Personalizing Your Piano Sound (Piano Designer) - Roland DP603 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 Piano Designer can be used to customize the sound only for
tones of the [Piano] button.
5 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 [J] button to select "Yes," and then press the [s]
(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 [s] (Enter) button.
Piano designer parameter
Parameter Value Explanation
Adjusts the extent to which the lid of the grand piano
is open.
Lid 0–6
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.
Key Off Noise Off, 1–10
Higher settings produce a louder action noise.
Adjusts the sound produced when the hammer of an
acoustic piano strikes the string.
Hammer Noise -2–0–2
Higher settings will produce a louder sound of the
hammer striking the string.
String
Hammer Noise
Resonance
Adjusting the piano
sound to your taste
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Parameter Value Explanation
Adjusts the sympathetic vibrations of an acoustic piano's
Duplex Scale.
Duplex Scale Off, 1–10
Higher settings will make the sympathetic vibration
louder.
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
Full Scale String
Off, 1–10
the sound of other strings vibrating in sympathy with
Res.
the notes you play while pressing the damper pedal).
Higher settings produce louder sympathetic resonance.
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
Damper
Off, 1–10
the damper pedal, and the resonance of the entire
Resonance
instrument).
Higher settings produce louder sympathetic resonance.
Adjusts sympathetic vibrations such as an acoustic
piano's key-off sound (the subtle sound that occurs
Key Off
when you release a note).
Off, 1–10
Resonance
Higher settings produce greater tonal change during
the decay.
Adjusts the body resonance of the grand piano itself.
Cabinet
Off, 1–10
Resonance
Higher values will produce a larger body resonance.
Selects how the soundboard of the acoustic piano will
Soundboard
resonate.
1–5
Type
You can choose from five different types of resonance.
This adjusts the damper noise of the acoustic piano
Damper Noise Off, 1–10 sound (the sound of the damper releasing the strings
when you press the damper pedal).
Specifies a method of tuning (stretch tuning) that is
Single Note -50–0– distinctive to the piano, in which the high register is
Tuning +50 tuned slightly sharper and the low register is tuned
slightly flatter.
Single Note Adjusts the volume of each key. Higher settings increase
-50–0
Volume the volume.
Adjusts the tonal character of each key. Higher settings
Single Note
-5–0–+5 produce a harder sound, and lower settings produce a
Character
softer tone.
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.
Reset Setting
2.
Use the [J] button to select "Yes," and then press the
[s] (Enter) button.
The settings return to their factory-set state.
88-key settings
(Single Note Tuning, Single Note Volume, Single Note Character)
1.
Select an 88-key parameter, 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 88-key parameter.
3.
Press the [u] (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
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