Playing a chord while pressing only one key

[lume]

Hey,

 

I was wondering if you can programm different chords to any key on the Privia-PX5s.
e.g while playing a complex melody with the right hand and complex chords with the left, which are too „big“ for one hand. So it would be very helpful to just push one note and get the full chord.

 

Thank you for your help

[Brad Saucier]

You could record a phrase that you can trigger from a key.  The arpeggiator can be switched to a phrase player and the phrase can transpose depending on which key you press.  

[lume]

So if I understand that right, you only can save one chord, which transposes with the key you press. So you can‘t save different chords to different keys?

[Brad Saucier]

You have 4 zones to work with.  If you only need 1 zone for your right hand part, you could use the other 3 for 3 different phrases, each one could be a different chord.

[lume]

Ok, thank you. I‘ll try my best

[Tom Williams]

One generation of 1970s home organs did that: Octave C1-B2 was Major, C2-B3 was minor.  You could also rig it so the sostenuto pedal switches chords.

[- T -]

I think, maybe, the original poster here had in mind the " single finger chord" mode of the arranger keyboards (CTK/WK/CT-X/etc).

 

[Brad Saucier]

@lume  Another option is something I did a while back.  You can use hex layer tones to create 1 key chords.  Each layer in a hex layer tone can be course tuned to make whatever chord you want, up to 6 notes of course.  This is a stage setting I created using that technique....

 

[lume]

Thanks for the help. I used the Phrase Seq and it works good. 👍🏼