User Manual

P-515 Owner’s Manual

Getting Started — Playing the Keyboard

You can switch various selected functions on/off by using the included FC4A

footswitch, connected to the [AUX PEDAL] jack.

Also a separately sold FC3A foot pedal or FC5 footswitch can be connected to

the jack.

To select the function, use the

“Aux Assign” (page 99) in the “System” menu

display.

Damper Resonance

When you select a Piano Voice, pressing the footswitch activates the Damper

Resonance (VRM, page 27) to accurately recreate the resonance of an acoustic

piano’s strings.

You can turn the VRM effect on/off and determine the depth of the damper

resonance in the Piano Room display (page 25).

Using a Pedal (Footswitch)

NOTE

• Connect or disconnect the

footswitch /pedal when the

power of this instrument is

turned off.

• Do not press the footswitch/

pedal while turning the power

on. Doing this changes the

recognized polarity of the

footswitch/pedal, resulting in

reversed footswitch/pedal

operation.

Default setting:

Sustain (Continuous)

NOTE

Damper Resonance cannot be

used while Duo (page 32) is

on.

Half-pedal function

This function can be used when a separately sold FC3A foot pedal or LP-1 pedal unit

(page 19) is connected and allows you to vary the sustain length depending on how far

the pedal is pressed. The farther down 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 or higher to

decrease the sustain (murkiness).

You can specify the point to which you must depress the foot pedal connected to the

[AUX PEDAL] jack or the damper pedal of the pedal unit (Half Pedal Point). Press the

[FUNCTION] button repeatedly to call up the “System” menu display: “Pedal”

 “Half

Pedal Point” (page 99).