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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Other settings
You can back up some settings, such as voice selection
and metronome setting, so that they will not be lost
after you turn off the power to the Clavinova.
• Memory songs (saved in the Clavinova’s memory),
the backup on/off setting (this parameter setting),
and the “CharacterCode” parameter setting
(page 56) are always backed up.
See the procedure on page 72.
Setting for:
Transpose, Brilliance, ReverbOnOff, SplitPoint, Main/
LeftVoice, MetronomeSetting, SongSetting, SongBal-
ance, MidiSetting, and OtherSetting
Setting range:
On/Off
Normal setting:
The Transpose, Main/LeftVoice, and MetronomeSet-
ting parameters are set to Off. Other parameters are set
to On.
You can reset the Clavinova to its normal (factory
default) settings.
• The CharacterCode parameter setting in the File
menu does not change.
• The MemoryBackUp parameter setting (On/Off)
(left column) is reset to the normal setting.
• You can specify whether the memory songs are
erased or kept.
See the procedure on page 72.
Selecting for “MemorySong”:
MemorySongExcluded Memory songs are kept.
MemorySongIncluded Memory songs are erased.
Press and hold down the white key on the right end
(C7) and press the [POWER] switch to turn on the
power to the Clavinova. In this case, the Memory songs
saved in the storage memory are not erased.
If you wish to erase Memory songs at this time, press
and hold down the right-most white key (C7) and
black key (B
b
6) and press the [POWER] switch to turn
on the power to the Clavinova.
Selecting items saved at shut-
down [MemoryBackUp]
A B
C D
NO YES
Select the desired item. Select on or off.
Restoring the normal (default)
settings [FactorySet]
Other method for restoring the
normal settings
A B
C D
NO YES
Reset the Clavinova.
Select a value for memory songs.
C7
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
CONTRASTB
D
YES
EXIT
NO
[POWER]
B
6