While a song or a style is playing, you will be able to see which of the 16 tracks are being played and you can turn any of those tracks off (or on again). This can have a dramatic impact on the sound of the style or song. Here are the steps.

Muting Style Parts

1. Select a Style and play a chord to start the style playing.
   
   
2. To mute / un-mute Parts with buttons [1] – [8], press the [CHANNEL ON/OFF] button just to the left of the 8 butotns below the main screen. This is a toggle button that toggles between showing the 8 accompaniment channels and the 16 song channels.. Let's look at the STYLE channels first.
   
   
   
   
3. The screen shows each of the 8 accompaniment tracks and whether the track is ON or OFF. By pressing the buttons below the numbers, you can turn any track on or off. To experiment, while the style is playing, turn all the tracks off. (Pressing the button [3B] turns BASS OFF. Pressing [3B[ again turns BASS back ON.) Now, turn any track back on and you'll hear the contribution that track makes to the overall style. Turn then on one-by-one and you'll get back to the original style setting. Note: if you turn a particular track OFF, it is turned OFF for all four style variations.
   
   
4. While the style is playing, you can also experiment by changing the particular instrument used in each track. Consider the BASS track again. Pressing [3B] turned the BASS track ON and OFF. But pressing [3A] brings up the voice screen that shows you which BASS instrument is actually playing. Select any of the other BASS instruments (while the style is playing) and listen to the impact on the style. You can change any of the accompaniment instruments this way.
   
   
5. Note that all of this experimentation has no impact on the preset style stored in your keyboard. No matter what changes you make, the next time you load that style, it will sound the way it always does. If you want to SAVE your changes, you need to save the entire style to the USER area or the the FLOPPY DISK area. If you are changing voices, you may also want to adjust the individual voice volumes.

Note: See the lesson on the Mixing Console. It explains how to adjust accompaniment voices as you please and then save the results in a new style.

Muting Song Parts

1. Select a Song and start it playing by pressing the song START/STOP button.
   
   
2. Once again, press the CHANNEL On/Off button until you see the SONG tab displayed.
   
   
   
3. As the song plays, you'll notice the lights by each of the 16 tracks flash when that track is being used. By pressing the corresponding buttons at the bottom of the MAIN screen ([1A] - [8A] for tracks 1-8 and [1B] - [8B] for tracks 9 to 16.) you turn that track ON or OFF.

Note: there are a number of lessons available to help you through the steps required to adjust songs after they have been recorded. These are all in the Personalizing subsection of Lessons under Adjusting Songs.