User's Manual

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Creating Your Own Piano Tone (Piano Designer)
Editing the Grand Piano Tone
You can adjust various aspects of the grand piano’s tone, including the string and pedal resonances, and the sound of the hammers striking the strings.
* These adjustments are possible only for the grand piano tone category of the [ ] button.
1. Press the [ ] button.
The button is lit, and the piano is in function mode.
2. Turn the [ ] knob to access the “piano designer”
screen.
3. Press the [ ] knob to conrm.
4. Turn the [ ] knob to access the screen of the item
that you want to edit.
5. Press the [ ] knob to conrm, and turn the [ ] knob
to choose the value of the setting.
6. When you are nished editing the piano tone, press
[ ] button.
A conrmation message appears.
If you decide to cancel, press the [ ] button.
7. Turn the [ ] knob to select “Yes,” and press the [ ]
knob to conrm.
The Grand Piano tone settings are saved.
Piano tone settings
Item Value Explanation
Lid 0–6
Adjusts the extent to which the top lid of the grand piano is open.
The sound will become more mellow as you close the top lid of the piano in the screen. The sound will
become brighter as you open the top lid of the piano in the screen.
String Resonance O, 1–10
Adjusts the string resonance of the acoustic piano (the sound of the strings of already-pressed notes
vibrating in sympathy with the notes you play, and the sound of the strings of unplayed notes also
vibrating in sympathy if the damper pedal is pressed). Higher settings produce louder sympathetic
resonance.
Damper
Resonance
O, 1–10
Adjusts the overall resonance of the acoustic piano when its damper pedal is pressed (the sound of
other strings vibrating in sympathy when you press the damper pedal, and the resonance of the entire
instrument).
Higher settings produce louder sympathetic resonance.
Key O
Resonance
O, 1–10
Adjusts the resonance of the subtle sounds that occur when a key of an acoustic piano is released. A
higher value produces a larger tonal change during the decay.
Single Note
Tuning (*)
-50–0–+50
Adjusts the tuning of each individual key. For example, you can adjust the width of stretched tuning,
which tunes the higher register slightly higher and the lower register slightly lower.
Single Note
Volume (*)
-50–0 Adjusts the volume of each key. Lower settings decrease the volume.
Single Note
Character (*)
-5–0–+5
Adjusts the tonal character of each key. Higher settings produce a harder sound, and lower settings
produce a softer tone.
* The result of this eect will dier depending on the pitch range.
Reset Setting Resets the “Piano Tone Edit” settings of the selected tone to their factory settings.
(*) Single Note settings
1. Select the Single Note settings screen, and press the [ ] knob to conrm.
2. Play the key for which you want to make adjustments, and turn the [
] knob to change the value.
3. Press the [
] button to exit the screen of that item.