Owner`s manual

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Contents
The Control Panel ............................................................4
Connections ......................................................................6
Selecting & Playing Voices ...........................................7
■ Playing the Demonstration Tunes ................................8
The Dual Mode..................................................................9
● Adjusting the Balance Between the Dual-mode
Voices ......................................................................9
● Shifting a Dual-mode Voice Up One Octave ...........9
● Slow-attack Strings ..................................................9
● Memorizing the Balance, Strings Type, & Octave
Shift Settings .........................................................10
Brilliance ..........................................................................10
● Memorizing the Brilliance Setting ..........................10
Reverb...............................................................................11
● Adjusting Reverb Depth ........................................11
● Memorizing the Reverb Type & Depth Settings ....11
Touch Sensitivity ...........................................................12
● Memorizing the Touch Sensitivity Setting .............12
The Pedals .......................................................................12
● Soft (Left) Pedal ....................................................12
● Sostenuto (Center) Pedal ......................................12
● Damper (Right) Pedal ............................................12
Transposition..................................................................13
Pitch Control ...................................................................14
● Tuning Up ..............................................................14
● Tuning Down .........................................................14
● To Restore Standard Pitch ....................................14
● The Pitch Display ..................................................14
● Memorizing the Pitch Control Setting ....................14
The Metronome & Tempo Control.............................15
■ The Metronome..........................................................15
● Metronome Volume ...............................................15
● Metronome Time Signature ...................................15
■ Tempo Control ...........................................................15
Disk Playback .................................................................16
● Adjusting the Playback Tempo ..............................17
● Fast Reverse and Forward ....................................17
● Playing Back only One Track ................................17
● Repeat Playback ...................................................17
● Playing Other Types of Music Data .......................17
Using the Recorder .......................................................18
■ Recording...................................................................18
● Changing the Initial Settings ..................................19
● Erasing a Single Track ..........................................20
● If You Record Without First Inserting a Disk … ...20
■ Playback ....................................................................20
Utility Functions.............................................................21
■ Utility 1: Individual key Tuning ...................................21
● To Lower the Pitch of a Single Key .......................21
● To Raise the Pitch of a Single Key ........................21
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To Turn the Individual Key Tune Mode OFF or ON ... 22
■ Utility 2: Save Individual Key Tuning..........................23
■ Utility 3: Load Individual Key Tuning ..........................23
■ Utility 4: Floppy Disk Format ......................................24
■ Utility 5: Song Copy ...................................................25
● Copying to a Different Disk ....................................26
■ Utility 6: Song Delete .................................................26
● Deleting a Single Track .........................................26
■ Utility 7: Disk Playback Track Selection ..................... 27
● Selecting the Playback Track for CLP-156
Track 1/R or 2/L .....................................................27
■ Utility 8: Convert to SMF ............................................27
■ Utility 9: All-song Random Repeat .............................28
■ Utility 10: Standard MIDI File Voice Mode .................29
MIDI Functions ...............................................................30
● A Brief Introduction to MIDI ...................................30
● MIDI “Messages” Transmitted & Received by the
Clavinova ...............................................................30
● MIDI Transmit & Receive Channel Selection ........31
● MIDI Transmit Transpose ......................................31
■ Other MIDI Functions .................................................32
● Local Control ON/OFF ...........................................32
● Program Change ON/OFF ....................................32
● Control Change ON/OFF .......................................33
● The Multi-Timbre Mode .........................................33
● The MIDI Split & Left Local OFF Mode .................33
● The MIDI Split & Right Local OFF Mode ...............34
● Transmitting the Panel Settings ............................34
Factory Preset Recall ...................................................34
Error Messages ..............................................................35
Troubleshooting.............................................................35
Options .............................................................................35
Keyboard Stand Assembly .........................................36
MIDI Data Format ...........................................................38
MIDI Implementation Chart............................................. 40
Specifications .................................................................41