Balancing the Major Sound Components
in the PSR
Press the [BALANCE] button at the bottom
left of your screen and you will see the balance controls
in a little BALANCE box that displays on the bottom two rows
of the MAIN screen. An enlargement of that area is shown
below. The screen simulates a volume control for 7 separate
components (SONG, STYLE, M.PAD,
and MIC are on the left and LEFT, LAYER, and MAIN are on the
right). The slide controls are shown positioned at a value
of 100.
The volume can be made louder going up to a maximum value
of 127. It can also be turned down all the way to a value
of 0 at which point you will hear nothing coming from that
particular part.
You move the volume control up (or
down) by pressing the corresponding buttons shown below the
main screen. They are numbered [1] to [8] ,
but there are actually 16 buttons since each "number" has
a button above it and a button below it. In this case,
the top buttons serve to move a "slider" up and the bottom
buttons move the slider down. I will refer to the button
Above a number as [#-A] and the button Below
a particular number as [#-B] to distinguish between the two
buttons. For example, pressing [2-A] will increase the volume
of the style accompaniment while pressing button [2-B] will
turn the style accompaniment volume down.
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You will encounter other screens
in the PSR that show two "rows" of information at the
bottom of the display screen. In these cases,
the buttons above the number are used for the "top"
row and the buttons  below
the number are used for the "bottom" row. For
example, when you want to SAVE a file, you are given
an opportunity to "NAME" the file. The Name Input
box is shown here. This name input screen shows
two rows with 8 options available in each row.
The choices in the row beginning with CASE, are
selected by using the buttons Above the
corresponding number while the choices in the row beginning
with ICON, are selected by pressing the buttons
Below the corresponding number. Thus button
[8-A] would select OK, while button [8-B] would
select CANCEL. Using this box to input
new names is discussed
elsewhere.
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SONG
The [1-A] and [1-B] buttons control
the SONG volume. If you are playing along with a MIDI song,
these buttons adjusts the volume of the MIDI file relative
to the MAIN voice (and\or LAYER voice). Buttons [8-A]
and [8-B] adjust the volume of the MAIN voice while buttons
[7-A] and [7-B] adjust the volume of the LAYER voice.
STYLE
The [2] buttons control the volume
of ALL of the individual STYLE parts. If the style you
are using has, for example, a drummer, a bass player, a pianist,
and a guitar player, moving the "STYLE" volume up will increase
the volume for each of the four players in equal proportion.
If the style seems too loud to your ears when matched with
whatever you are playing with your right (and left) hands,
you can tune all of the accompaniment pieces down by using
this balance control. If you want to make one of the
accompaniment parts louder than the others, for example, increase
the sound of the bass player without also increasing the sound
of the drummer, pianist and guitarist as well, you will have
to use the Mixing Console. Adjusting individual style parts
is discussed in the Mixing
Console lesson, which is the next one in this series..
LEFT/LAYER/MAIN
 The
[6] buttons control the volume of the LEFT voice; [7] controls
the LAYER voice, and [8] controls the main voice. The
lettered buttons on the upper right-hand side of the main
screen ([F], [G], and [H]) are
used to select the MAIN, LAYER, and LEFT voices respectively.
You select the voice prior to changing the instrument used
in that voice. The buttons labeled [MAIN],
[LAYER], and [LEFT], located just to the right
of the main screen, are used to turn these voices ON
or OFF. If you are adjusting a voice and making it
louder and louder but you don't hear any differece, check
to make sure that the voice you are adjusting is actually
turned ON -- the little light next to the relevant voice button
will be on.
M.PAD
The [3] buttons located below the M.PAD
label control the volume of the 4 MULTI PADS. If you
intend to use the multi pads while you are playing, do not
forget to set this volume appropriately. If you lower
the STYLE volume and do not adjusted the M.PAD setting, you
could be in for a rude shock when you press that multi pad
button and hear a bunch of brass horns (or whatever your multi-pad
is set at) start blazing away!
MIC
If you are not using a microphone,
you need not worry about the MIC setting -- button [4].
However, if you do use a mic, you will want to do some experimenting
to find the mic volume most appropriate and set the volume
accordingly. Later, I will explain how to SAVE all these
settings so you don't have to make these adjustments everytime
you want to use your arranger.
There is nothing pictured above the
[5] buttons so, of course, those buttons have no effect in
the BALANCE screen
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