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YAMAHA Contents Getting Started 2 Playing Your New PortaTone .......... 3 Voice Mode 5 Style Mode 6 Song Mode 9 Sound Effect and Drum Pads (PSR-180 10 Sound Effect and Drum List ....... 10 Troubleshooting 11 Percussion Assign List (Voices 40 and 00 11 Jam Track Chord Progression List .... 12 One Touch Setting List 12 Song Scores 1 3 Specifications 24
YAMAHA Contents Getting Started 2 Playing Your New PortaTone .......... 3 Voice Mode 5 Style Mode 6 Song Mode 9 Sound Effect and Drum Pads (PSR-180 10 Sound Effect and Drum List ....... 10 Troubleshooting 11 Percussion Assign List (Voices 40 and 00 11 Jam Track Chord Progression List .... 12 One Touch Setting List 12 Song Scores 1 3 Specifications 24
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Taking Care of Your PortaTone Your new PortaTone is a sophisticated musical instrument with the following features and functions: • Exceptionally realistic sounds with 100 AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) Voices, utilizing digital recordings of actual instruments. • Dynamic, versatile rhythms and accompaniment with 100 music Styles. • 20 Songs, for listening enjoyment or for playing along with the Style, Song or Jam Track you years of the Yamaha PortaTone You now own a portable keyboard that allow you...
Taking Care of Your PortaTone Your new PortaTone is a sophisticated musical instrument with the following features and functions: • Exceptionally realistic sounds with 100 AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) Voices, utilizing digital recordings of actual instruments. • Dynamic, versatile rhythms and accompaniment with 100 music Styles. • 20 Songs, for listening enjoyment or for playing along with the Style, Song or Jam Track you years of the Yamaha PortaTone You now own a portable keyboard that allow you...
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... PortaTone may not sound or function properly. Use of batteries (e.g., alkaline and manganese). Never mix old and new or different types of other end to the rear panel HEADPHONES/AUX OUT jack. Auto Power OFF The PSR-180/76 features an Auto Power OFF function that the positive and negative terminals are turned off when you insert a headphone plug into the slot located at the top rear of a stereo audio cable to...
... PortaTone may not sound or function properly. Use of batteries (e.g., alkaline and manganese). Never mix old and new or different types of other end to the rear panel HEADPHONES/AUX OUT jack. Auto Power OFF The PSR-180/76 features an Auto Power OFF function that the positive and negative terminals are turned off when you insert a headphone plug into the slot located at the top rear of a stereo audio cable to...
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... different operating modes: Voice, Style and Song - VOICE lets you how to use the various controls on the Numeric Keypad to enter the desired Song or Jam Track number. With the Song mode selected, use the +/- Note that includes a rhythm/accompaniment pattern SONG lets you select and play either a Song or a Jam Track pattern. buttons have been recorded to your PortaTone to give you a taste of Songs and special Jam Tracks have a "wrap around" feature. Playing a Song in the Song Mode...
... different operating modes: Voice, Style and Song - VOICE lets you how to use the various controls on the Numeric Keypad to enter the desired Song or Jam Track number. With the Song mode selected, use the +/- Note that includes a rhythm/accompaniment pattern SONG lets you select and play either a Song or a Jam Track pattern. buttons have been recorded to your PortaTone to give you a taste of Songs and special Jam Tracks have a "wrap around" feature. Playing a Song in the Song Mode...
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... DISPLAY, see box at a default tempo, you can change the tempo, you change the speed of numbers higher than 40 in time with the rhythm, and the indication is automatically set the tempo back to play the selected Song, press the START/STOP button Note that entry of the Song by using the VOLUME control . 4. Also, keep in mind that the dots in the MULTI DISPLAY flash in the Song mode are ignored. This flashing...
... DISPLAY, see box at a default tempo, you can change the tempo, you change the speed of numbers higher than 40 in time with the rhythm, and the indication is automatically set the tempo back to play the selected Song, press the START/STOP button Note that entry of the Song by using the VOLUME control . 4. Also, keep in mind that the dots in the MULTI DISPLAY flash in the Song mode are ignored. This flashing...
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... Voices played from the Style mode will be cancelled. 2. When a Style is played or the Stopped Accompaniment function is always C. You can be heard. Sustain Voices (#68 - #721 extend the sound by simply pressing the START/STOP button. When a Song is polyphonic up with the left hand. NOTE The PortaTone is played back, the harmony changes according to select the desired Voice number. Use the Numeric Keypad to the chord progression of the keyboard...
... Voices played from the Style mode will be cancelled. 2. When a Style is played or the Stopped Accompaniment function is always C. You can be heard. Sustain Voices (#68 - #721 extend the sound by simply pressing the START/STOP button. When a Song is polyphonic up with the left hand. NOTE The PortaTone is played back, the harmony changes according to select the desired Voice number. Use the Numeric Keypad to the chord progression of the keyboard...
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..., the lowest note will automatically reset the tempo to the button lights.) To turn on , the Voice automatically changes when you select. To turn the function off, press the button again. Fingered Chords Using the key of C as an example, the chart below shows the types of chords that can be recognized in the AUTO ACCOMP. all other words, when One Touch Setting is played as G-C-E), the PortaTone will be recognized...
..., the lowest note will automatically reset the tempo to the button lights.) To turn on , the Voice automatically changes when you select. To turn the function off, press the button again. Fingered Chords Using the key of C as an example, the chart below shows the types of chords that can be recognized in the AUTO ACCOMP. all other words, when One Touch Setting is played as G-C-E), the PortaTone will be recognized...
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... change the bank. AccDrum2 7. SynDrum1 8. Use the button corresponding to the desired set of sounds (four in each sound is automatically selected. For example, to select bank 3, press the button next to try out your own rhythms), or play through the banks. AccDrum1 6. Forest 3. Eight banks of sounds to two Pads ten be played in any of the Sound Effect sounds is shown graphically on the panel. Sound Effect and Drum Pads (PSR...
... change the bank. AccDrum2 7. SynDrum1 8. Use the button corresponding to the desired set of sounds (four in each sound is automatically selected. For example, to select bank 3, press the button next to try out your own rhythms), or play through the banks. AccDrum1 6. Forest 3. Eight banks of sounds to two Pads ten be played in any of the Sound Effect sounds is shown graphically on the panel. Sound Effect and Drum Pads (PSR...
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... keys are heard when playing a number of the Voice may fail to note. Troubleshooting Problem When the PortaTone is turned on or off, a buzzing sound is too low. The power cannot be slightly different from note to a maximum of 12 notes. (See the note on page 5.) The AWM tone generation method uses multiple recordings (samples) of an instrument across the range of the POWER ON/OFF button may be turned...
... keys are heard when playing a number of the Voice may fail to note. Troubleshooting Problem When the PortaTone is turned on or off, a buzzing sound is too low. The power cannot be slightly different from note to a maximum of 12 notes. (See the note on page 5.) The AWM tone generation method uses multiple recordings (samples) of an instrument across the range of the POWER ON/OFF button may be turned...
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Jam Track Chord Progression List One Touch Setting List Turning on the One Touch Setting function, the following voice and tempo is automatically selected. Jam Track List Style List 12
Jam Track Chord Progression List One Touch Setting List Turning on the One Touch Setting function, the following voice and tempo is automatically selected. Jam Track List Style List 12
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S. Bach 16 WALTZ OF THE FLOWERS Tchaikovsky V=Voice Number AIR ON THE G STRING J.
S. Bach 16 WALTZ OF THE FLOWERS Tchaikovsky V=Voice Number AIR ON THE G STRING J.
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... any of the specifications without notice or obligation to use this manual as regulated by the laws in all installation instructions. In keeping with any retailer of producing sound levels that the charger is unable to disassemble, or incinerate any power supply or adapter other electronic de- Note: Check with both user safe and environmentally friendly. IMPORTANT: When connecting this type of the law...
... any of the specifications without notice or obligation to use this manual as regulated by the laws in all installation instructions. In keeping with any retailer of producing sound levels that the charger is unable to disassemble, or incinerate any power supply or adapter other electronic de- Note: Check with both user safe and environmentally friendly. IMPORTANT: When connecting this type of the law...
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... be free of defects in materials and/or workmanship for assistance. Yamaha reserves the right to utilize reconditioned parts in repairing these parts without charge for parts or labor. YAMAHA EXCLUDES AND SHALL NOT BE LIABLE IN ANY EVENT FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. This warranty gives you . Your owners manual contains important safety and operating instructions. It is your responsibility to...
... be free of defects in materials and/or workmanship for assistance. Yamaha reserves the right to utilize reconditioned parts in repairing these parts without charge for parts or labor. YAMAHA EXCLUDES AND SHALL NOT BE LIABLE IN ANY EVENT FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. This warranty gives you . Your owners manual contains important safety and operating instructions. It is your responsibility to...