Applying an Effect to Your Voice (Vocal Harmony)
By connecting a microphone to the Disklavier and singing along with the piano, you can enjoy a variety of effects such as adding harmony to your voice and changing the pitch of your voice. You may feel as if you were singing in a bar lounge. It’s great fun to use this function.
1 Hook up a microphone (not supplied) to the Media Center, and then turn on the microphone.
Microphone (not supplied)
Media Center
[MIC/LINE] [INPUT VOLUME]
switch knob
2 Set the [MIC/LINE] switch to the [MIC] position.
3 Turn the [INPUT VOLUME] knob to adjust the input volume of the microphone.
4 Adjust the [MIC] volume on PRC-100.(pg. 25)

CHAPTER 6: Other Settings

Tuning the Tone Generator (MasterTune)

The digital piano has already been tuned to match the acoustic piano (A3 = 440 Hz). However, you can re-tune the digital piano in accordance with the pitch of the acoustic piano by following the procedure below.

1 Tap on in the [Main] screen,

and then on .

2 TapDisklavier.on / to tune the

To cancel tuning, tap on .

3 Tapoperation.on to complete the

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Yamaha piano manual Tuning the Tone Generator MasterTune, To cancel tuning, tap on

piano specifications

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