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Chapter 2. Playing

■ Playing Percussion Instruments

1. Press [RHYTHM] to call up the RHYTHM PLAY display.

2. Select a desired Rhythm Set.

3. Press a key on the keyboard to play a percussion

instrument.

The key (Note name) you press and its percussion

instrument name (Rhythm Tone name, the same as the Wave

it uses) will be displayed below the Rhythm Set name.

fig.2-15.e

You can also use the TONE SELECT buttons to select the

displayed key.

[TONE SELECT 1]: move to an octave lower key

[TONE SELECT 2]: move to the semitone below

[TONE SELECT 3]: move to the semitone above

[TONE SELECT 4]: move to an octave higher key

* When you want to play the percussive instrument sound

assigned to the B1 key, first push [-OCT] once, then press the

B2 key. Similarly, push [+OCT] once then press the C#6 or D6

key to play the percussive instrument sound assigned to the C#7

or D7 key. (On the XP-30, the leftmost white key is C2, and

rightmost white key is C7.)

For details, refer to “Transposing the Keyboard in Octave

Units (Octave Shift)” (p. 59).

Playing an Arpeggio

The XP-30’s Arpeggiator lets you produce an arpeggio

(broken chord) simply by playing a chord. In addition to

normal arpeggios, you can also accurately simulate guitar

cutting or strumming techniques depending on the

Arpeggiator settings. The Arpeggiator can in fact be used as

a handy automatic arranger.

By pressing [ARPEGGIO], the indicator lights and allows

playing arpeggios from the XP-30 keyboard.

* If you press [ARPEGGIO] to turn this function on when Single

Performance is selected, the current Part will play arpeggios.

When a Layer Performance is selected, an arpeggio will sound

for the Part specified by the Part parameter (SYSTEM/

ARPEGGIO/ARPEGGIO).

* The arpeggios played by the arpeggiator are also transmitted

from the MIDI OUT connector to external MIDI devices.

1. Make sure that the PLAY display of the sound source

mode (PERFORM, PATCH, RHYTHM, GM) is

displayed.

2. Press [ARPEGGIO] to turn the Arpeggiator on.

3. If you wish to change how the arpeggio is played, hold

down [ARPEGGIO] to access the ARP SELECT display,

move the cursor to the Style parameter, and change the

setting.

fig.2-16

* The selection you make here will also affect the Style parameter

(SYSTEM/ARPEGGIO/ARPEGGIO) settings.

There are 43 arpeggio styles available. For selection, refer to

the following guideline.

Playing an Arpeggio According to the Timing

Interval of a Note

1/4–1/32

Playing a Glissando

GLISSANDO

Playing a Bass Part

SYNTH BASS, SLAP BASS A, SLAP BASS B, WALK BASS

Playing a Guitar

RHYTHM GTR A, RHYTHM GTR B, RHYTHM GTR C,

RHYTHM GTR D, RHYTHM GTR E, 3FINGER GTR,

STRUMMING GTR

Playing a Keyboard Instrument

KBD COMPING A, KBD COMPING B

Playing a Waltz

KBD COMPING C, KBD COMPING D

Note name Rhythm Tone name

1 2 ... 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 ... 215 216

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