Yamaha EL-500 Owner's Manual - Page 178
Voices/rhythms, Effects, Accompaniment, Registration Memory
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Problem Possible Cause and Solution VOICES/RHYTHMS Only one sound is heard when two notes of the For practical performance reasons, the Electone has been designed so that one Lead or Pedal voices are simultaneously played. 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 Pedal voices do not sound, even though the volume is properly set. • 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. The pitch may be felt high on the Pedalboard and This may occur when you compare the Electone's sounds with the one of low in the higher registers of the Lower and Upper pianos. Because of the difference of the harmonics structure, the tuning system keyboards. of the Electone is different from the piano's in the higher and lower ranges. Some of the voices may contain cracking and/or You may find these mainly in the wind instrument voices. These are purposely noisy sounds. added effects to the voices to reproduce the characteristics of the wind instruments such as the pipe vibrations, breath noises and squeakings. Even though a Dotted button's rhythm has been Since the Dotted buttons contain User rhythms, no rhythm will sound if a selected and started, the pattern does not sound. pattern has not been saved to the selected Dotted button. EFFECTS The Touch Tone function does not operate. Adjust the Touch Tone settings in the Voice Condition display. The Tremolo effect cannot be heard, even when Tremolo must be selected first in the Voice Condition display (for panel voices), the TREMOLO (FAST) button in the DISPLAY or in the Flute Voices Volume page (for Flute Voices [EL-700]). SELECT section is on. The Reverb effect does not operate, even when Increase the Reverb on the panel Reverb controls, or increase the Reverb Depth Reverb parameters for the selected voice sections in Reverb Page 1. are increased. ACCOMPANIMENT The pitch in the Single Finger mode does not Single Finger mode will only produce notes when played within a fixed octave change, even when pressing different keys of the interval on the Lower keyboard. If notes with the same letter name are pressed keyboard. outside of that range, the chords that are sounded will share the same pitch. While an intro./Ending pattern is automatically Since the Accompaniment chords play automatically one after another, the playing, the Lower keyboard does not produce any Lower keyboard is designed not to produce any sound during the playback of sound, even when the keys are played. an Intro./Ending pattern. The Accompaniment cannot be heard even when The Accompaniment volume is set to 0 as the default. Be sure to raise the an appropriate Accompaniment type is selected Accompaniment volume on the rhythm condition page. and the rhythm has been started. The harmony notes of the Melody On Chord The Upper keyboard has been set to sound only Lead voices. Increase the function cannot be heard. volume of the Upper Keyboard voices. REGISTRATION MEMORY Certain functions have not been memorized to Transposition and Pitch control data, among others, cannot be memorized Registration Memory. (except as song data). (page 77) Appendix 14 178