Kawai CP117 - Manuals

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 4 Bottom Vie w Pedals 30.Piano Onl y (pag e 25) This button is used to automatically assign the Concert Grand sound to the Right 1 part. 31.Registrations (pa ge 31) These buttons are used to recall one of the eight panel settings available in the curre...

Basic Controls P. 5 43. Sustain Pedal Sustains the sound after lifting your hands from the keyboard. 44. Headphone Jacks There are two jacks for headphones provided at the left end on the bottom of thepiano. These jacks are used to connect up to two headphones to the CP piano. 45. MIDI Jacks These j...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 6 Over view This manual provides you with all the information you will need in order to take full advantage of the Concert Performer’ s potential. Before you begin learning how to use the specific features, it is important to understand some of the bas...

Basic Controls P. 7 To keep things simple, this manual will refer to the five SELECT buttons along the left side of theLCD screen as L1-L5 . Likewise, the five SELECT buttons along the right side of the screen will be referred to as R1-R5 . The seven SELECT buttons along the bottom of the screen, wh...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 8 Dial The Dial is used to change data values and scroll through options that are displayed on the LCD screen. When you turn the Dial, you will notice that whatever item on the LCD screen is currently selected (highlighted) will be affected. Or in some...

Basic Controls P. 9 Basic Controls This chapter discusses the basic operations that are used to playthe Concert Performer, such as sound selection, Part configurationand effect settings. Selecting a Part to Play When the CP’s main play screen is displayed (For example, when the CP is first turned on...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 10 Splitting the keyboar d. When the LEFT/SPLIT Part is activated, the CP automatically splits the keyboard and only the sound assigned to the LEFT/SPLIT Part will be heard when you play below a specified key (split point) on the keyboard. The default ...

Basic Controls P. 11 Selecting Sounds The Concert Performer has over 600 instrument and drum sounds available from the front panel.You can freely assign any of these sounds to the three Parts. Remember that there is always a soundassigned to each of the Parts, even if some of the Parts are not curre...

Basic Controls P. 13 Mixer This Mixer screen allows you to change the volume, panning, reverb and chorus levels, as well asturn the effect on/off for each Part. To use the Mixer: 1) Press the MIXER button (F1) while on the main play screen.2) Use the F2–F5 and F7 buttons to select which Part you wis...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 14 The Mixer not only lets you set the overall volume level for the Style, but set individual volume levels for the 6 Sections within a Style. T o adjust the individual Section level: 1) On the Mixer screen, press the STYLE MIXER button (F1). The Style...

Basic Controls P. 15 Effects You might have noticed that when you select some of the sounds, the LED indicator for the REVERB,CHORUS, or EFFECTS button is turned on. The reason for this is some of the sounds are set upwith one or more of these effects on as part of their initial setting. Adding an e...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 16 T ype of Re verb Hall 1, Hall 2 Simulates the ambiance of a concert hall or theater . Stage 1, Stage 2 Simulates the ambiance of a small hall or live house. Room 1, Room 2 Simulates the ambiance of a living room or small rehearsal room. Plate Simula...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 18 T o add an Effect: 1) Press the EFFECT button. The EFFECT button LED will light. 2) If you wish to edit the settings, hold down the button for a moment until the Effect Settings screen is displayed. 3) Use the F3–F5 button to turn ON/OFF the Effect ...

Basic Controls P. 19 Effect Types Chorus Simulates the rich character of a vocal choir or string ensemble, by layering aslightly detuned version of the sound over the original to enrich it. Flanger Creates a shifting comb-filter, which adds motion and a “hollow” tone to thesound. Celeste A three-pha...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 20 Effect Priority Guidelines Reverb and Chorus are global effects. In other words, all of the Parts and the Accompaniment Style must share the same Reverb and Chorus type. However each of these Parts can have a different amount of Reverb and Chorus ap...

Basic Controls P. 21 • The LED Indicator on the EFFECT and CHORUS buttons will be on only when the active Priority Part has these effects turned on. Example Assume that your CP is set up according to the following chart: RIGHT1 RIGHT 2 LEFT INDICATOR Part Inactive Active Active Effect On On On On If...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 22 T ranspose and Octa ve Shift T ranspose raises or lowers the CP’ s pitch in half- step increments. Octave Shift does the same but in octave increments. T ranspose can be especially useful when you have learned a song in one key and have to play it i...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 24 Metronome Rhythm is one of the most important elements when learning music. It is important to practice playing the piano at the correct tempo and with a steady rhythm. The CP piano’ s metronome is a tool that helps you to achieve this by providing ...

Basic Controls P. 25 Piano Only The Piano Only button provides a way to quickly set the Concert Performer up to play the ConcertGrand piano sound. Pressing the Piano Only button immediately turns off all Parts except the Right1 part and sets the Right 1 sound to Concert Grand. The Piano Only button ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 26 Using a Style The Concert Performer contains 182 built-in Styles for you to play along with, covering a wide variety of musical genres. Y ou can choose from a simple drum or percussion accompaniment or add in a fully orchestrated arrangement. In add...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 28 • The CP remembers the last Style selection that you made within each category while the power is on. When you press a STYLE button, the CP will automatically select the Style previously chosen in the same category . • When you switch from one Style...

Basic Controls P. 29 Fingered The player must play at least three notes of a chord below the split point (LEFT/SPLIT Part) before the ACC System will recognize the chord type. (See page 158for chord table.) One Finger Uses a simplified chord method that allows beginners to specify a chord type bypla...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 30 • When you play along with the Auto-accompaniment using the Fingered or Full Keyboard modes, you may hear two sounds playing the chords: one is selected by the front panel and the other is pre programmed for the Style. This is because the sounds use...

Basic Controls P. 31 • Among the settings contained in the 1-2 Play setting are the Sounds assigned to the keyboard Parts (Right 1/2, Left), Tempo, and Mixer settings. Registration A Registration is a setup that remembers the panel settings along with many other performancefunctions so that you can ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 32 • The CP remembers how the front panel was setup before you chose a Registration so that after exiting the Registration, the prior settings will be restored. • It is not necessary to always begin with the REGIST GROUPS button when selecting a Regist...

Basic Controls P. 33 • The following settings can be stored in a Registration: S o u n d s ( R i g h t 1 , R i g h t 2 , L e f t ) , S p l i t P o i n t , S t y l e a n d Va r i a t i o n , F i l l - i n m o d e , Te m p o ,Accompaniment settings, Mixer settings, Chorus settings, Effect settings, Ha...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 34 T o rename the Registration Gr oup: 1) Press the REGIST GROUPS button. 2) Use the L and R buttons to select the Group to rename. 3) Press the NAME (F6, F7) button. L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 Use the L and R b...

Basic Controls P. 35 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 F1 Takes you to the previous menu. F2, F3 Moves the cursor over the characters in the name.F4, F5 Selects a character.F6, F7 Saves the name Style Lock Pressing the STYLE LOCK button keeps the current Style, even...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 36 Song Stylist With over 600 Sounds and 182 Styles, it can sometimes be difficult to decide the best settings with which to play a song. Even if you are very familiar with the Concert Performer , you may want a quick way to change the CP’ s setup to p...

Basic Controls P. 39 • You may use different Sounds, Styles, Tempo and other settings to customize to your taste. • When choosing a Song Stylist created by you (or someone else) and saved to floppy disk, there may be a recorded melody and chord track available. The chord track, called the Auto Chord...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 40 Harmony When the Auto-Accompaniment is on, you can use Harmony function. The Harmony function automatically adds notes to your right hand (melody) part to help you sound more professional. This function analyzes the notes you play and automatically ...

Basic Controls P. 41 To use Harmony: 1) Press the HARMONY button. The button will be lit to show that it is active. The Harmony symbol will also appear in the Main Screen. 2) To change the Harmony type, hold down the Harmony button for a moment until the Harmony Select menu is displayed. 3) Choose t...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 42 Recording a Song independent tracks separately. In addition, with Advanced Recorder you can edit your recorded data one measure or even one note at a time. Song data created on other instruments in the Standard MIDI File format (SMF) can also be loa...

Recording a Song P. 43 • You may resume recording from the bar where you stopped by repeating these steps. You can also change sounds, tempo, and make other changes to the panel settings before you continuerecording. • To Re-record or make other changes to a previously recorded section of a song, pl...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 44 Pa rt Status The playback and record status for the RIGHT/ LEFT Parts and the Style are displayed at the bottom of the LCD screen. Whether you are in the process of recording or playing back your song it is helpful to know the status for each of the...

Recording a Song P. 45 2) Press the REC button.3) Press the appropriate F button(s) below the LCD screen to set the desired Part(s) to REC.4) Begin recording by following step 2 in the “To Record” section on page 42. Remember Re-Recording a Part completely erases the previously recorded performance ...

Recording a Song P. 47 Advanced Recording The Advanced Recorder is a full featured sixteen track MIDI recorder that includes many of thesame professional features found on dedicated MIDI sequencing (recording) devices. In additionto sixteen MIDI tracks the CP Advanced recorder provides a separate St...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 48 Real-time Recording With Real-time record, the CP records your performance as you are playing it, in real-time. Y ou can select any of the sixteen instrument tracks or the Style and tempo tracks to record, but you can only record on one track at a t...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 50 4) At this point, you can start recording or go to another menu to continue setting up. • Y ou can make changes on the Mixer screen at any time except while the CP is busy recording. The Mixer screen is accessible from the Advanced Recorder menu, T ...

Recording a Song P. 51 Track Settings The Track Settings screen shows you the Play, Record, and Mute status for each track. In additionit shows you what sound is assigned for the sixteen instrument tracks. You can change the trackstatus or select a different sound for each track. The Track Status sc...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 52 • As discussed in the above section, MIDI Rec enables the CP to record incoming MIDI data from an external MIDI instrument connected to the MIDI jacks. Y ou can set more than one track to MIDI REC, enabling the CP to record on several tracks simulta...

Recording a Song P. 53 5) Press the L4 button to specify the bar where you want the Loop to end.6) Press the MENU button (F1) to return to the Advanced Recorder menu when you are finished. • You can turn looping on and off in the Mixer menu. However, you still have to set the Start and End Bar from ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 54 • Before you use Style Paste, you need to make sure T racks 9-16 are empty or don’ t contain important data. When the Style is pasted, the data from the Style track will be pasted into these tracks and will replace any existing data. T o use Style P...

Recording a Song P. 55 To use Punch-in recording: 1) Select Punch In/Out in the Advanced Recorder menu.2) Use the L and R buttons to select the options and change their values using the Dial. Select AUTO with the R5 button to have the CP automatically handle the punching in/out while you play. 3) Pr...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 56 • If you set the CP to Punch-In at the very first measure of the song, the metronome will automatically play a two-measure intro to assist you with the timing. These “ticks” will not be recorded as part of the track. Punch-In recor ding using the pe...

Recording a Song P. 57 Song Edit Song Edit lets you name, transpose, and change initial tempo settings for your song. To edit the song: 1) Select Song Edit from the Advanced Recorder menu. The Song Edit screen is displayed.2) Use the L and R buttons to select the setting that you wish to change, the...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 58 Bar Editing Bar Edit contains many useful editing functions. Y ou can edit your song one bar or any number of bars at a time. T o use Bar Edit: 1) In the Advanced Recorder menu select Bar Edit (R2). The Bar Edit screen will be displayed. 2) Use the ...

Recording a Song P. 59 • Resolution determines the timing value the quantize function will use to shift the notes you want to quantize. For example, setting a quarter note resolution will shift all of the quantized notes tothe nearest quarter beat. Setting an eighth note resolution will shift all of...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 60 • Range sets up timing “borders” around the Resolution value you specify . Notes within these borders will not be quantized and notes outside the borders will be moved to the nearest beat specified by the resolution value (Quarter note, Eighth note,...

Recording a Song P. 61 Copy The Copy function allows you to copy a section or all of the data on a track to another location.The destination may be on the same track, or it can be on another track. • The destination of the copied data must either be: 1) A location that already has data in it.2) The ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 62 Delete Delete completely erases and removes the bars that you specify . F1 Returns you to the Advanced Recorder menu. F2 Undoes the deletion. This option is not always available. F7 Proceed with the deletion. L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 ...

Recording a Song P. 63 Insert The Insert function duplicates data from specified bars and copies it to a certain location. However,the current data at the destination is not erased, but instead is pushed back to make room for thecopied data. • If you just wish to insert empty bars into a track, sele...

Recording a Song P. 65 Erase Erases data in the bars that you specify, and leaves them as empty bars. F1 Takes you to the Advanced Recorder menu. F2 Undoes the Erase. This option is not always available. F7 Proceeds with the Erase. L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 66 Merg e Merge combines data from two tracks. Y ou can make complex musical phrases using several tracks, then combine them together on one track. Remember that there can only be one instrument sound assigned to each track, so the resulting merged tra...

Recording a Song P. 67 Gate Time Modify Gate time refers to the length of a note as a percentage. Whatever the length of a note is when it isfirst recorded, this value is considered as its Gate time of 100%. By editing the length of the note,you can shorten it to 10% or lengthen it to 300% of the or...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 68 V elocity Modify V elocity refers to how hard a key is struck, which translates into the dynamics of how loud the produced sound is. A note’ s V elocity is a numerical value from 1-127. When editing the note V elocities in your recording, you can ch...

Recording a Song P. 69 Clock Move In the Resolution section of this manual we learned that the CP Advanced recorder divides eachbeat in a bar into 96 clock beats, also expressed as a quarter note. Therefore there are 48 clocks pereighth note, and 24 clocks per sixteenth note and so on. This relation...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 70 T ranspose This will transpose the notes within a specified bar(s) up or down in half-step increments. R2 Adjusts transposition amount in half-step increments from -24 to 24. F1 T akes you to the Advanced Recor der menu. F2 Undoes the transposition....

Recording a Song P. 71 Event Edit Event Edit enables you to examine and edit your performance note by note. To use Event Edit: 1) Select Event Edit in the Advanced Recorder menu. The Event Edit screen will be displayed.2) Choose the track that you want to edit using the TRACK buttons (F3, F4). Note ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 72 5) Select the function that you would like to apply to this event. Y ou can select DELETE (R1) to remove the event, INSERT (R2) to create a new event at any specified location, or REPLACE (R3) to change the existing event. Enter new values in the po...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 74 Creating Y our Own Styles The Conductor allows you to edit the Style data and personalize it to your taste. The Style Maker allows you to create Styles of your own. There are three ways of using this feature: Make a New Style, Edit an Existing Style...

Creating Your Own Styles P. 75 To use Easy Edit: 1) Select the Style and the Variation (1–4) that you would like to edit.2) Press the EDIT button. The LCD screen will display the Easy Style Edit screen.3) Use the F2–F7 buttons to select a Section to edit.4) Use the L buttons to select the desired Ph...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 76 Resetting the Style The CP always remembers the original Preset Style settings. If you wish to restore those factory settings before saving your edits, simply press the RESET button in the Conductor . • If you would like to revert all Styles back to...

Creating Your Own Styles P. 77 Making a Style with Get Phrase from Recorder This is the most flexible way to create a new Style.You can take music that you have recorded using the CP’s own Recorder and convert it into Styledata. Or, you can use an external MIDI device or a personal computer to creat...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 78 T o create a Style: 1) Press the ADVANCED RECORDER button. The LCD scr een will display the Advanced Recorder menu. 2) In the Advanced Recorder menu, press the Style Maker button ( R4 ). The LCD screen will display the first Style Maker screen. 3) T...

Creating Your Own Styles P. 79 5) Use the F2–F7 buttons to select which track from the Recorder has the data that you want used for each Section of the Style. You can switch off a Section by pressing its F button twice, and the Sectionwill not be created in your Style. 6) Use the L and R buttons to ...

Creating Your Own Styles P. 81 Auto-accompaniment System The Concert Performer Auto-Accompaniment System (ACC) analyzes your playing and adjusts thenote data recorded in the different Phrases in a pattern to match the root key and chord type youare playing. The ACC System also shifts the octave for ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 82 point to E, the Phrase would begin to be transposed up one octave whenever you play a chord with an E as the root. Experiment with the different Chordal and Scalic settings to find the one that works best with each Phrase. Bass Limit This is an opti...

Creating Your Own Styles P. 83 Making a Style with Phrase Combination Phrase Combination is similar to Easy Style Edit in the Conductor. Phrase Combination however,lets you not only combine Phrases from within the selected Style but you can also combine Phrasesfrom any of the Styles in the CP to cre...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 86 Editing Sounds Even though the Concert Performer has over 600 high quality instrument and drum sounds built-in, there may be times when you would like to change some of the qualities of a sound to really get the tonal character that you have in mind...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 88 If you wish to play a song without any intentions to make permanent changes or additional recordings, you can use the CP’ s Disk Song Play function to load the song very quickly for playback. Using the disk drive in this way makes the Concert Perfor...

Playing Songs From a Floppy Disk P. 89 • The CP can also recognize most songs formatted for the PianoDisc player piano system and songs formatted for Yamaha’s Disk Orchestra Collection. (Please check with your Kawai dealeror distributor for further information). Selecting a Song from Disk A single f...

Playing Songs From a Floppy Disk P. 91 Controlling Playback of a Song As the song plays, you can adjust the tempo, play or sing along with on the keyboard, and even turnon/off the different instrument parts (tracks) in the song.The status of the song parts is displayed at the bottom of the LCD scree...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 94 As you play a CM song, a handy Note Navigator display helps you keep track of where you are in the music, as well as suggesting how the rhythm of the song should be tapped out on the keys. Many of the CM songs have lyrics that can be displayed as th...

Playing with the Concert Magic P. 95 Performing a Concert Magic Song Playing the Concert Magic song you’ve selected is very easy. Just begin tapping any key on thekeyboard and the song will play. Concert Magic plays the correct notes of the song, but you mustprovide the rhythm. Being familiar with h...

Playing with the Concert Magic P. 97 • When you reach the end of the song, press any key one more time. This will not produce sound, but instead resets the song to the beginning for another performance. • The Bouncing Ball only works with song files that are specifically designed for Concert Magic t...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 98 • Y ou can also activate the RIGHT2 Part to use as a layer (additional sound) for the melody . Y o u can also select any new sound for the RIGHT2 part. T urn off all Parts except the one you wish to change, and then select the new sound. Don’t forge...

Playing with the Concert Magic P. 99 Concert Magic Song Arrangements Concert Magic songs are specially arranged so that they will work well with your key tapping. Eachof the 176 CM songs falls into one of three categories of musical arrangements of varying difficulty. EASY BEAT These are the easiest...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 100 Creating a Concert Ma gic Song Y ou can also use Concert Magic to play a song that isn’ t one of the 176 built-in titles. Y ou can record a new song using the Concert Performer’ s Recorder and then save on a floppy disk as a Standard MIDI File (SMF...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 102 System Menu The System Menu contains all of the functions that affect the overall performance of the CP piano. This includes functions such as the System settings, tuning, and MIDI Setup. By adjusting these settings you can tailor the CP’ s perform...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 104 T uning T uning allows you to adjust the CP’ s pitch. Y ou may need to adjust the tuning when you play with other instruments. The master pitch is displayed in Hertz. The range of adjustment is from 427.0 to 453.0 Hz. The factory preset value is se...

System Menu P. 105 Touch Curve When playing a piano, the volume of the sound produced increases in direct relation to how hard akey is struck. The CP’s Normal Touch curve offers the standard feel of an acoustic piano for practicingmusic. The CP offers five other touch curves ranging from light to he...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 106 Virtual V oicing V oicing is a technique used by piano technicians to mold the character of a piano’ s sound. The V oicing function lets you change the CP piano’ s tone quality by choosing one of four types of voicings. Normal Produces the normal t...

System Menu P. 107 Resonance When the sustain pedal is depressed on an acoustic piano, all the dampers are lifted up allowing thestrings to vibrate freely. In this condition, when you play a note not only will the strings for the noteyou played vibrate but other strings will vibrate due to sympathet...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 108 Concert Ma gic Sound This function determines which sounds the Concert Magic songs will be played with. Preset Plays all the Concert Magic songs with the Preset Sounds assigned to each song. Piano Plays all the Concert Magic songs with the Concert ...

System Menu P. 109 Pedal Assign The Soft and Sostenuto pedals on the Concert Performer function as much more than just traditionalpiano pedals. These pedals can be assigned to control various other functions on the CP piano. Damper Pedal (Right) Sustain only Can be activated or deactivated separatel...

System Menu P. 113 Effect for Sound This function determines whether or not the Preet Effects settings assigned to each Sound will beused or not. Preset The Preset Effect settings for each Sound will be used. This is the default setting. Panel The preset Effect settings for each Sound will not be us...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 114 T emperament The CP offers not only equal temperament (the modern standard) but also immediate access to temperaments popular during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Y ou can also create your own User tuning T emperament as well. 1) Select T em...

System Menu P. 115 Brief explanation of temperaments Temperament Keys Limitless modulation of the key became available only after the invention of Equal temperament.When you use a temperament other than Equal temperament, you must carefully choose the key toplay in. For example, if the song you are ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 116 W erckmeister III, Kirnberger III T emperament These two temperaments are placed in between Meantone and Pythagorean. For music with few accidentals, this temperament produces the beautiful chords of the mean tone, but as accidentals increase, the ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 118 MIDI Menu The letters MIDI stand for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, an international standard for connecting MIDI equipped synthesizers, drum machines, and other electronic instruments so that they can exchange data. Personal computers can a...

System Menu P. 119 Clock Clock is a data code that a MIDI instrument uses as the reference for its Tempo settings as well asStyle Start/Stop commands. When it is set to INTERNAL, the CP uses its own built-in clock tocontrol tempo settings. When set to EXTERNAL, the CP reads the clock data that it re...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 120 T ransmit MIDI Data On page two of the MIDI Setting menu you can determine what MIDI data will be transmitted from the CP . “Keyboard = On/Off” Determines whether or not note data that is generated by the keys being played will be transmitted. “Pro...

System Menu P. 121 On page three of the MIDI Settings menu, you can determine which MIDI channels the CP willreceive MIDI data on. The CP can receive MIDI data on all 16 MIDI channels at once or only certainMIDI channels. Channel Receive On/Off Each of the 16 MIDI channels can be set separately to O...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 122 MIDI Accordion On page four of the MIDI Settings Menu you can configure the CP to be played from a MIDI Accordion. L2 Selects receive channel for the Chord (Left) part. Choose 1-16. R2 Selects receive channel for the Melody (Right1) part. Choose 1-...

System Menu P. 123 Power Up Settings This determines whether the CP stores your preferred panel and system settings as the defaultsettings and applies them automatically when the instrument is turned on. Select Save Current Settings (L2) in the Power Up Setting menu to save the current panel setting...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 124 Soft Reset The Soft Reset function allows you to return all of the User Settings back to the original Factory Settings. Y ou can instantly reset all of the user settings or only the ones you want to Reset at the touch of a button. T o perform a Sof...

System Menu P. 125 Software Version This function is used to show what system software version is currently installed in the CP. To show the software version: 1) Press the Software Version button (R2) on page two in the System menu.2) The software version will appear in the LCD screen. F1 Takes you ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 126 Screen Hold Most of the on-screen menus that you work with on the Concert Performer will remain displayed until you select something or press a particular button. However , some screens may be displayed only temporarily , switching back to a main s...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 128 disk so the student may play along. This can greatly assist the learning process. Finally , there are numerous sites on theW orld Wide W eb dedicated to the sharing and selling of MIDI music that can be downloaded and played on your Concert Perform...

Floppy Disk Operations P. 129 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 L2 Loads data from a floppy disk. L3 Saves data onto a floppy disk. L4 Erases data from a floppy disk. R2 Formats a floppy disk. R3 Plays the song data from a floppy disk.(See page 88.) Saving Data to a...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 130 Use the L and R buttons to select the type of data to save. L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 F1 T akes you to the Disk menu. T o save your data: 1) In the Disk menu, select SAVE (L3). The Disk Save menu will be di...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 132 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 Use the L and R buttons to select the type of data to load. F1 T akes you to the disk menu. Loading Data from a Flopp y Disk This function allows you to retrieve the stored data fr...

Floppy Disk Operations P. 135 L 1 L 2 L 3 L 4 L 5 F 1 F 2 F 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 Use the L and R buttons to select the data. F1 Takes you to the previous menu. F2, F3 Displays more selections.F4 Displays the “All” data file if present. F5 Displays individual files. F7 Proceeds to th...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 136 Formatting a Floppy Disk Before a floppy disk can be used to save data for the first time, it will need to be formatted. This simply means that the disk must be “prepared” to hold data. The Concert Performer can read and write to MS-DOS formatted d...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 138 There are times when you might not have the Owner’ s Manual at your side, and you need an explanation of a button or feature. Fortunately , there are built-in Help guides to give you a hand. The Help function provides a basic introduction and overv...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 140 Using the Demonstrations There are two types of Demonstrations programmed in the CP piano. Sound Category Demos Each Sound category has a song, or songs, that demonstrate the sound choices and capabilities found in the category . Style Category Dem...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano Preset Sounds Appendices Appendices PIANO P A GE 1 P A GE 2 P A GE 3 P A GE 4 Concert Grand Mellow Grand Jazz Grand New Age Piano Studio Grand Rock Grand Crystal EP New Age Piano 2 Modern Piano Honky T onk Piano & Guitar New Age Piano 3 Electric Grand...

Appendice P. 143 STRING PAGE 1 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 Beautiful Strings String Quartet Violin Ensemble Octave Strings String Ensemble Strings & Brass Cello Ensemble String Sustaining String Ensemble 2 Warm Strings String Bass Ens Synth String Orch Synth Strings Synth Strings 3 Mono Strings String ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano V OCAL & P AD P A GE1 P A GE 2 P A GE 3 P A GE 4 Choir Aahs Choir Aahs 2 Slow Choir Halo 2 V oice Oohs Humming Breathy Choir Brightness 2 Itopia Choir Ooh New Age 3 W arm Pad Sine Pad Choir & String New Age 4 Brightness Halo Bright W arm Pad Atmos...

Appendice P. 145 BASS PAGE 1 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 Acoustic Bass Acoustic Bass 2 Octave Fretless Electric Bass Finger Slap Bass Poly Synth Bass Finger Bass Warm Synth Bass Clavi Bass 2 Pick Bass Clavi Bass Ac Bass & Piano Fretless Bass Hammer Bass Elec Bass & Piano Ac Bass & Ride Elec Bass &...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano DRUM P A GE 1 P A GE 2 P A GE 3 P A GE 4 Standard Kit T impani Sleigh Bells Soft Timpani Jazz Kit Rolling Timpani T riangle Soft Timpani Roll Brush Kit T aiko Drums Repeating Castanet Orch Cymbal & BD Room Kit Melodic T oms Cym & Bass Drum Finger ...

Appendice P. 147 Preset Styles SWING & BIG BAND 50’S & 60’S POP & ROCK PAGE 1 PAGE 1 PAGE 2 PAGE1 PAGE2 Fast Big Band 50’s Rock 50’s Rock 3 70’s R&B 70’s Country Rock Fast Big Band 2 50’s Rock 2 60’s Rock 70’s R&B 2 70’s Pop Rock Medium Big Band 50’s Rockabilly 60’s Rock 2 Disco ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano LA TIN & ISLAND KID & HOLIDA Y TRADITIONAL P A GE 1 P A GE 1 P A GE2 P A GE1 P A GE2 Bossa Nova Kids March Holiday 4/4 Foxtrot Cha Cha 2 Bossa Nova 2 Kids 6/8 March Holiday T wo Beat Soft Shoe Polka 2 Salsa Kids 2 Beat Holiday Shuffle Polka T orch...

Appendice P. 149 A Achy Breaky HeartAin't Misbehavin'Ain't No WomanAin't Too ProudAll I Wanna DoAll Of MeAll Shook UpAlley CatAloha OeAlways A WomanAlways On My MindAmazing GraceAmericaAmerican PieAnnie's SongAnniversary WaltzAnything GoesArthur's ThemeAs Time Goes ByAt The HopAuld Lang SyneAura Lee...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano Children’ s Songs T winkle, T winkle , Little Star. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MP ✔ I’m A Little T eapot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MP ✔ This Old Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano T a ble of Chor d Types This table describes the fingering of 61 types of chords, including inversions, that the CP piano recognizes. All these are represented here in the key of C, but of course any transposition of these chords to other keys apply . Ent...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano A. Using External Speakers The Concert Performer has an amplifier and built-in speakers and together , they produce a powerful sound. However, for larger venues or outdoor performances, you may need to use additional amplification and speaker systems. Sta...

Appendice P. 161 D. Using the Concert Performer with an External MIDI Instrument MIDI lets you expand the creative possibilities of the CP byconnecting it to an external MIDI device or personal computer. Use a MIDI cable to connect the CP’s MIDI Out jack to the otherdevice’s MIDI In. Likewise, conne...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano USB The Concert Performer can be connected with a personal computer with a USB cable for exchanging MIDI data. Y ou need a USB driv er installed in your computer . [For Windows XP/Me users] A standard USB driver is already installed in your computer . Y o...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano Bank Category Sound Name Prog MSB LSB PIANO Concert Grand 1 121 0 Studio Grand 1 121 1 Modern Piano 2 121 0 Electric Grand 3 121 0 Piano Octaves 1 95 1 Classic EP 5 121 0 Modern EP 6 121 0 Modern EP 2 6 121 1 60’s EP 5 121 3 T remolo EP 5 95 1 Mellow Gran...

Appendice P. 172 MIDI Implementation Char t MODEL: Kawai Digital Piano CP117 D ATE : JUNE 2006 V ERSION 1.0 Function T ransmitted *1 Recognized Remarks Basic Default 1 1-16 Channel Changed 1-16 1-16 Mode Default Mode 3 Mode 3 Messages X Mode 3, 4 Altered ***** Note 36-96 0-127 Number T rue voice ***...

Specifications CP117 Keyboard 88 Weighted Keys , Advanced Hammer Action IV Polyphony Maximum 96 Preset Sounds Over 600 including Drum kits Styles 182 Styles (4 Variations per Style) Maximum 20 User Styles Style Controls Start/Stop, Intro/Ending (2 per Style), Fill-in (4 per Style), Fade Out, Sync St...