Yamaha Electone EL-500 Owner's Manual page 178

VOICES/RHYTHMS
Only one sound is heard when two notes of the
Lead or Pedal voices are simultaneously played.
The Pedal voices do not sound, even though the
volume is properly set.
The pitch may be felt high on the Pedalboard and
low in the higher registers of the Lower and Upper
keyboards.
Some of the voices may contain cracking and/or
noisy sounds.
Even though a Dotted button's rhythm has been
selected and started, the pattern does not sound.
EFFECTS
The Touch Tone function does not operate.
The Tremolo effect cannot be heard, even when
the TREMOLO (FAST) button in the DISPLAY
SELECT section is on.
The Reverb effect does not operate, even when
Reverb parameters for the selected voice sections
are increased.
ACCOMPANIMENT
The pitch in the Single Finger mode does not
change, even when pressing different keys of the
keyboard.
While an intro./Ending pattern is automatically
playing, the Lower keyboard does not produce any
sound, even when the keys are played.
The Accompaniment cannot be heard even when
an appropriate Accompaniment type is selected
and the rhythm has been started.
The harmony notes of the Melody On Chord
function cannot be heard.
REGISTRATION MEMORY
Certain functions have not been memorized to
Registration Memory.
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Problem Possible Cause and Solution
For practical performance reasons, the Electone has been designed so that one
note of the Lead or Pedal voices can be played at a time. If several keys are
pressed at once, only the highest note will be sounded (highest-note priority).
• The Single Finger or Fingered Chord mode of Auto Bass Chord is on. Turn
off the mode in the display. (page 65)
• TO LOWER buttons in the Pedal voice sections are turned on. Turn the
function off.
This may occur when you compare the Electone's sounds with the one of
pianos. Because of the difference of the harmonics structure, the tuning system
of the Electone is different from the piano's in the higher and lower ranges.
You may find these mainly in the wind instrument voices. These are purposely
added effects to the voices to reproduce the characteristics of the wind
instruments such as the pipe vibrations, breath noises and squeakings.
Since the Dotted buttons contain User rhythms, no rhythm will sound if a
pattern has not been saved to the selected Dotted button.
Adjust the Touch Tone settings in the Voice Condition display.
Tremolo must be selected first in the Voice Condition display (for panel voices),
or in the Flute Voices Volume page (for Flute Voices [EL-700]).
Increase the Reverb on the panel Reverb controls, or increase the Reverb Depth
in Reverb Page 1.
Single Finger mode will only produce notes when played within a fixed octave
interval on the Lower keyboard. If notes with the same letter name are pressed
outside of that range, the chords that are sounded will share the same pitch.
Since the Accompaniment chords play automatically one after another, the
Lower keyboard is designed not to produce any sound during the playback of
an Intro./Ending pattern.
The Accompaniment volume is set to 0 as the default. Be sure to raise the
Accompaniment volume on the rhythm condition page.
The Upper keyboard has been set to sound only Lead voices. Increase the
volume of the Upper Keyboard voices.
Transposition and Pitch control data, among others, cannot be memorized
(except as song data). (page 77)
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