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

Title

Contents

1. Special Message Section

2. PANEL CONTROLS AND TERMINALS 6

Front Panel 6

Rear Panel 7

3. SETTING UP 8

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

6 PORTABLE GRAND 24

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

8. EFFECTS 40

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

12. SONG RECORDING 79

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

13. DISK OPERATIONS 91

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

14. FOOTSWITCH 100

Footswitch Assign Functions 101

15. MIDI FUNCTIONS 102

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

16 Troubleshooting 110

Data Backup And Initialization 111

17. Specifications 112

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

FCC Information 121

Limitted Warranty 122

Index 123

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