The PSR-2100 can make beautiful music many different ways.  An accomplished musician can sit at the keyboard and play it and thus show off what the instrument can do. But even if you are not quite so accomplished, you can still show off what the instrument will do by simply pressing the DEMO button. You'll find it just to the left of the MAIN screen.  Now, your PSR will show off itself! 

Selecting Files on the PSR-2100

The MAIN screen will now show the DEMO screen (see below).  Since this screen is typical of many you see on the PSR-2100 from which you select files (voices, styles, registrations, songs, multi pads) let's pay some attention to it because it illustrates clearly the overall navigational scheme used by Yamaha to allow users to make choices. (Note: the DEMO screen on the PSR-2000 shows the same functions, although the icons next to each function are different.)

Screen Title and Tabs

The title of the screen is shown at the very top, in this case "DEMO".  There are three "tabs" available in this DEMO screen and they are indicated by the simulated "tabs" of a folder shown in the upper right-hand side of the screen.  The tabs are labeled "FUNCTION", "VOICE", and "STYLE" and, in this case, refer to a "category" of demo. You are currently viewing the "FUNCTION" demos.  You can tell that because the FUNCTION tab is highlighted and the other two tabs are shaded. 

Note: for file-related screens, for example, styles or voices, the "tabs" refer to memory location (PRESET, USER, or FLOPPY DISK).  On yet other screens, such as in the Style Creator, the "tabs" refer to different functions and parameter settings in creating a style.

However, no matter what the tabs refer to, you move backward or forward among the various tabs by pressing the [BACK] and [NEXT] buttons.  These are located just above and to the right of the MAIN screen.

Screen Pages

Any particular "tab" may have one or more "Pages" of information.  For selecting demo songs, as shown above, each page presents the user with up to 10 choices.  The current page is shown at the bottom -- notice "P1" in the screen display above.  There is also a second page available under the FUNCTION tab.  It is shown as "P2" but it is shaded showing that it is not currently selected.

Selecting a Demo

To select any of the 10 choices on the screen, you would press the corresponding button on the left or right side of the main screen.  The left side buttons are labeled "A" through "E" and the right side buttons are labeled "F" through "J".  You will see this same type of interface when selecting voices, styles, registrations, or multi pads.

Note: Sometimes, one or more of the 10 choices on a page is a "folder" and is indicated by a folder icon.  If you select a folder, the folder will open up and you will see up to 10 additional choices.  If the folder contains more than 10 files, you would also see multiple pages on the bottom screen of the screen, one page for every 10 files.  A folder can have another folder within it.  This is exactly the same as the files and folders you would normally find on a floppy disk. We will discuss the file storage options in more detail later.

Selecting Other Options

Depending on the screen you are looking at, there may also be choices reflected in the bottom two rows of the screen.  Picture a "row" as a horizontal line of information.  We will also refer to "columns " and picture those as vertical lines of information, like a column holding up a building.  Using one of the 10 lettered buttons ([A] - [J]) chooses a "row".  A "column" is chosen by using one of the 8 numbered buttons you see at the bottom of the MAIN screen.  For example, in this screen, "P1" is in column 1 and "P2" is in column 2. Although you don't see a lot of other options in this screen, the "AUTO" selection on the bottom right would be in column "8" -- it is located right above the "8" button.  When there are two rows of options at the bottom, the choices in row 7 (P1 and P2) would be selected by pressing the button Above the corresponding number.  Choices in the very bottom row, row 8, are selected by pressing the button Below the corresponding numbered button.  To select "AUTO", you would press the button below the number 8.

In lesson throughout this site, we refer to the buttons below the numbers by appending a "B" (for Below) and the buttons above the numbers by appending an "A" (for "Above). So, in the example shown here, the AUTO option would be accessed by pressing button [8B] and the two page buttons would be referred to as [1A] and [2A].

Navigational Summary

This simple example of the DEMO screen applies to all file screens in your PSR. All screens will have a TITLE at the top, one or more TABS (which are accessed with the [BACK] and ]NEXT] buttons). The 10 files shown are accessed by pressing the corresponding lettered button ({A] - [J]). Instead of showing a "file", a folder (which holds additional files) may be shown. Selecting that folder "Opens" the folder and shows the files in that folder. If there are more than 10 files, they will be shown on additional "Pages". Pages are shown in row 7 and there can be as many "pages" as need to show all the files. For example, if you had 35 files in a folder, it would require 4 pages to display all the files.

Additional options on a file screen are shown in the bottom two rows. These are selected by using the 8 numbered buttons below the main screen. The buttons "Above" the numbers refer to options in row 7, and the buttons "Below" the numbers refer to options in row 8, the bottom row. These options are used to move from page to page. If you "open" a folder to see the files in that folder, there will be an option at the bottom of the screen to move back up to the "parent" folder.

Well, now that you understand how to select things from the DEMO screen, let's take a look at the demos that are available.