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Yamaha PDP-300 Owner's Manual

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  • Page 2: Special Message Section

    SPECIFICATIONS SUBJECT TO CHANGE: The in- formation contained in this manual is believed to be cor- rect at the time of printing. However, Yamaha reserves the right to change or modify any of the specifications without notice or obligation to update existing units.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    If these corrective measures do not produce satisfactory results, please contact the local retailer authorized to distribute this type of product. If you can not locate the appropriate retailer, please contact Yamaha Corporation of America, Elec- tronic Service Division, 6600 Orangethorpe Ave, Buena Park, CA90620 The above statements apply ONLY to those products distributed by Yamaha Corporation of America or its subsidiaries.

  • Page 4: Keyboard Stand Assembly

    Main unit Center panel Pedal box Side panels Base boards • Long screws (gold) x 4 • Short large-head screws (black) x 4 • Long screws (black) x 4 • Short screws (black) x 4 • Joint connectors x 4 •...
  • Page 5 • Short screws (black) • Cord holders Attach the side panels (D) to the pedal box (C). Place the pedal box on top of the brackets attached to the side panels (D), and attach using the four short large- head black-colored screws. Attach the center panel (B) to the side panels (D).

  • Page 6: The Controls And Connectors

    The LED indicator above the voice selector will light to indicate which voice is currently se- lected. The PDP-300 also has a DUAL mode in which two voices can be played simultaneously across the full range of the keyboard — see page 7 for details.

  • Page 7: Damper Pedal

    OPTIONAL IN L/R and OUT L/R Jacks The Optional Out jacks can be used to deliver the output of the PDP-300 to an external keyboard ampli- fier or stereo sound system. On the contrary, the Op- tional In jacks can be used to reproduce the output of another instrument such as cassette tape recorder through the PDP-300’s built in speaker.

  • Page 8: Listen To The Demonstration

    Pressing the C7 key more than twice in the PDP-300 causes all the demo tunes to be played in se- quence and repeated until the demonstration is stopped by pressing the [MIDI/TRANSPOSE] button again.

  • Page 9: Dual Mode

    A hundred “cents” equals one semitone, so the tun- ing range provided allows fine tuning of overall pitch over a range of approximately a semitone. Pitch control is useful for tuning the PDP-300 to match that of other instruments or recorded music. Tuning Up 1.

  • Page 10: Midi Functions

    (specified by the MIDI velocity value). Note and velocity data is transmit- ted by the PDP-300 whenever a key is pressed, and the PDP-300’s internal AWM tone generator will “play” the corresponding note(s) whenever note and velocity data is received from an external MIDI device.
  • Page 11 Local control can be turned OFF, however, so that the PDP-300 keyboard does not play the internal voices, but the appropriate MIDI information is still transmitted via the MIDI OUT connector when notes are played on the keyboard.
  • Page 12 The Split & Left Local OFF Mode In the split mode one section of the PDP-300 keyboard is used to play a PDP-300 voice in the normal way, while the remaining section is used to play a second MIDI key- board or tone generator.

  • Page 13: Midi Data Format

    If you’re already very familiar with MIDI, or are using a computer to control your music hardware with com- puter-generated MIDI messages, the data provided in this section can help you to control the PDP-300. 1. NOTE ON/OFF Data format: [9xH] -> [kk] -> [vv]...

  • Page 15: Troubleshooting

    5. Distorted Sound When the PDP-300 is Connected to An External Amplifier/Speaker System If the PDP-300 is connected to a stereo system or in- strument amplifier and the sound is distorted, reduce the setting of the PDP-300 volume control to a level at which the distortion ceases.

  • Page 16: Important Safety Instructions

    Do NOT connect this type of product to any power supply or adapter other than one described in the owners manual, on the name plate, or specifically recommended by Yamaha. WARNING: Do not place this product or any other ob-...
  • Page 17  M.D.G., EMI Division Yamaha Corporation 1993...

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