Virtual Technician Settings - Kawai Concert Artist CA59 B Owner's Manual

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Virtual Technician Settings

The Virtual Technician settings of the CA59 digital piano allow the player to adjust advanced parameters such as
hammer hardness, action regulation, cabinet size, and a variety of other acoustic characteristics, in order to suit
their personal preferences. Virtual Technician settings are adjusted and stored independently for each sound,
variation, allowing flexible control over the characteristics of each piano voice.
* The table below indicates which Virtual Technician settings affect to all sounds, or acoustic piano and electric piano sounds only.
 Virtual Technician Settings
No.
Setting
1
Touch Curve
2
Voicing
User Voicing
3
Damper Resonance
4
Damper Noise
5
String Resonance
6
Undamped Str. Res.
7
Cabinet Resonance
8
Key-off Effect
9
Fall-back Noise
10
Hammer Noise
11
Hammer Delay
12
Topboard Simulation
13
Decay Time
14
Release Time
15
Minimum Touch
16
Stretch Tuning
User Tuning
17
Temperament
User Temperament
18
Temperament Key
19
Key Volume
User Key Volume
20
Half-Pedal Adjust
21
Soft Pedal Depth
* Default settings will be shown in the first LCD display illustration (i.e. Step 1) for each setting explanation below.
 Entering the Virtual Technician menu
While the normal playing mode screen is shown in the LCD display:
Press the
FUNCTION button (MENU).
The Function menus will be shown in the LCD display.
Press the  or  buttons to select the Virtual Technician menu.
Press the
FUNCTION button (ENTER) again to enter the Virtual
Technician menu.
Description
Adjust the touch sensitivity of the keyboard.
Adjust the tonal character of the instrument.
Adjust the individual voicing of each of the 88 keys.
Adjust the resonance that is heard when pressing the damper pedal.
Adjust the sound that is heard when pressing the damper pedal.
Adjust the resonance that is heard when notes are held.
Adjust the resonance produced by the topmost undamped strings.
Adjust the resonance produced by the piano cabinet itself.
Adjust the sound that is heard when keys are released.
Adjust the sound that is heard when the key action falls back.
Adjust the sound that is heard when hammers strike strings.
Adjust the delay of the hammer striking strings when playing pianissimo.
Adjust the position of the grand piano topboard.
Adjust the decay time of the piano sound while the keys are pressed.
Adjust the decay time of the piano sound when the keys are released.
Adjust the minimum key velocity required to produce a sound.
Adjust the level of stretch tuning for equal temperaments.
Adjust the individual tuning of each of the 88 keys.
Adjust the tuning system to suit Renaissance and Baroque periods etc.
Adjust the tuning of each note in the scale to a custom temperament.
Adjust the key of the selected tuning system.
Adjust the volume balance of the keyboard.
Adjust the individual volume of each of the 88 keys.
Adjust the point at which the damper pedal begins to sustain the sounds.
Adjust the depth/effectiveness of the soft pedal.
  buttons:
Move selection cursor.
* It is also possible to enter the Virtual Technician menu by pressing and
holding the
FUNCTION button (VT) on the normal playing screen.
All
AP
EP
Default
Normal
Normal
5
5
5
5
1
5
5
5
Off
Open 3
5
5
1
Normal
Equal Temp.
C
Normal
5
3
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