User Manual

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PRECAUTIONS
NOTICE
Information
Table of Contents
Special Features
Compatible Format and Functions
Included Accessories
About the Manuals
Panel Controls and Terminals
Setting Up
- Power Requirements
- Turning the Power On/Off
- Using a Keyboard Stand
Basic Operations and Display Items
- Basic operations
- Selecting Data
- Display Items
Using the Common Functions
- Using the Metronome
- Changing the Tempo
- Boosting the Entire Volume of the Instrument (Mega Boost)
Playing a Variety of Instrument Voices
- Selecting a Main Voice
- Adding a layer - Dual Voice
- Playing a Split Voice in the Left- and Right-hand Areas
- Calling Up Optimum Panel Settings—One Touch Setting (OTS)
- Adding Harmony/Using Arpeggio
- Adding Articulation Effects
Adding Effects to Performance and Playback
- Adding DSP Effects
- Adding Motion Effects
Creating Original Sounds via the Knobs
- Assigning Functions to the Knobs
- Using the Knobs
Playing with Rhythm and Auto Accompaniment (Styles)
- Playing with Styles
- Style Playback Variations
- Style Sync Stop
- Turning Each Style Track On/Off
- Setting the Fingering Type
- Setting the Smart Chord Key
- Changing the Voices for Each Part of a Style (Style Revoicing)
Playing Back Songs or Audio Files
- Playing Back a Demo Song
- Playing Back a Song
- Playing Back an Audio File
- Song/Audio File Transport Controls: Fast Forward, Fast Reverse, and Pause
- Playing a Specified Section of a Song Repeatedly (A-B Repeat)
- Muting Each Track
Connecting and Using a Microphone
- Connecting a Microphone
- Disconnecting the Microphone
Playing with Groove Creator
- Playing Back a Groove
- Changing the Groove Sound
Using Quick Sampling
- Playing Back a Sample
- Looping a Sample
- Getting Ready for Sampling
- Sampling External Audio
- Restoring the Default Samples
- Sampling a WAV File from a USB Flash Drive
- Saving a Sample to a USB Flash Drive
Recording Your Performance
- Recording a New User Song
- Track Structure of a Song
- Recording a User Song to a Specified Track
- Clearing a User Song (Song Clear)
- Clearing a Specified Track from a User Song (Track Clear)
- Recording/Saving Audio Files to a USB Flash Drive
Saving Your Favorite Settings (Registration Memory)
- Saving Panel Settings to the Registration Memory
- Recalling Panel Settings from Registration Memory
- Specifying Panel Settings to be Maintained Across Registration Memory Changes (Freeze)
Connecting to External Devices
- Connecting Headphones
- Using a Pedal (Footswitch)
- Playing Sound from External Speakers
- Playing an External Audio Device with the Built-in Speakers
- Using the Melody Suppressor
- Using with a Computer or Smart Device
Connecting a USB Flash Drive
- Using USB Flash Drives
- Exiting the File Control Display
- Formatting a USB Flash Drive
- Saving Data to a USB Flash Drive
- Loading User Data from a USB Flash Drive
- Deleting Data in a USB Flash Drive
- File-related Message List
The Functions
- Basic Procedure in the Function Display
Backup and Initialization
- Backup Data
- Initializing the Instrument
Troubleshooting
Specifications
Index

Panel Controls and Terminals

PSR-E473, PSR-EW425 Owner’s Manual

r [MIC VOCAL/TALK/MUTE] button............ page 38

Switches the microphone type (VOCAL/TALK/

MUTE).

: Calls up the Mic volume setting dis-

play.

t [MOTION EFFECT] button ......................... page 29

Holding down this button adds various dynamic

effects to the sound in real time.

: Calls up the Motion Effect type selection dis-

play.

y [KNOB ASSIGN] button, [A]/[B] knobs

......................................................................... page 30

Assigns a function to each knob for controlling the

sound in real time.

u [SPLIT] button .............................................. page 25

Divides the entire keyboard into two sections, and

lets you play in different Voices by your right and left

hands.

: Calls up the Voice selection display for

the left-hand part.

i [DUAL] button............................................... page 24

Layers two different Voices.

: Calls up the Voice selection display for

the layered part.

o [HARMONY/ARPEGGIO] button .............. page 26

Turns the Harmony effect or Arpeggio function on or

off.

: Calls up the Harmony type or Arpeggio type

selection display.

!0 [DSP2] button............................................... page 28

Turns the DSP2 effect on or off.

: Calls up the DSP2 type selection display.

!1 [DEMO] button ............................................. page 35

Plays back Demo Songs repeatedly.

: Calls up the Song group (Demo group) setting

display to play back the Songs repeatedly.

!2 [METRONOME] button ............................... page 23

Turns the metronome on or off.

: Calls up the time signature setting

display for metronome playback.

!3 [TEMPO/TAP] button .................................. page 23

Calls up the tempo setting display.

!4 [REC] button ................................................. page 46

Records your performance to the instrument in MIDI

format.

: Records your performance to the USB

flash drive in Audio format (page 49).

!5 OCTAVE [−][+] buttons

Shifts the pitch of the Main Voice and Dual Voice up

or down in octave units.

: Transposes the pitch of the entire

instrument in semitone steps.

!6 [SHIFT] button.............................................. page 12

Holding down this button lets you call up alternate

functions for panel buttons that have assigned alter-

nate functions.

LIVE CONTROL

SOUND CONTROL

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