Yamaha Portatone PSR-5700, Authorized Product Manual

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Using the Pads
The PERC Mode
To engage the PERC mode, press the [MODE SELECT] button a few times until the PERC indi-
cator lights.
The 8 pads are initially programmed with the following drum and percussion instruments which
can be played via the pads when the PERC mode is selected:
1. Kick 1
2. Snare 3
3. Tom 1 Low
4. Tom 1 Mid
5. Tom 1 Hi
6. Closed Hi-Hat 1
7. Open Hi-Hat 1
8. Clash Cymbal 2
Assigning Different Instruments To the PERC Pads
Press [REC/STOP]
Assign the Instruments
Press [REC/TOP] To End
Assignment
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Press the [REC/STOP] button so that its indicator lights (make sure the
PERC mode is selected first). You are now ready to assign new instruments
to the pads.
A new drum/percussion instrument is assigned to a pad simply by playing
the key corresponding to the desired instrument while holding the drum pad
to which it is to be assigned. The reverse also works: press the pad while
holding the key. The velocity at which you play the key (how hard you
press the key = how loud the note sounds) is also recorded to the specified
pad.
The DRUM KIT voice is automatically selected if you press the [REC/STOP] key
while in the PERC mode and a non-drum voice is selected. You can select
either voice 98 DRUM KIT or 99 POP DRUM KIT while still in the PERC assign-
ment mode (simply press the NUMBER [8] or [9] button) to access different
drum and percussion voices that you want to assign to the pads.
Percussion voices created using the CUSTOM VOICE EDIT functions de-
scribed on page 27 of the Advanced Features manual cannot be assigned to
the percussion pads.
When you’re finished making instrument assignments to the PERC pads,
press the [REC/STOP] button so that its indicator goes out.
Percussion pad data can be saved to and loaded from disk (Advanced Features
manual, page 45, 46), but can not be memorized by the Panel Registration
feature (page 38).