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Contents
Getting Starte d ..................... . 2
Playing Your New PortaTone .......... 3
Voice Mod e ............................... 5
Style Mod e . 6
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Song Mod e
Sound Effect and Drum Pads
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(PSR-180) 10
Sound Effect and Drum List ....... 10
Troubleshootin g ...........................11
Percussion Assign List
(Voices 40 and 00) ......................11
Jam Track Chord Progression List .... 12
One Touch Setting List .............. 12
Song Scores 13
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Congratulations on your purchase of the Yamaha PortaTone You now own a portable keyboard that packs advanced functions and great sound in a highly compact size. Its outstanding features also make it an exceptionally expressive and versatile instrument. Read this Owner’s Manual carefully while playing your new PortaTone in order to take full advantage of its various features. Main Features The PortaTone is a sophisticated musical instrument with the following features and functions: Exceptionally
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Getting Started Power Requirements Accessory Jacks Your PortaTone can run either on batteries (sold Using Headphones separately) or on normal household current by using For private practicing and playing without disturbing the optional Yamaha PA-3/4/40 Power Adaptor. others, connect a set of stereo headphones to the rear panel HEADPHONES/AUX OUT jack. Sound from the built-in speaker system is automatically cut off when Using an AC Power Adaptor you insert a headphone plug into this jack. To conn
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Playing Your New PortaTone This section briefly shows you how to use the various controls on the panel of the PortaTone. Turning on the Power Playing a Song Press the POWER ON/OFF button to turn on the in the Song Mode power of the PortaTone. Whenever the power is A variety of Songs and special Jam Tracks have been turned on, Voice 01 (PIANO) is automatically selected. recorded to your PortaTone to give you a taste of what you can do with the instrument, and to provide Selecting a Mo
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2 . TO play the selected Song, press the START/STOP About the MULTl DISPLAY button As mentioned above, the dots in the MULTI DIS- Note that the dots in the MULTI DISPLAY flash PLAY flash in time with the rhythm, and the indi- in time with the music. The left dot flashes at the cation is used when a Song or Style plays back. first beat of every measure, and the right dot This flashing provides a visual indication of both flashes at the other beats, (For more information the tempo and the tim
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V Mo de The Voice mode features 100 authentic Voices. About the Harmony Voices Many of these Voices have special preset character- Since Harmony Voices are designed to automati- istics or embellishments. The Voices are divided into cally play two or more notes with the notes you various categories depending on their characteris- play on the keyboard, only one note can be played tics or the effects used. on the keyboard at a time. If several notes are Dual Voices (#41 - #56) feature two Voices mi
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Using the Auto Accompaniment Single Finger Chords Function/Multi Fingering Chords that can be produced in Single Finger opera- tion are major, minor, seventh and minor seventh. The Auto Accompaniment function automatically gener- The illustration below shows how to produce the ates bass and chord accompaniment for you to play along four chord types. (The key of C is used here as an with, by using Multi Fingering operation. You can change example; other keys follow the same rules. For the chords
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Fingered Chords Using the key of C as an example, the chart below shows the types of chords that can be recognized in the Fingered mode. Fingered Chords in the Key of C Notes enclosed in parentheses are optional; the chords will be recognized without them. NOTE l If the chord is inverted (ie., C-E-G is played as G-C-E), the PortaTone will still recognize it as a C chord. l Minor 6th chords are recognized only in root position, however; all other inversions are interpreted as minor 7th/flatted 5t
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Sound Effect and Drum Pads (PSR-180) Use the button corresponding to the desired set of sounds to change the bank. Press the button repeat- edly to step through the banks. The selected bank number briefly appears in the MULTI DISPLAY. For example, to select bank 3, press the button next to SOUND EFFECT repeatedly until “3” appears in the MULTI DISPLAY. The Sound Effect and Drum Pads let you play se- lected drum and percussion sounds, as well as special sound effects, from the four Pads directly
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Troubleshooting Possible Cause and Solution When the PortaTone is turned on or off, a buzzing This is normal and indicates that power is flowing sound is temporarily produced. into the PortaTone. The sound of the voices or rhythms seems unusual The battery power is too low. Replace the batteries. or strange. Not all notes are heard when playing a number of Too many keys are pressed at the same time. The notes simultaneously. PortaTone is polyphonic up to a maximum of 12 notes. (See the note on p
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Jam Track Chord Progression List One Touch Setting List Turning on the One Touch Setting function, the following voice and tempo is automatically selected. Jam Track List Style List 12
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Song Scores V=Voice Number ORIGINAL SONG 1 ORIGINAL SONG 2 13
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V=Voice Number ORIGINAL SONG 3 HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN American Folk Song 14
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THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER T. Moore SUR LE PONT D’AVIGNON French Folk Song 15 V=Voice Number
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V=Voice Number WALTZ OF THE FLOWERS Tchaikovsky AIR ON THE G STRING J. S. Bach 16
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S. C. Foster LONDONDERRY AIR Irish Folk Song 17 BEAUTIFUL DREAMER V=Voice Number
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V=Voice Number SYMPHONY NO. 40 Mozart DECK THE HALLS Sacred Song 18
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V=Voice Number Scottish Folk Song SILENT NIGHT F. Gruber 19 AULD LANG SYNE
