Dear Mike: I have a PSR E 403, and it MAY BE SIMILAR to your unit. If so, your keyboard may have a FUNCTION Control, and activating it should access a selection of features, including Balance. If you increase/decrease that item through Keypad numbers, you should be able to set a happy medium between the left (Accompaniment) and the right (Melody) sides of your keyboard.
It may take trial & error to do the setting, but it's not difficult. Please do the favor of posting a follow-up message if my comments help. Other members will learn from your experience. Thank you, enjoy your keyboard and good luck.
Dec 01, 2009 Rating
Changing auto chord volume by: Mike
Dear Alfred
Thank you for your prompt reply. I do indeed have a function button, and on exploring it I've found it has a very large selection of choices and amendments to just about everything on the keyboard, including an option labelled Split Voice Volume which I guess is the one I need. Thank you for putting me on to it - I'll be trying it out as soon as I can, and I'll post again when I get to grips with it.
Best wishes
Mike
Dec 01, 2009 Rating
Function Button Yamaha PSR E323 by: Alfred
Dear Mike: I can tell from your kind reply that your unit has controls similar to at least some (if not all) of mine. Be careful as you explore the many features which the Function Button exposes. It's only by experimenting that you will get to know them. In addition to the Function Button, there may be a small button which automatically splits the keyboard for Left and Right hand play. The split is F# on a 61 key unit. Further, if you have Synch/Intro and End buttons you can get fancy and start and end your performances with nice flourishes. NOW THAT I'VE GIVEN YOU A SHORT LESSON, YOU OWE ME A PENNY!! Unfortunately Yamaha's Owner Manuals are unnecessarily difficult (Stupidly written) for any beginner. I'm still slogging my way through the myriad functions of my keyboard. Be sure to help me in my endeavours to share what little I know with our fellow members, through additional posts. Thanks,
Dec 02, 2009 Rating
Payment of outstanding tuition fee by: Mike
Dear Alfred
Thank you for the further assistance. Your very reasonable one penny fee is attached. I didn't have a penny so I've sent two pence. Perhaps you could give me credit for the extra penny against any future help you give me.
I've only had the keyboard for two weeks, never having played any instrument before. I feel a bit like a child learning to read - I can do it but only very slowly, too slowly to be interesting to anyone overhearing it. Still, I hope to speed up a bit with practice and try to persuade my left hand to stop trying to copy my right hand. At the moment it doesn't want to act independently!
Best wishes
Mike
Dec 02, 2009 Rating
PSR E 323 by: Alfred
Dear Mike; Don't be shy to count on my help, ANY TIME. I firmly believe the Forum is precisely for such assistance. Keep up the good work. It should soon pay off, and you will be opening the door to the wonderful world of music, especially pleasant because YOU will be creating it. In my case, while having played by ear for some time, I found the PSR E 403 Manual an abomination, and have been picking up its myriad features through notes based on "Trial & Error". Kep well.
