Yamaha P-515 Owner's Manual page 42

Playing Various Musical Instrument Sounds (Voices)
Setting the metronome time signature
1.
Press the [FUNCTION] button repeatedly to call up the
"Metronome/Rhythm" menu display. Select the "Time
Sig.", and then press the [>] button.
"Metronome/Rhythm"
menu display
2.
Use the [
u
signature.
Setting range: 2/2, 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 3/8, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8, 12/8
Default setting: 4/4 (Selecting a MIDI Song will change the tempo value to
Tempo indication and Setting range
When pressing the [TEMPO] button, the tempo is displayed as "note
type=xxx" (For example: =120). Selecting the Time Signature changes
the available parameters as follows.
Note type
Half note
Quarter note
Dotted quarter note
Eighth note
* When the tempo value of the selected MIDI Song is outside the setting range on the instrument,
the value will be changed to fit within the setting range.
* Note type will be fixed to quarter note as long as the "BPM" parameter in the "Metronome/Rhythm"
menu display is set to "Crotchet" regardless of the Time Signature you set.
3.
Turn the "Bell" setting on.
For details, refer to "Bell" in the "Metronome/Rhythm" menu (page 96).
The Metronome plays back according to the selected Time Signature with
the Bell sound on the first beat of each measure.
4.
Press the [EXIT] button to exit from the "Metronome/
Rhythm" menu display.
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Time Signature display
]/[ ] buttons to select the desired time
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that specified in the selected MIDI Song data.)
Time Signature
2/2
1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4,6/4, 7/4
6/8, 9/8, 12/8
3/8, 7/8
Time Signature
Setting range
3 – 250
5 – 500
4 – 332 (even numbers only)
10 – 998 (even numbers only)
and 999
Note type
The length of one beat
Metronome detailed
settings
You can set the metronome
volume, BPM and so on from
the "Metronome/Rhythm" menu
display (page 96).