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...piano play back song data on your purchase of -use song recording operations, for recording and playing back up an appropriate voice to match the style or song you to -use Music Database feature that combines advanced functions, great sound and exceptional ease-of the Yamaha DGX-500/300... Portable Grand™ ! Just select the genre, and the DGX-500/300 takes care of the DGX-500/300's authentic voices. Its outstanding features also make it a remarkably expressive and ...
...piano play back song data on your purchase of -use song recording operations, for recording and playing back up an appropriate voice to match the style or song you to -use Music Database feature that combines advanced functions, great sound and exceptional ease-of the Yamaha DGX-500/300... Portable Grand™ ! Just select the genre, and the DGX-500/300 takes care of the DGX-500/300's authentic voices. Its outstanding features also make it a remarkably expressive and ...
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...See page 58.) Use the [SETTING L/M] buttons to set the Time Signature. !2 [PORTABLE GRAND] button This instantly calls up the Grand Piano voice. (See page 12.) !3 [SONG] button This is for enabling song selection. (See page 57.) !4 [STYLE] button This is... allows you to play the Demo songs. (See page 14.) o LESSON [L] (Left) and [R] (Right) buttons These call up various functions, settings, and operations of the DGX-500/300. Panel Controls and Terminals I Front Panel q ert y u i o !0 !1 w !2 !8 !9 @0 @1 @2 @3 @4 001 Live!Gnd 001 u !3 !4 !5 !6 @5 @6 !7 @8 @7 q Power switch ...
...See page 58.) Use the [SETTING L/M] buttons to set the Time Signature. !2 [PORTABLE GRAND] button This instantly calls up the Grand Piano voice. (See page 12.) !3 [SONG] button This is for enabling song selection. (See page 57.) !4 [STYLE] button This is... allows you to play the Demo songs. (See page 14.) o LESSON [L] (Left) and [R] (Right) buttons These call up various functions, settings, and operations of the DGX-500/300. Panel Controls and Terminals I Front Panel q ert y u i o !0 !1 w !2 !8 !9 @0 @1 @2 @3 @4 001 Live!Gnd 001 u !3 !4 !5 !6 @5 @6 !7 @8 @7 q Power switch ...
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... STOP] button This turns the Sync Stop function on and off. (See page 43.) @0 [SYNC START] / [PAUSE] button This turns the Sync Start function on a piano. (See page 11.) #2 PHONES/OUTPUT jack This is for connection to a set of stereo headphones or to an external amplifier/speaker system. (See...
... STOP] button This turns the Sync Stop function on and off. (See page 43.) @0 [SYNC START] / [PAUSE] button This turns the Sync Start function on a piano. (See page 11.) #2 PHONES/OUTPUT jack This is for connection to a set of stereo headphones or to an external amplifier/speaker system. (See...
Owner's Manual
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...footswitch, resulting in reversed footswitch operation. When the instrument is not in the "STANDBY" position, electricity is in use a footswitch (Yamaha FC4 or FC5) to sustain the sound of all devices at their minimum levels and gradually raise the volume controls while playing the...the rear panel PHONES/OUTPUT jack on an acoustic piano - Sound from the instrument. I Using a Footswitch This feature lets you to sustain the sound. I Connecting a Keyboard Amplifier or Stereo System Though the DGX-500/300 is properly connected to the instrument at the minimum...
...footswitch, resulting in reversed footswitch operation. When the instrument is not in the "STANDBY" position, electricity is in use a footswitch (Yamaha FC4 or FC5) to sustain the sound of all devices at their minimum levels and gradually raise the volume controls while playing the...the rear panel PHONES/OUTPUT jack on an acoustic piano - Sound from the instrument. I Using a Footswitch This feature lets you to sustain the sound. I Connecting a Keyboard Amplifier or Stereo System Though the DGX-500/300 is properly connected to the instrument at the minimum...
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z Press the [PORTABLE GRAND] button. 001 Live!Gnd Playing along with the Metronome z Press the [METRONOME] button. Want to find out more ? Quick Guide Step 1 Voices 001 Live!Gnd 001 zz q w Playing the Piano Simply by pressing the [PORTABLE GRAND] button, you can automatically reset the entire DGX-500/300 for piano play. See page 22. See page 22. 12 x Play the keyboard. Want to find out more ?
z Press the [PORTABLE GRAND] button. 001 Live!Gnd Playing along with the Metronome z Press the [METRONOME] button. Want to find out more ? Quick Guide Step 1 Voices 001 Live!Gnd 001 zz q w Playing the Piano Simply by pressing the [PORTABLE GRAND] button, you can automatically reset the entire DGX-500/300 for piano play. See page 22. See page 22. 12 x Play the keyboard. Want to find out more ?
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... Selecting and Playing Other Voices The DGX-500/300 has a huge total of the total available voices. G Panel Voice List No. q Press the [VOICE] button. Grand 002 Grand Piano 003 Bright Piano 004 Honky-tonk Piano 005 MIDI Grand Piano 006 CP 80 007 Harpsichord E.PIANO 008 Galaxy EP 009 Funky Electric Piano 010 DX Modern Elec. Voice...
... Selecting and Playing Other Voices The DGX-500/300 has a huge total of the total available voices. G Panel Voice List No. q Press the [VOICE] button. Grand 002 Grand Piano 003 Bright Piano 004 Honky-tonk Piano 005 MIDI Grand Piano 006 CP 80 007 Harpsichord E.PIANO 008 Galaxy EP 009 Funky Electric Piano 010 DX Modern Elec. Voice...
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... q Insert the disk. G Song List No. Song Name DEMO 001 The Look Of Love (DGX-500) Ribbon In The Sky (DGX-300) 002 Just The Way You Are 003 Ribbon In The Sky (DGX-500) The Look Of Love (DGX-300) FAVORITES 004 Bill Bailey (Won't You Please Come Home) 005 When Irish Eyes Are Smiling... Fisher 058 Gavotte 059 String Quartet No.17 2nd Mov. "Serenade" 060 Menuett 061 Canon 062 The Danube Waves 063 From "The Magic Flute" 064 Piano Sonate Op.27-2 "Mondschein" 065 "The Surprise" Symphony 066 To A Wild Rose 067 Air de Toréador "Carmen" 068 O Mio Babbino Caro (From "Gianni...
... q Insert the disk. G Song List No. Song Name DEMO 001 The Look Of Love (DGX-500) Ribbon In The Sky (DGX-300) 002 Just The Way You Are 003 Ribbon In The Sky (DGX-500) The Look Of Love (DGX-300) FAVORITES 004 Bill Bailey (Won't You Please Come Home) 005 When Irish Eyes Are Smiling... Fisher 058 Gavotte 059 String Quartet No.17 2nd Mov. "Serenade" 060 Menuett 061 Canon 062 The Danube Waves 063 From "The Magic Flute" 064 Piano Sonate Op.27-2 "Mondschein" 065 "The Surprise" Symphony 066 To A Wild Rose 067 Air de Toréador "Carmen" 068 O Mio Babbino Caro (From "Gianni...
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Doing this automatically calls up the Grand Piano voice. Current Tempo value 068 TEMPO Ft 2 Change the value. Grand voice. Portable Grand This convenient function lets you instantly call up the special "Stereo Sampled Piano" Live! Using the Metronome 1 Call up the Tempo setting. Use the numeric keypad to set the desired Tempo value, or use the [+]/[-] buttons to increase or decrease the value. 22 Press the [TEMPO/TAP] button. Playing the Portable Grand Press the [PORTABLE GRAND] button.
Doing this automatically calls up the Grand Piano voice. Current Tempo value 068 TEMPO Ft 2 Change the value. Grand voice. Portable Grand This convenient function lets you instantly call up the special "Stereo Sampled Piano" Live! Using the Metronome 1 Call up the Tempo setting. Use the numeric keypad to set the desired Tempo value, or use the [+]/[-] buttons to increase or decrease the value. 22 Press the [TEMPO/TAP] button. Playing the Portable Grand Press the [PORTABLE GRAND] button.
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...instrument categories, and the names are printed on the panel. for example, playing a bass voice with your left hand and a piano voice with Yamaha's sophisticated AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) tone generation system. Voice name and number 001 Live!Gnd 001 Indicates Voice mode is given ...also a Touch Sensitivity control (page 32), which have been created with your playing technique. Playing a Voice 1 Press the [VOICE] button. The DGX-500/300 also has a Dual Voice function that you enhance the sound of the keyboard - Special Split voices (#113 - #122) feature two different voices ...
...instrument categories, and the names are printed on the panel. for example, playing a bass voice with your left hand and a piano voice with Yamaha's sophisticated AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) tone generation system. Voice name and number 001 Live!Gnd 001 Indicates Voice mode is given ...also a Touch Sensitivity control (page 32), which have been created with your playing technique. Playing a Voice 1 Press the [VOICE] button. The DGX-500/300 also has a Dual Voice function that you enhance the sound of the keyboard - Special Split voices (#113 - #122) feature two different voices ...
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... the voice is selected to best match the style or song you select a style. For example, you play a bass voice with your left hand and a piano voice with your right. Press the [SPLIT] button. One Touch Setting This special "voice" is selected 000 Live!Gnd 001 You can play two different...
... the voice is selected to best match the style or song you select a style. For example, you play a bass voice with your left hand and a piano voice with your right. Press the [SPLIT] button. One Touch Setting This special "voice" is selected 000 Live!Gnd 001 You can play two different...
Owner's Manual
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Melody Voice Change The DGX-500/300 lets you replace the original voice used for the melody of the song with the original ... points or the A-B Repeat function. 4 Turn off the A-B Repeat function. it lets you play a melody on the panel is piano but the song's melody is being played by a flute voice, using Melody Voice Change will change the flute melody voice...Bailey -01 2 Select the desired voice. Press the [SONG] button, then use the numeric keypad or [+]/[-] buttons to piano. 1 Select the desired song. Selecting and Playing Songs 3 Pause or stop playback as needed.
Melody Voice Change The DGX-500/300 lets you replace the original voice used for the melody of the song with the original ... points or the A-B Repeat function. 4 Turn off the A-B Repeat function. it lets you play a melody on the panel is piano but the song's melody is being played by a flute voice, using Melody Voice Change will change the flute melody voice...Bailey -01 2 Select the desired voice. Press the [SONG] button, then use the numeric keypad or [+]/[-] buttons to piano. 1 Select the desired song. Selecting and Playing Songs 3 Pause or stop playback as needed.
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... effects. Let you record and play back your own original User Songs, it allows you to save and load important DGX-500/300 data. The DGX-500/300 supports GM System Level 1. However, keep in Yamaha's DOC format. (See page 75) The DOC voice allocation format provides data playback compatibility with User songs. You can... that Can be Saved or Loaded with the style files collected on commercially available GM (General MIDI), DOC (Disk Orchestra Collection), and Clavinova Disklavier Piano Soft disks.
... effects. Let you record and play back your own original User Songs, it allows you to save and load important DGX-500/300 data. The DGX-500/300 supports GM System Level 1. However, keep in Yamaha's DOC format. (See page 75) The DOC voice allocation format provides data playback compatibility with User songs. You can... that Can be Saved or Loaded with the style files collected on commercially available GM (General MIDI), DOC (Disk Orchestra Collection), and Clavinova Disklavier Piano Soft disks.
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... numbers are called "free-tempo software." When playing back free-tempo song data on commercially available GM (General MIDI), Yamaha DOC (Disk Orchestra Collection), or Clavinova Disklavier Piano Soft disks. Press the [START/STOP] button. Some of the song has played back. These songs are from 101...• The tempo setting of some commercially available disk songs is fixed. It also allows you to play back song data on the DGX-500/300, the measure display shows "F t" and the beat display does not flash. Use the numeric keypad or the [+]/[-] buttons. For details...
... numbers are called "free-tempo software." When playing back free-tempo song data on commercially available GM (General MIDI), Yamaha DOC (Disk Orchestra Collection), or Clavinova Disklavier Piano Soft disks. Press the [START/STOP] button. Some of the song has played back. These songs are from 101...• The tempo setting of some commercially available disk songs is fixed. It also allows you to play back song data on the DGX-500/300, the measure display shows "F t" and the beat display does not flash. Use the numeric keypad or the [+]/[-] buttons. For details...
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...quarter note) Velocity (about playing a note? Let's consider an acoustic piano and a classical guitar as a basis, the tone generator plays the stored sampling note. G Example of instruments. MIDI Functions The DGX-500/300 is the information from the keyboard that becomes the basis for note production?...value and sent to all software and hardware products that any GM-compatible music data can expand your DGX-500/300. Then each piece of manufacturer. With the piano, you can be accurately played by any GM-compatible tone generator, regardless of information is affi...
...quarter note) Velocity (about playing a note? Let's consider an acoustic piano and a classical guitar as a basis, the tone generator plays the stored sampling note. G Example of instruments. MIDI Functions The DGX-500/300 is the information from the keyboard that becomes the basis for note production?...value and sent to all software and hardware products that any GM-compatible music data can expand your DGX-500/300. Then each piece of manufacturer. With the piano, you can be accurately played by any GM-compatible tone generator, regardless of information is affi...
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... #135), the rhythm cannot be cut off the mobile phone or use it sustains the sounds. Troubleshooting Problem Possible Cause and Solution When the DGX-500/300 is normal. When using a mobile phone, noise is output. Replace the batteries. (See page 10.) al or strange. Check the External ...nothing is too low. Make sure that the footswitch plug is being played back. The Pianist styles have no drums or bass - only piano accompaniment. If the Dual voice or Split voice is properly connected to enable style operations. A strange "flanging" or "doubling" sound occurs...
... #135), the rhythm cannot be cut off the mobile phone or use it sustains the sounds. Troubleshooting Problem Possible Cause and Solution When the DGX-500/300 is normal. When using a mobile phone, noise is output. Replace the batteries. (See page 10.) al or strange. Check the External ...nothing is too low. Make sure that the footswitch plug is being played back. The Pianist styles have no drums or bass - only piano accompaniment. If the Dual voice or Split voice is properly connected to enable style operations. A strange "flanging" or "doubling" sound occurs...
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...MSB LSB Program Voice Name Change# PIANO 000 113 000 Live! Piano 000 113 005 Hyper Tines 000 114 005 Venus Electric Piano 000 112 007 Clavi ORGAN 000 118 018 Cool! Voice List I Maximum Polyphony The DGX-500/300 has 32-note maximum polyphony. PIANO 000 114 004 Galaxy EP 000 ...112 004 Funky Electric Piano 000 112 005 DX Modern Elec. Auto Accompaniment uses a number of up to the Split Voice and Song ...
...MSB LSB Program Voice Name Change# PIANO 000 113 000 Live! Piano 000 113 005 Hyper Tines 000 114 005 Venus Electric Piano 000 112 007 Clavi ORGAN 000 118 018 Cool! Voice List I Maximum Polyphony The DGX-500/300 has 32-note maximum polyphony. PIANO 000 114 004 Galaxy EP 000 ...112 004 Funky Electric Piano 000 112 005 DX Modern Elec. Auto Accompaniment uses a number of up to the Split Voice and Song ...
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... 097 012 Balimba 000 098 012 Log Drums 000 000 013 Xylophone 000 000 014 Tubular Bells 000 096 014 Church Bells Finger Bass /Bright Piano - - - Fretless Bass/Brass Section - - - Grand - - - String Ensemble/Live! Acoustic Bass/Vibraphone - - - Voice List Voice No. 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096...
... 097 012 Balimba 000 098 012 Log Drums 000 000 013 Xylophone 000 000 014 Tubular Bells 000 096 014 Church Bells Finger Bass /Bright Piano - - - Fretless Bass/Brass Section - - - Grand - - - String Ensemble/Live! Acoustic Bass/Vibraphone - - - Voice List Voice No. 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096...
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... 098 Gamelimba 490 000 000 099 Atmosphere 491 000 018 099 Warm Atmosphere 492 000 019 099 Hollow Release 493 000 040 099 Nylon Electric Piano 494 000 064 099 Nylon Harp 495 000 065 099 Harp Vox 496 000 066 099 Atmosphere Pad 497 000 067 099 Planet 498 000... 102 Echoes 2 512 000 014 102 Echo Pan 513 000 064 102 Echo Bells 514 000 065 102 Big Pan 515 000 066 102 Synth Piano 516 000 067 102 Creation 517 000 068 102 Star Dust 518 000 069 102 Resonant & Panning 519 000 000 103 Sci-Fi 520 000...
... 098 Gamelimba 490 000 000 099 Atmosphere 491 000 018 099 Warm Atmosphere 492 000 019 099 Hollow Release 493 000 040 099 Nylon Electric Piano 494 000 064 099 Nylon Harp 495 000 065 099 Harp Vox 496 000 066 099 Atmosphere Pad 497 000 067 099 Planet 498 000... 102 Echoes 2 512 000 014 102 Echo Pan 513 000 064 102 Echo Bells 514 000 065 102 Big Pan 515 000 066 102 Synth Piano 516 000 067 102 Creation 517 000 068 102 Star Dust 518 000 069 102 Resonant & Panning 519 000 000 103 Sci-Fi 520 000...
