Yamaha PSR-225 - Manual

Yamaha PSR-225

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 2 – PLEASE KEEP THIS MANUAL
  • Page 3 – PRECAUTIONS; PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING
  • Page 4 – Congratulations on your purchase of the Yamaha; Main Features; Other powerful features include:; Yamaha Education Suite; The Yamaha Education Suite includes:
  • Page 5 – Contents
  • Page 6 – PANEL CONTROLS AND TERMINALS; Front Panel
  • Page 7 – When the Style mode is selected, these are used; Rear Panel
  • Page 8 – SETTING UP; When the Batteries Run Down; POWER REQU IREM ENTS; Using an AC Power Adaptor; Inserting Batteries; TURN ING ON THE POWER
  • Page 9 – Using the MIDI Terminals; ACCESSORY JACKS; Using Headphones; Using a Footswitch
  • Page 10 – Playing the Piano Voice; Step 1; Selecting other voices; Enter the Voice mode.; BritePno; z x; Quick Guide — How to
  • Page 11 – Voices; Changing the Metronome Volume; Playing along with the Metronome; MtrVol
  • Page 12 – Using the auto accompaniment; Enter the Style mode.; Step 2
  • Page 13 – Auto Accompaniment
  • Page 14 – Using the Chord Guide function; Learning how to play specific chords; Step 3; G M; Playing appropriate chords with just one finger; Smart
  • Page 15 – EZ; Chord Guide
  • Page 16 – Playing a song; Changing the volume of the song; Step 4; Playing back a single song; PF–Grand; Tempo; SongVol
  • Page 17 – Recording your own song; Realtime recording; Creating your own custom One Touch Settings; Make all desired settings on the PortaTone.; OTS User; z q; UserBank; Songs
  • Page 18 – Using the Function parameters; Press the FUNCTION button.; Step 5; Select a Function number.
  • Page 19 – Function Parameters
  • Page 20 – Using M IDI; Step 6
  • Page 21 – MIDI; GM System Level 1
  • Page 22 – PANEL DISPLAY INDICATIONS; Mode indicators; In the first example, the Style mode is selected.; Overall functions bar indicator
  • Page 24 – Press the PORTABLE GRAND button.; USING THE METRONOME; Set the desired tempo with the Tempo function in; PLAYI NG THE PORTABLE GRAND
  • Page 25 – Turn on the Metronome.; Press the METRONOME button.; Setting the Metronome Time Signature
  • Page 26 – Adjusting the Metronome Volume
  • Page 27 – PLAYING VOICES — THE VOICE MODE; Main Voice; mode; PLAYING A VOICE — MAIN VOICE; Select the Voice mode.; Press the VOICE button.
  • Page 28 – Select the desired voice number.; Using the numeric keypad
  • Page 29 – Using the VOICE button; Play the selected voice.; To change to another voice, repeat step 2 above.; About Panel Voices and GM Voices
  • Page 30 – Select the Function mode.; Select the desired Function parameter number.; Function Parameters — Main Voice
  • Page 31 – Change the parameter setting or value.; To select and set other parameters, repeat steps 1 - 3 above.; Exit the Function mode.
  • Page 32 – TRANSPOSE AND TUNING; Transpose; Transpos
  • Page 33 – Tuning
  • Page 34 – Turn on the Dual Voice mode.; Press the DUAL button.; Select the desired Dual voice and make other set-; PLAYING TWO VOICES — DUAL VOICE
  • Page 35 – Set other parameters as needed.; To select and set other parameters, repeat steps 2 - 4 above.; Strings; Function Parameters — Dual Voice
  • Page 36 – PLAYING TWO VOICES — SPLIT VOICE; Call up the Function mode.; Select the Split On/Off parameter number.; Do this in the normal way:; on; Split
  • Page 37 – Function Parameters — Split Voice
  • Page 38 – TouchSns; VoiceSet
  • Page 39 – Function Parameters — Voice Set and Touch Sensitivity
  • Page 40 – EFFECTS; Turn on the Reverb effect.; Press the REVERB button.; Set the desired Reverb Type in the Function mode.; Reverb; After “FUNCTION” stops flashing, change the value (with the; RevType
  • Page 41 – CHORUS; Chorus; After “FUNCTION” stops flashing, change the value/setting (with; ChoType; Turn on the Chorus effect and set the Chorus Type in
  • Page 42 – DSP; Turn on the DSP effect and set the DSP Type in the; Dsp; DspType
  • Page 43 – HARMONY; Turn on the Harmony effect.; Press the HARMONY button.; Set the Harmony Type and desired Harmony Volume; HarmType
  • Page 44 – Function Parameters — Effects
  • Page 45 – Reverb Types; Effect Types
  • Page 46 – Harmony Types
  • Page 47 – and lower) is for the auto accompaniment; SELECTI NG A STYLE AND PLAYING THE ACCOMPANIM ENT; Select the Style mode.; Press the STYLE button.; Select the desired style number.
  • Page 48 – Start the accompaniment.; You can do this in one of the following ways:; Pressing the START/STOP button
  • Page 49 – Starting with an Intro section; Using Sync-Start with an Intro section; Press the MAIN A or MAIN B button — to select which
  • Page 50 – Press the INTRO button.; About Auto Accompaniment
  • Page 51 – About the Beat Display; Stop the accompaniment.; You can do this in one of three ways:; The rhythm/accompaniment stops playing immediately.; Using an Ending section
  • Page 52 – Turn on the auto accompaniment.
  • Page 53 – Change chords using the auto ac-; CHANGING THE TEMPO
  • Page 55 – ADJ USTI NG THE ACCOM PANIMENT VOLUME; Select the Accompaniment Volume function in the; AcmpVol
  • Page 56 – Fingered Chords; USING AUTO ACCOM PANIMENT — MULTI FINGERING; Single Finger Chords; is played as
  • Page 58 – SETTI NG THE ACCOM PANIM ENT SPLIT POINT; Select the Accompaniment Split Point parameter.; AcmpSPnt
  • Page 59 – Function Parameter — Accompaniment Split Point
  • Page 61 – Chords are made up of notes “stacked” on top of each other, and the; The Intervals of the Scale; WRITING CHORD NAMES
  • Page 62 – Dictionary
  • Page 64 – Select one of the styles, as described in steps 1 - 2 on page 47.; Select the Smart Chord Guide.
  • Page 65 – Play the accompaniment, and play single note; Smart Chord List
  • Page 66 – EZ Chord — Playback; Call up the Style mode and select a style. Also
  • Page 67 – Bank Chain
  • Page 68 – EZ Chord — Recording; Select the desired EZ Chord bank.; At the selected block, record the desired chord.
  • Page 69 – Press the + button in the numeric keypad.; Recording a Space; Stop recording and exit from the record mode.; Playing the Accompaniment During EZ Chord Recording
  • Page 70 – HINT — Using Spaces; Some advantages to using spaces:
  • Page 71 – Clearing an EZ Chord Bank; Enable the EZ Chord Record mode.; Erasing a Single Chord
  • Page 72 – ONE TOUCH SETTING — USER; Recording a User One Touch Setting; Make all desired settings for the PortaTone.
  • Page 73 – Exit from the Record mode.; Press the RECORD button.; Recalling a User One Touch Setting; Call up the Style mode.; Press the appropriate ONE TOUCH SETTING; Select the desired User number.; Selecting a User Bank
  • Page 74 – Play the accompaniment.; Selecting a Preset One Touch Setting; ONE TOUCH SETTING — PRESET
  • Page 75 – SELECTING AND PLAYI NG A SONG; Select the Song mode.; Press the SONG button.; Song Playback Display
  • Page 76 – CHANGING TH E TEM PO; Select the Tempo function in the Overall menu.; Select the desired song number.; Use the numeric keypad.
  • Page 77 – ABOUT THE BEAT DISPLAY
  • Page 78 – Select the Song Volume function in the Overall; ADJUSTING THE SONG VOLUME
  • Page 79 – SONG RECORDING; is similar to using a tape; Step recording; allows you to enter notes indi-; RealTime; Step
  • Page 80 – RECORDING A USER SONG — REALTIME RECORDING; Make all desired PortaTone settings.
  • Page 81 – Using the Metronome; Select a track number.
  • Page 82 – Recording to the Chord Track; When recording the Chord track; After you’ve finished playing the part, press the START/STOP button.
  • Page 83 – Additional Operations; Muting Tracks During Playback; Clearing a Single Track; Listen to your new recording.; Record to other tracks as desired.
  • Page 84 – RECORDING A USER SONG — STEP RECORDING; Select the Step Record mode.
  • Page 85 – Select a User song for recording.; This operation is the same as that of Realtime recording (page 81).; Press the SONG MEMORY button corresponding to the desired track.; Recording Notes; Play the desired key or keys. (The note name is shown at the
  • Page 86 – note value is shown as an icon in the display.)
  • Page 87 – Recording Triplets and Dotted Notes:; Recording Chords and Sections to the Chord Track:
  • Page 88 – Replacing a Note or Rest; Press the new note on the keyboard (or the appropriate rest value
  • Page 89 – Entering Velocity Curves; to select the desired Velocity Curve.; Velocity Curve Chart
  • Page 90 – CLEARING A SONG; ing to the song you wish to clear.; USng1Clr
  • Page 91 – FOOTSWITCH; Select the Footswitch Assign parameter.; FootSw; Sustain
  • Page 92 – Footswitch Assign Functions
  • Page 93 – MIDI FUNCTIONS; Example of Keyboard Information
  • Page 94 – MIDI Terminals
  • Page 95 – CONNECTI NG TO A PERSONAL COMPUTER; Use only special MIDI cables when connecting MIDI devices.; Connect the MIDI terminals of the PSR-225 to the MIDI termi-; When using a MIDI interface with a Macintosh series com-
  • Page 96 – FUNCTION PARAM ETERS — MIDI; Select the desired Function parameter.; RemoteCh
  • Page 99 – Saving Bulk Data; First, set up the connected MIDI device for re-; Make the appropriate MIDI connections.; On the PortaTone, select the Bulk Dump Send; USING BU LK DUMP SEND TO SAVE DATA; BulkSend
  • Page 100 – When the operation is completed, the following displays appear:; Exit from the Bulk Dump Send operation.; End
  • Page 101 – Loading Bulk Data; Set up the connected MIDI device for sending; Make sure that the PortaTone is set to the Style
  • Page 102 – USING INITIAL SETUP SEND WITH A SEQU ENCER; Sending Initial Setup Data; First, set up the sequencer for recording.; On the PortaTone, select the Initial Setup Send; InitSend
  • Page 103 – Start recording on the sequencer, then send the
  • Page 104 – TROUBLESHOOTING
  • Page 105 – DATA BACKUP & INITIALIZATION; CLr; Backup; Data Initialization
  • Page 106 – INDEX
  • Page 107 – SONG SCORES; The Entertainer; Menuet; EZ Chord
  • Page 108 – VOICE LIST; Maximum Polyphony
  • Page 110 – GM Voice List
  • Page 111 – STYLE LIST
  • Page 112 – DRU M KIT LIST
  • Page 114 – MI DI IMPLEMENTATION CHART; MIDI Implementation Chart
  • Page 116 – Effect map
  • Page 117 – SPECIFICATIONS
  • Page 118 – Limited Warranty; KEEP THIS DOCUMENT FOR YOUR RECORDS. DO NOT MAIL!
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