Introducing The Stage Piano; Welcome; Stage Piano Overview; Sound, Internal Voices Setup, Midi Setup - Kurzweil sp88x User Manual

Chapter 1

Introducing the Stage Piano

Welcome!

Congratulations, and thank you for purchasing a Kurzweil / Young Chang Stage
Piano. YouÕve got your hands on an excellent-sounding and ßexibleÑyet
economicalÑperformance instrument and MIDI controller.
This manual will get you started with your new instrument. YouÕll deÞnitely want to
keep the manual handy as you become an advanced user, also.

Stage Piano Overview

The Stage Piano is a great live performance instrument. It has many excellent
keyboard sounds (voices), including the famous Kurzweil Grand Piano, already
programmed and ready to go. It is also a ßexible MIDI controller ideally suited for
controlling additional sound modules and as input to a sequencer.

Sound, Internal Voices Setup, MIDI Setup

WeÕll use these three terms throughout this manual. TheyÕre the components of the
Stage PianoÕs performance features.
Sounds are the 32 internal voices of the Stage Piano: pianos, organs, strings.
The Internal Voices Setup is the basic conÞguration of your Stage Piano for standalone
performance (no external sound modules or sequencers). The Internal Voices Setup
speciÞes which sound youÕll hear, and with which audio effect (if any) applied to it. It
speciÞes several other performance features as well:
¥ What the physical controllers (like ribbons and pedals) do
¥ Transposition
¥ MIDI channel
¥ MIDI Program Change commands
ThereÕs one Internal Voices Setup, and itÕs programmableÑthat is, you can change
these speciÞcations, and save those changes to the Stage PianoÕs memory.
There are 32 MIDI Setups, each of which controls the same features as the Internal
Voices Setup. When youÕre using a MIDI Setup, the Stage PianoÕs keyboard has two
zones, which can be anywhere on the keyboard (even overlapping). This enables you
to play the Stage Piano and control two external MIDI instruments at the same time.
You can edit and save each MIDI Setup.