Yamaha CLP-811 Owner's Manual - Page 17

Selecting and Playing Voices Your Clavinova offers you an excellent selection of great-sounding voices (11 voices on model CLP-611, 12 voices on model CLP-811). You can use the VARIATION, BRILLIANCE, REVERB, and EFFECT features to vary the sound and feel of each voice. The Clavinova also allows you to mix any two voices together ("DUAL mode"), and to select different voices for the right and left ranges of the keyboard ("SPLIT mode"). A built-in metronome is also provided. Selecting a Voice Voice selector MASTER VOLUME MAX FUNCTION TRANSPOSE SPLIT BRILLIANCE REVERB EFFECT TOUCH MIN PIANO 1 HARPSIPIANO 2 CLAVI.TONE E.PIANO1 E.PIANO2 CHORD VARIATION VIBES STRINGS CHOIR PIPE ORGAN ORGAN COMBINATION BASS TRANSPOSE SPLIT MELLOW ROOM CHORUS HARD NORMAL HALL 1 SYMPHONIC MEDIUM BRIGHT HALL 2 TREMOLO SOFT STAGE ECHO FIXED BRILLIANCE REVERB EFFECT TOUCH SONG MEASURE TEMPO METRONOME DEMO/ PIANO SONG TEMPO -/NO +/YES SONG SELECT RECORDER 1 2 START/ STOP REC Procedure To select a voice, press the corresponding voice selector. The voice indicator lights up. Name of voice ROOM NORMAL MEDIUM BRILLIANCE REVERB EFFECT TOUCH Instrument icon TEMPO Try playing the voice. Adjust the volume as necessary by moving the [MASTER VOLUME] slider. To familiarize yourself with the features of each voice... You can get a good feel for each voice by listening to its built-in demo (see page 46 of this manual). About the EFFECT settings... Each voice is set to its standard (default) effect at time of shipping. For information about effects settings and how to change them, see page 15. The ORGAN COMBINATION voice... ...can be set to any of eight builtin organ types. You can edit each of these types to produce your own customized sounds. You use function F6 to set the voice up; see page 30 for details. CLP-811/611 Selecting and Playing Voices 13