With the PSR-E series, with auto-accompaniment on, if you try to play a left hand counterpoint or bass line, the auto-accompaniment will interpret each individual note that you play as a single-finger chord and keep changing the accompaniment chord with each note.
Just a basic question noticed on SciNote's post..Have been using piano only for awhile but i am re discovering the E433 .I have been settiing up dual voices and turning on Auto-Acc and played whatever .My only frustration is the lack of response from my left hand chords that i play,i hear a suttle change but next to nothing compared to the right....RH melody fine.I know i can adjust up the volume of the Dual voice but that will adjust the whole keyboard and not solve my problem
My question in regards to comment i have pasted...with Auto-Acc is it pointless playing full chords?
Is it possible to be able to hear LH chords more 'distinctly' with Auto-Acc on.
Hope this makes sense??
I'm not sure of what you mean by "lack of response" from your left hand chords. However, if you have auto-accompaniment switched on, and split voice switched off, then the auto-accompaniment will simply play a pre-programmed background based on whatever chord you're playing -- or more precisely, whatever chord the keyboard interprets by the notes you are playing -- with your left hand in the auto-accompaniment part of the keyboard. And, it will just play the pre-programmed background, no matter how many times or in what rhythm you play your left hand chord. So, for example, you can play a "C" chord with your left hand and hold it down, and the keyboard will play its pre-programmed background. And then, you can try to hit that "C" chord over and over in rhythm, and it won't make a difference -- the auto-accompaniment will sound the same until you change the actual chord you play (or, of course, go to a different A/B part of the style or change styles).
However, if you turn on the split voice, along with the auto-accompaniment voice, then your selected split voice WILL play each time you hit the chord with your left hand, while the pre-preprogrammed auto-accompaniment will continue to play constantly, like before. And not only that, but if you use single-finger/easy-play chords, not only will the auto-accompaniment play the background on the expected chord, but the split voice will also play the same whole chord, and it will sound with each press of the keys you are using to get the chord you're playing.
So now, with auto-accompaniment switched on, the notes that you play in the left-hand section become quite important, because that is how the keyboard determines whether you want a single-finger/easy-play chord, or whether you are playing an actual, multi-note chord. This is what I meant above when I said the keyboard plays a background based on whatever it interprets by the notes you are playing. Essentially, if you just play a single note, then the keyboard interprets it as that note's major chord. If you play a note and also play the closest black key right below that note, then you get that highest note's minor chord. If you play a note and also play the closest white key right below that note, then you get that highest note's 7th chord. And, if you play a note and also play the closest black and white keys right below that note (playing a total of 3 keys), you get the original note's (or the highest note's) minor-7th chord. And, like I said, if split voice is turned on with the auto-accompaniment, and you play these easy-play combinations, then the keyboard will play the same easy-play chord with the split voice, each time you hit those notes, along with the auto-accompaniment.
With auto-accompaniment on, if you play any other combination of notes with your left hand, then the keyboard will try to determine what chord you're playing and give you an accompaniment based on that chord. And, as mentioned, with the split voice turned on, you can play that chord in rhythm and hear that chord/rhythm with the split voice, while the auto-accompaniment does its thing. If you play a combination of note that is not an easy-play combination and that the keyboard does not recognize as a valid chord, then it appears that you get no background except the drums and the bass of the lowest note you're playing.
So, it sounds to me, if you want to use the auto-accompaniment, that you want to turn on the split voice, and then choose a voice and set its volume and octave so that it will be noticeable along with the pre-programmed auto-accompaniment. You'll probably want to put the split-voice in a higher octave so that it doesn't sound all "muddled." And, as I mentioned in the statement you quoted from me in my above post, you can only do this with chords. You cannot play a manual bass line or counter-point with your left hand while the auto-accompaniment is on, otherwise, the keyboard will interpret each left-hand note as a single-finger/easy-play major chord based on the easy-play rules I wrote above.