Yamaha arius ydp-181 User Manual

Detailed Settings – [FUNCTION]

Owner’s Manual

This section provides a variety of other functions, 
including letting you assign the operation of the 
left pedal to one of several modes, and allowing 
you to select specific song channels for playback.

 ▼, ▲] buttons to select the desired 

Setting range:
1. Soft Pedal

The soft pedal reduces the volume and slightly 
changes the timbre of notes played while the pedal is 
pressed. The soft pedal will not affect notes that are 
already playing.

2. Song Play/Pause

This mode allows you to start or pause song playback. 
In this mode, the Left Pedal functions in the same 
manner as the 

 button on the 

panel.

Normal setting:  1 (Soft Pedal)

Setting range: 

1 – 5

Normal setting:  3

This function sets the depth of the soft pedal effect.

Setting range: 

ALL, 1&2

Normal setting:  ALL
The setting here only affects Disklavier Piano Soft songs, 
and non-protected External songs. You can specify which 
song channels will play back on this instrument. When 
“ALL” is selected, channels 1 – 16 will be played back. 
When “1&2” is selected, only channels 1 and 2 will be 
played back, while channels 3 – 16 will be transmitted via 
MIDI.

You can change the volume of the metronome 
sound.
Use this function to adjust the metronome vol-
ume. 

Setting range:  1 – 20
Normal setting:  10

You can jump directly to the metronome functions 

 by pressing 

the [TEMPO/FUNCTION] button while holding the METRONOME 
[ON/OFF] button.

To exit the Function mode, you still need to press the [TEMPO/
FUNCTION] button so that the TEMPO indicator lights up.