User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Placing This Unit on a Stand
- Main Specifications
- Panel Descriptions
- Operation Guide
- Connecting the Piano and a Mobile Device via Bluetooth
- Advanced Operation
- Playing Various Tones
- Selecting Your Preferred Performance Environment (My Stage)
- Practicing with the Metronome
- Dividing the Keyboard for Two People (Twin Piano)
- Recording Your Performance
- SMF Recording
- Recording Audio
- Convenient Functions for Song Playback
- Renaming a Song (Rename Song)
- Copying a Saved Song (Copy Song)
- Deleting a Saved Song (Delete Song)
- Personalizing Your Piano Sound (Piano Designer)
- Using the Microphone
- Connecting a Microphone
- Applying an Effect to the Mic (Mic Effects)
- Saving Performance Settings (Registrations)
- What Is a Registration?
- Recalling a Registration
- Saving Current Settings into a Registration
- Convenient Functions
- Initializing the Memory (Format Media)
- Returning to the Factory Settings (Factory Reset)
- Retaining Settings After Power-Off (Memory Backup)
- Using USB
- Various Settings (Function Mode)
- Adjusting the Keyboard Response (Key Touch)
- Matching the Pitch with Other Instruments (Master Tuning)
- Changing the Tuning Method (Temperament)
- Specifying a Song’s Tonic (Temperament Key)
- Editing the Equalizer Settings
- Transposing the Pitch of the Song Playback (Song Transpose)
- Adjusting the Song Volume (Song Volume)
- Adjusting the Volume of an Audio Playback Device (Input/Bluetooth Vol.)
- Adjusting the Volume from the Computer (USB Audio Input Volume)
- Setting the Song (SMF) Playback Mode (SMF Play Mode)
- Selecting the Format for Recording (Recording Mode)
- Changing How the Pedal Effects Are Applied (Damper Pedal Part)
- Changing the Function of the Center Pedal (Center Pedal)
- Changing How the Pedal Effects Are Applied (Center Pedal Part)
- Sending Tone-Change Information (Transmit MIDI Information)
- Preventing Doubled Notes When Connected to a Sequencer (Local Control)
- MIDI Transmit Channel Settings (MIDI Transmit Ch.)
- Adjusting the Brightness of the Display (Display Contrast)
- Adjusting the Brightness of the Buttons (Panel Brightness)
- Outputting Sound Both from Headphones and Internal Speakers (Speaker Auto Mute)
- Making the Power Automatically Turn Off After a Time (Auto Off)
- Troubleshooting
- Error Messages
- Saved Settings
- Tone List
- Internal Song List
- USING THE UNIT SAFELY
- IMPORTANT NOTES
21
Advanced Operation
What is Piano Designer?
This unit allows you to personalize
your piano sound by adjusting
various factors that aect the
sound, such as the piano’s strings,
the resonance produced using
the pedals, and the sound of the
hammers striking the strings.
This function is called “Piano
Designer.”
String
Resonance
Hammer Noise
Adjusting the piano
sound to your taste
MEMO
5 The Piano Designer function can be used to personalize the sound
only with “PureAcoustic Piano sound engine” tones on the FP-90X,
and only with “SuperNATURAL Piano sound engine” tones on the
FP-60X.
5 The settings are saved for each tone.
1. Press the [Function] button, and then use the [K] [J]
buttons to select “Piano Designer.”
2. Press the [Function] (Enter) button.
The Piano Designer screen appears.
3. Use the [K] [J] buttons to select the item that you want to
edit.
4. Use the [–] [+] buttons to adjust the value.
5. When you’re nished using Piano Designer, press the [Exit]
button.
A conrmation message appears.
If you decide to cancel, press the [Exit] (Exit) button.
6. Use the [J] button to select “Yes,” and then press the
[Function] (Enter) button.
The Piano Designer settings are saved.
MEMO
If you decide to exit without saving the settings, use the [K] button
to select “No” and then press the [Function] (Enter) button.
Piano designer parameters
* The parameters that can be edited dier between the FP-90X and the
FP-60X.
Parameter 90X 60X Value Explanation
Lid
t t
0–6
Adjusts the extent to which the lid of the grand
piano is open.
The sound will become more mellow as you
close the lid of the piano in the screen. The
sound will become brighter as you open the lid
of the piano in the screen.
Key O Noise
t
–
O, 1–10
Adjusts the action noise that is heard when
you release a key.
Higher settings produce a louder action noise.
Hammer Noise
t
–
-5–0–+5
Adjusts the sound produced when the
hammer of an acoustic piano strikes the string.
Higher settings will produce a louder sound of
the hammer striking the string.
Duplex Scale
t
–
O, 1–10
Adjusts the sympathetic vibrations of an
acoustic piano’s Duplex Scale.
Higher settings will make the sympathetic
vibration louder.
Parameter 90X 60X Value Explanation
Full Scale String
Res.
t
–
O, 1–10
Adjusts the resonant sound of an acoustic
piano (the sound produced by the strings of
previously-pressed keys vibrating in sympathy
with newly played notes, or the sound of other
strings vibrating in sympathy with the notes
you play while pressing the damper pedal).
Higher settings produce louder sympathetic
resonance.
String
Resonance
–
t
O, 1–10
This adjusts the string resonance of the
acoustic piano sound (the sympathetic
vibrations of strings for previously played
notes that occur when you play another note).
Higher settings will make the sympathetic
vibration louder.
Damper
Resonance
–
t
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 make the sympathetic
vibration louder.
Key O
Resonance
t t
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.
Cabinet
Resonance
t
–
O, 1–10
Adjusts the body resonance of the grand
piano itself.
Higher values will produce a larger body
resonance.
Soundboard
Type
t
–
1–5
Selects how the soundboard of the acoustic
piano will resonate.
You can choose from ve dierent types of
resonance.
Damper Noise
t
–
O, 1–10
Adjusts the damper noise of the acoustic piano
sound (the sound of the damper releasing the
strings when you press the damper pedal).
Soft Pedal
t
–
1–10
Adjusts the depth of the eect that occurs
when you press the soft pedal. With higher
values, the change will be greater.
Single Note
Tuning
t t
-50–0–+50
Species a method of tuning (stretch tuning)
that is distinctive to the piano, in which the
high register is tuned slightly sharper and the
low register is tuned slightly atter.
Single Note
Volume
t t
-50–0
Adjusts the volume of each key. Higher
settings increase the volume.
Single Note
Character
t t
-5–0–+5
Adjusts the tonal character of each key. Higher
settings produce a harder tone, and lower
settings produce a softer tone.
Reset Setting
Here’s how the Piano Designer settings of the selected sound can be
returned to their factory-set state.
1. Press the [Function] (Enter) button.
If you decide to cancel, press the [Exit] button.
2. Use the [J] button to select “Yes,” and then press the
[Function] (Enter) button.
The settings return to their factory-set state.
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Personalizing Your Piano Sound (Piano Designer)
What is the duplex scale?
The Duplex Scale is a system of sympathetically vibrating strings sometimes
included in grand pianos.
These sympathetically vibrating strings are not struck directly with hammers,
but sound by vibrating in sympathy with the vibrations of other strings. By
resonating with the overtones, these strings add richness and brilliance to the
sound. These sympathetic strings are added only to the high register above
approximately C4. Since they do not have a damper (a mechanism that stops
them from sounding), they will continue
sounding even after you play a note and
then release it to stop the sound of the string that was actually struck.
88-key settings
1. Select the Single Note Tuning, Single Note Volume, or Single
Note Character, and press the [Function] (Enter) button.
2. Play the key that you want to edit, and use the [–] [+] buttons to
adjust the settings for that key.
MEMO
You can use the [K] [J] buttons to move to a dierent 88-key
parameter.
3. Press the [Exit] button to return to the previous screen.