Try Playing A Variety Of Instrument Voices; Selecting A Main Voice; Resetting The Voice Settings To Default (Playing The Harmonium Voice); Playing The Grand Piano Voice - Yamaha PSR-I500 Owner's Manual

Try Playing a Variety of Instrument Voices

In addition to piano, organ, and other "standard" keyboard instruments, this instrument
has a large range of Voices that includes traditional oriental instruments, as well as gui-
tar, bass, strings, sax, trumpet, drums and percussion, and even sound effects—giving
you a wide variety of musical sounds.

Selecting a Main Voice

1
Press the [VOICE] button.
The Voice number and name will be shown.
For a list of available Voices, refer to the Voice
List in the separate Data List.
2
Use the dial to select the desired Voice.
3
Play the keyboard.
Preset Voice Types
001–267 Instrument Voices.
Various drum/percussion or SFX sounds are
268–289 assigned to individual keys. Details on assigning
(Drum/SFX Kit) instruments to keys are provided in the Drum/
SFX Kit List of the separate Data List.
290–339 Used for Arpeggio performance (page 21).
340–801 XGlite Voices.
802 Sample Voice.
Selecting this automatically calls up the most
suitable Voice and panel setups for the current
000
Style, Song or Riyaz. This function is called OTS
(page 51).
Voice name
Harmnum1
001
Voice number
Shehnai1
004
Select 004 Shehnai
Resetting the Voice settings to
Default (Playing the Harmonium
Voice)
To reset various settings to their default values, press
the [HARMONIUM/PIANO] button.
Voice 001 "Harmnum1" will automatically be selected
as the Main Voice.
NOTE
• If Voice 001 "Harmnum1" has already been selected,
pressing the button selects Voice 041 "Grand Piano. " In
this case, press the button once more.

Playing the Grand Piano Voice

To quickly and easily call up a piano sound for simple
piano playing, press the [HARMONIUM/PIANO] but-
ton, repeatedly if necessary, until Voice 041 "Grand
Piano" is shown in the display.
This selects Voice 041 "Grand Piano" as the Main
Voice.

Layering a Dual Voice

In addition to the Main Voice, you can layer a sec-
ond, different Voice over the entire keyboard as a
"Dual Voice."
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Voice name
Harmnum1
001
Voice number
Voice name
GrandPno
041
Voice number
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