Selecting and Playing a ToneE-18The transpose feature lets you raise or lower the overalltuning of the keyboard in semitone steps. You can use thisfeature to adjust keyboard tuning to a key that better matchesa vocalist, another musical instrument, etc.1. While holding down the R-13 (FUNCTION)button, press one of the R-14 (–, +) buttons.• This displays the transpose screen shown below.2. While holding down the R-13 (FUNCTION)button, use the dial or the R-14 (–, +) buttons tochange the setting value.• You can change the tuning of the keyboard within therange of –12 to 00 to +12.3. Press the R-13 (FUNCTION) button.• This exits the transpose screen.• Setting a transposed value other than 00 will cause theB indicator to appear on the display.• The current transpose setting is applied to the notes of allparts (UPPER 1, UPPER 2 , LOWER, Auto Accompaniment,etc.) played on the keyboard. The MIDI out note numberwhen a keyboard key is pressed is also shifted inaccordance with the transpose setting.You can use octave shift to individually change the octave ofthe UPPER 1, UPPER 2, and LOWER parts. You can useoctave shift to raise or lower the octave of a song, to assigndifferent octaves to the left side and right side keyboards whilethe keyboard is split, or to play two notes in different octaveswhile the keyboard is layered.1. Hold down the R-20 (OCTAVE) button until theoctave shift screen shown below appears onthe display.• This indicates you can change the UPPER 1 partoctave.2. Use the dial or R-14 (–, +) buttons to specify theoctave shift amount.• You can shift the octave within the range of –2 to 0 to+2.3. If you want to change the octave of theUPPER 2 part, press the R-20 (OCTAVE) button.• This will cause “UPPER 2” to appear on the display,indicating that you can change the UPPER 2 partoctave. Perform the same operation as in step 2 tospecify the octave shift amount.4. If you want to change the octave of the LOWERpart, press the R-20 (OCTAVE) button.• This will cause “LOWER” to appear on the display,indicating that you can change the LOWER part octave.Perform the same operation as in step 2 to specify theoctave shift amount.5. Press the R-20 (OCTAVE) button or the R-15(EXIT) button.• This exits the octave shift screen.Raising and Lowering KeyboardTuning (Transpose)Using Octave ShiftPart nameOctave shift amount (Octave unit)