE
To store the Scale Tune (Main Scale) settings
If you want to store the Scale Tune (Main Scale) settings, use the Registration Memory. Press the [MEMORY] button
in the REGISTRATION MEMORY section, then checkmark “Scale Tune” and press one of the REGISTRATION
MEMORY [1]–[8] buttons to register the Scale Tune settings.