When you select a style, you automatically select a number of "instruments" that will accompany you when you play. You have a drummer, a bass player, and most likely, a piano player and guitarist as well. The particular players, and the instruments they use, are built into the style selected. If you pick a ballad, you get appropriate instruments to accompany a ballad. If you pick a March, you get instruments to accompany a March.

But what about the instrument YOU are going to play? The keyboard has a MAIN (and optionally, a LAYER) voice that you can select for your right hand. You can also select, if you want, a different voice for your left hand. But there are literally hundreds of voices to choose from. Just because your keyboard looks like a piano, you don't have to select a piano. You could become a sax player, or a guitarist, or a fiddler. In time, you will become familiar with the host of voices available and will discover your favorites. But starting out, you don't have to worry about picking out appropriate voices. The PSR has already done that. Every time you select a style, the keyboard loads appropriate main/layer/left voices to go along with that style. In fact, there are four variations that can be used with that style. There are called up using the One-Touch Setting feature of the PSR. Let's see how that works.

Step 4 - Pick the 1st One-Touch Setting

On the right side of the keyboard, just to the left of the right-hand speakers, you will see four buttons labeled ONE TOUCH SETTING.  They are called "One-Touch Settings" because by pressing any one of these four buttons [1] ... [4], your entire keyboard will be setup with voices and tempo suited to the currently selected style.  Every one of the styles included in your PSR has four associated One-Touch settings.  Press that first OTS button and your keyboard is ready to go.

Take this opportunity to look again at the main screen.  On the right-hand side of the main screen, the first three boxes show you the Main, Layer, and Left-hand voices currently selected.  Try playing some notes with your right hand and you will hear the voices that are selected. Press the 2nd OTS button and you will see these values change.  Try out these voices by playing some notes with your right hand. Do the same for the 3rd OTS and the 4th OTS.  Every one of the OTS buttons has a different main voice and may have different layer voices as well.  The main and layer voices are taken from the available set of panel voices in the keyboard. 

A separate lesson will tell you all about the various panel voices and how to select them.  Right now, you can let the OTS buttons to your selecting for you.  By the way, a voice may be "selected" for the main or layer voice, but it is not necessarily turned ON.  Take a look at the three buttons to the right of the main screen that are labeled MAIN, LAYER and LEFT.  These are toggle buttons, that is, ON/OFF buttons.  Press the button to turn the voice ON; press it again to turn the voice OFF.  If the little light shown by each button is lit, the voice is ON.  The One Touch Settings may select a voice, but not necessarily have it turned on when you start playing.  If you play the keys and hear nothing, and the master volume is turned up, you might next check the voices to make sure they are turned ON.

Go back and try those 4 OTS settings again and notice whether the LAYER voice is ON or OFF with each setting. If it is OFF, see what the keyboard will sound like with it ON, that is, when you play the notes with your right hand, you will hear BOTH the MAIN and LAYER voice. You can also turn OFF the MAIN voice and just listen to the LAYER voice. Sometimes a LAYER voice may be designed to complement the MAIN voice and the OTS has then both on at the same time. In other cases, it may be that either the MAIN or LAYER would be appropriate and you would play each, but as a solo instrument rather than as a duet.