Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product CP117 Kawai
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Concert P erformer Series Digital Piano Owner’ s Manual Model: CP117.
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Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano VI T able of Contents Parts and Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Overview LCD Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Select Buttons . . . . .
Introduction VII Punch-In Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Song Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Bar Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Event Edit . .
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 2 9. Accompaniment (page 28) These buttons are used to turn the Auto-Accompaniment function on/off, and select the Auto-Accompaniment mode. 10. 1-2 Play (pa ge 30) This button is used to automatically choose an appropriate sound and setup for the selected style.
Basic Controls P. 3 16. Fill-in (page 28) These buttons are used to select one of the four short fill-in sections that embellish the style and lead into the different variation sections of the Style. 17. V ariation (page 28) These buttons are used to select one of the four variation sections within the chosen Style.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 4 Bottom Vie w P edals 30. Piano Only (pa g e 25) This button is used to automatically assign the Concert Grand sound to the Right 1 part. 31. Registrations (page 31) These buttons are used to recall one of the eight panel settings available in the currently selected Registration group.
Basic Controls P. 5 43. Sustain P edal Sustains the sound after lifting your hands from the keyboard. 44. Headphone Jacks There are two jacks for headphones provided at the left end on the bottom of the piano. These jacks are used to connect up to two headphones to the CP piano.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 6 Ov ervie w This manual provides you with all the information you will need in order to take full advantage of the Concert Performer’ s potential. Before you begin learning how to use the specific features, it is important to understand some of the basic ideas behind the instrument’ s design.
Basic Controls P. 7 T o keep things simple, this manual will refer to the five SELECT buttons along the left side of the LCD screen as L1-L5 . Likewise, the five SELECT buttons along the right side of the screen will be referred to as R1-R5 .
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 8 Dial The Dial is used to change data values and scroll through options that are displayed on the LCD screen. When you turn the Dial, you will notice that whatever item on the LCD screen is currently selected (highlighted) will be affected.
Basic Controls P. 9 Basic Contr ols This chapter discusses the basic operations that are used to play the Concert Performer , such as sound selection, Part configuration and effect settings.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 10 Splitting the ke yboard. When the LEFT/SPLIT Part is activated, the CP automatically splits the keyboard and only the sound assigned to the LEFT/SPLIT Part will be heard when you play below a specified key (split point) on the keyboard.
Basic Controls P. 11 Selecting Sounds The Concert Performer has over 600 instrument and drum sounds available from the front panel. Y ou can freely assign any of these sounds to the three Parts. Remember that there is always a sound assigned to each of the Parts, even if some of the Parts are not currently active.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 12 Use the L or R buttons to select your desired Sound. F1-F4 Selects the different pages of Sounds within a category .
Basic Controls P. 13 Mixer This Mixer screen allows you to change the volume, panning, reverb and chorus levels, as well as turn the effect on/off for each Part. T o use the Mixer: 1) Press the MIXER button (F1) while on the main play screen. 2) Use the F2–F5 and F7 buttons to select which Part you wish to adjust.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 14 The Mixer not only lets you set the overall volume level for the Style, but set individual volume levels for the 6 Sections within a Style. T o adjust the individual Section level: 1) On the Mixer screen, press the STYLE MIXER button (F1).
Basic Controls P. 15 Effects Y ou might have noticed that when you select some of the sounds, the LED indicator for the REVERB, CHORUS, or EFFECTS button is turned on. The reason for this is some of the sounds are set up with one or more of these effects on as part of their initial setting.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 16 T ype of Reverb Hall 1, Hall 2 Simulates the ambiance of a concert hall or theater . Stage 1, Stage 2 Simulates the ambiance of a small hall or live house. Room 1, Room 2 Simulates the ambiance of a living room or small rehearsal room.
Basic Controls P. 17 • The Indicator light on the CHORUS button will be lit only when Chorus is turned on for the active “Priority Part”. See “Effect Priority Guidelines” later in this chapter for an explanation of this. • Y ou can select from four chorus types when in the Chorus Settings menu.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 18 T o add an Effect: 1) Press the EFFECT button. The EFFECT button LED will light. 2) If you wish to edit the settings, hold down the button for a moment until the Effect Settings screen is displayed. 3) Use the F3–F5 button to turn ON/OFF the Effect for each part.
Basic Controls P. 19 Effect T ypes Chorus Simulates the rich character of a vocal choir or string ensemble, by layering a slightly detuned version of the sound over the original to enrich it. Flanger Creates a shifting comb-filter , which adds motion and a “hollow” tone to the sound.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 20 Effect Priority Guidelines Reverb and Chorus are global effects. In other words, all of the Parts and the Accompaniment Style must share the same Reverb and Chorus type. However each of these Parts can have a different amount of Reverb and Chorus applied to them.
Basic Controls P. 21 • The LED Indicator on the EFFECT and CHORUS buttons will be on only when the active Priority Part has these effects turned on. Example Assume that your CP is set up according t.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 22 T ranspose and Octa ve Shift T ranspose raises or lowers the CP’ s pitch in half- step increments. Octave Shift does the same but in octave increments. T ranspose can be especially useful when you have learned a song in one key and have to play it in another key .
Basic Controls P. 23 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 L3 Selects the LEFT Part to be T ransposed or Octave Shifted. R2 Selects the RIGHT1 Part to be T ransposed or Octave Shifted. R3 Selects the RIGHT2 Part to be T ransposed or Octave Shifted.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 24 Metr onome Rhythm is one of the most important elements when learning music. It is important to practice playing the piano at the correct tempo and with a steady rhythm. The CP piano’ s metronome is a tool that helps you to achieve this by providing a steady beat for you play along with.
Basic Controls P. 25 Piano Onl y The Piano Only button provides a way to quickly set the Concert Performer up to play the Concert Grand piano sound. Pressing the Piano Only button immediately turns off all Parts except the Right 1 part and sets the Right 1 sound to Concert Grand.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 26 Using a Style The Concert Performer contains 182 built-in Styles for you to play along with, covering a wide variety of musical genres. Y ou can choose from a simple drum or percussion accompaniment or add in a fully orchestrated arrangement.
Basic Controls P. 27 • When you are in the main play screen, you can select a Style by just using the Dial. Press the L1 button or F2–F3 (STYLE) and “Style” will become highlighted. Use the Dial or press the F2–F3 button to select another Style.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 28 • The CP remembers the last Style selection that you made within each category while the power is on. When you press a STYLE button, the CP will automatically select the Style previously chosen in the same category .
Basic Controls P. 29 Fingered The player must play at least three notes of a chord below the split point (LEFT/ SPLIT Part) before the ACC System will recognize the chord type.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 30 • When you play along with the Auto-accompaniment using the Fingered or Full Keyboard modes, you may hear two sounds playing the chords: one is selected by the front panel and the other is pre programmed for the Style.
Basic Controls P. 31 • Among the settings contained in the 1-2 Play setting are the Sounds assigned to the keyboard Parts (Right 1/2, Left), T empo, and Mixer settings. Registration A Registration is a setup that remembers the panel settings along with many other performance functions so that you can recall them at the touch of a button.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 32 • The CP remembers how the front panel was setup before you chose a Registration so that after exiting the Registration, the prior settings will be restored. • It is not necessary to always begin with the REGIST GROUPS button when selecting a Registration.
Basic Controls P. 33 • The following settings can be stored in a Registration: Sounds (Right1, Right2, Left), Split Point, Style and V ariation, Fill-in mode, T empo, Accompaniment settings, Mixer settings, Chorus settings, Effect settings, Harmony settings, V oicing, Detune, Resonance and Left Pedal functions.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 34 T o rename the Registration Group: 1) Press the REGIST GROUPS button. 2) Use the L and R buttons to select the Group to rename. 3) Press the NAME (F6, F7) button. L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 Use the L and R buttons to select the Group to rename.
Basic Controls P. 35 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 F1 T akes you to the previous menu. F2, F3 Moves the cursor over the characters in the name. F4, F5 Selects a character . F6, F7 Saves the name Style Loc k Pressing the STYLE LOCK button keeps the current Style, even if another Registration is selected.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 36 Song Stylist W ith over 600 Sounds and 182 Styles, it can sometimes be difficult to decide the best settings with which to play a song. Even if you are very familiar with the Concert Performer , you may want a quick way to change the CP’ s setup to play another song.
Basic Controls P. 37 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 F1, F2 Shows the other categories. F3, F4 Shows the song list in alphabetical order . F6 Searches for a title from a floppy disk. Use the L, R buttons to select your desired category .
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 38 4) Use the P AGE buttons (F1, F2) to display the Song Titles on the other pages in the same categor y . 5) Use the L and R buttons to select one of the ten songs displayed in the screen. The CP automatically returns to the Main Screen ready with all of the settings for that song.
Basic Controls P. 39 • Y ou may use different Sounds, Styles, T empo and other settings to customize to your taste. • When choosing a Song Stylist created by you (or someone else) and saved to floppy disk, there may be a recorded melody and chord track available.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 40 Harmon y When the Auto-Accompaniment is on, you can use Harmony function. The Harmony function automatically adds notes to your right hand (melody) part to help you sound more professional.
Basic Controls P. 41 T o use Harmony: 1) Press the HARMONY button. The button will be lit to show that it is active. The Harmony symbol will also appear in the Main Screen. 2) T o change the Harmony type, hold down the Harmony button for a moment until the Harmony Select menu is displayed.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 42 Recor ding a Song independent tracks separately . In addition, with Advanced Recorder you can edit your recorded data one measure or even one note at a time.
Recording a Song P. 43 • Y ou may resume recording from the bar where you stopped by repeating these steps. Y ou can also change sounds, tempo, and make other changes to the panel settings before you continue recording.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 44 P ar t Status The playback and record status for the RIGHT/ LEFT Parts and the Style are displayed at the bottom of the LCD screen. Whether you are in the process of recording or playing back your song it is helpful to know the status for each of these Parts.
Recording a Song P. 45 2) Press the REC button. 3) Press the appropriate F button(s) below the LCD screen to set the desired Part(s) to REC. 4) Begin recording by following step 2 in the “T o Record” section on page 42. Remember Re-Recording a Part completely erases the previously recorded performance for that Part.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 46 • DELETE erases all of the performance data for all Parts and the Style in the song. The panel setup, such as Style, T empo, and Sound settings are not erased by the DELETE function. L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 F1 Cancels erasing the song.
Recording a Song P. 47 Adv anced Recording The Advanced Recorder is a full featured sixteen track MIDI recorder that includes many of the same professional features found on dedicated MIDI sequencing (recording) devices.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 48 Real-time Recording W ith Real-time record, the CP records your performance as you are playing it, in real-time. Y ou can select any of the sixteen instrument tracks or the Style and tempo tracks to record, but you can only record on one track at a time.
Recording a Song P. 49 4) Start recording by pressing the PLA Y/STOP button while the REC button LED is blinking. There is an automatic two bar count in before the CP begins recording. If you are recording on the Style track you must press the ST ART/STOP or INTRO buttons instead of the PLA Y/STOP button.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 50 4) At this point, you can start recording or go to another menu to continue setting up. • Y ou can make changes on the Mixer screen at any time except while the CP is busy recording. The Mixer screen is accessible from the Advanced Recorder menu, T rack Settings screen and Real-time Rec screen.
Recording a Song P. 51 T rac k Settings The T rack Settings screen shows you the Play , Record, and Mute status for each track. In addition it shows you what sound is assigned for the sixteen instrument tracks. Y ou can change the track status or select a different sound for each track.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 52 • As discussed in the above section, MIDI Rec enables the CP to record incoming MIDI data from an external MIDI instrument connected to the MIDI jacks. Y ou can set more than one track to MIDI REC, enabling the CP to record on several tracks simultaneously over MIDI.
Recording a Song P. 53 5) Press the L4 button to specify the bar where you want the Loop to end. 6) Press the MENU button (F1) to return to the Advanced Recorder menu when you are finished. • Y ou can turn looping on and off in the Mixer menu. However , you still have to set the Start and End Bar from the Loop Settings menu.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 54 • Before you use Style Paste, you need to make sure T racks 9-16 are empty or don’t contain important data. When the Style is pasted, the data from the Style track will be pasted into these tracks and will replace any existing data.
Recording a Song P. 55 T o use Punch-in recording: 1) Select Punch In/Out in the Advanced Recorder menu. 2) Use the L and R buttons to select the options and change their values using the Dial. Select AUTO with the R5 button to have the CP automatically handle the punching in/out while you play .
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 56 • If you set the CP to Punch-In at the very first measure of the song, the metronome will automatically play a two-measure intro to assist you with the timing. These “ticks” will not be recorded as part of the track.
Recording a Song P. 57 Song Edit Song Edit lets you name, transpose, and change initial tempo settings for your song. T o edit the song: 1) Select Song Edit from the Advanced Recorder menu. The Song Edit screen is displayed. 2) Use the L and R buttons to select the setting that you wish to change, then use the Dial to change the value.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 58 Bar Editing Bar Edit contains many useful editing functions. Y ou can edit your song one bar or any number of bars at a time. T o use Bar Edit: 1) In the Advanced Recorder menu select Bar Edit (R2). The Bar Edit screen will be displayed.
Recording a Song P. 59 • Resolution determines the timing value the quantize function will use to shift the notes you want to quantize. For example, setting a quarter note resolution will shift all of the quantized notes to the nearest quarter beat.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 60 • Range sets up timing “borders” around the Resolution value you specify . Notes within these borders will not be quantized and notes outside the borders will be moved to the nearest beat specified by the resolution value (Quarter note, Eighth note, etc.
Recording a Song P. 61 Copy The Copy function allows you to copy a section or all of the data on a track to another location. The destination may be on the same track, or it can be on another track. • The destination of the copied data must either be: 1) A location that already has data in it.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 62 Delete Delete completely erases and removes the bars that you specify . F1 Returns you to the Advanced Recorder menu. F2 Undoes the deletion. This option is not always available. F7 Proceed with the deletion.
Recording a Song P. 63 Insert The Insert function duplicates data from specified bars and copies it to a certain location. However , the current data at the destination is not erased, but instead is pushed back to make room for the copied data.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 64 R2 Selects the track where the empty bars are going to be inserted. Choose 1-16, T empo, Chord or All. R3 Selects the location in the destination track where you want the empty bars inserted. Use the Dial to choose the location.
Recording a Song P. 65 Erase Erases data in the bars that you specify , and leaves them as empty bars. F1 T akes you to the Advanced Recorder menu. F2 Undoes the Erase.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 66 Merge Merge combines data from two tracks. Y ou can make complex musical phrases using several tracks, then combine them together on one track.
Recording a Song P. 67 Gate Time Modify Gate time refers to the length of a note as a percentage. Whatever the length of a note is when it is first recorded, this value is considered as its Gate time of 100%. By editing the length of the note, you can shorten it to 10% or lengthen it to 300% of the original value.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 68 V elocity Modify V elocity refers to how hard a key is struck, which translates into the dynamics of how loud the produced sound is.
Recording a Song P. 69 Clock Mo ve In the Resolution section of this manual we learned that the CP Advanced recorder divides each beat in a bar into 96 clock beats, also expressed as a quarter note. Therefore there are 48 clocks per eighth note, and 24 clocks per sixteenth note and so on.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 70 T ranspose This will transpose the notes within a specified bar(s) up or down in half-step increments. R2 Adjusts transposition amount in half-step increments from -24 to 24. F1 T akes you to the Advanced Recorder menu.
Recording a Song P. 71 Event Edit Event Edit enables you to examine and edit your performance note by note. T o use Event Edit: 1) Select Event Edit in the Advanced Recorder menu. The Event Edit screen will be displayed. 2) Choose the track that you want to edit using the TRACK buttons (F3, F4).
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 72 5) Select the function that you would like to apply to this event. Y ou can select DELETE (R1) to remove the event, INSERT (R2) to create a new event at any specified location, or REPLACE (R3) to change the existing event.
Recording a Song P. 73.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 74 Creating Y our Own Styles The Conductor allows you to edit the Style data and personalize it to your taste. The Style Maker allows you to create Styles of your own. There are three ways of using this feature: Make a New Style, Edit an Existing Style, and Phrase Combination.
Creating Y our Own Styles P. 75 T o use Easy Edit: 1) Select the Style and the Variation (1–4) that you would like to edit. 2) Press the EDIT button. The LCD screen will display the Easy Style Edit screen. 3) Use the F2–F7 buttons to select a Section to edit.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 76 Resetting the Style The CP always remembers the original Preset Style settings. If you wish to restore those factory settings before saving your edits, simply press the RESET button in the Conductor .
Creating Y our Own Styles P. 77 Making a Style with Get Phrase fr om Recor der This is the most flexible way to create a new Style. Y ou can take music that you have recorded using the CP’ s own Recorder and convert it into Style data.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 78 T o create a Style: 1) Press the ADV ANCED RECORDER button. The LCD screen will display the Advanced Recorder menu. 2) In the Advanced Recorder menu, press the Style Maker button ( R4 ). The LCD screen will display the first Style Maker screen.
Creating Y our Own Styles P. 79 5) Use the F2–F7 buttons to select which track from the Recorder has the data that you want used for each Section of the Style. Y ou can switch off a Section by pressing its F button twice, and the Section will not be created in your Style.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 80 9) If you would like to save it, press SA VE (R2). 10) Press the PRESET TEMPO button (L1) and use the dial to set the default tempo for the style. 11) Press the SA VE TO button (L3) and use the Dial to select the location to save your new Style.
Creating Y our Own Styles P. 81 A uto-accompaniment System The Concert Performer Auto-Accompaniment System (ACC) analyzes your playing and adjusts the note data recorded in the different Phrases in a pattern to match the root key and chord type you are playing.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 82 point to E, the Phrase would begin to be transposed up one octave whenever you play a chord with an E as the root. Experiment with the different Chordal and Scalic settings to find the one that works best with each Phrase.
Creating Y our Own Styles P. 83 Making a Style with Phrase Combination Phrase Combination is similar to Easy Style Edit in the Conductor . Phrase Combination however , lets you not only combine Phrases from within the selected Style but you can also combine Phrases from any of the Styles in the CP to create a new Style.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 84 10) Press the PRESET TEMPO button (L1) and use the dial to set the default tempo for the style. 11) Press the SA VE TO button (L3) and use the Dial to select the location to be saved. 12) Press the NAME button (L4).
Creating Y our Own Styles P. 85 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 L1 Sets the default tempo for the style. L3 Selects the location to be saved. L4 Names the style. F1 T akes you to the Style Maker Record screen. F2, F3 Moves the cursor .
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 86 Editing Sounds Even though the Concert Performer has over 600 high quality instrument and drum sounds built-in, there may be times when you would like to change some of the qualities of a sound to really get the tonal character that you have in mind.
Editing Sounds P. 87 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 L1 Selects the preset sound to edit. L2 T urns the Chorus on/off. L3 T urns the Effect on/off. L4 Selects an effect type. L5 Adjusts the effect setting. R2 Adjusts the chorus level.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 88 If you wish to play a song without any intentions to make permanent changes or additional recordings, you can use the CP’ s Disk Song Play function to load the song very quickly for playback.
Playing Songs From a Floppy Disk P. 89 • The CP can also recognize most songs formatted for the PianoDisc player piano system and songs formatted for Y amaha’ s Disk Orchestra Collection. (Please check with your Kawai dealer or distributor for further information).
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 90 The L and R buttons select the song you want to hear . F1 T akes you to the Disk menu. F2, F3 Lists the next or previous ten titles. F4, F5 Starts the Chain Play . F7 Selects the song and takes you to the Disk Song Play screen.
Playing Songs From a Floppy Disk P. 91 Contr olling Pla yback of a Song As the song plays, you can adjust the tempo, play or sing along with on the keyboard, and even turn on/off the different instrument parts (tracks) in the song. The status of the song parts is displayed at the bottom of the LCD screen.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 92 L2 Adjusts the song’ s tempo. L3 Highlights the LEFT Part. L4 T akes you to the Mixer screen. L5 Displays the song’ s lyrics (if available in the data). R2 Highlights the RIGHT1 Part. R3 Highlights the RIGHT2 Part.
Playing Songs From a Floppy Disk P. 93 • Y ou cannot record or permanently edit the song while using the Disk Song Play function. If you would like to record your live performance along with the son.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 94 As you play a CM song, a handy Note Navigator display helps you keep track of where you are in the music, as well as suggesting how the rhythm of the song should be tapped out on the keys. Many of the CM songs have lyrics that can be displayed as the song is being performed.
Playing with the Concert Magic P. 95 P erf orming a Concer t Magic Song Playing the Concert Magic song you’ve selected is very easy . Just begin tapping any key on the keyboard and the song will play . Concert Magic plays the correct notes of the song, but you must provide the rhythm.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 96 T o play a selected CM song: 1) In the Note Navigator screen press ST ART (F4) if you want to first listen to the song. The CP will play the song. Press the STOP (F4) button to stop. Notice how the Note Navigator displays the rhythm as the song is playing.
Playing with the Concert Magic P. 97 • When you reach the end of the song, press any key one more time. This will not produce sound, but instead resets the song to the beginning for another performance. • The Bouncing Ball only works with song files that are specifically designed for Concert Magic to take advantage of this feature.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 98 • Y ou can also activate the RIGHT2 Part to use as a layer (additional sound) for the melody . Y ou can also select any new sound for the RIGHT2 part. T urn off all Parts except the one you wish to change, and then select the new sound.
Playing with the Concert Magic P. 99 Concer t Magic Song Arrangements Concert Magic songs are specially arranged so that they will work well with your key tapping. Each of the 176 CM songs falls into one of three categories of musical arrangements of varying difficulty .
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 100 Creating a Concert Magic Song Y ou can also use Concert Magic to play a song that isn’t one of the 176 built-in titles. Y ou can record a new song using the Concert Performer’ s Recorder and then save on a floppy disk as a Standard MIDI File (SMF).
Playing with the Concert Magic P. 101.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 102 System Menu The System Menu contains all of the functions that affect the overall performance of the CP piano. This includes functions such as the System settings, tuning, and MIDI Setup. By adjusting these settings you can tailor the CP’ s performance to your taste.
System Menu P. 103 R1 Selects the Pedal functions. R 2 Selects the Fill-in mode for the Accompaniment Styles. R3 Selects the Effect priority settings. R4 Selects the T emperament settings. R5 Selects the MIDI settings. F1, F2 Selects the different System Menu pages.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 104 T uning T uning allows you to adjust the CP’ s pitch. Y ou may need to adjust the tuning when you play with other instruments. The master pitch is displayed in Hertz. The range of adjustment is from 427.
System Menu P. 105 T ouch Curve When playing a piano, the volume of the sound produced increases in direct relation to how hard a key is struck. The CP’ s Normal T ouch curve offers the standard feel of an acoustic piano for practicing music. The CP offers five other touch curves ranging from light to heavy .
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 106 Vir tual V oicing V oicing is a technique used by piano technicians to mold the character of a piano’ s sound. The V oicing function lets you change the CP piano’ s tone quality by choosing one of four types of voicings.
System Menu P. 107 Resonance When the sustain pedal is depressed on an acoustic piano, all the dampers are lifted up allowing the strings to vibrate freely . In this condition, when you play a note not only will the strings for the note you played vibrate but other strings will vibrate due to sympathetic resonance.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 108 Concer t Magic Sound This function determines which sounds the Concert Magic songs will be played with. Preset Plays all the Concert Magic songs with the Preset Sounds assigned to each song. Piano Plays all the Concert Magic songs with the Concert Grand piano.
System Menu P. 109 P edal Assign The Soft and Sostenuto pedals on the Concert Performer function as much more than just traditional piano pedals. These pedals can be assigned to control various other functions on the CP piano. Damper P edal (Right) Sustain only Can be activated or deactivated separately for each Part.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 110 • The pedal assignments made to the Left pedal will be saved as part of a Registration. The pedal assignments made to the Center pedal are global and are not saved as part of a Registration. 1) Select the Pedal Assign (R1) option in the System menu (page 1).
System Menu P. 111 2) Use the L and R buttons to select the setting and use the Dial to change its value. L2 Selects a function to assign to the pedal. Use the other L and R buttons to adjust parameters. L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 F1 Back to the Pedal Assign menu.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 112 Fill-in Mode This determines whether or not a Fill-in will be automatically played each time a V ARIA TION button is pressed. There are two options. Normal A Fill-in will not be automatically played each time a V ARIA TION button is pressed.
System Menu P. 113 Effect f or Sound This function determines whether or not the Preet Effects settings assigned to each Sound will be used or not. Preset The Preset Effect settings for each Sound will be used. This is the default setting. Panel The preset Effect settings for each Sound will not be used.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 114 T emperament The CP offers not only equal temperament (the modern standard) but also immediate access to temperaments popular during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Y ou can also create your own User tuning T emperament as well.
System Menu P. 115 Brief explanation of temperaments T emperament Keys Limitless modulation of the key became available only after the invention of Equal temperament. When you use a temperament other than Equal temperament, you must carefully choose the key to play in.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 116 W erckmeister III, Kirnberger III T emperament These two temperaments are placed in between Meantone and Pythagorean.
System Menu P. 117 • The User T emperament alters the tuning for each octave equally . In other words, you cannot alter the tuning of different sections of the CP’ s keyboard range separately . F1 T akes you to the T emperament menu. F3, F4 Selects the note to edit.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 118 MIDI Menu The letters MIDI stand for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, an international standard for connecting MIDI equipped synthesizers, drum machines, and other electronic instruments so that they can exchange data.
System Menu P. 119 Clock Clock is a data code that a MIDI instrument uses as the reference for its T empo settings as well as Style Start/Stop commands.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 120 T ransmit MIDI Data On page two of the MIDI Setting menu you can determine what MIDI data will be transmitted from the CP . “Keyboard = On/Off” Determines whether or not note data that is generated by the keys being played will be transmitted.
System Menu P. 121 On page three of the MIDI Settings menu, you can determine which MIDI channels the CP will receive MIDI data on. The CP can receive MIDI data on all 16 MIDI channels at once or only certain MIDI channels. Channel Receive On/Off Each of the 16 MIDI channels can be set separately to On or Off.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 122 MIDI Accordion On page four of the MIDI Settings Menu you can configure the CP to be played from a MIDI Accordion. L2 Selects receive channel for the Chord (Left) part. Choose 1-16. R 2 Selects receive channel for the Melody (Right1) part.
System Menu P. 123 P ower Up Settings This determines whether the CP stores your preferred panel and system settings as the default settings and applies them automatically when the instrument is turned on.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 124 Soft Reset The Soft Reset function allows you to return all of the User Settings back to the original Factory Settings. Y ou can instantly reset all of the user settings or only the ones you want to Reset at the touch of a button.
System Menu P. 125 Software V ersion This function is used to show what system software version is currently installed in the CP . T o show the software version: 1) Press the Software Version button (R2) on page two in the System menu. 2) The software version will appear in the LCD screen.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 126 Screen Hold Most of the on-screen menus that you work with on the Concert Performer will remain displayed until you select something or press a particular button.
Display Control P. 127.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 128 disk so the student may play along. This can greatly assist the learning process. Finally , there are numerous sites on theW orld W ide W eb dedicated to the sharing and selling of MIDI music that can be downloaded and played on your Concert Performer instrument.
Floppy Disk Operations P. 129 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 L2 Loads data from a floppy disk. L3 Saves data onto a floppy disk. L4 Erases data from a floppy disk. R2 Formats a floppy disk. R3 Plays the song data from a floppy disk.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 130 Use the L and R buttons to select the type of data to save. L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 F1 T akes you to the Disk menu. T o save your data: 1) In the Disk menu, select SA VE (L3).
Floppy Disk Operations P. 131 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 F1 T akes you to the previous menu. F2, F3 Moves the cursor over the characters in the name. F4, F5 Selects a character to use in the name.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 132 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 Use the L and R buttons to select the type of data to load. F1 T akes you to the disk menu. Loading Data fr om a Floppy Disk This function allows you to retrieve the stored data from disk.
Floppy Disk Operations P. 133 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 Use the L and R buttons to select the data to load. F1 T akes you to the previous menu. F2, F3 Displays more selections. F4 Selects the “All” file type if that is how the files were saved.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 134 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 L3 Selects the destination to load individually a Style, Conductor , Sound or Registration. F1 T akes you to the previous menu. F7 Loads the data.
Floppy Disk Operations P. 135 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 Use the L and R buttons to select the data. F1 T akes you to the previous menu. F2, F3 Displays more selections. F4 Displays the “All” data file if present.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 136 Formatting a Flopp y Disk Before a floppy disk can be used to save data for the first time, it will need to be formatted. This simply means that the disk must be “prepared” to hold data. The Concert Performer can read and write to MS-DOS formatted disks.
Floppy Disk Operations P. 137 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 L2 Formats a 2HD disk. L3 Formats a 2DD disk. F1 Cancels formatting and takes you to the Disk menu.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 138 There are times when you might not have the Owner’ s Manual at your side, and you need an explanation of a button or feature. Fortunately , there are built-in Help guides to give you a hand. The Help function provides a basic introduction and overview of most of the features found in the CP .
Getting Assisted—Help and Demo P. 139 Use the L and R buttons to selct a Help topic. F1, F2 Searches for more Help topics on the other pages. F1 T akes you to the Help menu.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 140 Using the Demonstrations There are two types of Demonstrations programmed in the CP piano. Sound Category Demos Each Sound category has a song, or songs, that demonstrate the sound choices and capabilities found in the category .
Getting Assisted—Help and Demo P. 141 • When a selected Demo song ends, another song of the same type will be randomly chosen from another category and played. Y ou can select another demo song at any time by pressing the appropriate button. The SOUND category buttons are used to select the demo for that sound categor y .
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano Preset Sounds Appendices Appendices PIANO P A GE 1 P A GE 2 P A GE 3 P A GE 4 Concert Grand Mellow Grand Jazz Grand New Age Piano Studio Grand Rock Grand C.
Appendice P. 143 STRING P A GE 1 P A GE 2 P A GE 3 P A GE 4 Beautiful Strings String Quartet Violin Ensemble Octave Strings String Ensemble Strings & Brass Cello Ensemble String Sustaining String .
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano V OCAL & P AD P A GE1 P A GE 2 P A GE 3 P A GE 4 Choir Aahs Choir Aahs 2 Slow Choir Halo 2 V oice Oohs Humming Breathy Choir Brightness 2 Itopia Choir .
Appendice P. 145 B ASS P A GE 1 P A GE 2 P A GE 3 Acoustic Bass Acoustic Bass 2 Octave Fretless Electric Bass Finger Slap Bass Poly Synth Bass Finger Bass W arm Synth Bass Clavi Bass 2 Pick Bass Clavi.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano DR UM P A GE 1 P A GE 2 P A GE 3 P A GE 4 Standard Kit T impani Sleigh Bells Soft T impani Jazz Kit Rolling T impani T riangle Soft T impani Roll Brush Kit.
Appendice P. 147 Preset Styles SWING & BIG B AND 50’S & 60’S POP & R OCK P A GE 1 P A GE 1 P A GE 2 P A GE1 P A GE2 Fast Big Band 50’ s Rock 50’ s Rock 3 70’ s R&B 70’ s Co.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano LA TIN & ISLAND KID & HOLID A Y TRADITIONAL P A GE 1 P A GE 1 P A GE2 P A GE1 P A GE2 Bossa Nova Kids March Holiday 4/4 Foxtrot Cha Cha 2 Bossa Nov.
Appendice P. 149 A Achy Breaky Heart Ain't Misbehavin' Ain't No Woman Ain't T oo Proud All I Wanna Do All Of Me All Shook Up Alley Cat Aloha Oe Always A Woman Always On My Mind Ama.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano Hello Dolly Hello Mary Lou Help Help Me Make It Here Comes Santa Here's Rainy Day Hey Jude Hold Y our Hand Holly Jolly Xmas Honesty Honky T onk Man Ho.
Appendice P. 151 M Macho Man Mack The Knife Mammas Don't Let Mandy Maniac Margaritaville Marianne Me And Bobby McGee Memory Mercy Mer cy Me Merry Little Xmas Michael Row Boat Midnight Hour Midnight T rain 2GA Misty Monday Monday Moon River Moonlight In VT More Morning Dance Mr .
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano T T ake It Easy T ake Me Out T o The T ake The A T rain T ake This Job And T akin Care Bizness T ammy T ea For T wo T ears In Heaven T empted T ennessee Wa.
Appendice P. 153.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano Children’ s Songs T winkle, T winkle , Little Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MP ✔ I’m A Little T eapot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MP ✔ This Old Man .
Appendice P. 155 Washington Post Mar ch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SK Y ou’re A Grand Old Flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EB ✔ Stars And Stripes Forever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano Fa vorite Hymns Fairest Lord Jesus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MP ✔ Amazing Grace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MP ✔ Doxology .
Appendice P. 157 Prelude In A by Chopin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MP Pizzicato Polka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SK Rondeau by Mouret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano T ab le of Chord T ypes This table describes the fingering of 61 types of chords, including inversions, that the CP piano recognizes. All these are represented here in the key of C, but of course any transposition of these chords to other keys apply .
Appendice P. 159 C7 #9 C7 #11 C7 b9 11 C7 b9 #11 C7 #9 #11 C9 13 C9 11 13 Cm add9 Cm9 Cm7 11 Cm9 11 C7 #9 13 C9 #11 13 C7 b13 C7 b9 b13 C7 #9 b13 C7 b9 13 C9 b13 C7 b9 11 13 Cm7 b13 Cm7 11 b13 Cm7 b5 .
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano A. Using External Speakers The Concert Performer has an amplifier and built-in speakers and together , they produce a powerful sound. However , for larger venues or outdoor performances, you may need to use additional amplification and speaker systems.
Appendice P. 161 D. Using the Concert Performer with an External MIDI Instrument MIDI lets you expand the creative possibilities of the CP by connecting it to an external MIDI device or personal computer . Use a MIDI cable to connect the CP’ s MIDI Out jack to the other device’ s MIDI In.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano USB The Concert Performer can be connected with a personal computer with a USB cable for exchanging MIDI data. Y ou need a USB driver installed in your computer . [For W indows XP/Me users] A standard USB driver is already installed in your computer .
Appendice P. 163.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano Bank Category Sound Name Prog MSB LSB PIANO Concert Grand 1 121 0 Studio Grand 1 121 1 Modern Piano 2 121 0 Electric Grand 3 121 0 Piano Octaves 1 95 1 Cla.
Appendice P. 165 Bank Category Sound Name Prog MSB LSB STRING Beautiful Strings 45 95 1 String Ensemble 49 121 0 String Ensemble 2 50 121 0 Synth Strings 51 121 0 Synth Strings 2 52 121 0 Violin 41 12.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano Bank Category Sound Name Prog MSB LSB GUIT AR Finger Nylon Gtr 25 95 4 Nylon Acoustic 25 121 0 Steel Guitar 26 121 0 Electric Guitar 28 121 0 Jazz Guitar 2.
Appendice P. 167 Bank Category Sound Name Prog MSB LSB BASS Acoustic Bass 33 95 2 Electric Bass 34 95 1 Finger Bass 34 121 0 Pick Bass 35 121 0 Fretless Bass 36 121 0 Ac Bass & Ride 33 95 1 Slap B.
Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano Bank Exclusive* Category Sound Name Prog MSB LSB kk=KIT No DRUM Standard Kit 1 120 0 1 Jazz Kit 33 120 0 33 Brush Kit 41 120 0 41 Room Kit 9 120 0 9 Power .
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Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano Standard Kit Standard Kit 2 Room Kit Power Kit Electric Kit Analog Kit Dance Kit Ja zz Kit Br us h K it Orchestra Kit C1 C 24 C # 2 5 Snare Roll D 2 6 Fing.
Appendice P. 171 SFX Kit SFX Kit 2 Nature Transportation War Games Animal Farm Mystery Theatre Game Show Counting Trip to Japan A2 1 Monster A# 2 2 B2 3 Horse Gallop Rain C1 C2 4 C# 25 Screaming D2 6 .
Appendice P. 172 MIDI Implementation Chart MODEL: Kawai Digital Piano CP117 D AT E : JUNE 2006 V ERSION 1.0 Function T ransmitted *1 Recognized Remarks Basic Default 1 1-16 Channel Changed 1-16 1-16 M.
Specifications CP117 Keyboard 88 W eighted Keys , Advanced Hammer Action IV Polyphony Maximum 96 Preset Sounds Over 600 including Drum kits Styles 182 Styles (4 V ariations per Style) Maximum 20 User .
Concert Performer Series Digital Piano OW992E-C0606 Printed in Indonesia.
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