Specifications
Quick Guide
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TYROS Owner’s Manual
Reference on page 88
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Song Playback
Playback of Song Disks
1 Insert the disk containing MIDI song 
data into the disk drive. 
2 Press any of the SONG buttons to call up the song selection dis-
play. 
3 Select a song on the floppy disk.
Selecting a song is done in the same way as selecting a voice or style.
4 Press the SONG CONTROL [START/STOP] button to start the 
selected song.
5 Press the SONG CONTROL [START/STOP] button again to stop the 
song.
■ Viewing Song Lyrics and Score
● When the song data contains lyric data, you can view it by using the [Lyrics] LCD 
button on the Main display................................................................................................... Page 46
● You can also view the song score (notation) by using the [Score] LCD button 
on the Main display.............................................................................................................. Page 49
You can play MIDI song data directly from the 
TYROS. This includes not only the preset demo 
songs, but also commercially available song data 
on floppy disk, as well as songs you’ve created with 
the Song Recording function (page 54) or Song Cre-
ator function (page 94). (For information on com-
patible song data, see page 8.)
• Make sure to read the section 
“Using the Floppy Disk Drive 
(FDD) and Floppy Disks” on 
page 6.
SONG
BACK NEXT
If necessary, use 
the [BACK]/[NEXT] 
buttons to call up 
the FD (Floppy 
Disk) page. 
• The song selection display shown 
here is called the “Open/Save” 
display for the song. The Open/
Save display actually has two dif-
ferent display modes: 1) a direct 
selection display (shown at left), 
and 2) a numeric input display that 
lets you select the voice by input-
ting the song number. For details, 
see page 71. 
SP1 SP2 SP3
START/
STOP
SYNC START
NEW SONG
SP4
REC TOP REW FF
LOOP
SONG CONTROL
These buttons let you use markers in the song 
data — for easy navigation, and for setting up 
playback loops.
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Moves forward one measure when pressed 
briefly, or scrolls forward continuously (fast for-
ward) when held.
Press this button to call up the SONG POSI-
TION pop-up window on the LCD display. 
Moves back one measure when pressed 
briefly, or scrolls backward continuously (fast 
reverse) when held. 
Press this button to call up the SONG POSI-
TION pop-up window on the LCD display. 
This button lets you record your keyboard per-
formance as a song MIDI song data. 
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During playback, you can have the song 
return to the top and play back again from the 
beginning by pressing this button. When play-
back is stopped, pressing this button returns 
the song to the beginning.










