Yamaha YDP-184 YDP-184 Owners Manual - Page 19

Using the Pedals This instrument is equipped with three foot pedals: damper pedal (right), sostenuto pedal (center), and soft pedal (left). Getting Started - Playing the Piano Damper pedal (right pedal) When you press the damper pedal, the notes you play have a longer sustain. When you select a Voice in the Piano group, pressing the damper pedal activates the VRM (page 25) to accurately recreate the unique resonance of an acoustic grand piano's soundboard and strings. When you press the damper pedal here, the notes you play before you release the pedal have a longer sustain. Half-pedal function This instrument also has a Half-pedal function which allows you to use half-damper techniques, in which the damper is pressed somewhere between all the way down and all the way up. In this half-damper state (on a real piano), the damper felts only partially mute the strings. The Half-pedal function on the instrument lets you delicately and expressively control the damper muting, and create subtle nuances in your performance, by finely controlling the point at which pressure on the pedal affects the damper muting. This can be set via the "System" menu display: Press the [FUNCTION] button repeatedly to call up the "System" menu display: "Pedal"  "Half Pedal Point" (page 88). NOTE Voices in the Piano group are those contained in the "Piano" category in the Preset Voice List (page 94). For details about selecting Voices, refer to page 22. NOTE You can assign other functions to each pedal by using "Pedal Assign" in "Voice" menu display (page 80). Sostenuto pedal (center pedal) If you play a note or chord on the keyboard and press the sostenuto pedal while holding the note(s), the notes will sustain as long as the pedal is held. All subsequent notes will not sustain. Soft pedal (left pedal) When you press the sostenuto pedal here while holding the note(s), the notes will sustain as long as you hold the pedal. The soft pedal reduces the volume and slightly changes the timbre of notes played while the pedal is pressed. The soft pedal will not affect notes that are already playing when it is pressed. In order to apply this effect, play notes after pressing the pedal. Keep in mind that this pedal function will be changed from the Soft pedal depending on the selected Voice. When the "Mellow Organ" is selected, pressing and releasing this pedal switches between "fast" and "slow" of the Rotary Speaker speed ("Rotary Speed" on page 79). When the Vibraphone is selected, this pedal switches Vibrato on and off ("VibeRotor" on page 79). NOTE While the sostenuto (center) pedal is held, a sustained (nondecaying) type of Voice such as strings or organ may sound continuously without decay after the notes have been released. NOTE The center pedal or left pedal can also be used as a [3/,] (Play/Pause) button. You can assign this function via the "System" menu display: Press the [FUNCTION] button repeatedly to call up the "System" menu display: "Pedal"  "Play/Pause" (page 88). 19 YDP-184 Owner's Manual