Main Operations; Selecting & Playing Voices; Selecting Voices; Listening To The Voice Demo Songs - Yamaha P-255 Owner's Manual

Main Operations

Selecting & Playing Voices

Selecting Voices

Using the following procedure, you can select the
instrument sound (such as piano or organ) to use when
playing the keyboard.
1
Press a Voice button to select a Voice
from the corresponding category.
You can cycle through the category's Voices by
pressing the button multiple times. Refer to the
Voice List (page 51) for details of the Voices
included.
NOTE
• When you press a Voice button, the most-recently selected Voice will be
shown on the display.
• Although your digital piano can adjust the loudness of Voices based on the
strength of your playing, certain Voices do not support this Touch Sensitiv-
ity feature. Refer to the Voice List (page 51) for details.
2
Play the keyboard to hear how the
selected Voice sounds.

Listening to the Voice demo songs

A number of demo songs have been prepared so that
you can conveniently familiarize yourself with the
sound of each Voice, and these songs can be played as
described below. Refer to the Voice Demo Song list
for the names of the individual demo songs.
Voice Demo Song list
Voice Voice
Display
button Name
Ballad Intermezzo, 6 Stücke,
GP3
[PIANO]
Grand op.118-2
Pipe
Herr Christ, der ein'ge
or3
Organ
Gottes-Sohn, BWV.601
Principal
[ORGAN]
Pipe
or4
Organ Triosonate Nr.6, BWV.530
Tutti
Concerto a cembalo
Harpsi-
CL1
obbligato, 2 violini, viola e
chord 8'
continuo No.7, BWV.1058
[CLV./
VIB.]
Harpsi-
Gigue, Französische
CL2
chord
Suiten Nr.5, BWV.816
8'+4'
• The demonstration Songs listed above are short rearranged excerpts of the
original compositions.
• All other Songs are Yamaha originals (© 2013 Yamaha Corporation)
1
Press the [DEMO] button to start play-
back.
The Grand Piano demo song will start to play, and
all demo songs will continue to play in sequence
until you stop playback. If necessary, you can
press a Voice button during playback to skip to the
corresponding demo song.
2
Press the [PLAY/STOP] button or the
[DEMO] button to stop playback.
NOTE
• Demo songs cannot be played during recording (page 25) or file opera-
tions (page 30).
NOTE
• The digital piano does not transmit MIDI data when demo songs are play-
ing. In addition, MIDI data will not be received at this time.
NOTE
• The tempo of demo songs cannot be changed; in addition, the Part Cancel
function (page 23) and the A-B Repeat function (page 23) cannot be used
with these songs.
Com-
Title
poser
J.
Brahms
J. S.
Bach
J. S.
Bach
J. S.
Bach
J. S.
Bach
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