Roland LX705, Owner'S Manual

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Creating Your Own Piano Tone (Piano Designer)
Single Note settings (*)
1.
Select the Single Note settings screen, and press the [ ] knob to confirm.
2.
Play the key for which you want to make adjustments, and turn the [ ]
knob to change the value.
3.
Press the [ ] button to exit the screen of that item.
Items Value Explanation
Piano Tone Edit
Lid 0–6
Adjusts the extent to which the top lid of the grand piano is open.
The sound will become more mellow as you close the top lid of the piano in the screen. The
sound will become brighter as you open the top lid of the piano in the screen.
Key Off Noise Off, 1–10
Adjusts the action noise that is heard when you release a key.
Higher settings produce a louder action noise.
Hammer Noise -2–0–2
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.
Duplex Scale Off, 1–10
Adjusts the sympathetic vibrations of an acoustic piano’s Duplex Scale. Higher settings will
make the sympathetic vibration louder.
The Duplex Scale is a system of sympathetically vibrating strings sometimes included in grand
pianos. These sympathetically vibrating strings are not struck directly with hammers, but
sound by vibrating in sympathy with the vibrations of other strings. By resonating with the
overtones, these strings add richness and brilliance to the sound. These sympathetic strings
are added only to the high register above approximately C4. Since they do not have a damper
(a mechanism that stops them from sounding), they will continue sounding even after you
play a note and then release it to stop the sound of the string that was actually struck.
Full Scale
String Res.
Off, 1–10
Adjusts the resonant sound of an acoustic piano (the sound produced by the strings of
previously-pressed keys vibrating in sympathy with newly played notes, or the sound of other
strings vibrating in sympathy with the notes you play while pressing the damper pedal).
Higher settings produce louder sympathetic resonance.
Key Off
Resonance
Off, 1–10
Adjusts the resonance of the subtle sounds that occur when a key of an acoustic piano is
released. A higher value produces a larger tonal change during the decay.
Cabinet
Resonance
Off, 1–10
Adjusts the body resonance of the grand piano itself.
Higher values will produce a larger body resonance.
Soundboard
Type
1–5
Selects how the soundboard of the acoustic piano will resonate.
You can choose from five different types of resonance.
Damper Noise Off, 1–10
Adjusts the damper noise of the acoustic piano sound (the sound of the damper releasing the
strings when you press the damper pedal).
Soft Pedal 1–10
Adjusts the depth of the effect that occurs when you press the soft pedal. With higher values,
the change will be greater.
Single Note
Tuning (*)
-50–0–+50
Adjusts the tuning of each individual key. For example, you can adjust the width of stretched
tuning, which tunes the higher register slightly higher and the lower register slightly lower.
Single Note
Volume (*)
-50–0 Adjusts the volume of each key. Lower settings decrease the volume.
Single Note
Character (*)
-5–0–+5
Adjusts the tonal character of each key. Higher settings produce a harder sound, and lower
settings produce a softer tone.
* The result of this effect will differ depending on the pitch range.
Reset Setting Resets the “Piano Tone Edit” settings of the selected tone to their factory settings.
1.
Press the [Piano Designer] button.
2.
Turn the [ ] knob to access the “Piano Tone Edit“
screen.
3.
Press the [ ] knob to confirm.
4.
Turn the [ ] knob to access the screen of the item
that you want to edit.
5.
Press the [ ] knob to confirm, and turn the [ ] knob
to choose the value of the setting.
6.
When you are finished editing the piano tone, press
[ ].
A confirmation message appears.
If you decide to cancel, press the [ ] button.
7.
Turn the [ ] knob to select “Yes,” and press the [ ]
knob to confirm.
The Grand Piano tone settings are saved.
Editing the Grand Piano Tone
You can adjust various aspects of the grand piano’s tone, including the string and pedal resonances, and the sound of the hammers striking the
strings.
* This function is only for Grand Piano tones.