Yamaha PSR-A3000, Owner'S Manual

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PSR-A3000 Owner’s Manual
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Multi Pads
– Adding Musical Phrases to Your Performance –
The Multi Pads can be used to play a number of short pre-
recorded rhythmic and melodic sequences adding impact and
variety to your keyboard performances.
Multi Pads are grouped in Banks of four each. The instrument
features a variety of Multi Pad Banks in a variety of different
musical genres.
Moreover, the Audio Link Multi Pad function allows you to
create a new pad with your audio data (WAV files) to play back
during your performance.
This section covers how to play back only Multi Pads. However, you can also play the Multi Pads during playback
of a Style/Song to make your performance more interesting.
1
Press the MULTI PAD CONTROL [SELECT] button to call up the
Multi Pad Bank Selection display.
2
Press one of the [A] – [J] buttons to select the desired bank.
You can call up the other pages by pressing the buttons that correspond to the
page numbers (P1, P2 ...) or pressing the MULTI PAD CONTROL [SELECT]
button repeatedly.
Press the [8

] (UP) button to call up the next higher level folder to which the
Multi Pads are categorized.
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Press any of the MULTI PAD CONTROL [1] – [4] buttons to play a
Multi Pad phrase.
The corresponding phrase for the button starts playing back in its entirety at the
currently set tempo. You can play up to four Multi Pads at the same time.
Playing the Multi Pads
Shows the Multi Pad
category folders.
NOTE
There are two types of Multi Pad data.
Some types will play back once and
stop when they reach to the end. Oth-
ers will be played back repeatedly
(loop).
NOTE
Pressing the pad during its playback
will stop playing and begin playing
from the top again.
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