What is the meaning of Chord as used in the PSRs?
There are many uses of the word Chord: 1) This can be some notes that are in a midi that form a chord (e.g. C-E-G) 2) It can refer to a Yamaha Chord Event. These are placed in a midi, in addition to the notes themselves, when you do a Quick Record. You can also add these events using PSRUTI and XGWorks. These events, which only Yamaha instruments understand, can be used to control vocal harmony, trigger the accompaniment, etc. 3) It is the word used to name two of the channels in a style: i.e. Chord 1[ch 12] and Chord 2[ch 13]). At some point the instruments began to refer to data on midi channel 12 as the style part Chord 1. In fact, you could put anything on channel 12 but no one usually does because a bass line etc would just confuse the matter even more. Chord 1 & 2 have nothing to do with chords that you record, or Chord Events. They are simply the names Yamaha gives to midi channels used for styles. 4) Song Creator allows the user to enter chords in two ways: as midi notes (i.e.
