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You should note this serial number in the space provided below and retain this manual as a permanent record of your purchase to aid identification in the event of theft. Model No. Serial No. (bottom_en_01) PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Recalling Panel Settings from the Registration Memory..31 Song List ................ 76 Backup Parameters and Initialization Arpeggio List ..............77 Backup Parameters............32 Music Database List............78 Initialization ..............32 Effect Type List .............. 80 Specifications..............81 Index ................82 PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
This special feature lets you play Indian phrase patterns via the Tabla and Tan- pura sounds, as if you were using the Tabla machine and Tanpura machine. Let’s enjoy the conventional Indian music via the panel buttons and Knobs. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
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Yamaha service personnel. - When using Ni-MH batteries, follow the instructions that came with the batteries. Use only the specified charger device when charging.
• Copying of the commercially available musical data including but not limited to MIDI data and/or audio data is strictly prohibited except for your personal use. • This product incorporates and bundles computer programs and contents in which Yamaha owns copyrights or with respect to which it has license to use others' copyrights.
Devices. It allows “hot swapping” (connecting peripheral devices while the power to the computer is on). STYLE FILE The Style File Format is Yamaha’s original style file format which uses a unique conversion system to provide high-quality automatic accompaniment based on a wide range of chord types. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Includes instructions on connecting this instrument to a computer, and operations related to transferring song data. To obtain these manuals, access the Yamaha Manual Library, enter “PSR-I455” or “MIDI Basics” to the Model Name box, then click [SEARCH]. Yamaha Manual Library http://www.yamaha.co.jp/manual/ ...
[METRONOME] button......Page 18 ..........Page 25 o TEMPO section • When the [STYLE] lamp is turned on: [TAP] button ........Page 42 ......Pages 22, 40, and 41 [-] and [+] buttons ......Page 42 !0 [PORTABLE GRAND] button ....Page 16 PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
@1 [FUNCTION] button ......Page 48 * For connecting to a computer. For details, refer to “Computer- related Operations” (page 9). When connecting, use an AB type USB cable of less than 3 meters. USB 3.0 cables cannot be used. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Although the instrument will run either from an (display is blank, except for notation staff). optional AC adaptor or batteries, Yamaha recom- 2 Open the battery compartment cover located on the mends use of an AC adaptor whenever possible. An instrument’s bottom panel.
The speakers are automatically shut off when a plug is inserted into this jack. The PHONES/OUTPUT jack also functions as an external output. You can connect the PHONES/OUT- PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
NOTICE • Depending on the instrument status, the power may not turn off automatically, even after the elapse of the specified period of time. Always turn off the power manually when the instrument is not in use. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Indicates the chord which is being played on the key- Page 22 board (Page 22) or specified via Song playback. Track status Page 41 Indicates the on/off status of the current Song, Style or Tabla/Tanpura. (Pages 23, 28, 41) PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Used for Arpeggio performance (page 20). Press the [DUAL] button again to exit from Dual. Although turning on Dual will select a Dual Voice suitable for the current Main Voice, you can easily select a different Dual Voice (page 36). PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
You can easily select a different Split Voice (page 36). However, you need not select a Split Voice for one of the Main Voices 272–281. This is because these Voices already are set up to enable Split automatically and call up an appropriate Split Voice. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
“TimeSigN” (Time Signature Numera- tor). The number of beats per measure is shown on the Metronome volume display. Rotate the dial to set the Metronome Vol- TimeSigN ume. Hold for longer Number of beats than a second. per measure. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
You can adjust the Harmony Volume in the Function Settings (page 49). NOTE • The Harmony function cannot be used in the Tabla/Tanpura mode. Even if Harmony is turned on, pressing the [TABLA/ TANPURA] button will turn off the Harmony effect. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
• When the Pedal Function is set to “Arp Hold” or “Hold+Sus” (page 50), pressing the footswitch con- nected to the SUSTAIN jack will cause Arpeggio play- back continue even after the note is released. To turn off the Arpeggio, press the [ARPEGGIO] button again. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Registration Memory (page 31) before selecting a different Voice. NOTE • Rotating a Knob to the right while the volume is set to a high level may result in distortion. If this occurs, reduce the volume level. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Music Database. For a list of the Music Database ment range to start playback. List, see page 78. Play a melody with the right hand and chords with the left hand. Play the keyboard as described in Steps 4–5 above. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
At first, press any of the [TANPURA 1]–[TAN- PURA 4] buttons to add the Tanpura phrase. NOTE Next, press another Tanpura button to change • The Tabla/Tanpura performance cannot be recorded. the phrase. You can enjoy four phrase varia- PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
To stop playback, press the [DEMO/BGM] button. ForElise Current Song Press the [ ] (Start/Stop) button to start playback. To stop playback, press the [ ] (Start/Stop) button again. ForElise Each arrow mark flashes in time with the beat. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Start playback of the Song (page 24). When playback reaches to the point you want to specify as the start point, press the [ ] (A-B REPEAT) button to set the A point. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Lesson number from 1: LISTEN 2: TIMING 3: WAITING off 1…. Press this button until the desired number is shown on the display. TIMING The notation and key positions you should play are shown. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
[1]–[9] dur- Good, Very Good, or Excellent. “Excellent!” is the ing repeat playback. highest evaluation. After the evaluation display has appeared, the les- son will start again from the beginning. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
User Song (from 101–110) as Recording target. the [START/STOP] button. User 1 Flashes Flashes To exit from this status, press the [REC] button again. NOTE • The ACMP on/off status cannot be changed after the [REC] button is pressed. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
If you want to record only the Style play- back: Press the [STYLE] button, select the desired Style, then simultaneously hold down the [REC] button and press the [6/A] button. ACMP is automatically turned on. Press and hold User 1 PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
[-] button. Press the [+] button to clear the Song. Press the [+] button to clear the track. A clear-in-progress message will appear briefly on A clear-in-progress message will appear briefly on the display. the display. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Freeze mode param- eter to ON from Function display 060 (page 50). NOTE • For details about the parameters that can be memorized to Registration Memory, see the next page. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
“Computer-related Operations” (page 9). Other settings Transpose, Pitch Bend Range, Knob Effect Combination number, Split Point, Tempo, Pedal Function * Available only when a Style is selected. ** Available only when a Tabla is selected. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Main, Dual, and Split Voices individually via the same operations above. Regarding the the same operations above. Regarding the item in Step 2, refer to the Function List on item in Step 2, refer to the Function List on page 48. page 48. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Style or Song will call up the optimum panel set- tings matching the current Song or Style. Use the CATEGORY [+] and [-] buttons to call up “Tuning.” Tuning Use the dial to set the Tuning value. 440.0Hz PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
• “Boost” produces a more punchy sound but may pro- NOTE duce distortion depending on the Voice and Style, com- • The initial default Touch Sensitivity value is “2” . pared to the other Master EQ types. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
The Voice-related settings are reset when a differ- ent Voice is selected. If you want to store the cre- Strings ated sound for future recall, memorize the settings to the Registration Memory. Current Split Voice Rotate the dial to select the desired Split Voice. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Frequencies in this Frequencies in this range are passed. range are cut off. played). Turning the Knob to the right will increase the Attack Time, thus slowing down the attack rate. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
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(page 22). Set Knob B to about 3 o’clock, and Knob A to about 8 o’clock. The STYLE FILTER overall sound of the style should be a bit muffled, with the drums emphasized for solid rhythmic impact. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Arpeggio playback will continue. To stop Arpeg- “OFF,” “1/8” and “1/16.” gio playback, release the footswitch. • 1/8 Synchronizing at the quarter notes • 1/16 Synchronizing at the 8th notes • OFF No synchronization with Style or Song playback PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Appears when ACMP is turned on. niment range of the keyboard. To turn off the Syn- chro Start, press the [SYNC START] button. Press the [MAIN/AUTO FILL] button to select Main A or Main B. MAIN A Current Section PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Style playback will the keys stop when you release the keys On/off status is shown in the display (page 15) NOTE • Up to two Track buttons can be pressed simultaneously for turning Tracks on or off. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Style, Tabla/Tanpura or Song. You can change the tempo during playback by pressing the TEMPO [TAP] button just twice at the required tempo. NOTE • The above operation applies also to Song or Arpeggio playback tempo. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
036 (C1) and 096 (C6). Split Point (54: F#2) Main voice Split voice NOTE • The Split Point set here is applied common to the Style and Voice. • During the Lesson playback, the Split Point cannot be changed. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
2-1. Press the “G” key in the section to the right the display flashes. of “ROOT ” so that the “G” is shown as the root note. Dict. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Press the [DEMO] button to start play- All Songs (MIDI files) in the connected USB back. flash memory To stop playback, press the [DEMO] button again. Press the [DEMO] button to start play- back. To stop playback, press the [DEMO] button again. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Step 2. Song volume SONG MEL Rotate the dial to set the Song volume between 000 and 127. Hold for longer than NOTE a second. • Song volume can be adjusted while a Song is selected. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Determines how fast the volume of the Main Voice reaches the Attack M.Attack Attack Time 000–127 level when the note is pressed. The larger the value, the faster the attack rate. The smaller the value, the slower the attack rate. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
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Determines whether the instrument’s keyboard controls the inter- nal tone generator (ON) or not (OFF). When you record your key- Local Control Local ON/OFF board performance to the application software on the computer via MIDI, set this parameter to OFF. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
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Hold and Sustain functions are assigned to the footswitch. * The appropriate value is automatically set for each Voice combination. ** The appropriate value is automatically set for each Song, Style or Tabla/Tanpura. *** For details, refer to “Computer-related Operations” (page 9). PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
When a USB flash memory is connected, a message The instrument does not necessarily support all may appear prompting you to format the device. If commercially available USB devices. Yamaha can- so, execute the Format operation (page 53). not guarantee operation of USB devices that you NOTICE purchase.
If “UnFormat” followed by “Format?” appears: This indicates that the connected USB flash memory has not been formatted, and cannot be mounted or recognized. Execute the Format operation by following the instructions starting with Step 2 on page 53. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
• The Format operation cannot be cancelled during execution. Never turn off the power or disconnect the USB flash memory during the operation. Doing so may result in data loss. Press the [FILE CONTROL] button to exit from the File Control display. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
A confirmation message will appear. To cancel the operation, press the [-/NO] button. Overwriting existing files If a file that already contains data is selected as the target user file, an overwrite confirma- tion message will appear. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
User 1 Press the [0/EXECUTE] button again. As the target file name on the USB flash memory, “SONG***” (***: number 1–100) appears on the display. If desired, rotate the dial to select the dif- ferent file. SONG001 PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
After a while, a message indicating completion of the operation appears. NOTICE • The Load operation cannot be cancelled during exe- cution. Never turn off the power or disconnect the USB flash memory during the operation. Doing so may result in data loss. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Press the [0/EXECUTE] button. A name of a Style file in the USB flash memory or internal memory of this instrument will appear on the display. As desired, rotate the dial to select a different Style file. DiscoFox PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
USB flash memory during the operation. Doing so Press the [FILE CONTROL] button to exit may result in data loss. from the File Control display. Press the [FILE CONTROL] button to exit from the File Control display. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
Set protect to off and try again. Displayed when connecting an unformatted UnFormat media. USB flash memory save, delete, and format operations cannot be performed when the UseAdpt instrument is being powered from battery. Use an AC adaptor. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
The ACMP indicator does not appear on the display Check the on/off status of the [STYLE] lamp. When using a Style, when the [ACMP ON/OFF] button is pressed. press the [STYLE] button to turn on the [STYLE] lamp. PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
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Sweet! Pan Flute Electronic Kit Flute T8 Kit *163 Flute & Clarinet T9 Kit Piccolo Analog Kit Pan Flute Dance Kit Recorder Jazz Kit Ocarina Brush Kit SYNTH LEAD Symphony Kit RS Saw Lead 1 SFX Kit 1 PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
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Harmo Rain Square Lead 2 African Wind LM Square Carib Hollow Sound Track Shroud Prologue Mellow Ancestral Solo Sine Crystal Sine Lead Synth Drum Comp Sawtooth Lead Popcorn Sawtooth Lead 2 Tiny Bells Thick Sawtooth Round Glockenspiel PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
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• Selecting a Voice number with an asterisk (*) will turn on Dual. Agogo • Selecting a Voice number with an asterisk (**) will turn on Harmony. Steel Drums • These Voice numbers cannot be selected via MIDI messages from a Glass Percussion computer. Thai Bells Woodblock PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
G Tabla ti 02 Madal-C3 G Tabla ri G Tabla ri Madal-C#3 G Tabla kat G Tabla kat Madal-D3 G Tabla tu G Tabla tu Madal-D#3 Tabla ne / di (Velocity 1-47 / 48-127) Madal-E3 Madal-F3 Madal-F#3 Madal-G3 PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
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4 Thavil Slap 4 Thavil Mute 5 Khartaal 5 Dholak 2 Open 5 Dholak 2 Slide 5 Dholak 2 Rim 1 5 Dholak 2 Rim 2 5 Dholak 2 Ring 5 Dholak 2 Slap 5 Dholak 2 Body PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
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Timbale L Agogo H Agogo L Cabasa Maracas Samba Whistle H Samba Whistle L Guiro Short Guiro Long Claves Wood Block H Wood Block L Cuica Mute Cuica Open Triangle Mute Triangle Open Shaker Jingle Bells Bell Tree PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
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Snare Hip 1 Snare Piccolo Snare Hip 2 Snare T8 5 Snare Hip Gate Snare Rock Roll Distortion Snare Break 1 Snare Brush Mute Kick Blip Kick Blip Hard Snare FX 1 Snare Jungle 1 Kick FxHammer Kick Sustain PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
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Conga Analog M Conga Analog L Shower Laugh Thunder Scream Maracas 2 Wind Punch Stream Heartbeat Bubble Footeps Feed Claves 2 Scratch H 2 Scratch L 3 Machine Gun TurnTableNoise Horse Laser Gun Bird Tweet 2 Explosion Firework Maou PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
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BD Human Deep Reverse BD Human Deep Yun Luo G#5 Triangle Open Vox Buh! Reverse Vox Buh! Yun Luo A5 Shaker Vox Muh! Reverse Vox Muh! Yun Luo A#5 Jingle Bells Yun Luo B5 Bell Tree Yun Luo C6 PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
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Tablah Tak 3 Zhongluo Mute Tablah Tak 1 Muyu Mid-Low Tablah Tak 4 Zhongluo Open Tablah Tak 2 Muyu Middle Tablah Sak 2 Xiaoluo Open Tablah Tremolo Triangle Mute Tablah Sak 1 Triangle Open Tablah Dom 1 PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
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• Footswitch (FC4/FC5) * Specifications and descriptions in this owner’s manual are for information purposes only. Yamaha Corp. reserves the right to change or modify products or specifications at any time without prior notice. Since specifications, equipment or options may not be the same in every locale, please check with your Yamaha dealer.
Demo Song ........24 Preset Song ........47 Disk Ful ........59 Protect .......... 59 Display ......... 15 Drum Kit List ....... 67 Keyboard Out .......50 Dual Voice ......16, 36, 49 Knob ........21, 37 Knob assignment ......15 PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
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Tabla/Tanpura Pattern List ..75 Tanpura ........23, 37 Tap Start ........42 Tempo ........18, 42 Time Signature ....... 18, 50 Timing .......... 26 Touch Sensitivity ....35, 48 Track ..........28 TRACK CONTROL ....41 PSR-I455 Owner’s Manual...
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