Selecting and Playing a Tone
E-18
The transpose feature lets you raise or lower the overall 
tuning of the keyboard in semitone steps. You can use this 
feature to adjust keyboard tuning to a key that better matches 
a 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 to 
change the setting value.
• You can change the tuning of the keyboard within the 
range 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 the 
B indicator to appear on the display.
• The current transpose setting is applied to the notes of all 
parts (UPPER 1, UPPER 2, LOWER, Auto Accompaniment, 
etc.) played on the keyboard. The MIDI out note number 
when a keyboard key is pressed is also shifted in 
accordance with the transpose setting.
You can use octave shift to individually change the octave of 
the UPPER 1, UPPER 2, and LOWER parts. You can use 
octave shift to raise or lower the octave of a song, to assign 
different octaves to the left side and right side keyboards while 
the keyboard is split, or to play two notes in different octaves 
while the keyboard is layered.
1.
Hold down the R-20 (OCTAVE) button until the 
octave shift screen shown below appears on 
the display.
• This indicates you can change the UPPER 1 part 
octave.
2.
Use the dial or R-14 (–, +) buttons to specify the 
octave 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 the 
UPPER 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 part 
octave. Perform the same operation as in step 3 to 
specify the octave shift amount.
4.
If you want to change the octave of the LOWER 
part, 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 3 to specify the 
octave shift amount.
5.
Press the R-20 (OCTAVE) button or the R-15 
(EXIT) button.
• This exits the octave shift screen.
Raising and Lowering Keyboard 
Tuning (Transpose)
Using Octave Shift
Part name
Octave shift amount (Octave unit)