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

30 CLP-990
Selecting and Playing Voices
Selecting Voices
Procedure
To learn characteristics of
the voices, listen to demo
songs for each voice group
(page 24). Refer to “Preset
Voice List” on page 103 for
more information on charac-
teristics of each preset voice.
1. Select a voice group.
Press one of the MAIN voice group buttons (upper row).
Voice
On the Clavinova, a voice
means “tone” or “tonal color.”
You can control the loudness
of a voice by how hard you
play the keyboard, although
different playing styles (touch
sensitivities) have little or no
effect with the sound of cer-
tain musical instruments.
Refer to “Preset Voice List” on
page 103.
2. Select a voice.
Use the A [–]/[+] buttons to select a voice.
DEMO SONG SELECT
TRANSPOSE
MASTER VOLUME
TEMPO VOICE EFFECT
SONG
CLP-990
MIN MAX
NEW SONG
SONG BALANCE
UPDOWN
BRILLIANCE
TRACK
1
TRACK
2
EXTRA
TRACKS
FILE METRONOME
CONTRAST
SONG
SETTING
START/ STOP SETTING
SPLIT
POINT
VOICE
SETTING
REVERB
CHORUS MIDI
SETTING
OTHER
SETTING
REC
PIANO
MAIN
LEFT
E. PIANO/
BASS
HARPSI-
CHORD
MALLET ORGAN STRINGS/
CHOIR
STOP
START/
PAUSE
SYNCHRO START
EXIT
PIANO/
E. PIANO
HARPSI/
MALLET
ORGAN/
STRINGS
BASS
A B
C D
NO YES
1
2
MAIN voice
group buttons
TIP
TERMINOLOGY
TIP
Voice group Voice name Voice group Voice name
PIANO
GrandPiano1
MALLET
Vibraphone
GrandPiano2 Marimba
E.PIANO/
BASS
E.Piano1 Celesta
E.Piano2
ORGAN
PipeOrganPrincipal
SynthPiano PipeOrganFlute1
WoodBass PipeOrganFlute2
ElectricBass PipeOrganTutti
Bass&Cymbal JazzOrgan
HARPSI-
CHORD
Harpsichord8'
STRINGS/
CHOIR
Strings
Harpsichord8'+4' SynthStrings
ElectricClavichord SlowStrings
Choir
SlowChoir
Scat