Kawai CP205/CP185 - Manual

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 2 9. Style (page 26) These buttons are used to select an Accompaniment Style to play along with. 10. Accompaniment (page 28) These buttons are used to turn the Auto-Accompaniment function on/off, and selectthe Auto-Accompaniment mode. 11. 1-2 Play (pag...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 4 Front Terminals Pedals 31. Piano Only (page 25) This button is used to automatically assign the Concert Grand sound to the Right 1part. 32. Registrations (page 31) These buttons are used to recall one of the eight panel settings available in thecurre...

Basic Controls P. 5 44. Sostenuto Pedal Depressing this pedal after playing the keyboard and before releasing the keyssustains the sound of only the keys just played. This pedal can also be assigned tocontrol other functions. (See page 128) 45. Sustain Pedal Sustains the sound after lifting your han...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 6 Overview This manual provides you with all the information you will need inorder to take full advantage of the Concert Performer’s potential.Before you begin learning how to use the specific features, it isimportant to understand some of the basic id...

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 LCDscreen.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 ca...

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 keyboard. When the LEFT/SPLIT Part is activated, the CP automatically splits the keyboard and only thesound assigned to the LEFT/SPLIT Part will be heard when you play below a specified key (splitpoint) on the keyboard. The default spl...

Basic Controls P. 11 Portamento for the Solo Part The Solo Part is monophonic (only plays one note at a time) regardless of which sound is assignedto it. You can use Portamento on this Part. Portamento is a gradual slide in pitch from one note tothe next, and is useful for adding very expressive qua...

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–F7 buttons to select which Part you wish to ad...

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 volumelevels for the 6 Sections within a Style. To adjust the individual Section level: 1) On the Mixer screen, press the STYLE MIXER button (F1). The Style M...

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 Type of Reverb 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 Simulates...

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 Stylemust share the same Reverb and Chorus type. However each of these Parts can have a differentamount of Reverb and Chorus appl...

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: SOLO RIGHT1 RIGHT 2 LEFT INDICATOR Part Inactive Active Inactive Active Effect ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 22 Transpose and Octave Shift Transpose raises or lowers the CP’s pitch in half- step increments. Octave Shift does the same butin octave increments. Transpose can be especially useful when you have learned a song in one key and have to play it inanoth...

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

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 ...

Using a Style The Concert Performer contains 220 built-in Styles for you to playalong with covering a wide variety of musical genres. You canchoose from a simple drum or percussion accompaniment or addin a fully orchestrated arrangement. In addition to the Full Styleswhich provide a full musical arr...

• 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 previouslychosen in the same category. • When you switch from one Style to another while it is running, the new Style will w...

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 196for chord table.) One Finger Uses a simplified chord method that allows beginners to specify a chord type byplaying only one or two ...

• 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 ispre programmed for the Style. This is because the sounds used by the Auto-accompanimentStyle are independent of ...

• Among the settings contained in the 1-2 Play setting are the Sounds assigned to the keyboard Parts (Solo, 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 recall them at ...

• 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 GROUP button when selecting a Registration. If the group you want to use is already sele...

• The following settings can be stored in a Registration: Sounds (Solo, Right1, Right2, Left), Split Point, Style and Variation, Fill-in mode, Tempo,Accompaniment settings, Mixer settings, Chorus settings, Effect settings, Harmony settings,Voicing, Detune, Resonance, Left Pedal functions, Mic Harmon...

To rename the Registration Group: 1) Press the REGIST GROUPS button.2) Use the F1, F2, 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 F1, F2, L and R buttons to select the Group to rename. 4...

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 if another Registra...

Song Stylist With over 900 Sounds and 220 Styles, it can sometimes be difficult to decide the best settings withwhich to play a song. Even if you are very familiar with the Concert Performer, you may want aquick way to change the CP’s setup to play another song. The Song Stylist feature was created ...

• 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 ChordProgression, will pro...

Harmony When the Auto-Accompaniment is on, you can use Harmony function. The Harmony functionautomatically adds notes to your right hand (melody) part to help you sound more professional.This function analyzes the notes you play and automatically adds notes from the Accompanimentchord (shown in the ...

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 the Harmony type using...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 42 Recording a Song up to 16 independent tracks separately. In addition, with AdvancedRecorder you can edit your recorded data one measure or evenone note at a time. There is also a step recording mode in whichyou can enter notes or other MIDI data eve...

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 Part Status The playback and record status for the RIGHT/ LEFT Parts and the Style are displayed at the bottomof the LCD screen. Whether you are in the process of recording or playing back your song it ishelpful to know the status for each of these ...

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 RECORDER 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 prov...

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. • You 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, Tra...

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. You can set more than one track toMIDI REC, enabling the CP to record on several tracks simultane...

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 Tracks 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 andwill replace any existing data. To use Style Paste...

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 berecorded as part of the track. Punch-In recording using the peda...

Recording a Song P. 57 Step Recording Step Recording is a method of recording a song by manually entering notes one after another asdata, instead of playing the keyboard in real-time. This method may be useful when trying to createa phrase with a precise rhythm, or when recording a phrase that is be...

Recording a Song P. 59 • Transpose and Octave Shift can be in effect as you are entering notes. The transposed pitches are the note values that are recorded. • The navigator graphic represents the current bar that you are recording. The partitions represent each beat, and thus the number of partitio...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 60 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 ...

Recording a Song P. 61 Bar Editing Bar Edit contains many useful editing functions. You can edit your song one bar or any number ofbars at a time. To use Bar Edit: 1) In the Advanced Recorder menu select Bar Edit (R3). The Bar Edit screen will be displayed.2) Use the L and R buttons to select the de...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 62 • 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 ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 64 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 al...

Recording a Song P. 65 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 F 6 F 7 R 1 R 2 R 3 R 4 R 5 L...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 66 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 e...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 68 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 ...

Recording a Song P. 69 Merge Merge combines data from two tracks. You can make complex musical phrases using several tracks,then combine them together on one track. Remember that there can only be one instrument soundassigned to each track, so the resulting merged track will play all the combined da...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 70 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 l...

Recording a Song P. 71 Velocity Modify Velocity refers to how hard a key is struck, which translates into the dynamics of how loud theproduced sound is. A note’s Velocity is a numerical value from 1-127. When editing the note Velocities in your recording,you can change them within a +/-100 range of ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 72 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 n...

Recording a Song P. 73 Transpose This will transpose the notes within a specified bar(s) up or down in half-step increments. R2 Adjusts transposition amount in half-stepincrements from -24 to 24. F1 Takes you to the Advanced Recorder menu. F2 Undoes the transposition. This option is not always avail...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 74 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 T...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 76 Creating Your Own Styles The CP can store up to 20 User Styles on board at one time.However since you can also save your original Styles onto a floppydisk, your library of Styles is virtually unlimited. Thanks to the Style Convert Software developed...

Creating Your Own Styles P. 77 Advanced Style Edit This allows you to edit the finer details within a Style. You have controlover each Section’s Sound Assignment, volume level, panning, chorus, andreverb settings. Once you are satisfied with your edits, you can save yourAdvanced Style edits to the U...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 78 Resetting the Style The CP always remembers the original Preset Style settings. If you wish to restore those factorysettings before saving your edits, simply press the RESET button in the Conductor. • If you would like to revert all Styles back to t...

Creating Your Own Styles P. 79 To use Advanced Edit: 1) Select the Style and the Variation (1–4) that you would like to edit.2) In the EASY STYLE EDIT screen, press the MORE button (F1). The Advanced Style Edit screen will be displayed. 3) Use the F2–F7 buttons to select a Section to edit. 4) Use th...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 80 Important Note: If you are using a User Style as the Source Style of your User Conductor, that User Style mustalways be kept at the same location in the CP, or else the User Conductor will not be able to locateit. 6) If you would like to save your e...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 82 Making a New Style This is the most flexible way to create a new Style.You can make a completely new style from scratch or edit an existing style. First, read the explanationbelow about the configuration of a style and understand how a style is made...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 86 15) Press the PRESET TEMPO button (L1) and use the dial to set the default tempo for the style.16) Press the SAVE TO button (L3) and use the Dial to select the location to save your new Style.17) Press the NAME button (L4). Use the F2 and F3 buttons...

Creating Your Own Styles P. 87 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. 88 point to E, the Phrase would begin to be transposed up one octave whenever you play a chord withan E as the root. Experiment with the different Chordal and Scalic settings to find the one that works best with eachPhrase. Bass Limit This is an option...

Creating Your Own Styles P. 89 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. 92 Style Convert Style Convert is a technology originally developed for personal computers by EMC Software. Kawaiis proud to have licensed it for use in our musical instruments. This software reads many of thecommercially available Style data disks mad...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 96 Editing Sounds Even though the Concert Performer has over 900 high qualityinstrument and drum sounds built-in, there may be times when youwould like to change some of the qualities of a sound to really getthe tonal character that you have in mind. T...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 98 Making a User Sound There are two steps to making a User Sound: Editing the effect settings—same as described in theprevious section—and editing the sound’s character. You can adjust six parameters of the sound character: Vibrato Depth, Brightness, ...

Editing Sounds P. 99 To make a User Sound: 1) Select the sound you want to edit and press the SOUND EDIT button (F7). The LCD screen will display the Sound Edit Menu. 2) In the Sound Edit menu, select Make User Sound (L3). The User Sound Settings screen will be displayed. 3) You can edit the setting...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 100 • To select and play your new User Sound, press the USER SOUND button located in the SOUND section of the front panel, then select the desired User Sound. 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 L3 Selects the location w...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 102 If you wish to play a song without any intentions to make permanentchanges or additional recordings, you can use the CP’s Disk SongPlay function to load the song very quickly for playback. Using thedisk drive in this way makes the Concert Performer...

Playing Songs From a Floppy Disk P. 103 • 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 ...

Playing Songs From a Floppy Disk P. 105 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 scre...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 108 As you play a CM song, a handy Note Navigator display helps youkeep track of where you are in the music, as well as suggestinghow the rhythm of the song should be tapped out on the keys. Many of the CM songs have lyrics that can be displayed as the...

Playing with the Concert Magic P. 109 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 ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 110 To play a selected CM song: 1) In the Note Navigator screen press START (F4) if you want to first listen to the song. The CP will play the song. Press the STOP (F4) button to stop. Notice how the Note Navigator displays the rhythm asthe song is pla...

Playing with the Concert Magic P. 111 • 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 ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 112 • You can also activate the RIGHT2 Part to use as a layer (additional sound) for the melody. In addition, if you know the melody to a Concert Magic song you can play along by activating theSOLO Part. Remember, you must play the notes of the melody ...

Playing with the Concert Magic P. 113 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 easies...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 114 Creating a Concert Magic Song You can also use Concert Magic to play a song that isn’t one of the 176 built-in titles. You can recorda new song using the Concert Performer’s Recorder and then save on a floppy disk as a StandardMIDI File (SMF). The ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 116 System Menu The System Menu contains all of the functions that affect the overallperformance of the CP piano. This includes functions such as theSystem settings, tuning, and MIDI Setup. By adjusting these settingsyou can tailor the CP’s performance...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 118 Tuning Tuning allows you to adjust the CP’s pitch. You may need to adjust the tuning when you play withother instruments. The master pitch is displayed in Hertz. The range of adjustment is from 427.0 to 453.0 Hz. Thefactory preset value is set to t...

System Menu P. 119 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 six other touch curves ranging from light to hea...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 120 User Touch Curve You can create your own custom touch curve to fit your playing style. Two User Touch curves canbe saved. To create a User Touch Curve: 1) Press the EDIT button (F7) in the Touch Curve screen. The LCD screen will display the User To...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 122 System EQ The System EQ allows you to adjust the tone character of the CP piano to your taste. In addition toa Flat EQ setting (no EQ), there are four special EQ settings optimized for each of the CP modelsand four general purpose EQ settings. Ther...

System Menu P. 123 To create a User EQ: 1) Select one the ten EQ settings to edit and press the EDIT button (F7). The LCD screen will display the User System EQ screen. 2) Use the F2, F3 buttons to move the cursor and use the Dial to change the value.3) Press the SAVE button (F7) to save the edited ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 124 Virtual Voicing Voicing is a technique used by piano technicians to mold the character of a piano’s sound. TheVoicing function lets you change the CP piano’s tone quality by choosing one of four types of voicings. Normal Produces the normal timbre ...

System Menu P. 125 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. 126 Concert Magic 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 G...

System Menu P. 127 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.With an optional expression pedal connected to the EXP pedal jack, you can a...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 128 EXP Pedal (Optional) Expression The Expression pedal controls the volume of Parts. Expression can beactivated or deactivated separately for each Part. • The pedal assignments made to the Left pedal will be saved as part of a Registration. The pedal...

System Menu P. 131 • You can access this screen by holding down the PORTAMENTO button for a few seconds. Solo Settings This configures the special settings for the Solo part. Since the Solo part allows you to play only one note at a time (monophonic), it is important to selectwhich note will be play...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 132 Video Out This function is used select the type of video signal that will be output by the Video Out Jack. NTSC The TV video signal system mainly used in North American countries and Japan. PAL The TV video signal system mainly used in the European...

System Menu P. 133 Effect for Sound This function determines whether or not the Preset 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 u...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 134 Temperament The CP offers not only equal temperament (the modern standard) but also immediate access totemperaments popular during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.You can also create your own User tuning Temperament as well. 1) Select Temperame...

System Menu P. 135 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. 136 Werckmeister III, Kirnberger III Temperament These two temperaments are placed in between Meantone and Pythagorean. For music with fewaccidentals, this temperament produces the beautiful chords of the mean tone, but as accidentalsincrease, the temp...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 138 MIDI Menu The letters MIDI stand for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, an international standard forconnecting MIDI equipped synthesizers, drum machines, and other electronic instruments so thatthey can exchange data. Personal computers can als...

System Menu P. 139 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. 140 Transmit MIDI Data On page two of the MIDI Setting menu you can determine what MIDI data will be transmitted fromthe CP.“Keyboard = On/Off” Determines whether or not note data that is generated by the keys beingplayed will be transmitted.“Program =...

System Menu P. 141 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. 142 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 Solo (Solo) part.Choose 1-16. L3 Selects receive channel for the Melody (Right1)part. Choose 1-16....

System Menu P. 143 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. 144 Soft Reset The Soft Reset function allows you to return all of the User Settings back to the original FactorySettings. You can instantly reset all of the user settings or only the ones you want to Reset at thetouch of a button. To perform a Soft Re...

System Menu P. 145 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 (R3) 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. 146 Display Control This function controls the background screen design, brightness and Screen Hold of the display. Screen Hold Most of the on-screen menus that you work with on the Concert Performer will remain displayeduntil you select something or p...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 148 Mic Harmony and Effect Mic Harmony This function adds many types of harmony to your mic input coming into the microphone input ofthe CP. Type of Harmony Vocorder Trio (Sub) Octave Duet (Sub) Gender Male to Female Trio Mix (Sub) Octave Duet Up (Sub)...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 150 About Mic Harmonies Many of the microphone harmonies rely upon chord information generated by the Auto-Accompaniment style system. For these harmonies to operate, the ACC button music be ON. Otherharmonies do not rely on the Auto-Accompaniment stys...

Mic Harmony and Effect P. 151 Duet Harmonies create one harmony note in addition to the lead note. Trio harmonies create twoharmony notes in addition to the lead note. Quartet harmonies create three harmony notes inaddition to the lead note. Octave Duet harmonies create one harmony note and one octa...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 152 Mic Effect There are six different Mic Effects available to enhance the audio signal (Voice or instrument sound)coming from the microphone jack. All effects, except the Echo/Vibrato, operate independently ofone another. The Mic Effect function is s...

Mic Harmony and Effect P. 153 Note: The suggestions given for the Gate and Compressor should be considered starting points. Byexperimenting you will find the settings that work best for you. Remember often times it is notnecessary to use any Gating or Compression at all. Echo Adds delay or echoes to...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 154 R2 Turns the Compressor On and Off. R3 Turns the Echo/Vibrato On and Off. R4 Adjusts the Reverb level. F7 Edits the chosen Effect. 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 Adjusts the Mic level. L3 Turns the EQ On and ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 156 CD DISK MEDIA disk so the student may play along. This can greatly assist thelearning process. Finally, there are numerous sites on theWorldWide Web dedicated to the sharing and selling of MIDI music thatcan be downloaded and played on your Concert...

Floppy Disk Operations P. 157 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 106.) R4 Converts oth...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 158 Use the L and R buttons to select the type of datato 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 Takes you to the Disk menu. To save your data: 1) In the Disk menu, select SAVE (L3). The Disk Save menu will be displ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 160 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 datato load. F1 Takes you to the disk menu. Loading Data from a Floppy Disk This function allows you to retrieve the stored data from ...

Floppy Disk Operations P. 163 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. 164 Formatting a Floppy Disk Before a floppy disk can be used to save data for the first time, it will need to be formatted. Thissimply means that the disk must be “prepared” to hold data. The Concert Performer can read and write to MS-DOS formatted di...

CD-R Operations P. 167 Playing an audio CD The operation of the Concert Performer’s CD is similar to a regular CD player. 1) Insert an audio CD in the CD drive and press the CD button on the panel. If the CD is closed (finalized), then the LCD screen will jump to the CD Play screen. If the CD is ope...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 168 To program the playing order: 1) Press the R1 button in the menu and use the Dial to change the play mode to Program.2) Press the L2 button and use the Dial to select the first playing track.3) Press the F7 button to move the cursor to the next pos...

CD-R Operations P. 169 Recording onto a CD You can record any performance on the Concert Performer directly onto a CD-R or CD-RW disc.Your performance can be “live” playing with or without auto-accompaniment styles. It can also bea previously recorded song playing from the Easy or Advanced Recorder,...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 170 Recording Tips and Suggestions • Anyone can have fun making CD recordings and sharing them with family and friends. You do not have to be a professional musician to record your own CD. If you are not a great player, you can firstrecord your song us...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 172 There are times when you might not have the Owner’s Manual atyour side, and you need an explanation of a button or feature.Fortunately, there are built-in Help guides to give you a hand. TheHelp function provides a basic introduction and overview o...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 174 Using the Demonstrations There are five types of Demonstrations programmed in the CP piano. Main Demo An exciting and entertaining long song that shows off the CP’s musical potential as a whole. Function Demos Songs, Text, and Graphics that help ex...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 176 To listen to a Function Demo: 1) Press the DEMO button. The Demonstration menu will be displayed.2) Enter the Function Demo menu by pressing the Function Demo button (F4 or F5).3) Use the L and R buttons to select the topic you want to see. The sel...

Getting Assisted—Help and Demo P. 177 Playing Piano Music The Concert Performer has over five hours of prerecorded PianoMusic available for your listening pleasure. The Piano Music isdivided into three sections: Classical, Contemporary, and Holiday music. You can listen to all selections in a catego...

Getting Assisted—Help and Demo P. 179 Making your Favorites list You can make your Favorites list for each Piano Music category. Ten songs can be programmed inthe order of playback. NOTE: You cannot select between songs in different categories. To make your Favorites list: 1) Select one of the three...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 180 Preset Sounds Appendices Appendices PIANO PAGE 1 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGE 5 Concert Grand Mellow Grand Jazz Grand New Age Piano Piano & Vibes Studio Grand Rock Grand Crystal EP New Age Piano 2 Piano & Guitar 2 Modern Piano Hony Tonk Piano ...

Appendice P. 181 DRAWBAR PAGE 1 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 Be 3 Be More Drawbar Bass Jazz Organ Jazzer Be Nice 16’ Drawbar Jazz Organ 2 Hi-Lo Odd Man 8’ Drawbar Rock Organ Full Organ Screamin’ 5 1/3’ Drawbar Pedal Percussion Mellow Hollow 4’ Drawbar Pedal Percussion 2 Drawbar Drawbar 2 2 2/3’ Drawbar Perc...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 182 WOODWIND PAGE 1 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGE 5 PAGE 6 Ballad Tenor Alto Sax Flute & Mute Tpt Classic Alto Sax Recorder 2 Pan Flute Exp Alto Tenor Sax Flute & Strings Alto Sax 2 Oboe & Bassoon Slow Pan Flute Baritone Sax Soft Alto Sax Octav...

Appendice P. 183 GUITAR PAGE 1 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGE 5 Exp Guitar Nylon Acoustic 3 Mellow Steel Strg Spanish Guitar Electric Guitar 4 Exp Nylon Guitar Steel String 2 Lazz Guitar 2 Folk Guitar Electric Guitar 5 Nylon Acoustic 12 String Nylon Electric Folk Guitar 2 Delayed Elec Gtr Nylon Acoustic ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 184 SPECIALTY PAGE 1 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGE 5 PAGE 6 Strumming Ac Gtr Picking Elec Gtr Accordion Shakuhachi Bag Pipe Kokyu Strumming Ac Gtr 2 Pick/Strum Gtr French Accordion Sitar Balalaika Sho Picking Ac Gtr Pick/Strum Gtr 2 Tango Accordion Blown B...

Appendice P. 185 List of Styles SWING & BIG BAND 50’S & 60’S POP & ROCK PAGE 1 PAGE 2 PAGE 1 PAGE 2 PAGE 1 PAGE 2 Fast Big Band Night Club 50’s Rock 50’s Rock 3 Philly Soul Disco Fast Big Band 2 Jitterbug 50’s Rock 2 60’s Rock 70’s R&B Disco 2 Medium Big Band Big Band Samba 50’s Rock...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 186 INTIMATE PIANO SOLO PIANO KIDS & HOLIDAY PAGE 1 PAGE 2 PAGE 1 PAGE 2 PAGE 1 PAGE 2 Pop Ballad Rock Swing Fast Show Kids March Holiday 4/4 Rock Ballad Blues Two Beat Swing Standard Kids 6/8 March Holiday Two Beat Country Ballad Pop Two Beat Shuf...

Appendice P. 187 16 Tons3 Coins In A Fount76 Trombones A A Summer PlaceA Whole New WorldAchy Breaky HeartAcross the AlleyAfter The Love HasAin’t Misbehavin’Ain’t No WomanAin’t Too ProudAll I Have To DoAll I Wanna DoAll Of MeAll Shook UpAlley CatAloha OeAlways A WomanAlways On My MindAmapolaAmazing G...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 192 Children’s Songs Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MP ✔ I’m A Little Teapot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MP ✔ This Old Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Appendice P. 193 You’re A Grand Old Flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EB ✔ Stars And Stripes Forever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SK Anchors Aweigh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SK ✔ Under The Double Eagle . ...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 194 Favorite Hymns Fairest Lord Jesus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MP ✔ Amazing Grace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MP ✔ Doxology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Appendice P. 195 Largo from Symphony No. 9 by Dvorák . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SK Prelude In A by Chopin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MP Pizzicato Polka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SK Rondeau by Mouret . . . . . . . . . ....

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 196 C Maj C7 C ∆ 7 C6 C sus4 C b5 C aug C6 9 C add9 C9 C11 C13 C7 b5 C7 #5 C7 sus4 C7 b9 * * * * * Cm Cm7 Cm6 Cm6 9 Cm#5 * Table of Chord Types This table describes the fingering of 61 types of chords, including inversions, that the CP pianorecognizes....

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 198 A B C 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 outdoorperformances, you may need to use additional amplification and speakersys...

Appendice P. 199 D E 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, c...

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 200 USB The Concert Performer can be connected with a personal computer with a USB cable for exchanging MIDI data. You need a USB driverinstalled in your computer. [For Windows XP/Me users]A standard USB driver is already installed in your computer. Yo...

Appendice P. 201 MIDI Data Format 3. Exclusive data 3.1 UNIVERSAL REALTIME SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE MESSAGE 3.1.1 Master VolumeFormat: F0 7f 7f 04 01 <ll> <mm> F7 <ll>: VALUE LSB (*round up numbers of five and above and drop anything under five) <mm>: VALUE MSB00 00 - 7f 7f (- ∞ ~ 0d...

Appendice P. 206 MIDI Implementation Chart MODEL: Kawai Digital Piano CP205/CP185 D ATE : A PRIL 2003 V ERSION 1.0 Function Transmitted *1 Recognized Remarks Basic Default 1 1-16 Channel Changed 1-16 1-16 Mode Default Mode 3 Mode 3 Messagees X Mode 3, 4 Altered ***** Note 36-96 0-127 Number True voi...

Specifications CP205 / CP185 Keyboard 88 Wooden Keys, AWA PRO (CP205) / 88 Weighted Key, Advanced Hammer Action III (CP185) Polyphony Maximum 128 Preset Sounds Over 900 including Drum kits, 20 User Sounds Styles 220 Styles (4 Variations per Style) Maximum 20 User Styles Style Controls Start/Stop, In...