EG540/1040 EUROGRAND User’s manual Version 1.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS DETAILED SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS: 1) Read these instructions. 2) Keep these instructions. 3) Heed all warnings. 4) Follow all instructions. CAUTION: WARNING: To reduce the risk of electric shock, do not remove the top cover (or the rear section). No user serviceable parts inside; refer servicing to qualified personnel. To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose this appliance to rain and moisture.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 EUROGRAND The Sound, Touch and Elegance of an Acoustic Grand Piano — The Cutting-Edge Performance of a Digital Piano V EG1040: Elegant wood grain cabinet with either black or rosewood finish and modesty panel EG540: Elegant wood grain cabinet with black finish EG540/1040 V The ultimate piano for homes, music schools, houses of worship, etc.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 FOREWORD Dear Customer, Welcome to the team of EUROGRAND users and thank you very much for expressing your confidence in BEHRINGER products by purchasing this digital piano.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................... 6 7. CONNECTION TO EXTERNAL EQUIPMENT ............. 20 1.1 Before you get started ................................................. 6 1.1.1 Shipment ............................................................ 6 1.1.2 Initial operation .................................................. 6 1.1.3 Online registration ............................................. 6 7.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 1. INTRODUCTION 2. MAINTENANCE Congratulations! With the EG540/1040 you have purchased a master-class digital piano which is on a par with its acoustic counterpart in terms of sound and feel. The keyboard features 88 weighted keys with hammer action, in combination with the RSM stereo sound generator this gives you an unparalleled playing experience. High-quality modulation and room effects as well as a 2 x 20-Watt loudspeaker system produce a very natural and spacious sound.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 4) Press the START/STOP button again to stop playback. 3.3 Demo playback The EG540/1040 offers you 14 sound and 15 piano music demos. These music pieces give you an impression of the instrument’s versatility and range of sounds. 3.3.1 Playing back the sound demos This section describes how to play back the 14 sound demos. These demos are specially designed to highlight the various sounds and their features and show you what can be done with your instrument. 1) Press the DEMO button.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 4. CONTROL ELEMENTS AND CONNECTIONS 4.1 Control panel Fig. 4.1: Control elements of the EG540/1040 The control elements of the EG540/1040 are described below. To give you a clear overview of the control panel, its elements have been grouped in separate sections. SELECT: Selects the TEMPO parameter and menu pages for EDIT mode. The EDIT MODE LED shows in EDIT mode, the TEMPO LED in TEMPO mode.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 EFFECT: Is used to select one of four modulation effects (CHORUS, FLANGER, TREMOLO, DELAY) for the selected sound. An LED shows which effect is currently active. If no LED lights up, no modulation effect is active. If no LED lights up, no key velocity has been selected and playing a key always triggers a fixed volume level, irrespective of how hard you play the key. TRANSPOSE : Is used for setting keyboard/pitch transposition.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 1) Keep pressing the REVERB button until the effect of your choice has been selected. 5. BASIC OPERATION The following chapters describe some further basic functions which you can use in addition to those already explained. 5.1 Using two sounds (layer mode) Instead of a single sound you can also play two sounds simultaneously on the EG540/1040. These sounds are layered and can be played together over the entire keyboard.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 2) Keep the EFFECT button pressed while adjusting the original vs. effect signal ratio in the VALUE/SONG section using the -/NO and +/YES buttons. 2) Press the pedal to sustain the tones you just played. 3) Play the next notes. These are played with normal decay. 4) Release the pedal for normal playing. V + On the acoustic piano notes are sustained by keeping all the damper felts in their raised position even after releasing the keys.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 6.2 Transposition 6. ADVANCED OPERATION The following chapters provide information on advanced operating functions of the EG540/1040. 6.1 Using EDIT mode Many advanced operating functions of the EG540/1040 are available in EDIT mode. The following sections describe how to adjust these functions in EDIT mode. Whenever you are prompted to enter EDIT mode, please follow the step-by-step instructions given below to select a function and adjust its parameters.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 Please note the order of voices used in the sound combination selected, in order to understand which settings apply to which voice in the examples below. A layer combination consisting of two sounds must be set up before you can adjust the following functions (see chapter 5.1). E3.5 (effect intensity voice #1) Function: E3.6 (effect intensity voice #2) 0x20 Value: Description: 1x20: Effect intensity (default setting) 0: No effect 6.3.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 The display reads: 04: No stressed beats (default setting) 24, 34, 44, 54, 64, 74: quarter meter (e. g. 2/4) 38, 68, 78, 98, 128: eighth-note meter (e. g. 3/8) 6.4.1 Metronome volume Use this function to adjust the metronome volume. Please enter EDIT mode (see chapter 6.1) and select the following function. Function: E5 Value: 1x20 The memory of the music sequencer can store up to 10,000 notes.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 Recording mode automatically. will thus be canceled 8) Repeat the whole procedure to record a second track. This time, however, select TRACK 2 instead of TRACK 1 in step #3. TIP: If the right-hand part of a music piece you want to practice has been recorded on track 2 and the left-hand part on track 1 (for example, by your piano teacher), you can mute one of the two tracks during playback to practice the corresponding part.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 You can only activate those tracks for playback which actually contain note information. 1) Select the track to be played back, so that the PLAY LED above the corresponding TRACK button lights up. 2) If you want to have a metronome-backed playback, press the METRONOME button to switch on the metronome. . 3) Press the SELECT button in the TEMPO/EDIT MODE section until the TEMPO LED lights up, then use the two ef buttons to adjust the playback tempo.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 Function: E6 Value: 0x20 6.5.7 Sync start You can set the music sequencer playback-ready, so that it will start playback as soon as you play a key on the keyboard. This function can be very helpful when the music sequencer is used as an „accompanist“. The function is also available in DEMO mode. Description: 1x20: Volume of muted track (default setting: 5) 0: Muted tracks are not audible 6.5.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 Function: E4.2 This parameter determines the volume of the sounds with reference to the key velocity applied, i.e. you can set here how hard you have to strike a key to achieve maximum volume. Value: 1x5 The following section describes how to change the key velocity.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 This tuning can only be used for music that strictly follows a classical cadence comprising tonic, dominant and subdominant. V Pythagorean tuning The Pythagorean tuning is based on perfect fifths. As a consequence, all thirds are impure. This tuning was used for early music up to the late Middle Ages. The homophonic or two-part polyphonic music of the time did not use any thirds, but only perfect unison, fourth, fifth and octave intervals.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 Function: E8.4 Value: On, Off 7. CONNECTION TO EXTERNAL EQUIPMENT Description: Off: Save function for soft pedal settings is disabled (default setting) On: Save function for soft pedal settings is enabled 6.6.6 Restoring the factory default settings The EG540/1040 provides a variety of connectors for connecting the instrument to external devices. Use the following procedure to recall the factory default settings.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 You can also use the outputs to connect recording equipment (e.g. computer, cassette recorder, MD recorder). Unlike the builtin music sequencer, recording on external audio equipment gives you the advantage that you can play back your music completely independently of the EG540/1040. For example, you can give your friends a recorded CD or MD or archive music pieces on any recording medium.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 In layer mode voice #1 transmits MIDI data on the specified MIDI channel, while voice #2 transmits on the next higher channel. Demo song and music sequencer data are not transmitted via the MIDI output. However, you can transmit a music piece recorded with the built-in music sequencer using the MIDI dump feature (see „Sending music sequencer data“ below).
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 V Accept/ignore MIDI controller information Use this function to determine how the EG540/1040 responds to MIDI controller data. MIDI uses a variety of controller informaiton to control sound changes (e.g. pedal status, volume, effect intensity). Function: E7.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 8. TROUBLESHOOTING 24 8.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 9. SPECIFICATIONS KEYBOARD 88 weighted keys with hammer action (A-1 to C7) SOUND GENERATION RSM (Real Sound Memory) stereo sampling, 32 MB ROM POLYPHONY 64 notes max. SOUNDS 14 EFFECTS Room effects Modulation effects 4 types (ROOM, HALL 1, HALL 2, STAGE) 4 types (CHORUS, FLANGER, TREMOLO, DELAY) SEQUENCER Type Memory 2-track 1 Song, approx. 10,000 notes PEDALS 3 (soft-, sostenuto-, damper) LINE IN Connectors Impedance 1/4“ TS jack, unbalanced apporox.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 10. APPENDIX 10.1 Cables Below you will find an overview of all cables you need to connect your digital piano. The cables are not supplied with the piano. Depending on the intended use, adapter cables will be necessary to interface the various connectors. You can use adapter cables or plugs (e.g. 1/4" to cinch). Cable adapters are better than adapter plugs, as the latter may affect the signal quality due to insufficient contact of the plugs with each other. 10.1.
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EUROGRAND EG540/1040 10.3 List of demo music pieces included No. Composer 1 Invention no. 1, C major, BWV 772 Johann Sebastian Bach 2 Piano sonata no. 16, 1st movement, C major, KV 545 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 3 28 Piece Piano sonata, op. 13, no. 8 "Pathétique", 2nd mvt., A flat major Ludwig van Beethoven 4 Piano sonata, op. 49, no. 2, 1st movement, G major Ludwig van Beethoven 5 Impromptu, op. 90, no.. 2, E flat major Franz Schubert 6 Frühlingslied ("Spring Song"), op. 62, no.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 10.4 EDIT parameters Category Abbreviated name Function Values Default setting E1 427 - 453 440 Selection of temperament (scale) E2.1 1x7 1 (equal temper) Selection of basic note of temperament E2.2 CxB C Volume Volume ratio of voice #1 vs. voice #2 E3.1 0x20 -* Detune Detuning of voice#1 vs. voice #2 E3.2 -10x10 -* Octave transposition voice #1 Octave position of voice #1 E3.3 -1, 0, 1 -* Octave transposition voice #2 Octave position of voice #2 E3.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 10.5 MIDI implementation chart MIDI Implementation Chart Function Basic Channel Mode Note Number Velocity After Touch Transmitted Default Changed Default Messages Altered 1 1 - 16 3 X X 9-120, v=1-127 X O X X X X True Voice Note ON Note OFF Keys Channels Pitch Bend Control Change Aux Messages O Bank select O Volume 11 X O Expression 64 O O Damper 66 O O Sostenuto 67 O O Soft pedal 91 X O Reverb depth 94 X O Effect depth O O O O Song Pos. Song Sel.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 10.6 Blank note sheet 10.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION COMPLIANCE INFORMATION Responsible party name: BEHRINGER USA, Inc. Address: 18912 North Creek Parkway, Suite 200 Bothell, WA 98011, USA Phone/Fax No.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION COMPLIANCE INFORMATION Responsible party name: BEHRINGER USA, Inc. Address: 18912 North Creek Parkway, Suite 200 Bothell, WA 98011, USA Phone/Fax No.
EUROGRAND EG540/1040 11. WARRANTY § 1 OTHER WARRANTY RIGHTS AND NATIONAL LAW 1. This warranty does not exclude or limit the buyer’s statutory rights provided by national law, in particular, any such rights against the seller that arise from a legally effective purchase contract. 2. The warranty regulations mentioned herein are applicable unless they constitute an infringement of national warranty law. 2.
