Yamaha CLP-320 Manual Do Utilizador

Selecting & Playing Voices

CLP-320

   Owner’s Manual

If the damper pedal doesn’t 
work, make sure that the pedal 
cord is properly plugged into the 
main unit (page 36).

Organ and string voices will 
continue to sound for as long as 
the sostenuto pedal is 
depressed.

The damper pedal functions in the same way as a 
damper pedal on an acoustic piano. When the 
damper pedal is pressed, notes sustain longer. 
Releasing the pedal immediately stops (damps) any 
sustained notes.
The damper pedal features a half-pedal function.

If you play a note or chord on the keyboard and 
press the sostenuto pedal while the note(s) are 
held, those notes will sustain as long as you hold 
the pedal (as if the damper pedal had been pressed) 
but all subsequently played notes will not be sus-
tained. This makes it possible to sustain a chord, 
for example, while other notes are played “stac-
cato.”

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 when it 
is pressed.

This function allows the sus-
tain length to vary depend-
ing on how far the pedal is 
pressed. The farther you 
press the pedal, the more 
the sound sustains.

For example, if you press the 
damper pedal and all notes 
you are playing sound a bit 
murky and loud with too 
much sustain, you can 
release the pedal half way to 
subdue the sustain (murki-
ness).

When you press the damper pedal 
here, the notes you play before you 
release the pedal sustain longer.

 

When you press the sostenuto pedal 
here while holding the note, the note 
will sustain as long as you hold the 
pedal.

 

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