Yamaha arius ydp-181 User Manual

Selecting & Playing Voices

Owner’s Manual

You can select four different types of keyboard touch sensitivity — HARD, MEDIUM, SOFT or FIXED 
— to match different playing styles and preferences.

Requires that the keys be played quite hard to produce maximum loudness.

MEDIUM: Produces a fairly “standard” keyboard response.
SOFT:

Allows maximum loudness to be produced with relatively light key pressure.

All notes are produced at the same volume no matter how hard the keyboard 
is played. (No indicators are lit.) The fixed volume can be changed.

To select a touch sensitivity type press the 

 button a few times until the indica-

tor corresponding to the desired type lights (the indicators light in sequence each time 
the 

 button is pressed). No indicator is lit when “FIXED” is selected.

Changing the volume when FIXED is selected
When you select FIXED, you can set the volume for notes

 played 

in FIXED mode by using the 

 and 

 buttons while 

you hold the 

 button. The current volume

 level 

appears on the display. The volume range is from 1 through 127. 
The default setting is 64.

This setting does not change the 
weight of the keyboard.

Normal setting = MEDIUM

The touch sensitivity type will 
become the common setting for 
all voices. However, the touch 
sensitivity settings may have little 
or no effect with certain voices 
that are not normally responsive 
to keyboard dynamics. (Refer to 
the “Preset Voice List” on page 
57.)

[–/NO] [+/YES] buttons

[TOUCH] button

1: minimum volume
127: maximum volume

The touch volume set in FIXED 
mode will become the common 
setting for all voices.

Releasing the 

[TOUCH] button 

changes the touch type.

If you have changed the volume, 
releasing the 

[TOUCH] button will 

not change the touch type. 
(FIXED mode will remain 
selected.) 

Volume range