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Personalizing Your Piano Sound (Piano Designer)
What is Piano Designer?
The HPi-50e lets you adjust the piano sound to your taste by
modifying various aspects of a grand piano’s sound, such as its
strings and pedal, as well as the keyboard resonances.
This function is called “Piano Designer.”
String
Resonance
Temperament
Hammer
Noise
Adjusting the
piano sound to
your taste
Making Detailed Adjustments to the Piano Sound
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1.
While holding down the [Piano] button, press the [E . Piano] button .
The Piano Designer screen will appear.
The “ConcertPiano” tone will be selected.
2.
Use the cursor [
] [
] buttons to select the parameter that you want to adjust .
3.
Use the cursor [
] [
] buttons to adjust the value .
4.
Repeat steps 2–3 to adjust the piano sound to your taste .
5.
When you’re finished using Piano Designer, press the [Piano] button or the [E . Piano]
button .
Piano designer parameter
Parameter
Value
Explanation
Lid
0–6
Adjusts the extent to which the lid of the grand piano is open.
The sound will become more mellow as you close the lid of the piano in the screen. The sound will become brighter as
you open the lid of the piano in the screen.
Damper Resonance
0–10
This adjusts the damper resonance of the acoustic piano sound (the sympathetic vibration produced in strings other
than those actually played when you press the damper pedal).
Higher settings will make the sympathetic vibration louder.
Hammer Noise
1–5
This adjusts the sound produced when the hammer of an acoustic piano strikes the string.
Higher settings will produce a louder sound of the hammer striking the string.
Hammer Response
0–10
For softly played notes, this adjusts the time from when you strike the key until the piano sound is heard.
Higher settings will produce slower response.
Duplex Scale
0–10
This adjusts the sympathetic vibrations of an acoustic piano’s Duplex Scale.
Higher settings will make the sympathetic vibration louder.
Dynamic Harmonic
0–10
This adjusts the metallic resonance that is produced when you play strongly on an acoustic piano.
Higher settings will produce a louder metallic sound.
String Resonance
0–10
This adjusts the string resonance of the acoustic piano sound (the sympathetic vibrations of strings for previously played
notes that occur when you play another note).
Higher settings will make the sympathetic vibration louder.
Key Off Resonance
0–10
This adjusts sympathetic vibrations such as an acoustic piano’s key-off sound (the subtle sound that occurs when you
release a note).
Higher settings will make the sympathetic vibration louder.
Saving your settings
The HPi-50e’s settings will revert to the default
values when you turn off the power, but you
can save them as described in “Storing Your
Settings (memory backup)” (p. 12).
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