Yamaha V50, Authorized Product Manual

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(4) Move the cursor to “ > KBD”, and select the func-
tion of the keyboard (the keyboard mode). This
determines what the keyboard will do while you are
playing rhythm patterns. Select from the following
two choices.
RHY ..... The keyboard will play the rhythm sounds
that have been assigned (arranged) across
the keyboard.
SYN ...... The keyboard will play the performance
or voice that was selected before you
pressed
When you enter record mode, you will automatically
be able to hear the rhythm sounds. (I.e., you will
temporarily be in rhythm machine mode.)
(5) Press When playback starts, the
“ > toSONG” display will disappear, and the selected
rhythm pattern will be repeatedly played back. The
LEDs will light according to the
instruments used. You can play the keyboard as
specified in step (4).
(6) Press Pattern playback will stop immediately.
To resume playback, press To playback from
the beginning, first press and together,
and then press
While playing rhythm patterns, you can do the following.
Change rhythm pattern numbers
Move the cursor to “Pattern” and select the next rhythm
pattern. When the pattern currently being played finishes
playing, the newly selected pattern will begin playing.
(The rhythm pattern number of the newly selected pat-
tern will blink until it actually begins playing.)
Change tempo
Move the cursor to “Tempo” and modify the tempo.
Moving the data entry slider while pressing
will also modify the tempo.
Change keyboard mode
Move the cursor to “ > KBD” and change the setting
to select whether the keyboard will play rhythm sounds
or synthesizer sounds. This setting is effective only when
in rhythm mode.
Whether the keyboard plays rhythm sounds or
synthesizer sounds is determined by the transmit channel
of the keyboard and the receive channel of each section.
However, if this keyboard mode is set to “RHY”, the
keyboard will always play rhythm sounds when in
rhythm mode
regardless
of the transmit channel and
receive channel settings.
While playing back the rhythm machine, pressing
or will move to per-
formance play mode or single play mode while contin-
uing to play the rhythm machine. (In performance play
mode and single play mode you will be able to select
or edit performances or voices when in synthesizer edit
mode.) To stop rhvthm machine playback, press
or
and then
Note:
When in pattern mode, pressing will not start
sequencer song playback. This means that when you
stop pattern playback, return to sequencer mode, and
press the sequencer playback and the rhythm
pattern playback may go out of synchronization. To
avoid this, press
or
when you enter se-
quencer mode, to reset the measure position. This
will automatically adjust the rhythm pattern playback
position.
When the rhythm machine is in song mode, the
rhythm machine playback will automatically play the
sequencer song, so there is no need for these steps.
Using the rhythm machine
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