Personalizing Your Piano Sound (Piano Designer) - Roland FP-90X Owner's Manual

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Personalizing Your Piano Sound (Piano Designer)

What is Piano Designer?
This unit 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. "
MEMO
5 The Piano Designer function can be used to personalize the sound
only with "PureAcoustic Piano sound engine" tones on the FP-90X,
and only with "SuperNATURAL Piano sound engine" tones on the
FP-60X.
5 The settings are saved for each tone.
1
Press the [Function] button, and then use the [K] [J]
buttons to select "Piano Designer."
2
Press the [Function] (Enter) button.
The Piano Designer screen appears.
3
Use the [K] [J] buttons to select the item that you want to
edit.
4
Use the [–] [+] buttons to adjust the value.
5
When you're finished using Piano Designer, press the [Exit]
button.
A confirmation message appears.
If you decide to cancel, press the [Exit] (Exit) button.
6
Use the [J] button to select "Yes," and then press the
[Function] (Enter) button.
The Piano Designer settings are saved.
MEMO
If you decide to exit without saving the settings, use the [K] button
to select "No" and then press the [Function] (Enter) button.
Piano designer parameters
* The parameters that can be edited differ between the FP-90X and the
FP-60X.
Parameter 90X 60X Value
t t
Lid
0–6
t
Key Off Noise –
Off, 1–10
t
Hammer Noise –
-5–0–+5
t
Duplex Scale –
Off, 1–10
String
Hammer Noise
Resonance
Adjusting the piano
sound to your taste
Explanation
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.
Adjusts the action noise that is heard when
you release a key.
Higher settings produce a louder action noise.
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.
Adjusts the sympathetic vibrations of an
acoustic piano's Duplex Scale.
Higher settings will make the sympathetic
vibration louder.
Parameter 90X 60X Value
Full Scale String
t
–
Off, 1–10
Res.
String
t
–
Off, 1–10
Resonance
Damper
t
–
Off, 1–10
Resonance
Key Off t t
Off, 1–10
Resonance
Cabinet
t
–
Off, 1–10
Resonance
Soundboard
t
–
1–5
Type
t
Damper Noise –
Off, 1–10
t
Soft Pedal –
1–10
Single Note
t t
-50–0–+50
Tuning
Single Note t t
-50–0
Volume
Single Note
t t
-5–0–+5
Character
Here's how the Piano Designer settings of the selected sound can be
returned to their factory-set state.
1
Press the [Function] (Enter) button
If you decide to cancel, press the [Exit] button.
Reset Setting
2
Use the [J] button to select "Yes," and then press the
[Function] (Enter) button
The settings return to their factory-set state.
88-key settings
1
Select the Single Note Tuning, Single Note Volume, or Single
Note Character, and press the [Function] (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 88-key
parameter.
3
Press the [Exit] button to return to the previous screen
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.
Advanced Operation
Explanation
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.
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.
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 make the sympathetic
vibration louder.
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.
Adjusts the body resonance of the grand
piano itself.
Higher values will produce a larger body
resonance.
Selects how the soundboard of the acoustic
piano will resonate.
You can choose from five different types of
resonance.
Adjusts the damper noise of the acoustic piano
sound (the sound of the damper releasing the
strings when you press the damper pedal).
Adjusts the depth of the effect that occurs
when you press the soft pedal. With higher
values, the change will be greater.
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.
Adjusts the volume of each key. Higher
settings increase the volume.
Adjusts the tonal character of each key. Higher
settings produce a harder tone, and lower
settings produce a softer tone.
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