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14 PSR-A5000 Owner’s Manual
Major Functions and Terms
This section briefly explains the key functions of this instrument, to help you better understand the overall capa-
bilities and musical potential.
Styles—Rhythm and Auto Accompaniment
The PSR-A5000 features a variety of accompaniment and rhythmic backing patterns (called “Styles”) in a variety of differ-
ent musical genres including Arabic music, pop, jazz, and many others. Styles feature sophisticated Auto Accompaniment
patterns, letting you produce automatic accompaniment playback simply by playing chords with your left hand. This lets
you automatically recreate the sound of a full band or orchestra—even if you’re playing by yourself.
Voices—Individual sounds of the instrument
The PSR-A5000 features a wide variety of exceptionally realistic instrumental Voices, including oriental instruments,
piano, guitar, strings, brass, wind instruments and more. The Voices can be played manually on the keyboard, and they are
also used by the Styles, MIDI Songs, and Multi Pads.
Multi Pads—Adding musical phrases to your performance
The Multi Pads can be used to play a number of short pre-recorded rhythmic and melodic sequences for adding impact and
variety to your keyboard performances. Multi Pads are grouped in Banks of four phrases each. This instrument features a
variety of Multi Pad Banks in a variety of different musical genres. Moreover, the Audio Link Multi Pad function allows
you to create unique, new pad content with your own audio (WAV) data for playing back during your performance.
Songs—Playing back MIDI/audio files
For this instrument, the term “Song” refers to MIDI or audio data, such as preset songs, commercially available files, etc.
Not only can you play back a Song and listen to it, but you can also play the keyboard along with Song playback.
Song playback features two modes: Song Player mode and Song List mode.
• Song Player: Plays back two Songs (one MIDI Song and one Audio Song) simultaneously and allows for a smooth tran-
sition between the two.
• Song List: Plays back Songs continuously according to a previously created Song List.
Mic/Guitar Connections—Sing/play along with the keyboard performance
By connecting a microphone to the MIC/GUITAR [INPUT] jack (standard 1/4” phone plug connector), you can enjoy
singing along with your keyboard performance or with Song playback. The instrument outputs your vocals through the
connected speaker system.
The PSR-A5000 lets you connect an electric guitar, and you can even use powerful DSP effects to process the guitar sound
instead, and play that along with the keyboard sounds.
Keyboard Parts
There are four keyboard parts for your manual performance: LEFT, RIGHT 1, 2 and 3. Each part has one Voice. You can combine
these parts by using the PART ON/OFF buttons to create luscious instrument textures and convenient performance combinations.
You can change the keyboard range of the Parts by changing the Split Point.
RIGHT 3 part
RIGHT 2 part
RIGHT 1 part
Right-hand (UPPER) sectionLeft-hand (LOWER) section
Split Point (F#2 by default)
LEFT part
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