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108 PSR-A3000 Owner’s Manual
Fine-tuning the Pitch of the Entire Instrument
You can fine-tune the pitch of the entire instrument such as keyboard, Style and Song parts (except the keyboard
part played by the Drum Kit or SFX Kit Voices, and audio playback)—a useful feature when playing the PSR-
A3000 along with other instruments or CD music.
1 Call up the operation display.
[FUNCTION]
TAB [
E
] MENU 1
[E] MASTER TUNE/SCALE TUNE
TAB [
E
] MASTER TUNE
2 Use the [4 ]/[5 ] buttons to set the tuning in 0.2 Hz steps.
Press both [] and [] buttons (of 4 or 5) simultaneously to reset the value to the factory setting of 440.0 Hz.
Scale Tuning
You can select various scales for playing in custom tunings for specific historical periods or music genres.
1 Call up the operation display.
[FUNCTION]
TAB [
E
] MENU 1
[E] MASTER TUNE/SCALE TUNE
TAB [
F
] SCALE TUNE
2 Use the [A]/[B] buttons to select the desired scale.
Preset Scale types
Pitch-Related Settings
EQUAL The pitch range of each octave is divided equally into twelve parts, with each
half-step evenly spaced in pitch. This is the most commonly used tuning in
music today.
BAYAT, RAST Use these tunings when playing Arabic music.
PURE MAJOR, PURE
MINOR
These tunings preserve the pure mathematical intervals of each scale, especially
for triad chords (root, third, fifth). You can hear this best in actual vocal harmo-
nies—such as choirs and a cappella singing.
PYTHAGOREAN This scale was devised by the famous Greek philosopher and is created from a
series of perfect fifths, which are collapsed into a single octave. The 3rd in this
tuning are slightly unstable, but the 4th and 5th are beautiful and suitable for
some leads.
MEAN-TONE This scale was created as an improvement on the Pythagorean scale, by making
the major third interval more “in tune.” It was especially popular from the 16th
century to the 18th century. Handel, among others, used this scale.
WERCKMEISTER,
KIRNBERGER
This composite scale combines the Werckmeister and Kirnberger systems,
which were themselves improvements on the mean-tone and Pythagorean scales.
The main feature of this scale is that each key has its own unique character. The
scale was used extensively during the time of Bach and Beethoven, and even
now it is often used when performing period music on the harpsichord.
The tuning of each note for
the currently selected scale is
shown.
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