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Now that you've got the correct song
titles in your database, let's examine the main MUSIC FINDER screen
in some more detail. When you press the Music Finder button,
this is the screen you will see on the PSR-2100/2000, although yours
may not have the particular songs shown in this illustration.
 Music
Finder Tabs
There are four tabs in this screen and we are looking at the first
one, which is labeled "ALL." The ALL means we are looking
at all of
the 149 song titles in the database. 149? Where
did that come from? Look in the bottom right part of the screen
under "NUMBER OF RECORDS". This will tell you how many
records are in the currently loaded Music Finder database.
The remaining three tabs are used to show you only some
of titles in the database. The second tab, labeled "FAVORITE"
displays only "your" favorite songs. You decide
which songs are your favorite songs. The third and fourth
tabs are provided to display the results of different search queries,
which I will explain below.
Table Structure
The Music Finder song data are displayed
in a tabular format with four columns labeled MUSIC, STYLE,
BEAT, and TEMPO. Information pertaining to a particular "song"
is shown in each row of the table. On the PSR-2100,
you can see 14 rows at a time on your screen. You use the
numbered buttons [1] - [5] at the bottom of the screen to scroll
up and down through the list of songs. In fact, I'm sure you
are anxious to see more titles, so let's try navigating the list
now.
Navigating the Song
List
Using the DATA ENTRY Wheel
When you first start the Music Finder, the "cursor" is positioned
on the first record, "A Swinging Safari," in the screen shot above.
Notice that a "box" surrounds the current record.  Turn
the DATA ENTRY Wheel, slowly, clockwise. You will see the "box"
move down the song list one song at a time. When you get to the
last song shown on the screen, the box will remain at the bottom
of the screen, but you'll see that the entire list of songs is now
scrolling upward as you turn the DATA ENTRY wheel. Turn the wheel
faster and the list scrolls faster. Of course, moving the wheel
in the opposite direction -- counterclockwise -- moves back "up"
the list of songs.
To "select" a song, simply press the little ENTER button
just to the right of the DATA ENTRY wheel -- you'll see a dotted
line from the wheel to this button. When you actually "select"
a particular song, that row is now highlighted by being displayed
in inverse video, that is white letters on a black background. When
you "select" a song in the Music Finder list, the keyboard
is immediately configured with the information from that record
and is ready for you to begin playing the song.
Using the Numbered Buttons
Below the MUSIC column, the [1] buttons are used to move up and
down the music list one letter at a time. When
you press the button Below [1] (the [1B] button), the cursor
jumps down to the first song that begins with the letter "B" --
"Bailamos." That song will be "selected" and ready
for you to play. Press the [1B] button again and you are moved
down to the first song that begins with the letter "C". Pressing
[1A] (the button Above the number [1]) at this point would
jump you back up to the first song that begins with "B".)
Because this database shown here has only 149 records, you can see
where the "B's" begin since there are only seven songs that begin
with the letter "A". But if your database had 1,000+
records, there might be 40-60 song titles that begin with "A".
In this case, pressing the [1B] button a few times would rapidly
move you down that list of 1,000+ songs.
The [2] and [3] buttons are used to move
you up or down the list one song at a time.
This is similar to using the DATA ENTRY wheel. However, as you move
through the song list with the buttons, one song title at a time,
each song title is highlighted. At any time, you can press
a key on your keyboard and the style will begin playing for the
song that is currently highlighted. If you aren't playing anything,
this works just fine. But if you try to move to another Music Finder
record while you are still playing a song, the style will suddenly
change as you move from record to record -- not at all what you
want. To move to another song in the list while you are still playing,
use the DATA ENTRY wheel to find the new song. When you are done
playing the current song, simply press the ENTER key and you are
ready to launch into your next song.
Back to the Top of the List
When sorting by Music (or by Style Name),
you can always get back to the very top of the list by pressing
both the above and below buttons for any of the numbers [1] through
[5], that is, pressing [1A] and [1B] together has the same effect
as pressing [3A] and [3B] together -- you jump immediately back
to the top of the list.
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