Korg PA700 Oriental, PA700 User Manual

Pa700

ENGLISH | MAN0010114

Pa700

ORIENTAL

Quick Guide

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Important safety instructions

1. Read these instructions.

2. Keep these instructions.

3. Heed all warnings.

4. Follow all instructions.

5. Do not use this apparatus near water.

6. Clean only with dry cloth.

7. Do not block any ventilation openings. Install

in accordance with the manufacturer’s in­structions.

8. Do not install near any heat sources such as

radiators, heat registers, stoves, or other ap­paratus (including amplifiers) that produce
heat.

9. Do not defeat the safety purpose of the po-

larized or grounding-type plug. A polarized
plug has two blades with one wider than the
other. A grounding type plug has two blades
and a third grounding prong. The wide blade
or the third prong are provided for your safe­ty. If the provided plug does not fit into your
outlet, consult an electrician for replacement
of the obsolete outlet.

10. Protect the power cord from being walked on

or pinched particularly at plugs, convenience
receptacles, and the point where they exit
from the apparatus.

11. Only use attachments/accessories specified

by the manufacturer.

12. Use only with the cart, stand, tripod, bracket,

or table specified by the manufacturer, or
sold with the apparatus. When a cart is used,
use caution when moving the cart/apparatus
combination to avoid injury from tip-over.

▪ The ventilation should not be impeded by

covering the ventilation openings with items,
such as newspapers, table-cloths, curtains,
etc.

▪ No naked flame sources, such as lighted can-

dles, should be placed on the apparatus.

▪ Do not install this equipment in a confined

space such as a box for the conveyance or
similar unit.

▪ WARNING – This apparatus shall be connect-

ed to a mains socket outlet with a protective
earthing connection.

▪ Turning off the standby switch does not com-

pletely isolate this product from the power
line, so remove the plug from the socket if
not using it for extended periods of time,
or before cleaning. Please ensure that the
mains plug or appliance couple remains read­ily accessible.

▪ Mains powered apparatus shall not be ex-

posed to dripping or splashing and that no
objects filled with liquids, such as vases, shall
be placed on the apparatus.

▪ Install this product near the wall socket and

keep the power plug easily accessible.

▪ The marking plate is located at the bottom

of the instrument. The model number, serial
number, power requirements, etc., are locat­ed on this plate.

13. Unplug this apparatus during lightning

storms or when unused for long periods of
time.

14. Refer all servicing to qualified service per-

sonnel. Servicing is required when the appa­ratus has been damaged in any way, such as
power-supply cord or plug is damaged, liquid
has been spilled or objects have fallen into
the apparatus, the apparatus has been ex­posed to rain or moisture, does not operate
normally, or has been dropped.

Serial number

Please record the model number, serial num­ber, and date of purchase below. Keep this
manual, as use these information as a record
of your purchase.

Model ________________________________

Serial No. _____________________________

Purchase Date ________________________

WARNING – Do not ingest bat­tery, chemical burn hazard. This
product contains a coin/button
cell batter y.

If the coin/button cell battery is swallowed
it can cause severe internal burns in just 2
hours and can lead to death.

Keep new and used batteries away from chil­dren. If the battery compartment does not
close securely, stop using the product and
keep it away from children.

If you think the battery may have been swal­lowed or placed inside any part of the body
seek immediate medical attention.

▪ WARNING – Date/time Lithium button cell

battery inside. Danger of explosion if the
battery is incorrectly replaced. Replace only
with the same or equivalent type. The inter­nal date/time Lithium button cell battery is
user replaceable.

▪ Do not expose batteries to excessive heat,

such as direct sunshine, fire or the like.

▪ Dispose of used batteries according to the

battery manufacturer’s instructions.

The lightning flash with arrowh ead symbol
within an equilateral triang le, is in tende d
to alert the user to the presence of u ninsu ­lated “da ngero us voltage” within the p rod­uct’s e nclosure that m ay be of suf ficient
magnitude to constitu te a risk of electric
shock to persons.

The excla mation point within an equilateral
triang le is intended to alert the user to the
presen ce of imp ortant ope rating and mai n­tenance (servicing) instructions in the lit­erature accompanying the product.

This sym bol is i ntended to identify Cl ass II
equip ment with func tional ear thing (ground ­ing).

Other notices

Automatic power-off

To avoid wasting power, Pa700 will by default
automatically enter standby mode after two
hours of non-active use (playing, pressing but­tons or using the touch-screen). Please save any
edited data (Keyboard Sets, Styles, Songs, and
so on) before taking a prolonged pause.

Data handling

Data in memory may sometimes be lost due to
incorrect user action. Be sure to save impor tant
data to the internal drive or to an external USB
device. KORG will not be responsible for dam­ages caused by data loss.

Display handling

Be very careful not to apply too much pressure
on the display while carrying the instrument, or
it might break.

Cleaning

If the exterior becomes dirty, wipe it with a
clean, dry cloth. Do not use liquid cleaners such
as benzene or thinner, or cleaning compounds
or flammable polishes.

Use a soft cotton cloth to clean the display.
Some materials, such as paper towels, could
cause scratches and damage it. Computer wipes
are also suggested, provided they are specifi­cally designed for LCD screens.

Do not spray any liquid on the LCD screen direct­ly. Always apply the solution to your cloth first,
then clean the screen.

Example screens

Some pages of the manuals show snapshots of
the screen along with an explanation of func­tions and operations. All sound, style, song or
parameter names, as well as shown values, are
merely examples and may not always match the
actual display you are working on.

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registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
All other trademarks or registered trademarks
are the property of their respective holders.

Open source notice

Portions of this product’s software are copy­right ©2007 “The FreeType Project” (www.

freetype.org). All rights reserved.

Disclaimer

The information contained in this manual have
been carefully revised and checked through.
Due to our constant efforts to improve our prod­ucts, the specifications might differ to those
in the manual. KORG is not responsible for any
differences found between the specifications
and the contents of the instruction manual – all
specifications being subject to change without
prior notice.

Liability

KORG products are manufactured under strict
specifications and voltages required by each
country. These products are warranted by the
KORG distributor only in each country. Any
KORG product not sold with a warranty card or
carrying a serial number disqualifies the prod­uct sold from the manufacturer’s/distributor’s
warranty and liability. This requirement is for
your own protection and safety.

Service and user’s assistance

For service, please contact your nearest
Authorized KORG Service Center. For more in­formation on KORG products, and to find soft­ware and accessories for your keyboard, please
contact your local Authorized KORG distributor.
For up-to-date information, please point your
web browser to our web site.

Keep your keyboard up-to-date

Your instrument can be constantly updated as
new versions of the operating system are re­leased by KORG. You can download the operat­ing system from our web site. Please, read the
instructions supplied with the operating system.

MS-DOS and Windows are

Android is a

Contents

PART I 1 LET’S START!

2 Introduction

13 Setting up the pedals, audio connections, music stand

17 Powering up

21 Interface basics

PART II 33 PLAYING AND SINGING

34 Playing the Sounds

43 Customizing the Sound sets

53 Tempo and Metronome

57 Playing the Styles

70 Customizing the Styles

74 The Chord Sequencer

76 Playing the Pads

78 Playing the Songs

88 Lyrics, chords, markers and score

95 Using the KAOSS effects

102 Searching for files and other items

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PART III 107 SONGBOOK

108 Using the SongBook

PART IV 119 RECORDING THE SONGS, CREATING THE STYLES

120 Recording MIDI Songs

125 Recording MP3 Songs

128 Converting a MIDI Song to a Style

PART V 131 VIDEO OUT AND AUDIO IN

132 Connecting an external display

134 Connecting the audio inputs

140 Talking with your audience

141 Using the voice/guitar effects

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PART VI 147 APPENDIX

148 Installing the options

155 Specs

PART I: LET’S

START!

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01 Introduction

Welcome to Pa700!

Many thanks, and congratulation on purchasing the KORG Pa700 Professional
Arranger! We’re sure it’ll give you countless hours of great tones that will
feel as good as they sound.

Slim, powerful and easy to use

With its elegant cabinet, Pa700 provides a professional and stylish look, that
will be much appreciated on stage or at home. The main panel’s logical lay­out ensures easy access to buttons, knobs and all controls.

Using your Pa700 is easy, thanks to the touch screen and the clean, clearly
laid-out, modern user interface, based on icons reproducing real objects in
the real world.

The real solo and band experience

Pa700 has been designed to assist you equally well during live performance
and songwriting. The detailed natural sounds and finely crafted styles have
been created by some of the finest musicians in the music industry. You will
feel you are playing in a real band – no matter what your musical tastes are.

The naturally responsive 61-note keyboard is designed for musicians of all
levels, from beginners to demanding keyboard players, and gives you a com­pletely authentic feel and full control of expression.

More than just recorded sounds

The huge, realistic collection of classic and contemporary keyboard, band
and orchestral sounds, includes a multi-layer stereo grand piano (with damp­er and body resonance) and electric pianos; wind instruments, basses and
stunning acoustic and electric guitars; plus a digital drawbars organ with
leakage and key on/off noises.

Sounds have been recorded with the most up-to-date technologies, and
KORG’s own proprietary EDS-X (Enhanced Definition Synthesis-eXpanded)
sound engine allows for fine detail to be accurately reproduced. The inte­grated sample and sound editor allows to fill the vast user memory with
newly created or imported sounds.

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All these authentic sounds become alive with KORG’s DNC (Defined Nuance
Control) system, allowing the performer to accurately and expressively in­troduce the most subtle nuances and sound articulation. For example, the
joystick and assignable switches can introduce the growl of a saxophone,
breath elements found in trumpet, clarinet and harmonica, and add authen­ticity to the pizzicato and bowed sounds of a string section. You will even
hear keys opening when saxophone notes are going up, and closing when
going down!

Listen the natural way

Each Pa700 sound go through separate EQs and studio-quality effect pro­cessors, that further refine your sound before coming through high-quali­ty stereo audio outputs. Effects run from the standard reverbs and delays
through to the more unusual effects (like a Vocoder), realistic amp simu­lators and carefully recreated vintage effects. The final mastering effects
make the sound louder, clearer, fuller, and more polished.

The sound of the super high-fidelity integrated speakers is clear and detailed
even at the lowest volume level, for the pleasure of the late-night rehearsing
musician.

A band always ready to play with you

Ultra-realistic sounds in the Pa700 are always ready to play along with you,
in the music style best fitting your music. The high number of included Styles
will satisfy any music genre, but can also be expanded by adding new Styles.
You may also create your Styles, customize the existing ones, or easily con­vert MIDI Songs to Styles.

There are eight accompaniment parts which will follow your chords. The
Auto Fill function will automatically choose a Fill for you. You can play in the
simplest way or with the rich harmonization of a competent jazz player. We
have programmed them to sound natural, and give you the feeling of a real
band, ready to play with you at any time.

The convenient Chord Sequencer function records your chord progressions
on-the-fly allowing the users to immediately play along with their own chord
sequence, which is useful not only for practice, but for freeing up a hand
while performing live. Chord Sequences can also be saved in Styles and
SongBook Entries for easy recall.

Play and write songs

You can play Songs in MID and MP3 formats. With both Songs and Styles,
you can show lyrics for the singer and chords for your fellow guitarist. Any
MIDI Song track can be converted into a readable score. Markers allow for

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jumping back to a passage you wish to repeat, for example in a piece you are
studying or rehearsing.

Use the video output to display lyrics or score on an external monitor, mak­ing it perfect for karaoke or band leading.

You can record a MIDI Song using a full-featured Sequencer, or by using the
Styles to record your live performance. Even easier, just record what you
sing and play (including MP3 Songs) as an MP3 file, and listen to it anywhere
you like.

Your music book

What is a huge collection of Styles and Songs, without an effective form of
organization? Pa700 has the one most known to musicians: the SongBook,
a music database allowing for fast song retrieving based on name, artist,
genre or tempo. Styles and Songs are easily recalled by the SongBook.

Particularly useful for live use, the SongBook can assign songs from any cus­tom Set List to dedicated buttons on the control panel. Your entire show will
be under your fingers, with immediate access to any Style, Song and Sounds
needed for your performance.

The SongBook can even be edited from a personal computer through our
free editor. It can also be synchronized with most modern tablets to become
your handy external digital music sheet reader (third-party software need­ed).

Sing naturally

Connect a dynamic microphone, and adjust parameters such as the EQ,
Compressor, Gate, Reverb and Delay to make the vocals sound smooth and
studio-produced. The Vocal Remover will even let you remove the voice from
MP3 Songs, and let you sing along with them.

Refine your guitar’s pure sound

Guitar FXs let you add pedal and studio effects to a guitar connected to the
dedicated Guitar input on the back of the instrument. We selected some of
the best guitar effects from the KORG collection, to add the sound of all­tube amplifiers, realistic distortion, chorus or delay pedals, and the highest­quality studio reverbs.

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Creative control with the KAOSS effects

KAOSS effects give you creative control on your performance. From subtle
morphing between Variations and Drum Kit types, fine mixing between ac­companiment Sounds, live reshaping of ongoing rhythms, to the most radi­cal note-crunching effects of DJ heritage, to tape delay and arpeggios, you
can add ‘liquid mixing’ to any Style or MIDI Song with the aid of easy-to-use
computer-assisted composition features. Break the boundaries of preset
music!

Open to the world, ready to the future

The use of standard file formats, like MID or MP3 for songs, or WAV and AIFF
for samples, opens a world of possibilities when exchanging files. The USB
ports allow for connecting Pa700 to any external storage device or personal
computer, smartphone or tablet without the need for a dedicated MIDI inter­face. However, you can connect Pa700 to any existing MIDI musical instru­ment, thanks to its complete set of programmable MIDI ports.

Oriental edition

The Pa700 ORIENTAL version contains all the functionality of the standard
Pa700, and adds a mini-keyboard on the left side, which can be used to cus­tomize quarter tone scales and quickly access scale presets. In addition to
the standard content, Pa700 ORIENTAL also contains Sounds and Styles that
are specific to Middle Eastern music genres. Ouds, bouzuks, kanouns, vari­ous percussion instruments, and many more sounds are joined by dozens of
extra Styles that are suitable for traditional and modern music.

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Before starting to play…

What’s in the box

After you get your Pa700, please check that all the following items are in­cluded in the package. If any of the following items is missing, please contact
your KORG dealer immediately.

▪ Pa700

▪ Music stand

▪ AC power cable

▪ Quick Guide

What you can download

Point your web browser to our web site (www.korg.com), to download video
manuals, a MIDI driver, up-to-date software and manuals.

What you can add

After having purchased Pa700, you might want to add one of the sturdy ped­als and footswitches from the KORG catalogue.

Contacts

Your KORG dealers not only deliver this instrument, but also carry hardware
and software accessories, as well as useful information on how to use these
products. Ask them for any help you should eventually need.

Our international web site is www.korg.com. A list of all KORG Distributors
can be found in our dedicated web page (www.korg.com/us/corporate/dis-

tributors/).

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Overview of the instrument

The following pages show the functional areas of the front and real panels.

Front panel

The front panel is where you can find the instrument’s controls and the loud­speakers.

Left speaker Right speaker

Headphones

Keyboard

Scale keypad
(Pa700 ORIENTAL only)

Speakers

Control the output volume of the integrated speakers with the MASTER

VOLUME knob.

The speakers are automatically deactivated when connecting the head­phones. You can also manually deactivate them by deselecting the Speakers
checkbox in the Global > Audio & Video > MP3/Speakers page.

Headphones connector

Connect a pair of headphones to this output. You can use headphones with
an impedance of 16-200 Ohms (50 Ohms suggested).

Keyboard

Use the keyboard to play notes and chords. Depending on the status of the

SPLIT indicator, the keyboard may be joint or split between different sounds.

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Control panel

The control panel is the part of the front panel where you can find the instru­ment’s controls.

Styles area

Player area

DisplayKnobs

Metronome and Tempo area

Navigation area

Sounds/Set List area

Display

Use this touchscreen display to interact with the instrument. There are con­trols around the display, to help you select the various elements.

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Navigation area

Use these controls to go through the menus, pages and parameters, and
search for the various musical resources.

Sounds (and Set Lists) area

Sounds are what you can play on the keyboard. Here you can choose Sound
sets saved as Keyboard Sets in a dedicated library. Or you can choose Set
Lists from the SongBook, that are collections of Sound sets with an associ­ated Style or Song.

Styles (and Pads) area

Styles supply the automatic accompaniment with a virtual band. You can
play Sounds (selected via the Keyboard Sets) and Pads along with the auto­matic accompaniment.

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Player area

Songs can be played back by the onboard Player. You can play Sounds (se­lected via the Keyboard Sets) and Pads along with the Songs.

Metronome and Tempo area

Use these controls to practice with the metronome and control the Tempo of
the metronome, the Styles and the Songs.

Scale keypad (Pa700 ORIENTAL only)

Use the mini-keyboard to modify the Quarter Tone Scale, and the four Scale
Preset buttons to select one of the preset scales.

Rear panel

The rear panel is where you can find the various connections.

Holes for the music stand

Connectors Power connector

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Battery and

microSD slot

Video
out

ports

PedalsUSB

MIDI

ports

Audio

outputs

Audio
inputs

Music stand

A music stand is included with your Pa700. Insert its legs into the two dedi­cated holes on the rear panel.

Power connector

Use this socket to plug in the supplied IEC power cable.

Battery and microSD slot

This opening contains the clock battery and the microSD card slot.

Video out

Connect Pa700 to a TV or video monitor, to read lyrics and chords on a big­ger display.

USB ports

Use these connectors to connect your Pa700 to a personal computer or a
tablet (DEVICE) or to connect an USB device, like an USB pendrive or an­other musical instrument to be used as a controller (HOST).

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Pedal connectors

Use the DAMPER connector to connect a damper pedal, and the ASSIGNABLE
connector to connect either a continuous pedal or footswitch.

MIDI ports

Use these ports to connect Pa700 to external controllers (master keyboard,
MIDI guitar, wind controller, MIDI accordion, MIDI pedalboard…), to a series of
expanders, or to a computer with a MIDI interface.

Audio outputs

Use these connectors to send the audio signal (sound) to a mixer, a PA sys­tem, a set of powered monitors, or your hi-fi system.

Audio inputs

Use these connectors to connect a microphone, a guitar or another musi­cal instrument. You can also connect the audio output of a media player, a
smartphone or a tablet.

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02 Setting up the pedals,

audio connections, music
stand

Connecting the pedals

Connecting the damper pedal

Use the PEDAL > DAMPER connector to connect a damper pedal, like the
(optional) KORG PS1, PS3 or DS1H. The DS1H pedal supports all the nuances
of half-pedaling on some acoustic piano sounds. You can experiment how it
works by gradually pressing it down, and gradually releasing it, while playing
the Concert Grand Sound.

If you need to change the pedal’s polarity and calibrate it, go to the Global >

Controllers > Foot page.

Connecting a pedal or footswitch

Use the PEDAL > ASSIGNABLE connector to connect a footswitch pedal
like the (optional) KORG PS1, PS3 or DS1H, or a continuous pedal like the
(optional) KORG XVP-10 or VOX V860 Volume pedals, or the KORG EXP-2
Expression pedal.

By default, this connector will work as an Expression pedal. If you want to
change the assigned function, or you need to change the pedal’s polarity
and calibrate it, go to the Global > Controllers > Foot page.

What if the pedals do not behave correctly?

If needed, you might have to calibrate the pedals to use their full range of
values, without any ‘dead spot’. Also, this procedure allows to choose the
pedal’s polarity.

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1 Go to the Global > Controllers > Foot page.

2 Touch the Calibration button in the area of the button to calibrate, to make

the Damper & Pedal/Footswitch Calibration dialog appear.

3 Fully press the pedal down, and while continuing to press touch the Push

button to confirm the maximum value.

4 When the following dialog appears, release the pedal.

5 Touch the Push button in the display to confirm the minimum value. Check if

the pedal is working properly. In case it isn’t, repeat the procedure.

6 Press the EXIT button to return to the previous page.

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Turning the integrated speakers on and off

The integrated speakers are automatically deactivated when inserting a jack
into the PHONES connector. They can also be deactivated from the display.

Turn the speakers off (or back on)

1 Go to the Global > Audio & Video > MP3/Speakers page.

2 Use the Speakers On/Off checkbox to turn the (optional) integrated speak-

ers on or off.

3 Press the EXIT button to return to the previous page.

Connecting the headphones

Connect a pair of headphones to the PHONES connector. You can use head­phones with an impedance of 16-200 Ohms (50 Ohms suggested). When con­necting the headphones, the integrated speakers are automatically deacti­vated.

Adjust the output level with the MASTER VOLUME knob.

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Connecting the audio outputs

Use the AUDIO OUT connectors to send the audio output to a mixer, a set of
powered monitors, or an audio amplification system. These are unbalanced
(TS) 6.35 mm, or 1/4”, jack connectors.

When using a home audio amplifier, connect the other end of the cable to the
CD, LINE IN or TAPE/AUX input of your audio system. Don’t use the PHONO
inputs of your audio system!

Use either the LEFT or RIGHT connector to output a mono signal.

Adjust the output level with the MASTER VOLUME knob.

If they are not deactivated, the integrated speakers will work in parallel with
the main audio outputs.

Installing the music stand

A music stand comes with your Pa700. Insert its legs into the two dedicated
holes on the rear panel, as shown in the following illustration. Please note
that the latest 0,5 cm (0.2”) require more strength to fit. Push harder, until
you feel a ‘click’ and the legs are completely inserted.

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03 Powering up

Turning the instrument on

Connecting the power cable

Plug the supplied power cable into the AC IN socket on the back of the in­strument, and the cable plug into a wall power socket.

When the cable is connected, the instrument is in standby.

Warning: When the instrument is in standby, it is still connected to the power line.

Accessing the inside of the instrument can be dangerous. To completely disconnect
the instrument from the power, unplug the power plug from the power socket on the
wall.

Turning the power on or off

Turn the instrument on

▪ Press the POWER (

standby’). After you turn the instrument on, wait for the welcome screen to
disappear, then the main page of the Style Play mode will be shown in the
display.

Turn the instrument off (standby)

▪ Keep the POWER (

it when the screen appears dimmed. The shutdown procedure will begin and
last for a few seconds. Please do not disconnect the power cable during this
procedure.

) button to turn the instrument on (that is, ‘exit from

) button pressed for about one second, then release

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Calibrating the touch screen

Calibrating the display

It may happen (for example, after loading a new operating system) that the
Color TouchView™ display has to be recalibrated, to make pointing more ac­curate.

Warning: Do not use sharp objects, or you will damage your screen!

1 Keep the GLOBAL button pressed, until the Touch Panel Calibration page

appears.

2 First touch exactly inside the set of arrows in the upper left corner of the

display.

3 The arrows will subsequently move to the other corners of the display. Touch

exactly inside them.

4 Finally, touch Save to confirm the new calibration.

▪ In case you want to exit and cancel the calibration, press the EXIT button

before completing the procedure.

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Adjust the display brightness

Brightness can be adjusted to match the ambient’s light.

▪ Keep the MENU button pressed, and use the VALUE control to adjust the

display brightness.

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Listening to the Demo Songs

Access the Demo mode

▪ Press the DEMO buttons together.

Listen to all the Demo Songs

▪ After accessing the Demo mode, do not press any button. All the Demo

Songs will be played back.

Choose a single Demo Song

▪ Touch one of the options on the display (Songs, Sounds, Styles), then choose

one of the Demo Songs.

Exit from the Demo mode

▪ Press any of the MODE buttons.

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04 Interface basics

The main page

The Main page of the Style Play mode appears when turning the instrument
on. You can return to this page by pressing the EXIT button while in Style
Play mode, or the S T YL E P L AY button when in a different mode.

Title bar Page menu

Selected Style

Right-hand/
Upper Sounds

Selected Song

Selected

Keyboard Set

Left-hand/
Lower Sound

Tabs recalling

other panes

Keyboard Set pane

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The user interface in detail

Display and user interface elements

Color TouchView graphical user interface

Pa700 features our exclusive easy-to-use TouchView™ graphic interface,
based on a touch panel LCD screen. By touching items on the LCD screen,
you can select pages, tabs, and parameters, and set parameter values via
on‐screen menus and buttons.

Operative modes

The pages of Pa700 are grouped in various operating modes. Each mode is
accessed by pressing the corresponding button in the MODE section on the
control panel.

Each operating mode is marked with a different color code, that helps you
understand where you are at first sight.

Two special modes (Global and Media) overlap the current operating mode,
that remains active in the background.

The Record mode can be accessed from the Style Play, Sequencer and Sound
modes, and allows for creating new Styles, Pads, Songs or Samples.

Edit menus and sections

Pages are grouped into sections, to be selected by touching the correspond­ing buttons in the edit menu that opens up when you press the MENU button.

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Pages and tabs

Parameters are grouped into separate pages, to be selected by touching the
corresponding tabs in the lower area of the display.

Overlapping windows

Several windows, like the Style Select or Sound Select, the Global, the Media,
or the Lyrics, overlap the current window. After you select an item in the win­dow, or press the EXIT button, the window closes, and the underlying page
is shown again. (The following example is the Keyboard Set Select window).

Dialogs

Similar to selecting windows, dialogs overlap the underlaying page. Touch
one of the button on the display to give Pa700 an answer, and the dialog will
close.

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Page menus

Touch the down-pointing arrow icon in the upper right corner of each page,
and a menu with commands relevant to the current page will appear.

Touch one of the available commands to select it. (Or, touch anywhere else
on the screen to make it disappear, with no command selected).

Pop-up menus

When a down-pointing arrow appears next to a parameter name, touch the
arrow to open the pop-up menu and choose an option from there (by touch­ing the option, or scrolling the list with the VALUE control). As an alternative,
touch the parameter name and use the VALU E control to scroll the list of
options.

If you want to make the menu disappear without selecting anything, touch
anywhere else on the display.

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Scrollbar

Lists and scrollbars

Files on storage media, as well as other kinds of data, are shown as lists. Use
the scrollbar to scroll the list content. Also, you can use the VALU E control
to scroll.

When the Name label is selected on top of a list, keep the SHIFT button
pressed while touching one of the arrows on the scrollbar, to jump to the
next or previous alphabetic section.

Selected

label

Selected

item

List

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On Off

Parameters

Checkboxes

This kind of parameters are on/off switches. Touch them to change their
status.

Editable names

When the Text Edit (

) button appears next to a name, touch it to open the

Tex t Edit window and edit the name.

The virtual keyboard works exactly as a personal computer’s keyboard.
Some of the symbols are context-sensitive, and only appear when they can
actually be used.

Numeric fields

When a numeric value can be edited, touch it a second time to open the

Numeric Keypad.

The virtual numeric keypad works exactly as the numeric keypad of a per­sonal computer.

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As an alternative, touch a numeric field and keep it held. Then move your
fingers up (or right) to increase the value, or move it down (or left) to de­crease it.

This also includes the Tempo numeric field in various pages.

Icons

Various icons help identifying the type of a file, a folder, a Song. For example:

Icon Meaning

Folder

File of Style bank

MID le

Selected, highlighted items

Any operation on parameters, data or list entries, is executed on highlighted
items. First touch the parameter or item to select it, then execute the opera­tion. Most parameters can be edited with the VALUE control.

Non-available, dimmed parameters

When a parameter or command is not currently available, it is shown dimmed
on the display. This means it cannot be selected, but may become available
when a different option is selected.

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Virtual controllers

Virtual sliders

To change a virtual slider’s position, touch it and keep it held, then slide up or
down to change its position. As an alternative, touch it, then use the VALUE
control to change its position.

Virtual knobs

To change a virtual knob’s position, touch it and keep it held, then slide your
finger up (or right) to rotate it clockwise, or slide it down (or left) to rotate
the knob counter-clockwise. As an alternative, touch it, then use the VALUE
control to change its position.

Virtual drawbars

To change a virtual drawbar’s position, touch it and keep it held, then slide
it up or down to change its position. As an alternative, touch it, then use the

VALUE control to change its position.

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Navigating through the pages

Going to a page

Through this manual, page addresses are shown as in the following example:

Style Play > Mixer/Tuning > EQ Gain

Mode Edit section Page

Here is how the above works:

1 Press the S TY LE P LAY button to go to the Style Play mode. When the in-

strument turns on, it is already in this mode (this the Main page of the Style
Play mode).

2 Press the MENU button on the control panel to see the edit menu of the

Style Play mode.

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3 Touch the Mixer/Tuning button in the edit menu to choose the Mixer/Tuning

section.

The selected edit section is always shown in the title bar:

Mode Edit section

4 If the page is not yet shown in the display, touch the EQ Gain tab to choose

the EQ Gain page.

5 Edit the parameters.

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6 Try a different page in the same edit section. Touch the Volume/Pan tab to

go to the Volume/Pan page, and edit the parameters.

7 Press the EXIT button to return to the main page of the Style Play mode.

If you were in Song Play mode, pressing EXIT would have returned to the

main page of the Song Play mode.

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Groups

Groups

Selecting the musical resources

Opening a Select window

When you press one of the KEYBOARD SET LIBRARY buttons, or touch the

name of a Keyboard Set, Style, Sound, Pad or Voice/Guitar Preset in the

display, the corresponding Select window appears. For example, this is the

Sound Select window:

Type

Sounds

Pages Previous/Next

Pages

You can always exit from this window by pressing the EXIT button.

In Pa700, Select windows stay always open until you press the EXIT button.
If you prefer they automatically close after a few seconds, or after you select
something, turn the Display Hold parameter off (see Display Hold on page

40).

PART II:

PLAYING AND SINGING

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05 Playing the Sounds

Sounds and Keyboard Sets

Sounds are the basic element of what you hear from your instrument.
Pa700 contains Sounds from any instrumental family (pianos, strings,
synthesizers…). A set of Sounds playing together on the keyboard can be
memorized as a Keyboard Set.

To automatically recall Sounds and settings, you usually select a Keyboard
Set. A Keyboard Set is a single memory location that can remember the
Keyboard Sounds and all their transposition, effects, etc…

Keyboard Sets are individually contained in the Keyboard Set Library
(KEYBOARD SET LIBRARY buttons). They are also associated to a Style
or SongBook Entry; a group of four Keyboard Sets is recalled each time
you select a Style or SongBook Entry (KEYBOARD SET buttons under the
display).

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Choosing your preferred set of Sounds

Choosing the ‘My Setting’ Keyboard Set

▪ Press the MY SETTING button to choose your preferred Sounds.

This is a special Keyboard Set, that is automatically selected when the instru­ment is turned on.

The My Setting Keyboard Set

My Setting is a special Keyboard Set, where you can save your preferred

settings for things like Keyboard Sounds, Effects, Assignable Switches, a
Style to be selected on startup. This Keyboard Set is automatically chosen
when the instrument is turned on, and will automatically configure the in­strument for you.

Writing the My Setting Keyboard Set

Keep the MY SETTING button pressed for about one second, until the Write
dialog appears, then touch the OK button to confirm saving to memory.

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Choosing the Keyboard Sets

Choosing a Keyboard Set from the library

Keyboard Sets are contained in a dedicated library, that you can access from
the control panel or from the display.

Open the Keyboard Set Select window from the control panel

1 Be sure the SET LIST indicator is turned off.

2 Press one of the buttons of the KEYBOARD SET LIBRARY section. You will

notice that each of them has an instrument family name printed over it.

Open the Keyboard Set Select window from the display

▪ While in the Main page, touch the name of the selected Keyboard Set.

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As soon as you press the button or touch the display, the Keyboard Set

Select window appears.

Select a Keyboard Set

1 To choose one of the available types of Keyboard Sets, touch the buttons

at the top of the window.

Type of Kbd Set Meaning

Factory Keyboard Sets included at the factory, that cannot be modied.

Local Some models could include Local-type Keyboard Sets, that are

User Locations where you can load new Keyboard Sets from an external

Direct User Keyboard Sets accessed directly from a storage device, without

Factory data customized for a particular country.

device, or save new or edited Keyboard Sets.

rst having to load them.

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2 In case you want to choose a different group of Keyboard Sets, either press

a different button in the KEYBOARD SET LIBRARY section, or touch one of
the tabs on the sides of the Keyboard Set Library Select window.

3 To choose one of the available pages in the selected Keyboard Set group, ei-

ther touch one of the P1…P6 tabs at the bottom of the window, or repeatedly
press the button of the selected group of Keyboard Sets in the KEYBOARD

SET LIBRARY section of the control panel.

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4 Touch the name of the Keyboard Set you want to choose.

5 If you want to close the Keyboard Set Library Select window (and it does

not close by itself), press the EXIT button.

In the end, you will see the name of the selected Keyboard Set in the dedi­cated area of the Main page. The Sounds assigned to the keyboard (shown in
the right half of the display) will change.

Choosing a Keyboard Set from a Style or a SongBook Entry

There are four matched Keyboard Sets in each Style or SongBook Entry,
fine-tuned for the containing Style or SongBook Entry. You can choose them
from the control panel or from the display.

Choose a Keyboard Set from the control panel

▪ Press one of the buttons in the KEYBOARD SET section under the display.

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Select a Keyboard Set from the display

1 While in the Main page, be sure the Kbd Set pane is selected. If it isn’t, touch

the Kbd Set tab to select it.

2 Touch one of the Keyboard Set names in the display to select it.

You will see the name of the selected Keyboard Set highlighted in the dedi­cated area of the Main page. The Sounds assigned to the keyboard (shown in
the right half of the display) will change.

Digital Drawbars

You will notice that some Keyboard Sets in the Organ group of the library
contain the ‘DWB’ abbreviation in their name. These Keyboard Sets con­tain Digital Drawbars Sounds, that are simulations of electro-mechanical
organs of the past.

Display Hold

You may prefer to leave a Select window open after you have chosen a
Sound, Keyboard Set or Style, to continue trying other elements in that
window. Or, you may prefer it automatically closes after you have complet­ed your choice. This is determined by the Display Hold parameter.

Turn the Display Hold parameter on or off

1 Go to the Global > General Controls > Interface page.

2 Turn the Display Hold parameter on or off:

▪ Select the Display Hold On checkbox to turn it on. Sound, Keyboard

Set, Style, Pad or Voice/Guitar Preset Select windows will remain open
on the display, until you press the EXIT button.

▪ Deselect the Display Hold On checkbox to turn it off. Sound, Keyboard

Set, Style, Pad, or Voice/Guitar Preset Select windows will automati­cally close after you choose an element.

3 Press the EXIT button to return to the previous page.

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Factory, User, Direct

Across the pages, you will find words like Factory, User, Direct. These
terms refer to the type of protection from writing, or how much you can
customize them.

▪ Fac t o ry (Keyboard Sets, Sounds, Styles, Pads, Voice and Guitar

Presets) are elements that you cannot normally overwrite or modi­fy. They are meant to warrant that musical resources (like SongBook
Entries) will always find linked musical resources (like Styles).

▪ User (Keyboard Sets, Sounds, Styles, Pads, Voice and Guitar Presets)

are elements that you can write, modify or overwrite. User Style banks
(the side tabs) can be freely renamed to create your own categories.

▪ Direct (Keyboard Sets, Styles, Pads, SongBook Entries, Voice and

Guitar Presets) are User elements that you can directly access from
a storage device.

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Playing and controlling the Sounds

Playing the keyboard

The instrument’s keyboard is like a piano keyboard. Just play it!

Using the pedals

Pedals do different things depending on how they are programmed. The
Damper pedal is just that – a damper pedal, sustaining notes until you re­lease the pedal. The Assignable pedal (or footswitch) may change depending
on how it is programmed in the Global > Controllers > Foot page.

Using the assignable knobs

The assignable knobs can control different things, like volume levels of the
different Sounds, the organ drawbars or some assignable functions. They
can be programmed in the Global > Controllers > Knobs page.

Using the assignable switches

Depending on the chosen Keyboard Set and the assigned DNC functions,
these controllers can do different things. The switches can either ‘book’
a function, that will be triggered while playing, or enable (or disable) it by
pressing the button to ‘toggle’ it.

Indicator status Meaning

Off No DNC function assigned.

Red steady Booking DNC function available.

Red blinking Booking DNC function waiting to be executed. Then, it will return

Green steady Toggle DNC function available.

Green blinking Toggle activated. Press it again to disable it.

steady.

Using the joystick

Moving the joystick left of right usually changes the Sound’s pitch. Moving
it forward usually trigger modulation, but this depends on the selected
Sounds. With the electro-mechanical organs, pushing the joystick forward
changes the rotary speaker’s speed. What it does when pulled back depends
on the selected Sounds. Just experiment!

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06 Customizing the Sound

sets

Playing different Sounds with the left and
right hand

Splitting the keyboard

Split the keyboard into a Lower (left hand) and Upper (right hand) part

▪ Press the SPLIT button on the control panel to light up its indicator. The

keyboard will be divided into a Lower (left hand) and Upper (right hand) part.

Lower

Remove the split and play the Upper Sounds over the full keyboard range

▪ Press the SPLIT button again to turn its indicator off. The Upper Sounds will

play on the full keyboard range, as in an acoustic piano.

Upper

Upper

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Split, Keyboard modes, Sounds

When changing the SPLIT status, the number of Sounds you hear may
change.

SPLIT
indicator

Off Full No Lower Sound Up to three Upper Sounds as-

On Split A single Lower Sound as-

Keyboard
mode

Left hand (Lower) Sounds Right hand (Upper) Sounds

signed to the full extension of
the keyboard

signed to the left hand

Up to three Upper Sounds as­signed to the right side of the

keyboard.

Changing the split point

You can choose a different point where the keyboard is split into an Upper
and a Lower part. This is called the split point.

Change the split point from the control panel

1 Keep the SPLIT button pressed to open the Split Point dialog.

2 Play the lowest note of the Upper (right hand) part on the keyboard.

Change the split point from the display

1 While in the Main page, touch the Split tab to see the Split pane.

2 Touch the keyboard diagram in the display, then play the lowest note of the

Upper (right) part on the keyboard.

As an alternative, touch the Split Point parameter to select it, and use the

VALUE control to select the new split point.

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Parts, tracks, channels

On the keyboard, Sounds are assigned to one of the keyboard parts
(Upper, Lower). Linked to a part there is a track. In Styles and MIDI Songs,
Sounds are directly assigned to tracks. Tracks are the equivalent of re­corder tracks (with the associated mixer channels). In fact, Pa700 does
include a recorder and a digital mixer!

Keyboard
Parts

Upper

1,2,3 1,2,3

Lower

Rec/Seq
Tracks

Upper

Lower

Accomp.

Bs,Dr,Acc1…5 Bs,Dr,Acc1…5

Song

1,2,3…16 1,2,3…16

Mixer
Channels

Upper

1,2,3

Lower

Accomp.

Song

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Playing two or three Sounds at the same
time

You can play up to three layered Sounds on the keyboard. This is useful to
add, for example, a layer of Strings or Synth Pads to a Grand Piano sound.
The Sounds will be assigned to the Upper part of the keyboard.

When the SPLIT button indicator is turned off (Full Keyboard mode), the
Upper parts will play on the full range of the keyboard, as it happens on an
acoustic piano. Otherwise (Split Keyboard mode), you will play the Upper
Sounds with the right hand.

Upper

Lower

Turn the selected Sound on of off from the display

▪ If the Sound you want to mute is in Play, touch the Play/Mute icon to set it

to Mute.

▪ If the Sound you want to hear is in Mute, touch the Play/Mute icon to set it

to Play.

Upper

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Choosing different Sounds

You can assign different Sounds to the keyboard. The new combination of
Sounds can then be written into a Keyboard Set.

Open the Sound Select window from the display

1 Be sure to be in the main page of the Style Play or Song Play mode. If you

are not there, press either the S T YL E P L AY or the SONG PLAY buttons in
the control panel.

2 Touch the name of the Sound you want to change to select it.

3 Touch a second time the name of the Sound you want to change.

Choose a Sound

1 Browse through the Sounds in the Sound Select window.

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▪ To choose one of the available types of Sound, touch the buttons at the top

of the window.

Type of Sound Meaning

Factory Standard Pa700 Sounds, that cannot normally be modied. These are

Legacy Legacy Sounds allowing for greater compatibility with older Pa-Series

Local Some models could include Local-type Sounds, that are Factory

GM/ XG Sounds allowing for full compatibility with MIDI Songs based on

User Locations where you can load new Sounds and Drum Kits from an

the richest, most modern Sounds of the whole collection.

instruments.

Sounds customized for a particular country.

General MIDI and XG Sounds and Drum Kits.

external device, or save new or edited Sounds and Drum Kits.

▪ To choose a different group of Sounds, touch one of the tabs on the sides

of the window.

▪ To choose one of the available pages in the selected Sound group, touch one

of the P1…P6 tabs at the bottom of the window.

2 Touch the name of the Sound you want to choose.

3 If you want to close the Sound Select window (and it does not close by itself),

press the EXIT button.

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Mixing the Keyboard Sounds

Adjusting the Sound’s volume

At its core, Pa700 is a mixer. As with any mixer, you can adjust the volume
level of each Sound, therefore changing the balance between the different
Sounds on the keyboard.

Adjust a Sound’s volume from the display

1 While in the Main page, touch the Volume tab to select the Volume pane.

Accompaniment

Groups

2 Touch the mixer channel whose volume level you want to change.

3 Keep the virtual volume slider held on the screen, and drag it to the desired

level.

As an alternative, use the VALUE control to change the volume level of the
selected channel.

Keyboard Sounds

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Turning the Sounds on or off from the Volume pane

Sounds can be muted, in case you don’t want to hear them in the mix.

Select the mixer channel

▪ Select the mixer channel to turn on of off.

Turn a channel off (Mute)

▪ Touch the Play icon (

to mute ( ).

Turn a channel on (Play)

▪ Touch the Mute icon (

to play ( ).

) in the mixer channel corresponding to the Sound

) in the mixer channel corresponding to the Sound

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Transposing

Transposing the Upper Sounds to a different octave

All Upper Sounds can be transposed to an upper or lower octave at the press
of a single button.

Transpose the Upper Sounds one octave up

▪ Press the UPPER OCTAVE + button on the control panel.

Transpose the Upper Sounds one octave down

▪ Press the UPPER OCTAVE - button on the control panel.

Reset the octave transposition

▪ Press both UPPER OCTAVE buttons together.

Transposing the whole instrument

The instrument’s key can be transposed to make singing or playing together
with another instrument more comfortable.

The transpose value is usually shown in the page header.

Transpose down from the control panel

▪ Use the TRANSPOSE > FLAT (

steps of one semitone.

Transpose up from the control panel

▪ Use the TRANSPOSE > SHARP (

steps of one semitone.

Reset transposition

▪ Press both TRANSPOSE buttons together.

) button to lower the Master Transpose in

) button to raise the Master Transpose in

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Using the Ensemble to add harmony

There are several types of Ensemble, but with most of them what you play
with your right hand will be harmonized with the chords you play with your
left hand.

Turn the Ensemble function on

1 Be sure the SPLIT indicator is turned on.

2 Press the ENSEMBLE button to light up its indicator.

Play chords with your left hand, and a melody with your right hand. You will
hear the chord notes added to the melody.

Turn the Ensemble function off

▪ Press the ENSEMBLE button again to turn its indicator off.

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07 Tempo and Metronome

Tempo

Setting the Tempo value

While an optimal Tempo value is saved with each Style or Song, you can
freely adjust it at your will. This will also set the Tempo for the Metronome.

Adjust the Tempo value from the control panel

▪ Use the TEMPO controls to adjust the Tempo value (or the speed of the MP3

Song).

As an alternative, for bigger Tempo changes, keep the SHIFT button pressed
and use the VALUE control.

Adjust the Tempo value from the display

1 If it is not highlighted, touch the Te mpo value in the display.

2 Use the VALU E control to adjust the Tempo value.

As an alternative, touch the Tem p o field again to open the numeric keypad,
and enter the Tempo value as a number.

Reset the Tempo value

▪ Press both TEMPO buttons at the same time.

The Tempo value memorized in the Style or the MIDI Song will be recalled.
With MP3 Songs, the original speed of the Song will be restored.

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Visual Tempo count while the Style is not playing

While the accompaniment is not playing, the current Tempo is still beaten by
the indicator of the START/STOP button.

Tapping the Tempo value

In Style Play mode, you can ‘tap’ (beat) the Tempo value.

▪ While the accompaniment is not playing, beat the Tempo on the TAP TEMPO

button. Beat as many times as indicated by the Meter numerator (for exam­ple, three times in 3/4).

At the end, the accompaniment will start playing with the ‘tapped’ Tempo.

Locking the Tempo value

You can prevent the Tempo value from automatically changing when choos­ing a different Style or MIDI Song. MP3 Songs are not affected by this ‘lock’,
and will always play at the recorded Tempo.

You are free to continue setting the Tempo manually, including beating the
Style’s Tempo with the Tap Tempo function. Please note that there is a sepa­rate Tempo for the Style Play and Song Play modes.

Prevent the Tempo value from changing

▪ Press the TEMPO > LOCK (

value will not change when choosing a different Style or Song. You can still
manually change the Tempo value (as seen above).

Let the Style or Song change the Tempo value

▪ Press the TEMPO > LOCK (

choosing a different Style or Song, the memorized Tempo value will be re­called.

Tempo Change events found in the Style pattern or the MIDI Song may still
change the Tempo.

) button to light up its indicator. The Tempo

) button again to turn its indicator off. When

Metronome

Turning the metronome on and off

Turn the metronome on

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▪ Press the METRONOME (

window will open, and the metronome will start playing, beating the current
Tempo.

Turn the metronome off

▪ Press the METRONOME (

will stop.

) button to turn its indicator on. The Metronome

) button to turn its indicator off. The metronome

Setting the meter, accent and volume

You can mark the beginning of the measure, by setting the meter and accent.

Open the Metronome window

▪ Press the METRONOME (

Set the meter (time signature)

) button.

▪ Choose the meter (time signature) by using the Meter parameter.

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Turn the accent on or off

▪ Choose the accent by using the Accent parameter.

Accent Meaning

Off No accent.

On The rst beat of each measure is accented.

Bell A bell sound is heard at the rst beat of each measure.

Adjust the metronome volume

▪ Adjust the metronome volume by using the Volume parameter.

Exit the Metronome window

▪ Press the METRONOME (

) button to exit the window and stop the metro-

nome.

▪ Press the EXIT button to exit the window without stopping the metronome.

Then, press the METRONOME (

) button to stop the metronome.

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08 Playing the Styles

Choosing the Styles

Choosing a Style

You can choose a Style from the control panel or from the display.

Go to the Style Play mode

▪ When turning the instrument on, you are already in Style Play mode. If you

are not, press the ST YL E PL AY button in the control panel.

▪ If you are not in the Main page of the Style Play mode, press the EXIT button

to return there.

Open the Style Select window from the control panel

▪ Press the STYLE SELECT button.

Open the Style Select window from the display

▪ Touch the name of the Style in the display.

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Choose a Style

1 Browse through the Styles in the Style Select window.

▪ To choose one of the available types of Styles, touch the buttons at the top

of the window.

Type of Styles Meaning

Factory Styles included at the factory, that cannot be modied.

Local Some models could include Local-type Styles, that are Factory data

User Locations where you can load new Styles from an external device, or

Direct Styles accessed directly from a storage device, without rst having

customized for a particular country.

save new or edited Styles. The name of these banks can be edited in
order to create custom banks.

to load them.

▪ To choose a different group of Styles, touch one of the tabs on the sides of

the window.

▪ To choose one of the available pages in the selected Style group, touch one

of the P1…P6 tabs at the bottom of the window.

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As an alternative, press again the STYLE SELECT button.

2 Touch the name of the Style you want to choose.

3 If you want to close the Style Select window (and it does not close by itself),

press the EXIT button.

In the end, you will see the name of the selected Style in the dedicated area
of the main screen.

Letting Styles choose the Keyboard Sounds

Choosing a Style might automatically choose Keyboard Sounds. This de­pends on the STYLE TO KBD SET indicator (KBD SET = Keyboard Set).

STYLE TO KBD
SET indicator

Off Styles do not select a Keyboard Set.

On When choosing a Style, Keyboard Set 1 is automatically selected.

Blinking Choosing a Variation automatically recalls the corresponding

Meaning

Keyboard Set (1 – 4) inside the Style. For example, choose Variation 2,
and Keyboard Set 2 will be automatically recalled; choose Variation 3,
and Keyboard Set 3 will be automatically recalled.

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Intro

Ending 3

What is a Style?

Styles are collections of musical patterns in a particular music genre – or
‘musical style’ – offering an eight-parts automatic accompaniment, sim­ilar to an eight-member band playing with you. Chords you play on the
keyboard will be recognized and will adapt the patterns to suit the music.
Different sections can be selected to let you create a complete song in
realtime.

Accompaniment parts

Accompaniment parts are like the members of a band. With Pa700 you get
five pitched instrument players (for example: guitar, piano, strings, synthe­sizers), a bass player, a percussion player, and a drum player.

Chords and patterns

Accompaniment patterns are repeating musical sequences (like a bass
groove, a guitar riff or a piano chord progression) that are dynamically
adapted to match the recognized chords. They may vary depending on the
type of chord (like C Major, C minor, or 7th).

Sections

Songs are made of different sections (Intro, Verse 1, Bridge, Chorus 1 and
so on). There are different patterns for each song section, and they are
collected under the Style Element buttons (INTRO, VARIATION, AUTO FILL,
BREAK, ENDING). While the name of the Intro, Fill, Break and Ending are
the same as the name of the corresponding song section, Variations can
be used either for Verse, Bridge, Chorus or Special sections. The arrange­ment becomes denser the higher the element numbers go.

Verse Fill Chorus Break / Verse Fill Chorus Ending

Intro 1 Fill 1 Fill 3

Variation 1 Variation 2 Variation 3 Variation 4

Auto Fill

Pa700 can automatically play a matching fill before each Variation. When
the AUTO FILL indicator is on, when going from a Variation to a different
one a Fill is automatically selected.

Break

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Playing a manual accompaniment (Bass &
Lower Backing)

You can play a simple manual accompaniment, where the chord you play
with your left hand is split between the Bass (chord root) and Lower (the
remaining notes) Sounds.

1 Be sure the Bass & Lower Backing function is active. When it is, the Backing

icon appears in the Lower Sound’s area.

If the icon does not appear, go to the Global > Mode Preferences > Style 2
page and select the Bass & Lower Backing checkbox to activate the func­tion. (Also, you can deactivate the function in the same page).

2 Be sure the SPLIT indicator is turned on, and the automatic accompaniment

is not running.

3 Play a chord sequence with your left hand.

Notice how the chord root is played by the Bass Sound, while the remaining
chord notes are played by the Lower Sound (even if it is muted).

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Recognized chord

Beat indicator

Playing the automatic accompaniment

Starting and stopping the accompaniment

You can manually start and stop the accompaniment.

Start the accompaniment

1 Press the START/STOP button.

2 Play some chords with your left hand, while playing a melody with your right

hand.

On the START/STOP button, a red indicator will mark the first beat, while a
green indicator will mark the other beats of the measure.

While the accompaniment is playing, please note the various indicators in
the display.

Pattern length in measures (‘L’)

or remaining measures (‘M’)

Tempo value

Stop the accompaniment

▪ Press again the START/STOP button.

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Automatic start and stop

You can let the accompaniment automatically start or stop by just playing on
the keyboard, without having to press the START/STOP button. This leaves
your hands free for playing.

Make the accompaniment start automatically (Synchro Start)

1 Press the SYNCHRO > START button to light up its indicator.

2 Play a chord, and see how the accompaniment will start automatically.

3 Stop the accompaniment by pressing the START/STOP button.

Make the accompaniment start and stop automatically (Synchro Start and
Stop)

1 Be sure the SYNCHRO > START indicator is turned on.

2 Press the SYNCHRO > STOP button, to light up both the START and STOP

indicators.

3 Play a chord to start the accompaniment, and keep the keys pressed.

4 Lift your hands from the keyboard, and see how the accompaniment will

automatically stop.

Make the accompaniment stop automatically (Synchro Stop)

1 Press the SYNCHRO > START button again to turn it off, and leave only the

SYNCHRO > STOP indicator lightened.

2 Press the START/STOP button to start the accompaniment, then play a

chord and keep the keys pressed.

3 Lift your hands from the keyboard, and see how the accompaniment will

automatically stop.

Deactivate the Synchro Start/Stop functions

▪ Press the SYNCHRO > START and/or SYNCHRO > STOP buttons to turn both

indicators off.

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Choosing an Intro

An Intro is the introduction of the song. To choose the right Intro for your
song, please note that Intro 1 plays a short sequence with a prerecorded
chord sequence and melody, while Intro 2 plays on the chord recognized on
the keyboard. Intro 3 is usually a one-bar Count In.

Style Element Suggested use

Intro 1 Intro with prerecorded chord sequence and melody.

Intro 2 Intro with chord recognized on the keyboard.

Intro 3/Count In One-measure Count In.

1 Press one of the VARIATI O N buttons on the control panel to choose the

Variation you want to use for the first verse. The button’s indicator will be
on, meaning the Variation is waiting to start.

2 Press one of the INTRO buttons on the control panel to ‘book’ one of the

Intro sections. The button’s indicator will be on, meaning the Intro is waiting
to start. The button’s indicator on the selected VARIATI O N button will be
flashing, meaning it is booked after the Intro.

3 Start the accompaniment.

Choosing a Variation to play a Verse or Chorus

Variations can be used for verses, choruses, bridges or specials. To choose
the right Variation for your verse, please note that Variations are of growing
‘density’ and ‘loudness’. This means that Variation 1 will be the ‘sparsest’ and
the ‘quietest’ of the arrangements, while Variation 4 will be the ‘densest’
and ‘loudest’ of them. Usually, you will use Variation 1 for the first verse,
Variation 4 for the last chorus.

Style Element Suggested use

Variation 1 Verse, Bridge, Chorus or Special (lowest density)

Variation 2 Verse, Bridge, Chorus or Special (medium-low density)

Variation 3 Verse, Bridge, Chorus or Special (medium-high density)

Variation 4 Verse, Bridge, Chorus or Special (highest density)

▪ Wait for the Intro to end playing, and then the selected Variation will start

playing. The selected VA R I AT IO N indicator will stay lit.

▪ As an alternative, you can start the Variation before the end of the Intro.

While the Intro is playing, press one of the VAR I AT I ON buttons. The Variation
will start at the next measure.

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Playing a Fill

Fills are phrases that can be used for smoothly bridging between different
sections of a song. If you like, you can let Pa700 automatically choose a Fill
when you choose a Variation.

Turn the Auto Fill function on

▪ Press the AUTO FILL button to light up its indicator.

Automatically play a Fill, then a Variation

▪ Press one of the VA RIATI O N buttons. A Fill will be automatically selected.

Turn the Auto Fill function off

▪ When you no longer need this function, press the AUTO FILL button again

to turn the indicator off.

Choosing a Break

A break introduces a short pause in your song, creating a suspension and a
sense of surprise.

Style Element Suggested use

Break One-measure break

▪ When the Variation is nearing its end, press the BREAK button to play a

short musical break.

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Choosing an Ending

To choose the right Ending for your song, please note that Ending 1 plays a
sequence with a prerecorded chord sequence and melody, while Ending 2
plays on the chord recognized on the keyboard.

Style Element Suggested use

Ending 1 Ending with prerecorded chord sequence and melody. If selected near

Ending 2 Ending with the chord recognized on the keyboard. If selected near the

Ending 3 Two-measure Ending, starting immediately, without waiting for the

the end of the measure, it will only start at its end.

end of the measure, it will only start at its end.

measure to end.

▪ When it is time to end the song, press one of the ENDING buttons on the

control panel to ‘book’ one of the Ending sections.

After the Ending, the Style will automatically stop.

Looping sections

If you feel that an Intro, a Break or an Ending should last longer than the
recorded pattern, you can put it in a cycling loop.

Set a Style Element to loop

▪ Press twice the button of the Intro, Break or Ending to put in loop.

The indicator on the button will start flashing, and the pattern will start re­peating.

Exit from the loop

Do one of the following:

▪ Press the same Style Element button again, or

▪ Select a different Style Element.

Keep a Style Element looping while its button is pressed

▪ Keep an Intro, Break or Ending button pressed to loop it. Release it when you

want the Style Element to exit from the loop.

▪ If the Auto Fill function is turned on, keep a Variation button pressed to loop

the corresponding Fill. Release it when you want the Fill to exit from the loop,
and the Variation to start playing.

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Fade In/Out

You can start and/or stop your playing with a smooth fade-in or fade-out.

Fade i n

▪ While the accompaniment is not playing, press the FADE IN/OUT button to

light up its indicator and start the accompaniment with a smooth fade-in.

The accompaniment will start. When the maximum volume is reached, the
indicator will turn off.

Fade o u t

▪ When the song is approaching its end, press the FADE IN/OUT button to stop

the accompaniment with a smooth fade-out.

Balancing the accompaniment against the keyboard

While playing, you may want to balance the Keyboard Sounds against the
Accompaniment Sounds, to make the soloist stand out of the background or
go back in the mix.

Balance the Accompaniment against the Keyboard Sounds

▪ While the accompaniment is playing, use the BALANCE knob to balance be-

tween the Accompaniment (Style) and the Keyboard (Keyboard Set) Sounds.

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Making the accompaniment sparser

You can easily turn off any of the accompaniment groups by using the Play/
Mute buttons in the Main > Volume pane. For example, you may want to mute
the ACCOMP (Accompaniment) group to play with the backing of the drums
and bass alone.

If you only want to listen to Drums and Percussions, press the ACCO M P. but­ton on the control panel to turn its indicator off. Press it again to reactivate
all the accompaniment sounds.

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Manually playing the Bass line

You can play the Bass Sound with your left hand, freeing it from the auto­matic accompaniment.

Turn the Manual Bass function on

▪ Press the MANUAL BASS button to turn its indicator on.

The automatic accompaniment will stop playing (except for the Drum and
Percussion Sounds), and you can manually play the Bass line on the Lower
part of the keyboard.

When in Manual Bass mode, the volume level of the Bass Sound will be auto­matically increased.

Turn the Manual Bass function off

▪ Press the MANUAL BASS button to turn its indicator off.

When turning the Manual Bass mode off, the volume level of the Bass Sound
will be automatically set back to the original value.

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09 Customizing the Styles

Setting the Chord Recognition

Choosing where to play chords (Chord Scan area)

You can play chords with your left hand, or with both hands. You can choose
the recognition area, depending on the song you are playing and your pre­ferred playing style.

The area where chords are recognized depends on the status of the SPLIT
in dicato r.

SPLIT/

CHORD SCAN

On Left hand (Lower area of the keyboard) Depends on the

Off Both hands (full keyboard) Three or more

Make chords be recognized when played with your left hand

▪ Press the SPLIT button to turn its indicator on.

Make chords be recognized when played with both hands

▪ Press the SPLIT button to turn its indicator off.

Always play three or more notes to let the arranger recognize a chord.

Deactivate chord recognition

▪ Press the ACCOM P. button to turn its indicator off.

Only the Drum and Percussion tracks will continue to play.

Automatically holding chords and Lower notes (Memory)

Where to play chords (Chord Scan area) Notes to play

Chord Recognition
mode

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Automatically holding chords and Lower notes (Memory)

You can keep the chords and/or Lower notes in memory even after raising
your hand from the keyboard.

▪ Press the MEMORY button to turn its indicator on, and keep the chords and/

or Lower notes in memory.

▪ Press the MEMORY button to turn its indicator off. The chords and/or Lower

notes are released as soon as you raise your hand from the keyboard.

Recognizing the root note (Bass Inversion)

The instrument’s internal arranger recognizes chords by analyzing all the
notes you play in the chord recognition area, and considering their function
in a chord. You can however always force the lowest (leftmost) note of the
chord to be considered the chord’s root of a slashed chord (such as ‘C/E’ or
‘F/C’ ).

You can activate/deactivate this function in the Split pane.

Turn Bass Inversion on

1 While in the Main page of the Style Play mode, touch the Split tab to see the

Split pane.

2 Select the Bass Inversion checkbox to turn it on.

The lowest note of a chord will always be detected as the root note of a
slashed chord.

Turn Bass Inversion off

1 While in the Main page of the Style Play mode, touch the Split tab to see the

Split pane.

2 Deselect the Bass Inversion checkbox to turn it off.

The lowest note will be scanned together with the other chord notes, and will
not always be considered as the root note.

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Mixing the grouped Accompaniment
Sounds

Grouped Accompaniment Sounds

As in a mixer, the Accompaniment Sounds can be grouped together. For
example, instead of separately muting the guitar and the strings parts in
the Accompaniment, you can mute the Accompaniment (ACCOMP) group
by touching a single button.

Grouped Accompaniment Sounds can be accessed directly from the Main

page > Volume pane:

Muting grouped Accompaniment parts

Turn a group of Accompaniment Sounds off (Mute)

▪ If the group you want to mute is in Play, touch the Play/Mute icon to set it

to Mute.

Turn a group of Accompaniment Sounds on (Play)

▪ If the group you want to hear is in Mute, touch the Play/Mute icon to set it

to Play.

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Turning the individual Accompaniment Sounds on or off

Sounds can be muted, in case you don’t want to hear them in the mix. As an
example, the accompaniment might contain a piano part, and you want to
play it live on the keyboard.

See the Accompaniment parts mixer

▪ While in the Main page, touch the Volume tab to select the Volume pane, then

press the TRACK SELECT button to switch to the Accompaniment Sounds.

Accompaniment parts

Turn a channel on (Play) or off (Mute)

▪ Select the mixer channel, then touch the Play (

) or Mute ( ) icon to

turn the corresponding Sounds on or off.

Return to the Main page

▪ When done, press the TRACK SELECT button again to switch back to the

Main page and see the grouped parts.

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10 The Chord Sequencer

Recording Chord Sequences

You can record a Chord Sequence, that will play the chords for you. This
will be useful, for example, when you have to play a repeated sequence, and
prefer to use your left hand to play a solo on the keyboard, or to select the
DNC controllers.

You can start recording while the Arranger is playing.

1 Press the START/STOP button to start the automatic accompaniment.

2 Keep the CHORD SEQUENCER button pressed for about one second to en-

ter record-pending. Its indicator will become steady red.

3 Press the CHORD SEQUENCER button again to start recording. At the be-

ginning of the next measure, the CHORD SEQUENCER indicator will start
flashing in red. Start recording your Chord Sequence.

4 When the Chord Sequence is done, press the CHORD SEQUENCER button

again to stop recording. Its indicator will turn steady green, to show there is
a sequence in memory.

The Chord Sequence will remain in memory until you record a new Chord
Sequence, choose a different Style or SongBook Entry, or you turn the in­strument off. If the sequence is locked, it will not change when choosing a
different Style or SongBook Entry.

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Playing back Chord Sequences

1 While the accompaniment is playing, press the CHORD SEQUENCER button

to start the Chord Sequence.

The indicator will start flashing in green. The Chord Sequence will be played
back in loop starting from the next measure.

2 Play your solo part, while the Chord Sequence plays the chords for you.

During Chord Sequence looping, you can freely select any Variation, as if you
where playing chords with your hands.

3 Press the CHORD SEQUENCER button again to stop the Chord Sequence (or

stop the accompaniment). The button’s indicator will become steady green.

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11 Playing the Pads

Choosing the Pad sets

Choose the Pads by selecting a Style

▪ Choose a Style. The four Pads it contains will be selected.

Choose the Pads by selecting a SongBook Entry

▪ Choose a SongBook Entry. The four Pads it contains will be selected.

What is a Pad?

Pads are single-track hits or sequences, that you can instantly play with
the dedicated PADS buttons. They can either play single sounds or short,
cycling sequences that play in time with the Style or the MIDI Song. In Style
Play mode, sequences are transposed according to the recognized chords.

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Playing the Pads

Starting and stopping the Pads

You can play up to four Pads at the same time, by using the dedicated PADS
buttons on the control panel.

Play the Pads

▪ Press one or more PADS buttons to trigger the Pads.

▪ Play some chords, and transpose any Pad of the Sequence type.

Stop a single Pad

▪ Press a PADS button to stop the corresponding Pad.

Stop all Pads at the same time

▪ Press the PADS > STOP button to stop all the Pads.

Stop all the Pads and the Style at the same time

▪ Press the START/STOP button, or one of the ENDING buttons.

Stop all the Pads and start a Song

▪ Press the PL AY/STO P button to start a Song. All the Pads will stop playing.

Changing Tempo

In Style Play mode, Pads are synchronized to the Style’s Tempo. Change the

Style’s Tempo, and the Pads’ Tempo will change accordingly.

In Song Play mode, Pads are synchronized to the latest MIDI Song’s Tempo.
Since Pads cannot be synchronized with MP3 Songs, the Tempo of the latest
MIDI Song will be considered when playing MP3 Songs.

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Upper Sounds

12 Playing the Songs

Choosing the Songs

Choosing a Song

Switch to the Song Play mode

Press the SONG PLAY button.

Title bar Page menu

Selected Song

Selected Style

Selected

Keyboard Set

Right-hand/

Left-hand/
Lower Sound

Tabs recalling

other panes

Open the Song Select window from the control panel

▪ Press the SELECT button in the PL AYER section.

Keyboard Set

pane

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Open the Song Select window from the display

▪ Touch the name of the Song on the display.

Browse through the Songs

While in the Song Select window, browse through the files to find the Song
you are looking for.

Current path

Device

▪ Choose a storage device by using the Device menu.

If the Song is contained in an external USB device, connect the device to the

USB HOST port.

Device Typ e

DISK Internal drive

SD Optional internal microSD

USB Optional device connected to the USB HOST port

The actual name (label) of the device will appear between square brackets.

▪ Scroll the file list by using the scrollbar. As an alternative, use the VALUE

control (if the focus is on the Device selector, touch any item in the list before
using the dial).

▪ Open the selected folder/directory by touching the Open button.

▪ Go to the upper folder/directory by touching the Close button.

▪ Jump to the folder/directory, containing the Song currently assigned to the

Player, by touching the Locate button.

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Current measure

Jump to a different alphabetical section

1 If it is not selected, touch the Name label on top of the list.

2 Keep the SHIFT button pressed and touch one of the arrows of the scrollbar

to jump to the previous or next alphabetical section.

Change the list sorting

▪ Reorder the items according to a different criterion (Type, Name, Size, Date)

by touching the corresponding label on top of the list.

▪ By touching the label again, the order of the files will switch between as-

cending and descending.

Select the Song

1 Touch the name of the Song you want to choose to highlight it.

2 Touch the Select button. If a Song is already playing, it will stop, and the new

Song will be ready to play. You will return to the Main page of the Song Play
mode.

When a Song has been selected, it will appear in the Song area.

▪ MIDI Song selected:

(Time Signature)

Meter

▪ MP3 Song selected:

Total time

Tempo

Elapsed time

Tempo variation

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KAR file

MP3 file

on disk

Song

What is a MIDI Song

MIDI Songs’ jargon name is Standard MIDI File, often abbreviated as SMF.
The filename extension is .mid. The Standard MIDI File is the industry stan­dard format for songs, and is used by Pa700 as the native file format when
playing or recording MIDI Songs.

The MIDI Karaoke File (.kar) is an extension of the SMF format, and is also
supported. It always contains lyrics.

MIDI

Song

MID file

on disk

on disk

What is an MP3 Song

MP3 Songs’ real name is even funnier: MPEG Layer-3, usually abbreviated
as MP3. The filename extension is .mp3. This is a compressed audio file,
used to store recorded songs in the smallest amount of space, without
losing too much audio quality. At the highest quality, MP3 files are usually
impossible to distinguish from non-compressed audio files. Pa700 can play
and record MP3 files.

MP3

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Playing a Song

Starting, stopping and controlling the Player

Pa700 features a set of Player controls in the PL AY ER section.

Start the Player

▪ Press the PLAY/STOP (

While the Song is playing, the indicators in the display will show the current
position.

Fast Forward the Song

▪ Press the FAST FORWARD (

(MIDI Song) or to the next second (MP3 Song).

▪ Keep the FAST FORWARD (

ously. Release it when you have reached the desired location.

Rewind the Song

▪ Press the REWIND (

Song) or to the previous second (MP3 Song).

▪ Keep the REWIND (

Release it when you have reached the desired location.

Pause and resume playback

▪ Press the PLAY/STOP (

The button’s indicator will turn off.

▪ Press the PLAY/STOP (

tor will turn on again.

) button.

) button once to jump to the next measure

) button pressed to scroll the Song continu-

) button once to jump to the previous measure (MIDI

) button pressed to scroll the Song continuously.

) button to stop the Song at the current position.

) button again to resume playback. The indica-

Stop the Player and return to the beginning of the Song

▪ Press the HOME (

the Song. The button’s indicator will turn off.

) button to stop the Player and move to the beginning of

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Fade In/Out

You can start and/or stop a Song with a smooth fade-in or fade-out.

Fade i n

▪ While the Song is not playing, press the FADE IN/OUT button to light up its

indicator and start with a smooth fade-in.

The Song will start. When the maximum volume is reached, the indicator will
turn off.

Fade o u t

▪ When the Song is approaching its end, press the FADE IN/OUT button to end

it with a smooth fade-out.

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Playing along with the Song

Playing the keyboard

Play along with the Song

▪ While the Song is playing, play on the keyboard.

Choose different Sounds from the Keyboard Set Library

▪ Choose a different Keyboard Set from the KEYBOARD SET LIBRARY sec-

tion of the control panel, or by touching the KBD area in the Main page.

Choose different Sounds from the Style or SongBook Entry

▪ The latest Style or SongBook Entry you selected contain up to four Keyboard

Set. Choose a different Keyboard Set from the KEYBOARD SET section un­der the display, or from the Kbd Set pane of the Main page.

Muting the melody

Mute the melody if you are going to play or sing live. This will avoid overlap­ping between your playing or singing and the internal Sounds.

1 Go to the Song Play > Volume pane.

2 Use the TRACK SELECT button to see the Sound you want to mute.

3 Touch the Play (

you want to mute. The Mute ( ) icon will appear.

Saving the Play/Mute status

To make the Play/Mute status of the Song Sounds permanent for all the sub­sequent MIDI Songs, write it to memory.

▪ Go to the Global > Mode Preferences > Song & Sequencer page, and choose

the Write Song Play Track & FX command from the page menu.

) icon in the mixer channel corresponding to the Sound

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Transpose the Songs to play in an easier key

You may want to play on the keyboard in an easier key, and transpose a Song
in the same key, without transposing the keyboard.

Activate transposition on the Players only

1 Go to the Global > Tuning > Transpose Control page.

2 Activate Transpose on the Player, and deactivate it on the Style and Keyboard

tracks.

Transpose the Songs

▪ Use the TRANSPOSE buttons on the control panel.

Balancing the Songs against the keyboard

While playing, you may want to balance the Keyboard Sounds against the
Songs, to make the soloist stand out of the background or go back in the mix.

Balance the Songs against the keyboard

▪ While the Songs are playing, use the BALANCE knob to balance between the

Songs and the Keyboard (Keyboard Set) Sounds.

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Setting the general volume of the MP3 Songs

You can balance the volume of MP3 Songs against that of MIDI Songs and
Styles.

1 Go to the Global > Audio & Video > MP3/Speakers page.

2 Use the MP3 Player > Volume parameter to set the maximum volume of the

MP3 Player.

MP3 Volume Meaning

0 … 100 Max volume in percentage

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Playing all the Songs in a folder

You can play all the Songs in a folder with a single command.

Open the Song Select window from the control panel

▪ Press the SELECT button.

Open the Song Select window from the display

▪ Touch the name of the Song in the display.

Select the folder containing the Songs to play

1 Browse through the files, until you find the folder containing the Songs to

play, and open it.

2 Touch the Play All button to pre-select all the Songs in the folder.

A Jukebox file will be automatically generated and assigned to the Player.
The order in which the Songs will be played back will depend on how they
appear in the Song Select window.

Play the list of Songs

3 Start and stop the Songs by pressing the PLAY/STOP (

4 Use the standard PL AY ER controls to play, pause, stop, fast forward and

rewind the Songs.

Move through the Songs

▪ Jump to the next Song in the list by keeping the SHIFT button pressed and

pressing the FAST FORWARD (

▪ Jump to the previous Song by keeping the SHIFT button pressed and press-

ing the REWIND (

▪ Press the HOME (

) button.

) button to go back to the beginning of the current Song.

) button.

) button.

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13 Lyrics, chords, markers

and score

Reading the lyrics and chords contained in
a Song

Reading lyrics and chords

Open the Lyrics page

▪ Press the LY R IC S button on the control panel. The Lyrics page will appear,

and you will see the lyrics.

Read the lyrics

▪ While the Song is playing, lyrics contained in a MIDI or MP3 Song will auto-

matically scroll in the display, in time with the music. Lyrics at the current
position will be highlighted.

Exit from the Lyrics page

▪ When done with the lyrics, press either the LY R ICS or the EXIT button.

Changing the text size

You can choose between two text sizes.

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▪ Use the

aA button in the Lyrics page to change the font size.

Showing chords

You can show or hide the chord symbols that might be included as Lyrics
events in the MIDI Songs.

▪ Be sure the Chord button appears pressed in the Lyrics page to see the

chord symbols. Chord symbols (if any) will appear above the lyrics, in time
with the music.

▪ Be sure the Chord button doesn’t appear pressed in the Lyrics page to hide

the chord symbols.

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Moving through a Song with the markers

Song Marker events that might be contained in a MID file (that is, a MIDI
Song) can be read by Pa700. They are immediately shown in the Markers
page.

Open the Markers page

▪ While in Song Play mode, press the MARKER button.

Jump to a marker

1 If you like, start the Player by pressing the PLAY/STOP (

You can jump to a marker even if the Player is not running.

2 When you want to jump to a marker, touch it in the markers list. At the begin-

ning of the next measure, the Song will jump to the saved position.

Make the markers list scroll automatically

Select the Auto Scroll parameter, to let the markers list scroll automatically,
and always let the current marker be shown in the display.

Loop the current section

You can use the markers to repeat a passage you need practicing.

1 Start the Player.

2 When you reach the beginning of the point you need practicing, touch the

Add button to create a first marker.

Usually, you will create the marker one or two measures before the actual
starting point.

3 When you reach the end of the point you need practicing, touch the Add

button to create a second marker.

) button.

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4 Select the first marker, then select the Loop checkbox to repeat (loop) be-

tween the first and second marker.

5 If you no longer need them, delete the markers. In any case, they will be

automatically removed when choosing a different Song or turning off the
instrument.

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Current staff

Selected trackView options Clef

Reading the music score

Creating and reading the music score

Create the music score

1 Choose a MIDI Song to play with the Player.

2 Press the SCORE button to open the Score page. A score of the selected

track will be generated.

Depending on the content of the track, either notes or chords are shown in
the staff.

Song name TempoChord symbols

Current

position

Lyrics

Choose a different track

▪ Choose a different track to be seen as music score by using the Tr k menu.

Usually, the melody is track #4.

Choose the clef

▪ Choose a different clef by using the Clef menu.

Usually, the correct clef is automatically assigned by the score generator.

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Clef Meaning

Treble Standard Treble clef.

Treble +8 Treble clef with transposition one octave upper.

Treble - 8 Treble clef with transposition one octave lower.

Bass Standard Bass clef.

Bass-8 Bass clef with transposition one octave lower.

Exit from the Score page

▪ When done with the score, press either the SCORE or the EXIT button.

Intelligent display of the score

Score generation is smart enough to ‘clean-up’ a track with automatic
quantization, syncopation, key and clef generation. Even non-quantized
tracks will be shown in a very readable way.

If a Key Signature event is found at the beginning of the Song (position
‘001.01.000’ of the Song’s Master track), the correct key signature is also
shown.

Following the Song

You can always see where you are in the score by watching at these indica­tors:

▪ A red vertical line, showing indicating the current staff in play.

▪ A red triangle, showing the current position.

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Showing lyrics, chords, note names

Read the Lyrics

▪ Touch the Lyrics button to make the lyrics (if available) appear or disappear.

Read the chords

▪ Touch the Chord button to make the chord symbols (if available) appear or

disappear.

Read the note names

▪ Touch the Note button to make the note name appear or disappear next to

each note.

Choosing the chords and note names language

Chords and note names are shown either according to the English (A, B, C…)
or Italian (Do, Re, Mi…) system, depending on the selected language.

▪ Go to the Global > General Controls > Interface page, and use the Language

parameter to change the language.

Muting the selected track

Mute the selected track

▪ Touch the Play/Mute (

track.

Mute the track if you are going to play or sing it live. This will avoid overlap­ping between your playing or singing and the internal Sounds.

Saving the Play/Mute status

To make the Play/Mute status of the Song tracks permanent for all the sub­sequent MIDI Songs, write it to memory.

▪ Go to the Global > Mode Preferences > Song & Sequencer page, and choose

the Write Song Play Track & FX command from the page menu.

/ ) button to listen or mute the selected

Music score and transposition

The Score page shows the actual MIDI notes. Using the TRANSPOSE buttons
or transposing the selected track does not affect the music score.