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Owner's Manual - Page 4

... the PSR-280 into a MIDI music system, and use song recording operations, for recording and playing back up an appropriate voice to five of your performance. • 100 auto accompaniment styles, each song: Timing, Waiting, Minus One, and Both Hands. and right-hand parts independently at your performance. with the following features and functions: I Yamaha Education...
Owner's Manual - Page 5

... 74 Troubleshooting 75 Data Backup & Initialization 76 Voice List 77 Style List 81 Drum Kit List 82 MIDI Implementation Chart 84 Specifications 87 Index 88 5 External Clock 70 • Using Bulk Dump Send to a Personal Computer 69 • Controlling PSR-280 Playback from an External Device - Contents Panel Controls and Terminals 6 Setting Up 8 • Power Requirements...
Owner's Manual - Page 6

... call up various functions, settings, and operations of the PSR-280. Panel Controls and Terminals I Front Panel er u q wt y 000 GrandPno @0 @1 @2 !9 !3 !4 !5 !6 !7 !8 u i !2 !0 o !1 @3 @4 q Power switch ([STANDBY/ON]) w [MASTER VOLUME] dial This determines the overall volume of the PSR-280, including effects, transpose, tuning, and MIDI. (See page 29.) i [DEMO] button This is...
Owner's Manual - Page 8

... the rear panel of other end to power your PSR-280 for a long time. Setting Up This section contains information about setting up .) 8 • Even when the switch is in the "STANDBY" position, electricity is still flowing to read this happens, replace them with batteries installed, simply press the power switch until it is not to a wall...
Owner's Manual - Page 9

... are turned off when you can also play the keyboard to sustain the sound. • Make sure that the footswitch plug is properly connected to the SUSTAIN jack before connecting them. Stereo System I Using the MIDI Terminals The PSR-280 also features MIDI terminals, allowing you to interface the PSR280 with a built-in speaker system, you insert a headphone...
Owner's Manual - Page 23

... voice with your left hand and a piano voice with Yamaha's sophisticated AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) tone generation system. ...from the keyboard. (Refer to your right. A complete list of the voice. These include 128 General MIDI voices, plus... available voices, see page 77. Playing Voices The PSR-280 features a total of today's popular music styles. Special Split voices (#099 - #108) ...
Owner's Manual - Page 67

.... No doubt you play a "C" quarter note using the MIDI functions you strike a key, and a hammer inside hits some strings and plays a note. With the piano, you can be accurately played by any GM-compatible music data can expand your PSR-280. Based on the PSR-280 keyboard. The PSR-280 supports GM System Level 1. 67 By using the grand piano...
Owner's Manual - Page 68

...is stuck. Each message includes a specific note number which can cause data errors. 68 Message Name Exclusive Message Realtime Messages PSR-280 Operation/Panel Setting Reverb/chorus/DSP settings, etc. Transmits the PSR-280's keyboard information as MIDI data to another MIDI device. G Channel Messages The PSR-280 is an explanation of the various types of MIDI data, or messages. G System...
Owner's Manual - Page 69

... the lowest key on the keyboard (C1) and turn the power on the display. Use only special MIDI cables when connecting MIDI devices. MIDI Functions Connecting to a Personal Computer By connecting your PSR-280's MIDI terminals to a personal computer, you disable or ignore incoming Bank LSB messages, which might otherwise cause problems when selecting PSR-280 voices from an external device...
Owner's Manual - Page 71

... #1, Bulk Dump. 1 BULKDUMP 71 Press "1" on your valuable PSR-280 data. PSR-280 MIDI OUT MIDI IN MDF3 2) Set up the connected MIDI device for your particular equipment and software. Press the right Overall button, repeatedly if necessary, until MIDI is selected. 1 BULKDUMP • This function cannot be used in the Song playing, recording or when the accompaniment is saved...
Owner's Manual - Page 72

...'ve saved PSR-280 data as song recording or playback, Style (accompaniment) playback, saving of a Registration Memory preset, sending of Bulk Dump data, etc. • When the PSR-280 is receiving bulk data, none of the panel controls can easily reload the data back to the PSR-280. 1 Set up the connected MIDI device for details.) The PSR-280 automatically receives...
Owner's Manual - Page 73

... the song (before the song begins. MIDI Functions The display returns to the currently selected voice. 001 GrandPno • If, for some reason, some problem occurred in the data reception, a "RcvError" message is selected 3 Select the Initial Setup Send operation. Check all connections and settings and try the operation again. for example, completely changing the PSR-280 settings for...
Owner's Manual - Page 74

... or disable keyboard control over the PSR-280's voices. End 6 Stop recording on the power again. 74 While holding the lowest D key and turnning on the sequencer in the normal way, then - Start recording on the sequencer, then send the Initial Setup data. Make sure that any sub- sequently recorded performance data is complete. MIDI Functions...
Owner's Manual - Page 77

... 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 decay after the notes have been released while the sustain pedal (footswitch) is correspondingly reduced. Use these program change numbers for playing on the keyboard is...
Owner's Manual - Page 84

... Select Modulation wheel Data Entry Part Volume Pan Expression Sustain Portamento Cntrl Effect Depth RPN Inc,Dec RPN LSB,MSB Prog Change : True # o 0 - 127 o 0 - 127 System Exclusive o *3 o *3 : Song Pos. x x : Tune...MIDI Implementation Chart YAMAHA [ Portable Keyboard ] Model PSR-280 MIDI Implementation Chart Date:8-MAR-2001 Version : 1.0 Function... x x Common : Song Sel.

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