1
Table of Contents
Panel Layout ..........................................2
Main Features ........................................5
1 Quick Introductory Guide ...............6
1 Getting Started ............................................. 6
2 Basic Registrations ....................................... 7
3 Registration Menu Disk ................................ 8
4 Basic Operation ......................................... 13
5 Using the LCD Display ............................... 14
2 Voice Sections ................................ 18
1 Selecting Voices from the Panel ................. 18
2 Selecting Voices from the Dotted Buttons ... 21
3 Voice Menus ............................................. 23
3 Voice Controls and Effects ............ 28
1 Selecting from Voice Condition Pages ........ 29
[PAGE 1] ...................................................... 29
1) Touch Tone .......................................... 29
2) Feet ...................................................... 30
3) Effect (On/Off) ...................................... 30
4) Pan ....................................................... 30
[PAGE 2] ...................................................... 31
1) Vibrato ................................................. 31
2) Touch Vibrato ....................................... 31
2 Selecting from Effect Set Pages ................... 32
1) Tremolo/Chorus .................................... 32
2) Symphonic/Celeste ............................... 32
3) Delay ................................................... 33
4) Flanger ................................................. 33
3 Selecting from the Panel ............................. 34
1) Reverb .................................................. 34
2) Sustain .................................................. 35
3) Tremolo/Chorus .................................... 36
4 Rhythm and Accompaniment ....... 39
1 Selecting Rhythms from the Panel ............... 39
2 Rhythm Condition Page ............................. 42
3 Dotted Buttons and User Rhythms .............. 43
4 Rhythm Menus .......................................... 44
5 Automatic Accompaniment-Auto Bass Chord
(A.B.C.) ................................................................. 46
6 Accompaniment Controls ........................... 48
7 Keyboard Percussion .................................. 49
8 Melody On Chord (M.O.C.) ....................... 51
5 Registration Memory ..................... 52
1 Storing Registrations ................................... 52
2 Selecting Registrations ................................ 52
3 Saving the Registration Data to Disk ........... 63
4 Registration Shift ........................................ 54
6 Music Disk Recorder ..................... 58
1 Precautions ................................................ 58
2 Formatting a Disk ....................................... 60
3 Recording .................................................. 61
4 Recording Registrations (and Bulk Data) ..... 67
5 Recalling Recorded Registrations (and BulkData) ........ 68
6 Replacing Registrations .............................. 68
7 Playback .................................................... 69
8 Other Functions ......................................... 71
1) Custom Play ......................................... 71
2) Pause ................................................... 71
3) Fast Forward and Fast Reverse ............... 71
4) Changing the Tempo ............................. 72
5) Song Copy ............................................ 73
6) Song Delete .......................................... 74
7) Disk Copy ............................................ 74
8) Checking the Remaining Memory ......... 76
9) Voice Disks .......................................... 76
10)Copy Protect ......................................... 76
7 Voice Edit ....................................... 78
1 Editing a Voice ........................................... 78
2 Saving Your New Voice ............................. 83
3 Quitting Voice Edit .................................... 84
4 Recalling an Edited Voice .......................... 84
5 Selecting Voices from a Voice Disk (Optional) ... 85
6 Voice Editing Basics ................................... 86
8 Rhythm Program ............................ 96
Outline of the Rhythm Programming Operation ..... 96
1 Rhythm Pattern Program ............................ 97
1) Entering Rhythm Pattern Program .......... 97
2) Percussion Sounds Used for Rhythm
Pattern Program .................................... 99
3) Step Write and Real Time Write .......... 100
4) Selecting Step Write or Real Time Write
Operation ........................................... 100
5) Setting the Beat/Quantize Values ......... 100
6) Entering Percussion Sounds to a Rhythm
Pattern ................................................ 101
7) Editing with Step Write ....................... 102
8) Editing with Real Time Write ............... 106
9) Selecting Accompaniment Patterns ...... 107
10)Saving Rhythm Patterns ....................... 108
11)Quitting Rhythm Pattern Program ........ 109
12)Recalling User Rhythm Patterns ........... 110
2 Rhythm Sequence Program ...................... 111
1) Selecting a Sequence .......................... 111
2) Programming a Sequence ................... 112
3) Quitting Rhythm Sequence Program .... 115
4) Playing Rhythm Sequences ................. 115
5) Playing All Sequences in Order ........... 116
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Footswitches, Knee Lever and
Expression Pedal ........................ 118
1 Footswitch ............................................... 118
2 Knee Lever ............................................... 120
3 Expression Pedals ..................................... 121
10 Transpose and Pitch Controls ... 122
11 MIDI ............................................ 123
12 Accessory Jacks and Controls ... 125
13 Appendix .................................... 126
MIDI ........................................................... 126
MIDI Data Format ........................................ 127
MIDI Implementation Chart ......................... 131
Troubleshooting ........................................... 132
Specifications .............................................. 135
Index ........................................................... 136
1
Voice Sections
2
Quick
Introductory Guide
Voice Controls
and Effects
3
Rhythm and
Accompaniment
4
Registration Memory
5
Music Disk Recorder
6
Voice Edit
7
Rhythm Program
8
9
10
11
13
Accessory Jacks
and Controls
Appendix
12
Footswitches,
Knee Lever
and Expression Pedal
Transpose
and Pitch Controls
MIDI
Summary of Contents for Electone EL-57
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