Casio PX500L Playing with Different Tones, Selecting and Playing a Tone, Selecting Main Tones and Variation Tones, Selecting a GM Tone or Drum Set, TONE, POWER, VOLUME

Playing with Different Tones

Selecting and Playing a Tone	4 Press the VARIATION button so the
	indicator lamp above it is lit.

Your piano has the following types of tones built in.

Main Tones	15
Variation Tones	15
GM Tones	128
Drum Sets	10

Selecting Main Tones and Variation Tones

1 Press the POWER button.

POWER button

2 Use the VOLUME knob to adjust the volume level.

•Before playing, it is a good idea to set the volume to a relatively low level.

3	Press one of the 15 TONE buttons to select
	the tone you want.

•This selects the variation tone assigned to each TONE button.

Example: MARIMBA

•For information about variation tone assigned to each button, see the Tone List on page A-1.

5 To toggle between the main tone (VARIATION indicator lamp off) and variation tone (VARIATION indicator lamp on), press the VARIATION button or the TONE button.

Selecting a GM Tone or Drum Set

You can use the following procedure to assign one of the piano’s 128 GM tones or 10 drum sets to the GM TONES button. After you assign a GM tone, you can select it by pressing the GM TONES button. In addition, you can also assign a second GM tone or drum set as the variation tone of the GM TONES button. See “Selecting the GM TONES Button Variation Tone” on page E-7.

1 Press the GM TONES button.

•This selects the GM tone that is currently assigned to the GM TONES button.

•The display continues to display the tune or rhythm number.

• The names of the main tones are marked above	2	Use the Tone List on page A-1 to find the
the TONE buttons.		GM tone or drum set number you want.

Example: To select VIBRAPHONE Example: 008 (GM CELESTA)

	REVERB			VARIATION
VOLUME CHORUS		TONE	GM TONES		SPLIT

CONTROL METRONOME TEMPO BEAT GM SELECT

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