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Table of Contents
Introduction .................................................................... 7
1. Before you begin ..................................................................... 7
Check the included items............................................................................. 7
2. How to use this manual ........................................................... 7
Printing conventions in this manual .............................................................. 7
3. Front and rear panels .............................................................. 8
Front panel ................................................................................................ 8
Rear panel ................................................................................................. 9
Operating panel....................................................................................... 10
4. Main features........................................................................ 12
Preparations for playing ............................................... 13
1. Before you start playing......................................................... 13
Adjusting the volume ................................................................................ 14
Using headphones.................................................................................... 14
Using the music stand ............................................................................... 14
Basic operation............................................................. 15
1. LCD screen ............................................................................ 15
2. Operating panel.................................................................... 16
3. Floppy disks .......................................................................... 17
4. Help function......................................................................... 18
Demo playback............................................................. 19
1. Listening to the demo............................................................. 19
To listen to the demo songs........................................................................ 19
2. Practicing piano along with a demo song ............................... 20
Practicing right hand and left hand separately ............................................ 20
Changing the tempo of the demo playback ................................................ 20
Pausing the demo playback....................................................................... 20
Playing......................................................................... 21
1. Selecting sounds.................................................................... 21
Changing programs ................................................................................. 21
Selecting percussion instrument sounds....................................................... 22
Selecting sounds from the [USER/DISK] program group .............................. 22
Playing the Ci-9600/Ci-8600 as a piano................................................... 22
2. Combining programs............................................................. 23
Layer function (play two sounds together) ................................................... 23
Selecting different sounds for the lower and upper ranges of the keyboard (the
Split function) ........................................................................................... 24
3. Applying effects to a sound.................................................... 26
Adding Reverb to the sound ...................................................................... 26
Adding effects such as modulation to the sound .......................................... 27
4. Using the pedals.................................................................... 28
Damper pedal settings for Layer and Split .................................................. 28
Changing the function of the center pedal .................................................. 29