YAMAHA PORTATONE
PSR-340 Portable Keyboard
OWNER'S MANUAL
Text copy Purchassed
By
Peter and Mary Donahue
San Antonio, Texas
Translated In to Grade II Braille
By:
John Shute and Nadine Riches
Melbourne, Australia.
Table of CONTENTS
2. PANEL CONTROLS AND TERMINALS 6
Front Panel 6
Rear Panel 7
Power Requirements 8
Turning On The Power 8
Accessory Jacks 9
4. QUICK GUIDE--HOW TO USE YOUR NEW PSR-340 PORTATONE 10
Step 1 Using the Built-in Floppy Disk Drive 10
Step 2 Songs 12
Step 3 Voices 14
Step 4 Auto Accompaniment 16
Step 5 Chord Guide 18
Step 6 Function Parameters 20
5. PANEL DISPLAY INDICATIONS 22
Music Stand 23
Playing The Portable Grand 24
Using The Metronome 24
Setting The Metronome Time Signature 25
Adjusting The Metronome Volume 26
7. PLAYING VOICES--THE VOICE MODE 27
Playing A Voice--Main Voice 27
About Panel Voices and GM Voices 29
Drum Kit Voice Chart (Voices 101-110) 30
Function Parameters--Main Voices 30
Transpose And Tuning 32
Transpose 32
Tuning 33
Playing Two Voices--Dual Voice 34
Function Parameters--Dual Voice 35
Playing Two Voices--Split Voice 36
Function Parameters--Split Voice 37
Additional Voice Functions--Voice Set And Touch Sensitivity 38
Function Parameters--Voice Set And Touch Sensitivity 39
Reverb 40
Chorus 41
DSP 42
Harmony 43
Function Parameters--Effects 44
Effect Types 45
9. AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT--THE STYLE MODE 47
Selecting A Style And Playing The Accompaniment 47
Accompaniment Controls 52
Using The Auto Accompaniment Features 52
Changing The Tempo 53
Accompaniment Sections (Main A, Main B And Fill-Ins) 54
Adjusting The Accompaniment Volume 55
Using Auto Accompaniment--Multi Fingering 56
Single Finger Chords 56
Fingered Chords 56
Setting The Accompaniment Split Point 58
Function Parameter--Accompaniment Split Point 59
What Is A Chord? 60
Writing Chord Names 61
The Intervals Of The Scale 61
Other Chords 61
Chord Guide 62
Dictionary 62
Smart 64
* Smart Chord List 65
EZ Chord 66
EZ Chord--Playback 66
* Bank Chain 67
EZ Chord--Recording 68
* Recording A Space 69
* Playing The Accompaniment During EZ Chord Recording 69
* HINT--Using Spaces 70
Clearing An EZ Chord Bank 71
10. ONE TOUCH SETTING (OTS) 72
One Touch Setting--User 72
Recording A User One Touch Setting 72
Recalling A User One Touch Setting 73
* Selecting A User Bank 73
One Touch Setting--Preset 74
Selecting A Preset One Touch Setting 74
11. SELECTING AND PLAYING SONGS--THE SONG MODE 75
Selecting And Playing A Song 75
Changing The Tempo 76
About The Beat Display 77
Adjusting The Song Volume 78
Recording A User Song--Realtime Recording 80
Using The Metronome 81
Additional Operations 83
Recording A User Song--Step Recording 84
Recording Notes 85
* Additional Operations 87
Replacing A Note Or Rest 88
Entering Velocity Curves 89
* Velocity Curve Chart 89
Clearing A Song 90
6 Using The Floppy Disk Drive
(FDD) And Floppy Disk 92
Disk Song Playback 93
Save 94
Load 96
Utility--Delete 97
Utility--Formatting An Unformatted Disk 98
Utility--Formatting A Previously Formatted Disk 99
Footswitch Assign Functions 101
What Is MIDI? 102
Channel Messages 103
System Messages 103
* MIDI Terminals 103
What You Can Do With MIDI 104
Connecting To A Personal Computer 105
Function Parameters--MIDI 106
Using Initial Setup Send With A Sequencer 108
Sending Initial Setup Data 108
Data Backup And Initialization 111
18. Song Scores (EZ Chord Banks 1, 2) 113
Voice Charts and other function lists 114
Voice List 114
Style List 117
Drum Kit List 118
MIDI Implementation Chart 120
You can download this book as a single file, as embosser-ready Grade II Braille volumes, or as multiple files by selecting the appropriate link below:
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