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1 [POWER] Switch
Press the [POWER] switch once to
turn the power ON, a second time to
turn the power OFF. When the power
is initially turned ON, the [PIANO 1]
voice selector LED will light, and the
power indicator located below the left
end of the keyboard will light.
2 [MASTER VOLUME] Control
The [MASTER VOLUME] control
adjusts the volume (level) of sound
produced by the Clavinova’s internal
stereo sound system. The [MASTER
VOLUME] control also adjusts
headphone volume when a pair of
headphones is plugged into the
PHONES jack (page 4).
3
[BRILLIANCE] Button
(CLP-155 only)
This button can be used to change the
tonality or “timbre” of the selected
voice. See page 9 for details.
4 [REVERB] Button
The [REVERB] button selects a
number of digital reverb effects that
you can use for extra depth and ex-
pressive power. See page 8 for de-
tails.
5 [MIDI/TRANSPOSE] Button
The [MIDI/TRANSPOSE] button
allows access to the Clavinova’s
TRANSPOSE function (to shift the
pitch of the entire keyboard up or
down), keyboard touch sensitivity
adjustment, and MIDI functions. For
details refer to “TRANSPOSITION”
on page 10, “TOUCH SENSITIVITY”
on page 10, and “MIDI FUNCTIONS”
on page 15.
6 Voice Selectors
The CLP-154S has six voice selectors
and the CLP-155 has eight. Simply
press any of the voice selectors to
select the corresponding voice. The
voice selector LED will light to indi-
cate which voice is currently selected.
The CLP-154S/155 also has a DUAL
mode in which two voices can be
played simultaneously across the full
range of the keyboard — see page 7
for details.
NOTE
• The PIANO 1 voice is auto-
matically selected whenever
the [POWER] switch is ini-
tially turned ON.
7 [METRONOME] Button
Turns the metronome sound on and
off. The [TEMPO] control, below, is
used to set the tempo of the metro-
nome sound. More precise tempo set-
tings can be achieved by using the
[METRONOME] button and the
CLP-154S/155 keyboard as described
on page 12.
8 [TEMPO] Control
This control adjusts the tempo of the
CLP-154S/155 metronome function as
well as the playback tempo of the re-
corder function. The tempo range is
from 32 to 280 quarter-note beats per
minute.
9RECORDER [PLAY] and [REC]
Buttons
These buttons control the CLP-154S/
155 2-track recorder, letting you
record and play back just about any-
thing you play on the keyboard — up
to a maximum of about 4,200 notes.
See page 13 for details.
0 [DEMO] Button
Activates the demo playback mode in
which you can select playback of dif-
ferent demonstration sequences for
each of the Clavinova’s voices. See
page 6 for details.
! Pedals
The CLP-154S/155’s soft (left),
sostenuto (center) and damper (right)
pedals provide a range of expressive
control capabilities similar to the pedal
functions on an acoustic piano. See
page 9 for details.
F6 G6 A6 B6 C7
Memory key
(See page 7, 8, 10, 11)
F6 G6 A6 B6 C7
Memory key
(See page 7, 8, 10, 11)
!
Sostenuto
pedal
Soft
pedal Damper
pedal