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Technics KN7000 · Rhythms and stylesSet the sounds and tempo for a style (One Touch Play)

From the manual Not yet tested on a KN7000.Also called: one touch, one touch setting, style settings, suggested sounds, style tempo, automatic panel settings.

One Touch Play

A style is the keyboard’s backing band: drums, bass and accompaniment. The manual calls a style a rhythm. Source: Manual, p. 49

Holding ONE TOUCH PLAY sets the panel up for the chosen style: the sounds and effects, the volume balance and the tempo suggested for it. Source: Manual, p. 61

It also turns on Auto Play Chord and SYNCHRO & BREAK. Auto Play Chord makes the band play in the chord given by the left hand. SYNCHRO & BREAK makes the style wait and start on the first chord. Source: Manual, pp. 51, 53, 61

With MUSIC STYLE ARRANGER off, choosing a style on its own keeps the tempo already set. ONE TOUCH PLAY changes it to the style’s own tempo, and turns on SYNCHRO & BREAK. Source: Tested on a KN7000

The KN7000 panel, above the keysVOLUMEAUTOPLAYCHORDRHYTHM GROUPPERFORMANCEPADSVARIATIONONE TOUCHPLAYFILL ININTRO & ENDINGSTART/STOPSOUND GROUPPART &GLOBALEFFECTSEQDISKSDTEMPO/PROGRAMTRANSPOSEPARTSELECTPANELMEMORYCUSTOMPANELPOWERSD CARD SLOT AND PLAYERDISPLAY
Where the ONE TOUCH PLAY button is. Drawn from a KN7000.

Setting up a style

The buttons for variations, fills, intros, endings and START/STOPMUSIC STYLEARRANGERONE TOUCHPLAY3SPLITPOINTVARIATION1234FADEINOUTTAPTEMPOSYNCHRO& BREAKFILL IN12SEQUENCERRESETCOUNTINTROINTRO & ENDING12START/STOPBEAT
The ONE TOUCH PLAY button. The yellow number matches the steps. Drawn from a KN7000.
  1. Choose a style: press one of the RHYTHM GROUP buttons, such as BALLAD, then choose the style from the list on the screen.
    • Not a style from the MEMORY group, which holds styles made in the Composer, the keyboard’s style editor.
  2. To choose how chords are read, press the AUTO PLAY CHORD OFF/ON button to turn it on, press MODE, and choose BASIC, FINGERED or PIANIST.
  3. Hold ONE TOUCH PLAY for a few seconds. The screen shows the style’s name while it sets up.
  4. Play a chord with the left hand, left of the split point. The style starts at once. Play the melody with the right hand.
  5. To finish, press INTRO & ENDING 1 or INTRO & ENDING 2. An ending plays, then the style stops.
    • START/STOP stops it at once instead.

Source: Manual, pp. 20–21, 50, 61

After One Touch Play

Panel memories

The manual counts One Touch Play as an automatic panel setting, and warns that automatic settings can overwrite panel memory data. It doesn’t say which memories. Source: Manual, pp. 20, 23

For one set-up that must stay as it is, the manual suggests CUSTOM PANEL. Press SET and CUSTOM PANEL together to store the set-up, and turn CUSTOM PANEL on to recall it. Source: Manual, p. 23

MUSIC STYLIST sets up the sounds, effects, style and tempo together, chosen by type of music or by tune rather than by style. Source: Manual, pp. 61–63

Manual pages

KN7000 owner's manual, pp. 20–21, 61.

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Guide R11 · last checked 13 Nov 2026