15
Advanced Operation
What is Piano Designer?
This piano allows you to
personalize your piano sound by
adjusting various factors that affect
the sound, such as the piano’s
strings, the resonance produced
using the pedals, and the sound of
the hammers striking the strings.
This function is called “Piano
Designer.”
String
Resonance
Hammer Noise
Adjusting the piano
sound to your taste
* Piano Designer can be used to customize the sound only for
tones of the [Piano] button.
* Your settings are saved for each tone of the [Piano] button.
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1.
Press the [Piano Designer] button.
The Piano Designer screen appears.
2.
Use the [
K
] [
J
] buttons to select the item that you want to
edit.
3.
Use the [–] [+] buttons to adjust the value.
4.
When you’re finished using Piano Designer, press the
[Piano Designer] button or [
u
] (Exit) button.
A confirmation message appears.
If you decide to cancel, press the [
u
] (Exit) button.
5.
Use the cursor [
J
] (right) button to select “Yes,” and then
press the [
s
] (Enter) button.
The Piano Designer settings are saved.
If you decide to exit without saving the settings, use the [
K
] button
to select “No” and then press the [
s
] (Enter) button.
MEMO
If you install the dedicated app on your iPad or other mobile
device, you can use the screen of your mobile device to edit the
“Piano Designer” settings in a more visual and intuitive way.
(Refer to “Using the Piano with an App” (p. 22).)
Items that you can edit in Piano Designer
Items
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.
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.
Items
Value
Explanation
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.
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.
Damper
Resonance
Off, 1–10
Adjusts the overall resonance of the acoustic piano
when its damper pedal is pressed (the sound of
other strings vibrating in sympathy when you press
the damper pedal, and the resonance of the entire
instrument).
Higher settings produce louder sympathetic resonance.
Key Off
Resonance
Off, 1–10
Adjusts sympathetic vibrations such as an acoustic
piano’s key-off sound (the subtle sound that occurs
when you release a note).
Higher settings produce greater 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
This adjusts the damper noise of the acoustic piano
sound (the sound of the damper releasing the strings
when you press the damper pedal).
Single Note
Tuning (*1)
-50–0–
+50
Specifies a method of tuning (stretch tuning) that is
distinctive to the piano, in which the high register is
tuned slightly sharper and the low register is tuned
slightly flatter.
Single Note
Volume (*1)
-50–0
Adjusts the volume of each key.
Lower settings decrease the volume.
Single Note
Character (*1) -5–0–+5
Adjusts the tonal character of each key.
Higher settings produce a harder sound, and lower
settings produce a softer tone.
Reset Setting
Here’s how the Piano Designer settings of the selected sound can be
returned to their factory-set state.
1.
Press the [
s
] (Enter) button.
If you decide to cancel, press the [
u
] (Exit) button.
2.
Use the cursor [
J
] (right) button to select “Yes,” and
then press the [
s
] (Enter) button.
The settings return to their factory-set state.
(*1)
Single Note settings
1.
Select a Single Note item, and press the [
s
] (Enter) button.
2.
Play the key that you want to edit, and use the [–] [+] buttons to
adjust the settings for that key.
MEMO
You can use the [
K
] [
J
] buttons to move to a different Single Note item.
3.
Press the [
u
] (Exit) button to return to the previous screen.
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Personalizing Your Piano Sound (Piano Designer)
What is the duplex scale?
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.
