Yamaha PSR-280 Support Question
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Question posted by mmmmenendez on August 22nd, 2011
Midi In My Keyboard, What Software Do I Need And Where Do I Get It?
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Owner's Manual - Page 4
...integrate the PSR-280 into a MIDI music system, and use the built-in GM voices with all GM software.
• Built-in the display - just like a real musical instrument!
• Full MIDI and General MIDI (GM)... of the keyboard. • 10 different Drum Kit voices, with Intro, Main A and
B, and Ending sections.
Select from
separate sections of the Yamaha PSR-280 PortaTone!
Grade...
Owner's Manual - Page 9
...I Connecting a Keyboard Amplifier or Stereo System Though the PSR-280 is equipped with...MIDI instrument
9 First, make sure the PSR-280 and any external devices are turned off when you insert a headphone plug into this changes the recognized polarity of the external devices at their minimum levels and gradually raise the volume controls while playing the instrument to interface the PSR280...
Owner's Manual - Page 10
...find out more ? x Play the keyboard. z Press the [Piano] button.
000 ...PIANO
001 Grand Piano 002 Bright Piano 003 Honky-tonk Piano 004 MIDI Grand Piano 005 CP 80 006 Harpsichord
E.PIANO 007 Funky Electric ...
Playing the Piano
Simply by pressing the [Piano] button, you can automatically reset the entire PSR-280 for piano play.
Voice Name 013 Jazz Organ 2 014 Jazz Organ 3 015 Full Organ ...
Owner's Manual - Page 11
...098
099 100 101
102
Voice Name PERCUSSION Vibraphone Marimba Xylophone Steel Drums Celesta Tubular Bells Timpani Music Box
SPLIT Strings/Grand Piano Grand Piano/Violin DX Electric Piano/ Harmonica Grand Piano/ Tenor Sax...Step 1 Voices
Selecting and Playing Other Voices
The PSR-280 has a huge total of them out now...
w Select a voice.
000 GrandPno
002 BritePno
e Play the keyboard.
Owner's Manual - Page 19
... Insert the bottom edge of the included music stand into the slot located at the top rear of the PSR-280 control panel.
19 i Song/Voice/Style name and number, Tempo
This portion of the display indicates the name and number of the keyboard when the Style mode and auto accompaniment are on. It...
Owner's Manual - Page 23
... the keyboard - For a complete list of 256 authentic voices -
that you can play various drum and percussion sounds from separate sections of today's popular music styles....PSR-280 also includes special Drum Kit voices - #119 - #128 -
The Voice mode also features special effect sections that provides miscellaneous effects, such as a "DSP" section that let you play from the keyboard...
Owner's Manual - Page 25
...select a style. The GM Voices can play different drums and percussion instru-
120
ments on the keyboard.
121
122
123
119 Std.Kit1
124 125
126
127
128
Name Standard Kit 1 Standard Kit 2...playback of voices: 128 Panel voices and 128 GM (General MIDI) Voices. Playing Voices
About Panel Voices and GM Voices
Keep in mind that the PSR-280 has two separate sets of GM-compatible song data.
Owner's Manual - Page 34
... up and down through the styles.
34 The PSR-280 also features the convenient Dictionary function (page 45).
You can...to keys F#2 and lower) is for various popular music styles.
Dictionary provides you perform. Style name and number...Intro, Main A and B, and Ending - Auto accompaniment effectively splits the keyboard into the rhythms add the excitement of separate "sections" - Selecting a...
Owner's Manual - Page 52
....
002 Virtual
2 Select the desired voice.
For example, if the current voice selected on the keyboard along with the original melody voice or one step further - Press the [SONG] button, then ... Songs
3 Pause or stop playback as needed. The convenient Melody Voice Change feature takes this one of your own selection.
Melody Voice Change
The PSR-280 lets you replace the original voice used...
Owner's Manual - Page 55
...to the normal (melody) tracks: • Note on the keyboard is no such data in the middle of a song.
1 Make all desired PSR-280 settings. Refer to the list above for settings that can use .... Using the Metronome You can be changed in the Chord track)
Data that let you 'll need to make other tracks, you to keep your performance "in time," even when recording without rhythmic accompaniment...
Owner's Manual - Page 60
and right-hand parts of each hand; Lessons 1 - 3 apply to read music and play the keyboard. any note can be used, as long as you practice the left ) or ... - I Lesson 3 - letting you play in rhythm and at the same time.
Waiting In this lesson step, the PSR-280 waits for practice. These practices are a total of 100 Lesson songs (Songs 001 to select the desired part for you...
Owner's Manual - Page 62
... plays arpeggios or melodic figures in combination with the music. Pick a note to play a note above F#2. For the left hand, use of the left hand, the PSR-280 actually has two different types of the notes - r1 Timing... in the auto accompaniment section or play one of the keyboard.
Simply concentrate on playing each note in the display.
Auto accompaniment section
62
Owner's Manual - Page 67
... Level 1" is changed into a number value and sent to the tone generator.
Using these are easy to all software and hardware products that any GM-compatible music data can expand your PSR-280. The GM mark is the information from the keyboard that puts out a resonated note, the electronic instrument puts out information from the...
Owner's Manual - Page 68
... channels. Transmits the PSR-280's keyboard information as "it can play the voices specified for the various parts.
Message Name Note ON/OFF
Program Change Control Change
PSR-280 Operation/Panel Setting
Messages which are shown in common by the entire MIDI system.
MIDI Functions
MIDI is an acronym that stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, which...
Owner's Manual - Page 69
... hold down the lowest key on the keyboard (C1) and turn the power on the display. nals of the personal computer and the PSR-280.
MIDI OUT
MIDI IN
Computer (sequencer software)
MIDI IN MIDI OUT
PSR-280
G When using a MIDI interface with a Macintosh series computer, connect the RS-422 terminal of the PSR-280 to the MIDI interface, as shown in the personal...
Owner's Manual - Page 70
... of the PSR-280, or playing the PSR-280 voices from that playback of the PSR-280 is shown in playing the sounds of the PSR-280's styles or songs from the PSR-280 panel controls.
70 "ECL TEMPO" is controlled from a separate MIDI keyboard or controller. When you to "slave" the PSR-280 to Internal Clock. ECL TEMPO
2 Make sure the PSR-280 is set...
Owner's Manual - Page 71
...software. The actual procedure may differ depending on the numeric keypad or use the [+]/[-] buttons to floppy disk using the Yamaha MDF3 MIDI Data Filer:
1) Make the appropriate MIDI...'s Manual.)
2 Select the MIDI operations.
PSR-280
MIDI OUT
MIDI IN
MDF3
2) Set up the connected MIDI device for recording MIDI data. (Refer to save important PSR-280 data and settings to another ...
Owner's Manual - Page 74
... when the operation is completed, the PSR280 automatically returns to the previous panel condition.
Local ...PSR-280, you enable or disable keyboard control over the PSR-280's voices. End
6 Stop recording on the sequencer. sequently recorded performance data is recorded at least one measure fol-
in handy, for example, when recording notes to actually start transmitting the data.
MIDI...
Owner's Manual - Page 75
... particular device and/or software for details.)
The footswitch (for entering the chord root and type. Troubleshooting
Problem
Possible Cause and Solution
When the PSR-280 is turned on the power.
To prevent this jack, no sound is output. Check that the PSR-280 is receiving electrical
sound is set of the keyboard; When a set to...
Owner's Manual - Page 77
... of up to the Split Voice and Song functions.
• The Voice List includes MIDI program change numbers when playing the PSR-280 via MIDI from an external device.
• Some voices may sound continuously or have a long ...
74 Recorder
77 Use these program change numbers for playing on the keyboard is held. Voice List
I Maximum Polyphony The PSR-280 has 32-note maximum polyphony.
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