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
58 CLP-990
Playing Back Recorded Songs and Commercially-available Music Data
3. Start playback.
Press the [START/PAUSE] button.
Starting playback automatically as you start playing the keyboard (Syn-
chro Start)
You can start playback as soon as you start playing the keyboard. This is called
the “Synchro Start” function.
To enter Synchro Start standby mode, press and hold down the [STOP] but-
ton and press the [START/PAUSE] button. The [START/PAUSE] indicator
flashes.
Now play the keyboard. Playback starts simultaneously.
To cancel the Synchro Start function, press the [STOP] button while the
Clavinova is in Synchro Start standby mode.
Bar: measure
You can play the metronome
along with the song play-
back. When you stop play-
back, the metronome is also
stopped.
In the song select screen:
You can move back and forth (rewind and fast forward) through the bars by
using the B [–]/[+] buttons in the song select screen while the Clavinova is
playing or stopped.
You can play the keyboard while the Clavinova is playing back a song. You can
also play the notes in a voice different from the playback voice by selecting the
voice from the panel, and adjusting the volume balance between the playback
parts and your current performance using the SONG BALANCE [ ] [ ]
buttons. (See page 48.)
Press either of the SONG SELECT [ ]/[ ] buttons to return to the song
select screen.
Adjusting the tempo
You can use the TEMPO [DOWN]/[UP] buttons to adjust the playback
tempo as required before or during playback. The default tempo (the song’s
original tempo) is set when you press the [DOWN] and [UP] buttons simul-
taneously.
Press either of the SONG SELECT [ ]/[ ] buttons to return to the song
select screen.
4. Stop playback.
When playback is complete, the Clavinova automatically stops and
locates the top of the song. To stop playback in the middle of a song,
press the [STOP] button. You can also pause playback by pressing the
[START/PAUSE] button. Playback stops when you press the button.
TERMINOLOGY
TIP
TIP
• Press the SONG
SELECT [ ] or the C[–]
button while playback is
stopped in the middle of
the song to locate the
top of the song.
• Press the SONG
SELECT [ ] or the C[–]
button during playback
to restart playback from
the top of the song.
• Press the SONG
SELECT [ ] or the
C[+] button during play-
back to start playback
from the next song.
A B
C D
NO YES
The bar number in playback