Owner manual
Table Of Contents
- PRECAUTIONS
- Table of contents
- Application Index Use this index to find reference pages that may be helpful for your application...
- Handling the Floppy Disk Drive(FDD) and Floppy Disk
- Maintenance
- Included Accessories
- Features
- Before Using the Clavinova
- Part Names
- Listening to the Demonstration Tunes
- Listening to 50 Piano Preset Songs
- Selecting and Playing Voices
- Recording Your Performance
- Saving Recorded Songs and Handling the Files...[FILE]
- Clavinova memory
- Basic file operation
- Saving recorded or other songs to Clavinova Storage memory...[SaveToMemory]
- Saving recorded or other songs to floppy disk...[SaveToDisk]
- Deleting songs in Clavinova Storage memory or a floppy disk...[DeleteSong]
- Renaming a song...[RenameSong]
- Copying data from one floppy disk to another...[CopyDisk]
- Formatting a floppy disk...[FormatDisk]
- Changing the type of characters on screen...[CharacterCode]
- Playing Back Recorded Songs and Commercially-available Music Data
- Connections
- Detailed Settings
- Detailed settings for recording and playback [SONG SETTING]
- Correcting note timing [Quantize]
- Specifying whether playback starts immediately along with the first voicing [QuickPlay]
- Auditioning the channels [ChannelListen]
- Deleting data from each channel [ChannelClear]
- Specifying the range and playing back repeatedly [FromToRepeat]
- Playing back the phrase specified by the phrase number [PhraseMark]
- Playing back a song repeatedly [SongRepeat]
- Detailed settings for the metronome METRONOME [SETTING]
- Detailed settings for the voices [VOICE SETTING]
- Setting the octave [Octave]*
- Setting the volume level [Volume]*
- Setting the position of right and left channels [Pan]*
- Fine tuning the pitch (only in Dual mode) [Detune]
- Selecting the reverb type [ReverbType]
- Setting the reverb depth [ReverbSend]*
- Selecting the chorus type [Chorus Type]
- Setting the chorus depth [ChorusSend]*
- Setting the chorus on/off [ChorusOnOff]
- Selecting the variation effect type [VariationType]
- Setting the variation effect depth [VariationSend]*
- Setting the touch sensitivity [TouchSense]*
- Setting the right pedal function [RPedal]
- Setting the center pedal function [MPedal]
- Setting the left pedal function [LPedal]
- Setting the auxiliary pedal function [AuxPedal]
- MIDI [MIDI SETTING]
- About MIDI
- Setting the MIDI transmit channel [MidiOutChannel]
- Setting the MIDI receive channel (Port A) [MidiInAChannel]
- Setting the MIDI receive channel (Port B) [MidiInAChannel]
- Setting Local control on/off [LocalControl]
- Selecting performance from the keyboard or song data for MIDI transmission [MidiOutSelect]
- Selecting a type of data received via MIDI [ReceiveParameter]
- Selecting a type of data transmitted via MIDI [TransmitParameter]
- Executing song data bulk dump [SongBulkDump]
- Transmitting the initial settings on the panel [InitialSetup]
- Executing voice data bulk dump [VoiceBulkDump]
- About MIDI
- Other settings
- Selecting a touch response [TouchResponse]
- Fine tuning the pitch [Tune]
- Selecting a tuning curve for a piano voice [PianoTuningCurve]
- Selecting a scale [Scale]
- Depth of string resonance [StringResonanceDepth]
- Depth of sustain sampling for the damper pedal [SustainSamplingDepth]
- Setting the speed of vibraphone’s vibrato effect [VibraphoneRotorSpeed]
- Selecting a pedal function for vibraphone [VibraphonePedalMode]
- Assigning the START/PAUSE function to a pedal [PedalStart/ Pause]
- Selecting a type of auxiliary pedal [AuxPedalType]
- Setting the point at which the damper pedal starts to affect the sound [HalfPedalPoint]
- Pitch bend range [PitchBendRange]
- Replacing the XG voices with preset voices [XGAlternative]
- Selecting items saved at shutdown [MemoryBackUp]
- Restoring the normal (default) settings [FactorySet]
- Other method for restoring the normal settings
- Message List
- Questions about Operations and Functions
- Troubleshooting
- Data Compatibility
- Preset Voice List
- Voice Combination Examples (Dual and Split)
- Index

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Index
You can search the desired section using not only the terminology in this manual but also commonly-used words.
The * mark indicates that the corresponding page includes the terminology explanation in the right column.
Numerics
50 greats for the Clavinova 15
50 Piano Preset Songs 26
Practicing a one-hand part 28
A
Adding reverberation to the sound
→ REVERB 33
Adding variation to the sound
→ Effect function 32
Assigning the START/PAUSE
function to a pedal 89
AUX IN jacks 62
AUX OUT jacks 61
AUX PEDAL jacks 62
Auxiliary pedal function 82
B
BackUp 91
Bench 15
BRILLIANCE 32
C
Center pedal 31
Center pedal function 82
Character Code 56
Characters 56
CHORUS 33
combining two voices
→ Dual mode 35
computer 63
Connection
Audio 61
MIDI 66
Other Components 61
Serial 64
Speaker 62
USB 67
Connectors
MIDI IN/OUT/THRU 63, 66
CONTRAST 20
D
Damper (right) pedal 31
Data Compatibility 101
Data type 59
Default (Normal) setting* 32
Demonstration tunes 24
Detailed Settings 70
Metronome 77
MIDI 83
Other settings 87
recording and playback 74
voices 78
Disk
Copy 55
Format 56
Disk song 50
Display contrast 20
DOWN (TEMPO)
50 Piano Preset Songs 27
metronome 40
Dual
Detailed settings 78
Recording 49
Dual mode
→ combining two voices 35
E
Effect function 32
EXIT 23
EXTRA TRACKS
→ the third or more tracks 46
F
FactorySet 91
Fast forward 27, 58
FILE 50
Floppy Disk 13, 14
Formatting a floppy disk 56
H
Headphones 20
HOST SELECT switch 62
J
Jacks
AUX IN 62
AUX OUT 61
AUX PEDAL 62
PHONES 20
TO HOST 62, 64
L
LCD → Display
Contrast 20
LCD → Screen 23
Left pedal 31
Left pedal function 82
LEFT voice group buttons 37
List
Demonstration tunes 24
Detailed Settings 70
Message 92
Preset Voice 103
M
MAIN voice group buttons 30
Maintenance 14
MASTER VOLUME 20
Memory 50
Memory song 50
MemoryBackUp 91
Message List 92
Metronome 40
Detailed settings 77
METRONOME SETTING 77
MIDI 83
Detailed settings 83
MIDI cables 66
MIDI connectors 63, 66
MIDI driver 64
MIDI SETTING 83
Music Data 57
Music stand 18
N
New Song 41
Normal setting* 32