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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CLP-990
POWER
MIDI
SETTING
OTHER
SETTING
EFFECT
BRILLIANCE
VOICE
SETTING
CHORUSREVERBSTRINGS/
CHOIR
ORGAN
BASS
MALLET
ORGAN/
STRINGS
VOICE
E. PIANO/
BASS
PIANO
MAIN
LEFT
PIANO/
E. PIANO
SPLIT
POINT
HARPSI-
CHORD
HARPSI/
MALLET
TEMPO
METRONOME
UPDOWN
FILE
SONG
SETTING
SETTINGSTART/STOP
TRACK
1
SONG SELECTDEMO
TRANSPOSEMAX
MASTER VOLUME
MIN
CLP-970
SONG BALANCE
NEW SONG
TRACK
2
EXTRA
TRACKS
STOP
SONG
SYNCHRO START
START/
PAUSE
REC
CONTRASTB
D
YES
EXIT
NO
A
C
AUX PEDAL
MIDI
OUTIN THRU
L/L
+
RR
AUX IN
L/L
+
RR
AUX OUT
HOST SELECT
PC-1
PC-2
MacMIDI
TO HOST
A set of standard
stereo headphones
can be plugged in
here for private
practice. (page 20)
Connect an optional
pedal here and assign
one of the various
functions to the pedal.
(page 62)
These jacks allow you to connect an
external tone generator to reproduce
the sound via the Clavinova’s
internal sound system and speakers.
(page 62)
Connect a MIDI device here to
use various MIDI functions.
(page 63, 66)
(About MIDI—page 83)
Connect recording equipment
(such as a cassette tape
recorder) here to record your
performance. (page 61)
This jack and selector switch
allow direct connection to a
personal computer for
sequencing and other music
applications. (page 62-67)
PHONES
Features
The Yamaha Clavinova CLP-990 digital piano offers unmatched sonic realism and natural grand-piano type playabil-
ity as well as Yamaha’s original “
AWM Dynamic Stereo Sampling
” tone generation technology for rich, musical
voices, and a special “
NL Keyboard (Natural Keyboard)
” that uses wooden keys with a new action mechanism for
improved continuous key response. The CLP-990 GrandPiano1 voice features totally new samples painstakingly
recorded from each key of a full concert grand piano. The CLP-990 GrandPiano1 voice features five velocity-
switched samples (
Dynamic Sampling
), a “
Soundboard Reverb
” (page 33) effect that accurately simulates the reso-
nance of a piano soundboard, “
String Resonance
” (page 88) that recreates resonance of piano strings, special “
Sus-
tain Sampling
” (page 88)that samples the unique resonance of an acoustic grand piano’s soundboard and strings
when the damper pedal is pressed, and “
Key-off Samples
” that add the subtle sound produced when the keys are
released. The CLP-990 comes much closer to the sound of a true acoustic piano.