Operation Manual

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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
PRECAUTIONS ..................................................4
NOTICE...............................................................6
Included Accessories ...........................................7
About the Manuals ..............................................7
Main Features ......................................................8
Introduction
Panel Controls and Terminals ..........................10
Getting Started — Playing the Clavinova as a
Piano ..................................................................12
Turning the power on ......................................................12
Music rest...........................................................................13
Music braces ......................................................................14
Adjusting the display contrast — [CONTRAST].........14
Setting the volume — [MASTER VOLUME]...............14
Using headphones.............................................................15
Realistic soundboard effects
— [S. BOARD SPEAKER] ...............................................15
Using the pedals ................................................................16
Using the metronome — METRONOME [ON/OFF] 17
Touch Response ................................................................17
Introduction to the controls............................................18
Maintenance ......................................................19
Advanced Functions
Playing various musical instrument sounds
(Voices) ..............................................................20
Selecting Voices.................................................................20
Listening to the Voice Demo Songs ...............................21
Enhancing and customizing the sound
— [BRILLIANCE]/[REVERB]/[CHORUS]..................23
Playing two Voices simultaneously (Dual) ...................24
Splitting the keyboard range and playing two different
Voices (Split mode) ..........................................................25
Playing back Songs ............................................27
Playing back a Song ..........................................................27
Useful playback functions................................................30
Playing a one-hand part
— Part Cancel function (MIDI Songs) ..........................31
Repeat function (MIDI Songs)........................................32
Recording your performance ............................33
Recording method ............................................................33
Recording without specifying the Part
(MIDI/Audio data format) ..............................................34
Multi Recording of specific Parts (MIDI data format)36
Other recording techniques.............................................37
Handling Song files — [FILE/SONG SETTING]
........................................................................... 41
Basic File operation.......................................................... 42
Deleting files — “Delete”................................................. 43
Renaming files — “Rename” .......................................... 43
Copying files — “Copy” .................................................. 44
Moving files — “Move” ................................................... 45
Making folders in the USB storage device
— “MakeFolder”............................................................... 45
Formatting a USB storage device — “Format” ............ 46
Converting a MIDI Song to an Audio Song during
playback — “MIDItoAUDIO” ....................................... 46
Confirming the amount of free memory area and all
memory area on the USB storage device
— “DriveProperty” .......................................................... 47
Automatically selecting a Song when connecting the USB
storage device — “SongAutoOpen”............................... 48
Changing the type of characters on the display
— “CharacterCode” ......................................................... 48
Connections ...................................................... 49
Connectors ........................................................................ 49
Connecting a USB storage device .................................. 51
Connecting a computer................................................... 52
Connecting external MIDI devices................................ 53
Detailed Settings
Parameter List ................................................... 54
Detailed settings for recording and playback
— [FILE/SONG SETTING] .............................. 57
Detailed settings for the metronome
— METRONOME [SETTING] ......................... 60
Detailed settings for Voices
— [VOICE SETTING] ...................................... 61
Detailed settings for acoustic effects ................ 67
Other settings — [FUNCTION] ....................... 68
Appendix
Preset Voice List (Detailed) .............................. 75
Message List....................................................... 78
Troubleshooting................................................ 81
Assembling the Clavinova................................. 82
Specifications .................................................... 87
Options.............................................................. 88
Index.................................................................. 89