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Learning to Play by Playing (For Synthesizer Novices)
E-14
At this point you have mastered the simplest steps required to
edit and save tones. But you shouldn’t stop here. Your
Synthesizer has a wealth of other tone editing features,
functions, and tools. Take the time to learn about these and
you will become capable of high-level tone editing. Find out
more under “Selecting and Creating Tones” on page E-18.
Your sequencer does much more than create tones. It is also
equipped with a collection of functions that support uniquely
expressive rhythms and phrases that enhance your
performances. This section provides a simple introduction to
some of these functions.
Press
bm
ARPEGGIO so the button becomes lit.
Press any key on the keyboard. The arpeggio function will
cause the note assigned to the key to play in an endless loop.
The loop will stop when you release the keyboard key.
Pressing two or three keyboard keys will loop play the notes
of the keys you press. Pressing three or more keys will cause
an arpeggio (sometimes referred to as a “broken chord”) to be
played.
There are a variety of different built-in arpeggio types. You
can select one the same way as you select a preset tone, edit
it, and then save it as a user arpeggio type. Let’s go over the
procedure for selecting a preset arpeggio type. Hold down
bm
ARPEGGIO until the screen shown below appears on the
display.
Now perform the same procedure as you did when selecting a
preset tone to select a preset type and then play it.
For details about arpeggios, see “Sounding Arpeggio Phrases
Automatically” on page E-40.
To give you an idea about what a musical phrase is, let’s
listen to a preset phrase.
Hold down
bn
KEY PLAY until the screen shown below
appears on the display.
Press
bn
PLAY/STOP. This will start playback of one of the
Synthesizer’s built-in preset phrases. Now you perform the
same procedure as you did when selecting a preset tone to
select another preset phrase and play it back.
Instead of using
bn
PLAY/STOP, you can also start playback
of a phrase by pressing a key on the keyboard. Let’s see how
this works.
First, press
bn
KEY PLAY so the button becomes lit.
This is Key Play Mode. Pressing a keyboard key while in the
Key Play Mode will automatically start playback of a phrase.
Pressing another key will play the phrase using a different
pitch. In the Key Play Mode, the keyboard can be used to
sequentially play a phrase at different pitches to create an
interesting effect.
The Phrase Sequencer main chapter covers information
about how you can record your own phrases and play them
back when you want to. For more information see “Recording
a New Phrase” on page E-46.
Using the Step Sequencer and
Phrases
Arpeggio Function
bm
Lit
Screen title (arpeggio type) Bank-Type number
Preset
Phrase Sequencer
bn
Phrase Sequencer Mode Bank-Phrase number
Preset
Phrase name
Lit