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This Reference Manual explains advanced features of the PSR-S950/S750 that are not explained in
the Owner’s Manual. Please read the Owner’s Manual first, before reading this Reference Manual.

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Reference Manual

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Summary of Contents for PSR-S950

Page 1: ...Manual explains advanced features of the PSR S950 S750 that are not explained in the Owner s Manual Please read the Owner s Manual first before reading this Reference Manual EN Reference Manual Digit...

Page 2: ...up the Vocal Harmony Control Parameters 85 Editing the Vocal Harmony Types 87 9 Mixing Console 92 Editing VOL VOICE Parameters 92 Editing FILTER Parameters 93 Editing TUNE Parameters 94 Editing EFFECT...

Page 3: ...L HARMONY PSR S950 MIC SETTING VOCAL HARMONY display 81 8 5 SONG SELECT Song Selection display 3 SCORE SCORE display 44 LYRICS TEXT LYRICS or TEXT display 46 GUIDE 50 REPEAT EXTRA TR TR 2 TR 1 REC CHA...

Page 4: ...PACK INSTALLATION Expansion Pack Selection display B VOICE PIANO PERC DRUM KIT Voice Selection display PRESET 1 ORGAN FLUTES Organ Flutes VOICE SET display FOOTAGE VOLUME ATTACK 19 EFFECT EQ 19 EXPAN...

Page 5: ...trol in real time For example with the Saxophone Voice if you play a C and then a D in a very legato way you will hear the note change seamlessly as though a saxophone player played it in a single bre...

Page 6: ...the measure of your playing strength has a completely different sound For example a guitar MegaVoice includes the sounds of various performance techniques In conventional instruments different Voices...

Page 7: ...ons other than the ORGAN FLUTES and USER EXPANSION buttons to call up the Voice Selection display 3 Press the 8 UP button to call up the Voice categories 4 Press the 2 P2 button to display Page 2 5 Pr...

Page 8: ...button to select 1 TOUCH RESPONSE 3 Use the 1 7 buttons to set the touch response 1 TOUCH RESPONSE Effect Related Settings 1 2 TOUCH Determines the Touch Sensitivity type HARD 2 Requires strong playi...

Page 9: ...left hand section shown below NOTE The 1 5 and Octave settings are not affected by the chord NOTE For details on the sections see page 25 Multi Assign Type The Multi Assign effect automatically assig...

Page 10: ...pplies the effect to the part for which PART ON OFF is on When the both parts are on the RIGHT 1 part is given priority over the RIGHT 2 part MULTI When both parts are on the note played on the keyboa...

Page 11: ...g in music today PURE MAJOR PURE MINOR These tunings preserve the pure mathematical intervals of each scale especially for triad chords root third fifth You can hear this best in actual vocal harmonie...

Page 12: ...he keyboard is transposed yet maintains the original pitch relationship between the notes 3 5 TUNE Select the desired note to be tuned by using the 3 buttons and tune it in cents by using the 4 5 butt...

Page 13: ...T display 3 Use the TAB E F buttons to call up the relevant setting page For information on the available parameters in each page see the Editable Parameters in the VOICE SET Displays on page 14 4 As...

Page 14: ...1 2 parts the R1 R2 param eter is available when the edited Voice is used as the LEFT part the LEFT parameter is available 6 MONO POLY Determines whether the edited Voice is played monophonically or...

Page 15: ...utoff Frequency For details about the filter see below 3 AMPLITUDE Determines the degree to which the MODULATION wheel modulates the amplitude volume 5 LFO PMOD Determines the degree to which the MODU...

Page 16: ...how quickly the sound decays to silence after the key is released The lower the value the quicker the decay 6 DEPTH Determines the intensity of the Vibrato effect Higher settings result in a more pron...

Page 17: ...EZE VOICE SET TAB E F VOICE SET 2 Use the A B buttons to select a keyboard part 3 Use the 4 7 buttons to turn on or off of each item for the selected Part When the button is set to ON the correspondin...

Page 18: ...e see pages 18 19 4 Save your edited Voice NOTICE The settings will be lost if you select another Voice or turn the power of the instrument off without executing the Save operation 4 1 Press the I PRE...

Page 19: ...f F G buttons and Vibrato Depth H button 4 MODE The MODE control selects between two modes FIRST and EACH In the FIRST mode attack percussive sound is applied only to the first notes played and held s...

Page 20: ...realism and authentic backing by mixing in original chord types and changes as well as special riffs with chord changes with the Main sections These have been programmed to add spice and a professiona...

Page 21: ...the Chord Fingering Type Chord Tutor Function With this function shown in the right half of this display you can see which notes to press for specifying the chord If you know a chord name but don t kn...

Page 22: ...keyboard is used as the bass note allowing you to play on bass chords In the Fingered type the root of the chord is always used as the bass note FULL KEYBOARD Detects chords in the entire key range Ch...

Page 23: ...wn in the display Here you can determine whether the chord played in the chord section will sound or not in the Stop Accom paniment status OFF The chord played in the chord section will not sound STYL...

Page 24: ...ng strength in the chord section of the keyboard 5 6 SECTION SET Determines the default section that is automatically called up when select ing different Styles when Style playback is stopped When set...

Page 25: ...otate the DATA ENTRY dial You can also specify the Split Point directly from the keyboard by pressing the desired key on the key board while holding the F button G Split Point S Sets each Split Point...

Page 26: ...s display do not affect to the One Touch Setting 4 Press one of the ONE TOUCH SETTING 1 4 buttons to which you wish to memorize your panel settings A message appears To memorize various panel settings...

Page 27: ...select a preset Audio Style as starting data the Audio part is to be used as is The Audio part can not be deleted edited and created from scratch The created Style containing the Audio part can be us...

Page 28: ...lected as starting data changing the pattern length deletes the corresponding Audio part For the entire current Style set the Tempo and Time Signature in the display called up via the B button 4 Creat...

Page 29: ...Recording Characteristics in the Style Creator Loop Recording Style playback repeats the rhythm patterns of several measures in a loop and Style recording is also done using loops For example if you...

Page 30: ...ns to turn each channel on or off as desired If you selected an Audio Style as starting data turn the Audio part on or off via the H button 4 As soon as loop playback returns to the first beat in the...

Page 31: ...s change chords during performance Rules when recording a Main or Fill With the default initial settings the Source Root Chord is set to CMaj7 This means that you should record a Source Pattern using...

Page 32: ...yle as starting data turn on or off the Audio part via the H button 4 As soon as loop playback returns to the first beat in the first measure start playing the bass line chord backing or phrase to be...

Page 33: ...Song Creator a Recording channel can be set on the BASIC page It cannot be set on the EDIT page Unlike in Song Creator Chord and Lyrics data cannot be entered This is because such data is not necessa...

Page 34: ...h the newly assigned Source Pattern via the 6 7 buttons For details see Playing the Style During Style Assembly below 4 As desired execute the same operations for another channel Playing the Style Dur...

Page 35: ...ple when ORIGI NAL BEAT is set to 8 Beat and BEAT CONVERTER is set to 12 all 8th notes in the section are shifted to 8th note triplet timing The 16A and 16B Beat Converter which appear when ORIGINAL B...

Page 36: ...results The Undo function only has one level only the previous operation can be undone 1 2 CHANNEL Selects the desired channel part to which Dynamics is to be applied The selected channel is shown at...

Page 37: ...d channel 5 REMOVE EVENT This function lets you remove specific events from the selected channel 2 Use the 1 2 CHANNEL buttons to select the channel to be edited The selected channel is shown at the u...

Page 38: ...d on this instrument can be played back only on instruments which are compatible with SFF GE 1 In the PARAMETER Page use the A B buttons to select the edit menu For details of the edit menu see page 3...

Page 39: ...For details see below IMPORTANT The parameters here should be set before recording If you change the settings after recording the appropriate note conversion cannot be done even when you specify vari...

Page 40: ...tar accompaniment Notes are trans posed to approximate the chords played with natural guitar fingering BYPASS When NTR is set to ROOT FIXED the transposition table used does not do any note conversion...

Page 41: ...of Sections which respond only to major minor chords such as in Intros and Endings DORIAN 5th In addition to the Dorian transposition above augmented and diminished chords affect the 5th note of the S...

Page 42: ...f the note will bend without a new attack to match the type of the new chord PITCH SHIFT TO ROOT The pitch of the note will bend without a new attack to match the root of the new chord RETRIGGER The n...

Page 43: ...rked at the upper left of the protected Song name on the display Prot 1 Indicates that the Preset Song is saved to the User drive This type of Song cannot be copied moved and transferred to external d...

Page 44: ...channel except OFF page 48 RIGHT next parameter and LEFT cannot be turned off at the same time 2 RIGHT ON OFF Enables disables display of the right hand notation RIGHT and LEFT above cannot be turned...

Page 45: ...nature set tings for displaying notation 5 QUANTIZE This gives you control over the note resolution in the notation letting you shift or correct the timing of all displayed notes so that they line up...

Page 46: ...es not delete the text file itself but results in no text file being selected If you want to restore the text indication select the text file again via the 5 6 buttons 3 4 F 11pt P 16pt Text display o...

Page 47: ...e Song 4 Press the STYLE CONTROL ACMP button to turn on the auto accompaniment function then press the SYNC START button to enable synchronized start of the accompaniment 5 Press the STYLE CONTROL STA...

Page 48: ...atedly I PHRASE MARK REPEAT This parameter is available only when the current Song contains Phrase Marks which specify certain locations of several measures each in the Song When this is set to ON the...

Page 49: ...When the language is specified in the Song data the lyrics are displayed accordingly When the language is not specified in the Song data the lyr ics language is regarded as INTERNATIONAL below INTERN...

Page 50: ...in time with the music and Song playback continues Your Tempo The same as Follow Lights except that Song playback matches the speed at which you play Guide menu for singing Karao Key This function le...

Page 51: ...the current chord type After stopping playback go to the next step 2 Call up the operation display FUNCTION B SONG SETTING 3 Press the 8 button to turn the P A T performance assistant technology on 4...

Page 52: ...display REC MODE Re records the Song See page 59 CHANNEL Edits Channel events See page 61 CHORD Records chords and Sections with precise timing page 56 or edits them page 65 1 16 Records melodies Step...

Page 53: ...l resulting velocity fff 127 ff 111 f 95 mf 79 mp 63 p 47 pp 31 ppp 15 H Determines the gate time actual length of the note to be entered Normal 80 Tenuto 99 Staccato 40 Staccatissimo 20 Manual The ga...

Page 54: ...ng the instructions below select the desired Voice on the STEP RECORD display Note that only the Voice selection and Note input are possible during Step Recording NOTE Since the actual note length det...

Page 55: ...the specified note length has been entered 4 Enter the next notes and apply a tie 4 1 Press the G button to select mp 4 2 Press the H button to select Normal 4 3 While holding G3 key on the keyboard p...

Page 56: ...nk Song New Song is called up for recording NOTE Selecting a blank Song initializes the panel settings 2 Select the Style you want to use in the Song 3 Call up the operation display FUNCTION F DIGITAL...

Page 57: ...of Step Recording Chord detailed instructions of Step 5 on page 56 NOTE This example uses a Style in 4 4 time Before executing the instructions below make sure that AUTO FILL IN button is turned off...

Page 58: ...F and G7 in the chord section of the keyboard NOTE If you want to record the Fill In Section turn on the AUTO FILL IN button then press one of the MAIN VARIATION A D buttons 3 Enter the chords for the...

Page 59: ...r when you play the keyboard in the Synchro Standby mode FIRST KEY ON The Song plays back normally then starts overwrite recording as soon as you play the keyboard PUNCH IN AT The Song plays back norm...

Page 60: ...be reversed depending on the particular pedal you ve connected to the instrument If necessary change the pedal polarity to reverse the control page 102 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3...

Page 61: ...details of the edit menu and available settings see page 62 4 Press the D EXECUTE button to execute the operation for the current display After the operation with the exception of the SETUP menu is co...

Page 62: ...ame time For example when the straight eighth notes and eighth notes triplet are contained in the same channel if you quantize by the straight eighth notes all notes in the channel are quantized to st...

Page 63: ...hese channels If you transpose the channels of Drum Kits the instruments assigned to each key will be changed 2 3 SOURCE 1 Determines the MIDI channel 1 16 to be mixed All MIDI events of the channel s...

Page 64: ...he KEYBOARD VOICE SONG Records the tempo setting and all settings made from the Mixing Console KEYBOARD VOICE Records the panel settings including the Voice selection of the keyboard parts RIGHT 1 2 a...

Page 65: ...left right and select the desired parameter of the high lighted event H FILTER Calls up the Filter display page 67 letting you select only the events you wish to be shown in the event list I SAVE Pre...

Page 66: ...ling the PITCH BEND wheel A T Aftertouch This event is generated when pressure is applied to a key after the note is played ScBar Score Start Bar Determines the top measure of a Song Tempo Determines...

Page 67: ...es of events D CTRL CHG Displays all specific Control Change message events E STYLE Displays all types of Style playback related events H ALL ON Checkmarks all event types I NOTE ALL OFF CHORD NOTE sh...

Page 68: ...as Punch In Out are not available Multi Pad Realtime Recording via MIDI Before starting operation note the following points Since only the Right 1 part performance will be recorded as Multi Pad phras...

Page 69: ...ntend to create a Chord Match phrase use the notes of C D E G A and B or in other words play the phrase in the key of C major This ensures that the phrase will stay harmonically constant and match whi...

Page 70: ...es with absolutely precise timing This Step Recording procedure is essentially the same as that for Song Recording pages 52 55 with the exception of the points listed below There is no LCD button for...

Page 71: ...ow 4 PASTE Pastes the Multi Pad s copied by the 3 button 5 DELETE Deletes the selected Multi Pads Copying the Multi Pad 1 Press the 3 button in step 4 above 2 Select the Multi Pads to be copied by usi...

Page 72: ...data and Style data you use frequently 1 Select the desired Record from the MUSIC FINDER display 2 Press the H ADD TO FAVORITE button then press the G YES button to add the selected Record to the FAV...

Page 73: ...s play After selecting the desired Style press the EXIT button to return back to the EDIT display For SONG or AUDIO Records this field cannot be edited D BEAT Changes the beat time signature of the Re...

Page 74: ...display 3 Press the I DELETE RECORD button 4 Press the F YES button to delete the current Record The Record is deleted from all pages The Music Finder feature handles all the Records including the pre...

Page 75: ...ved 3 Press the A J buttons to select the desired Music Finder file A message appears prompting you to select one of the following options F REPLACE All Music Finder Records currently in the instrumen...

Page 76: ...call up the Registration Bank Selection display then press one of the A J buttons to select the desired Bank 2 Press the 8 EDIT button to call up the REGISTRATION EDIT display 3 Select a particular R...

Page 77: ...CE SET TAB E F FREEZE 2 Use the 2 7 buttons to select the desired item then use the 8 buttons to enter or remove the checkmark Items having checkmarks will be frozen when FREEZE is turned on 3 Press t...

Page 78: ...ATION SEQUENCE 4 If you use a pedal specify here how the pedal will be used to advance or to reverse through the sequence Use the C or D button to select the pedal for advancing or reversing through t...

Page 79: ...press the G YES button to store the Registration Sequence program temporarily 9 Press the REGIST BANK and buttons simultaneously to call up the REGISTRATION BANK display then press the 6 Save button...

Page 80: ...number indicating that this Registration Memory number is currently selected 4 Use the TAB buttons or Foot Pedal during your keyboard performance To return to the status in which no Registration Memo...

Page 81: ...one performance and Talk setup used during talk or between a certain performance and the next performance When set to ON only the Talk settings are active When set to OFF only the Vocal Harmony settin...

Page 82: ...Mic Setting Memory display by pressing the H USER MEMORY button and save the settings see page 83 The settings will be lost if you exit from this display or turn the power to the instrument off witho...

Page 83: ...d 2 4 6 dB Boosts or cuts the level of the corresponding band by up to 12 dB 1 SW Switch Turns the Noise Gate on or off 2 TH Threshold Adjusts the input level at which the gate begins to open 3 SW Swi...

Page 84: ...TALK MIXING selected by E button 1 VOLUME Determines the output volume of the microphone sound 2 PAN Determines the stereo pan position of the microphone sound 3 REVERB DEPTH Determines the depth of...

Page 85: ...phone is properly connected Owner s Manual chapter 8 and the settings Reference Manual page 82 are adjusted correctly before setting the Vocal Harmony Control parameters here 2 Press the 8 SETUP butto...

Page 86: ...ance does not affect the Vocal Harmony UPPER Notes played to the right of the Split Point control the har mony LOWER Notes played to the left of the Split Point control the har mony NOTE The separate...

Page 87: ...he Vocal Harmony Edit display refer to pages 88 91 for editing each tab OVERVIEW Edits basic parameters for Vocal Harmony type including mode Chordal Type and Vocal Effect etc PART Adjusts volume and...

Page 88: ...ing voice For information on each parameter see page 89 3 Press the G VOCAL EFFECT EDIT button to edit the Vocal Effect On the display called up via this operation use the 3 5 buttons to select the pa...

Page 89: ...har mony vocal sounds A wide range of reverb delay modulation distor tion and other special effects are available For a list of the effect types refer to the Data List Vocal Harmony Parameter List on...

Page 90: ...semitones DEGREE Settings Lead 3 octaves 3 octaves Harmony 1 2 3 3 octaves 22 scale degrees Unison 3 octaves 22 scale degrees DETUNE selected by B button Determines the fine pitch setting for each par...

Page 91: ...rt Use this to adjust the relative level balance among the vocal parts Settings 0 127 PITCH CORRECT MODE set by 7 8 buttons Determines how the Pitch Correct affects your voice For information on each...

Page 92: ...VOICE Allows you to re select the Voices for each part NOTE Note the following operation limitations For each Style channel you can select only the Voices for recording on pages 30 and 31 For each Sty...

Page 93: ...9 Mixing Console Editing FILTER Parameters D I HARMONIC CONTENT Allows you to adjust the Resonance page 15 for each part E J BRIGHTNESS Determines the brightness of the sound for each part by adjusti...

Page 94: ...part The range is from 0 to 12 with each step corresponding to one semi tone D I OCTAVE Determines the range of the pitch change in octaves over two octaves up or down for each keyboard part The valu...

Page 95: ...and adjust the Send Level Depth for each Part as well as Return Level for all Parts When the Connection is set to Insertion on the EFFECT PARAMETER EDIT display the Effect of this Block is applied to...

Page 96: ...richly textured sound as if several parts are being played simultaneously In addition other type effects such as reverb delay etc can also be selected in this effect block DSP1 STYLE PART SONG CHANNEL...

Page 97: ...tton to call up the display for editing the effect parameters 2 Use the 4 5 buttons to select a parameter then use the 6 7 buttons to edit the value When Reverb Chorus or DSP1 is selected as the Effec...

Page 98: ...t of User Effect Types differs depending on the Effect Block 6 Press the I SAVE button again to execute the Save operation In the Naming window called up via this operation assign the name to the User...

Page 99: ...ing EQ Parameters B C TYPE Selects the desired Master EQ type This affects the overall sound of the instrument SOFT Relatively soft mellow EQ settings in which the mid and high frequency bands are red...

Page 100: ...all the five bands at the same time 4 If desired adjust the Q bandwidth and the FREQ center frequency of the band selected in step 3 To adjust the bandwidth also called Shape or Q use the 1 buttons Th...

Page 101: ...can be connected refer to the Owner s Manual chapter 10 1 Call up the operation display FUNCTION D CONTROLLER TAB E F FOOT PEDAL 2 Use the A B buttons to select one of the two foot pedals to which the...

Page 102: ...Articulation Voices even if this has been assigned to the Foot Pedals SOFT Allows you to use a pedal to control the Soft effect Pressing this pedal reduces the volume and changes the timbre of the no...

Page 103: ...A D buttons FILL DOWN Plays a fill in which is automatically followed by the Main section of the but ton on the immediate left FILL SELF Plays a fill in FILL BREAK Plays a break FILL UP Plays a fill...

Page 104: ...programmed template from the Preset page page 105 If you have already created your original template and saved it to the User page you can also select that template from the User page 3 To edit the te...

Page 105: ...with an external MIDI clock instead of the instrument s internal clock This template should be used when you wish to set the tempo on the MIDI device connected to the instrument MIDI Accord 1 MIDI acc...

Page 106: ...want to synchronize it to that device set this parameter to the appropriate setting MIDI USB 1 or USB 2 In this case make sure that the external device is connected properly e g to the instrument s MI...

Page 107: ...m the Split Point for the Voices This is not affected by the on off status of the ACMP button 2 Use the 3 buttons to select a channel via which the selected part will be transmitted NOTE If the same t...

Page 108: ...e EXTRA PART 1 5 There are five parts specially reserved for receiving and playing MIDI data Normally these parts are not used by the instrument itself The PSR S950 S750 can be used as a 32 channel mu...

Page 109: ...tton to set the desired channel to ON or OFF You can also set all channels to OFF by pressing the I ALL OFF button Chord Type Settings for Style Playback via MIDI Receive The explanations here apply t...

Page 110: ...or Song playback is faded in out when using the FADE IN OUT button CONFIG 1 3 FADE IN TIME Determines the time it takes for the volume to fade in or go from mini mum to maximum range of 0 20 0 seconds...

Page 111: ...f This sets the amount of time that elapses before the power is automatically turned off Press the 4 5 AUTO POWER OFF buttons to set the time NOTICE Depending on the instrument status the power may no...

Page 112: ...ice Selection display Displaying these is helpful when you want to check which bank select MSB LSB values and program change number you need to specify when selecting the Voice from an external MIDI d...

Page 113: ...to be checked for remaining memory F PROPERTY Opens the Property display of the device selected by A B buttons You can check the amount of remaining memory on the device NOTE The displayed remaining m...

Page 114: ...can select a picture from among various pictures provided on the Preset Page After selecting press the EXIT button to close the Selection display If you want to use an original picture prepare the des...

Page 115: ...about which parameters belong to System Setup MIDI SETUP Resets the MIDI settings including the MIDI Setups on the USER tab display to the original factory status USER EFFECT Resets the current Effect...

Page 116: ...then select the desired file When the file is selected a message is displayed according to the content of the file Press the desired button F SYSTEM SETUP FILES Parameters set on the various displays...

Page 117: ...ny Echo 10 EDIT Mixing Console 100 Multi Pad 70 Music Finder 73 Style Creator 33 EFFECT Mixing Console 95 Vocal Harmony 81 EFFECT EQ Organ Flutes Voice 19 Voice Set 16 EG Voice Set 16 Envelope Generat...

Page 118: ...Registration Memory 76 Registration Sequence 78 REMOVE EVENT Style Creator 37 REPEAT MODE Song 48 REVERB DEPTH Voice Set 16 RTR Style Creator 42 S S Art Voice 5 SCALE TUNE 11 Scale types 11 Session St...

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