Setting up my REGISTRATION to play Grandfather ClockTo set up a REGISTRATION BANK we need to start with the MAIN page (the one you get when you turn the keyboard ON).
First, press button
D next to
STYLE. I now need to choose one of the Style Categories on the left of the keyboard and find a suitable STYLE to use. I decided to press the
COUNTRY one first and look in there.
I played a chord and went through a selection of 'Country' Styles on the various Pages and chose one that I thought was perfect for what I wanted. This was
Country Pop, MAIN VARIATION B.
The 'default'
TEMPO for this was 148, which was way too fast for my song. The
TEMPO buttons have a
+ to the right and a
- to the left to either increase or decrease the Tempo. If you press the two buttons
together it will set it to the DEFAULT Tempo. The 'Default' Tempo for a Style always shows on the screen, together with the NAME of the Style.
I decreased the TEMPO to what I reckoned was about right for my song, which was 116.
Another consideration is if you want to do a 'Drum Break'. To do a Drum Break you have to have the
AUTO FILL IN activated. I shall be using this when playing a verse for the second time on the trot with the
same VARIATION. Adds a bit of spice and alleviates the boredom of hearing the same drumbeat all the time without a break (pardon the pun!). What you do is to press the VARIATION button that is 'lit' at some point in the last bar, and your 'drum break' comes in where it should do. I can do this with my left hand as I have the
LEFT HOLD ON (see below).
Having chosen a STYLE, I now need to choose some VOICES that I think would go well with this song. We can have three Voices to the right of the split (R1, R2, and R3) and one to the left (LEFT). We don't of course have to have them all activated, and the ones that are are lit up orange. The way to do this is to press each of the buttons
F,
G,
H and
I in turn and find a suitable voice from the
VOICE section on the right. I found what I was looking for in
E.Piano ...
Galaxy EP for
R1 and
Suitcase EP for
R2.
I also like to have a VOICE playing
with the chord I am playing with my left hand, and chose
Butter Strngs from
PAD to go into
LEFT.
Notice that in this screen above we have the BALANCE showing at the bottom. Which means that we can alter the VOLUMES of the various sections to get a good 'balance' between the STYLE and the VOICES in LEFT, R1, R2 and R3. The UP and DOWN buttons underneath change the volume in increments of one; the SLIDERS move the volumes more rapidly.
I also wanted to be able to take my left hand OFF the keyboard while I did other things .. and for it all to keep going. So I activated the
LEFT HOLD.
This is my starting Registration, with
LEFT HOLD,
LEFT,
R1 and
R2 lit up. Now before we put that Registration into REGISTRATION MEMORY Button
1 there is one important thing we have to do.
The keyboard will only store into the Registration Memories what you tell it to store. When you press the
MEMORY button you get a whole load of options.
Only the items that are 'ticked' will get stored. As I wasn't sure which ones I would need, I ticked the lot! To do this you scroll down each option one at a time and highlight them by pressing the UP/DOWN arrows underneath corresponding to the
red arrows on the screen, and MARK the option ON or OFF by clicking the UP/DOWN buttons underneath on the far right. See the picture below.
Every time you press the
MEMORY button this box comes up. But you won't have to tick all the boxes again as the keyboard remembers what you had ticked .. even when you turn the keyboard OFF and then ON again. You'll only have to do something if you want to
change which ones are ticked. So I now pressed the
MEMORY button, checked that all the options were ticked. and then the
1 in
REGISTRATION MEMORY. You can see from the below that the Registration set up above is now in
1.
All this for just the
first REGISTRATION MEMORY!
For
REGISTRATION MEMORY 2 I wanted a change of drum beat and didn't think that VARIATIONS C, D or E of this Style were significantly different, so went for a completely different STYLE. So pressed button
D (the STYLE one) and then listened to some of the other STYLES in
COUNTRY. To do this I played a chord and kept it going while I listened to some of them .. and decided that
Modern Country Pop would be good. So pressed the button by that to select it.
Note: By listening to the various STYLES as they were playing 'live' they played at my TEMPO of 116. So when I chose the one I wanted it was at a Tempo of 116 and didn't have it's 'default' Tempo of 68 attached to it.
Then I set
Harmonica as my Voice.
And set the left footswitch to activate a Crash Cymbal when I tapped it as explained in my Topic "Footswitches for the Tyros 4".
In REGISTRATION MEMORY 3, to liven things up a bit I had a complete change of beat and had
Folk Pop for my STYLE. Again, to choose this I had to press the
D button again to get the STYLES up, and set them going with a chord as I listened to the various ones. When choosing
Folk Pop it was at
my Tempo of 116, and not the 'default' one of 91.
And finally, in
REGISTRATION MEMORY 4 I had a
Grand Piano with the
HARMONY ECHO ON.
This picks up the notes you are playing for the chord in your left hand and 'adds' them into the melody. So the piano is playing multiple notes even though you are just playing the melody with single notes. There are numerous choices when you do this, and I opted for
DUET as I didn't want too many piano notes muddying the melody.
And also for this fourth Registration I included that footswitch with the Crash Cymbal.
You must come to the conclusion that in order to play the keyboard using the
REGISTRATION MEMORIES you first have to have a musician's hat on and know what you are trying to create musically, and second you have to have a recording engineer's hat on and know how you can make the keyboard do what you want it to do. Assuming you know what you want it to do in the first place. It is certainly much easier to press some buttons and to play something from what has been set up
for you.
These keyboards are called
Arranger Keyboards, and are designed to suit everyone, the serious musician as well as the casual player.
So I now have my song set up in four
REGISTRATION MEMORIES and am ready to play it.
Click the below to hear how it all turned out. Listen for the 'drum fill' between the verses; and the crash cymbal at the appropriate places in the music. To move from one REGISTRATION to the next I am using my left hand to reach across and press the next 'blue' button in sequence to activate it by turning it 'orange'.
Click the back-button after to get back to this page. Grandfather Clock played with the four REGISTRATION MEMORIES set up as described aboveIn the video below, the Tyros Tipsters show how to set up a REGISTRATION MEMORY BANK and SAVE it (don't turn the keyboard OFF or you'll lose it!).