7-2
Tutorial
2 - Playing a Style
fuller-sounding, depending on the number of tracks muted
or unmuted.
8
Set the relative volume of the Realtime tracks.
Use each E-H VOLUME/VALUE button pair to set the vol-
ume of the Realtime tracks. Press one of the VOLUME/
VALUE button to select a track. Then press the right one to
increase the volume, the left one to lower it.
9
Press FULL UPPER on the KEYBOARD MODE sec-
tion, and play.
Again, the Upper tracks can play across the full keyboard
range.
0
Save your track configuration in a Performance.
When you find the right sound, you can press the WRITE
button to save it into a Performance, a Single Touch Setting
(STS), or a Style Performance. The Performance is a good
choice to save Realtime tracks. See “The Write window” on
page 9-4 for more information.
2 - PLAYING A STYLE
A Style will be your virtual band. Select one of the 304 Styles
available from the internal memory.
1
Select your favorite musical Style.
There are plenty of Styles to choose from. Select the Jazz Style
- “Jazz Brush”.
Select the lower row of Styles. Press the leftmost STYLE but-
ton to turn the lower LED on.
Now, you can press button number 4, called “JAZZ 1”. The
Style Select window appears.
Press one of the A VOLUME/VALUE buttons to select “Jazz
Brush”.
2
Press Intro.
You can eselect an Intro, to be played before the Style. Press
INTRO1 or INTRO2. INTRO1 has preprogrammed chord
progressions. INTRO2 lets you play the chord progression
during the introduction.
3
Start the Style!
Play a chord, and press the START/STOP button. Then start
playing. Usually (when the SPLIT LED is on) chords are rec-
ognized left to the split point. With the UPPER or FULL
Chord Scanning mode, you must play three or more notes for
chord recognition.
4
Play your chords and your melody.
Go on and play. As you notice, the KD has a very sophisticate
chord recognition engine. Recognized chords are shown on
the display.
5
Call a “break”- or a “fill”.
While your are playing, you are can to call a one-bar break.
Try it:
PRESS BREAK
The music stops for one measure. Then, it starts again. After
a while, let’s go for something different…
PRESS FILL1 OR FILL2
No silence, this time. KD plays a complex passage to let you
take a breath. FILL1 is the simpler one, where the FILL2 is
more complex. Usually, you will use FILL1 when playing with
Drum/Perc GrandPiano
Bass01 DarkPad
Acc.1-5 StrngEns2
Audio In AnalogStr
SoftBeat |STS1
Press the E-G VOLUME/VALUE buttons
Press the left one to lower…
…and the right one to raise.
JazzBrush JazzWaltz1
Med.Swing JazzWaltz2
SlowSwing 5/4 Swing
SwingBallad Mood Swing
SoftBeat
Summary of Contents for KD-150
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Page 39: ...6 6 Basic operations Shortcut to see the original bank for a Style Performance or Program ...
Page 47: ...7 8 Tutorial 5 Editing a Song ...
Page 53: ...8 6 MIDI Playing another instrument with the KD ...
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Page 103: ...11 14 Song Play operating mode Saving a list of Songs ...
Page 111: ...12 8 Backing Sequence operating mode How to delete a whole Song ...
Page 133: ...13 22 Song operating mode Event Edit procedure ...
Page 189: ...16 20 Disk edit environment Page 11 Card Restore ...
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Page 225: ...17 34 Factory Data MIDI Setup ...
Page 283: ...18 58 Effects Mono Mono Chain ...
Page 287: ...19 4 Assignable parameters Scales ...
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