Quick Guide; Try Playing A Variety Of Instrument Voices; Selecting A Main Voice; Playing The "Grand Piano - Yamaha PSR-I455 Owner's Manual

Try Playing a Variety of Instrument Voices

Quick Guide

In addition to piano, organ, and other "standard" keyboard instruments, this instru-
ment has a large range of voices that includes guitar, 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.
2
Use the dial to select the desired Voice.
3
Play the keyboard.
Preset Voice Types
001–019
Used for Indian music performance.
(Indian Voices)
020–220 Instrument Voices.
Various drum and percussion sounds are
221–241 assigned to individual keys. Details on assign-
(Drum Kit) ing instruments to keys are provided in the
Drum Kit List (page 67).
242–287 Used for Arpeggio performance (page 20).
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Voice name
Harmnum1
001
Voice number
Appears after the [VOICE]
button is pressed.
Shehnai
004
Select 004 Shehnai

Playing the "Grand Piano"

When you want to reset various settings to default and
simply play a Piano sound, press the [PORTABLE
GRAND] button.
The Voice number is set to 020 Grand Piano and all
the settings such as Dual and Split are turned off auto-
matically, with exception of the Touch Sensitivity
(page 35).

Layering a Dual Voice

In addition to the Main Voice, you can layer a differ-
ent Voice over the entire keyboard as a "Dual Voice."
1
Press the [DUAL] button to turn Dual on.
2
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).
Shehnai
004
Appears when
dual voice is on
Two voices will
sound at the
same time.