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Playing with Different Tones
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Simultaneously press the TONE buttons of the two tones that you want to layer.
Example: Press GRAND PIANO 1 button and STRINGS button at the same time.
Assigning Different Tones to the Left and Right Sides of the Keyboard
You can assign different tones to keys on the left side and the right side of the keyboard.
Split Point Low Range High Range
� If the layer tone is a variation tone, the indicator lamp above the VARIATION button will light.
STRINGS
GRAND PIANO 1
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GRAND PIANO 1 STRINGS
Press the TONE button of the tone you want to select for the high (right) range.
Example: GRAND PIANO 1
� The tones are now layered.
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2 3
Press the SPLIT button.
� This causes the SPLIT indicator lamp to light.
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After you are finished using the layered tones, press the one of the TONE buttons again to unlayer them.
Press the TONE button of the tone you want to select for the low (left) range.
� The keyboard is now split between the two tones. Example: STRINGS
NOTE
� Note that you cannot layer the main tone and variation tone assigned to the same TONE button.
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Adjusting the Volume Balance between Two Layered Tones
After you are finished using the split keyboard, press the SPLIT button again to unsplit it.
� This causes the SPLIT indicator lamp to go out.
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While holding down the FUNCTION button, use the keyboard keys shown below to adjust the volume of the layered tones.
Specifying the Keyboard Tone Split Point
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While holding down the SPLIT button, press the keyboard key where you want the left limit of the high range (right) tone to be.
Left limit of the high range Flash Low range High range
L C1
L C2
L C3
L C4
L C5
L C6
L C7
L C8
Initial default (Center)
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Volume of the layered tone
Volume of the main tone
� To return the volume setting to its initial default, hold down the FUNCTION button and press both of the keys at the same time.
NOTE
� The split point setting also controls the point where the keyboard splits between the accompaniment keyboard (pages E-14, 15) and the melody keyboard. Moving the split point also affects the sizes of the accompaniment keyboard and the melody keyboard.
