IBM PS1500 Stereo Amplifier User Manual


 
1•8 User Guide
SELECTING INSTRUMENT SOUNDS
PS1500 has almost 400 instrument Sounds, in-
cluding orchestral, percussion and contemporary
musical instruments. You can customize any
sound to your tastes with the built in sound edit
capabilities.
1. Press the GRAND PIANO button.
The display shows the GRAND PIANO PRE-
SET for a short period then returns to the de-
fault situation automatically with the EASY
PLAY, MEMORY and STYLE LOCK buttons
activated (LED on) and VARIATION 2 of Style
Soul BB from the POP group selected.
The GRAND PIANO button always returns
you to a single instrument sound (Piano 1)
playing across the full keyboard. You may
use the “Grand Piano” button as a ‘return to
start’ button whenever you wish to have only
one sound active across all 88 keys.
The Grand Piano Preset is discussed in de-
tail in chapter 4, “Sounds and Presets”.
2. Press a SOUND GROUPS button.
Select a Sound by pressing the Function but-
ton corresponding to the Sound name in the
display (Organ 2 in this example).
3. Play on the keyboard and listen to the Sound
The Sound plays across the full keyboard
Selecting instrument sounds
1
178 SoulBB *********** Bk1: SLOSTR
GPiano POP Bk1: SLOSTR Bk1: PIANO1
GRAND PIANO
* * GRAND PIANO PRESET * *
REED
PIANO MALLET
FLUTE
ORGAN
SYN LEAD
GUITAR
SYN PAD
BASS STRINGS
SYN SFX ETHNIC
ENSEMBLE
PERCUSSIVE
BRASS
SFX
SOUND GROUPS
2
Bk1 ORGAN2 CHURCH MUSETT BANDON
ORGAN1 ORGAN3 REEDOR HARMON
3
F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8
< -----------------------------Sound----------------------------- >