Yamaha PSR-225 User Manual

Contents

SELECTING AND PLAYING
SONGS — THE SONG MODE

SELECTING AND PLAYING A SONG 75

CHANGING THE TEMPO ................ 76

ABOUT THE BEAT DISPLAY ............. 77
ADJUSTING THE SONG VOLUME ... 78

SONG RECORDING

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

FOOTSWITCH

• Footswitch Assign Functions ... 92

MIDI FUNCTIONS

WHAT IS MIDI? ............................... 93

Channel Messages ........................ 94

System Messages .......................... 94

• MIDI Terminals ....................... 94

CONNECTING TO A PERSONAL
COMPUTER ..................................... 95
FUNCTION PARAMETERS — MIDI .. 96

USING BULK DUMP SEND
TO SAVE DATA ................................ 99

Saving Bulk Data .......................... 99
Loading Bulk Data ...................... 101

USING INITIAL SETUP SEND
WITH A SEQUENCER .................... 102

Sending Initial Setup Data .......... 102

TROUBLESHOOTING .................... 104

DATA BACKUP & INITIALIZATION 105

INDEX ........................................... 106
SONG SCORES
(EZ Chord banks 1, 2) ................... 107

VOICE LIST .................................... 108

STYLE LIST .................................... 111
DRUM KIT LIST ............................. 112

MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART .. 114

SPECIFICATIONS ........................... 117

EFFECTS

REVERB ............................................ 40

CHORUS .......................................... 41

DSP ................................................. 42
HARMONY ...................................... 43

Function Parameters — Effects ...... 44

• Effect Types ............................ 45

AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT —
THE STYLE MODE

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

ONE TOUCH SETTING (OTS)

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

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PANEL CONTROLS AND
TERMINALS

• Front Panel ............................... 6

• Rear Panel ................................ 7

SETTING UP

POWER REQUIREMENTS ................. 8
TURNING ON THE POWER ............. 8

ACCESSORY JACKS ......................... 9

Quick Guide —
How to Use Your New
PSR-225 PortaTone

Step 1 Voices ............................. 10

Step 2 Auto Accompaniment .... 12
Step 3 Chord Guide .................. 14

Step 4 Songs ............................. 16

Step 5 Function Parameters ...... 18
Step 6 MIDI ............................... 20

PANEL DISPLAY INDICATIONS 22

• Music Stand ........................... 23

PORTABLE GRAND

PLAYING THE PORTABLE GRAND .. 24

USING THE METRONOME .............. 24

• Setting the Metronome

Time Signature ....................... 25

• Adjusting the Metronome

Volume ................................... 26

PLAYING VOICES —
THE VOICE MODE

PLAYING A VOICE — MAIN VOICE 27

• About Panel Voices and

GM Voices .............................. 29

• Drum Kit Voice Chart

(voices 101 - 110) .................. 30

Function Parameters — Main Voice 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