Multi-Timbral Mode - Kawai CN390 Owner's Manual

MIDI CHANNEL
The next step is to match your MIDI channels. When receiving MIDI data
on the CN piano in multi-timbral mode ON, it is not necessary to specify
a MIDI channel to use because the CN piano can receive data on multiple
MIDI channels at once. You do have to be careful to match MIDI channels
between each part. A MIDI channel can only have one sound assigned to
it at a time. You must set the MIDI channel for each part on both the
transmitting (external MIDI device) and the receiving (CN piano) MIDI
devices. For example, channel 1 for piano, ch 2 for strings, ch 3 for choir,
etc.

MULTI-TIMBRAL MODE

Multi-timbral On is a setup for 16-channel multi-timbral operation. You
can mute the channels separately. Each channel recognizes the program
change numbers as listed on page 63.
Multi-timbral Off turns off multi-timbral capability. If you would like to
have the CN piano receive MIDI data on a single channel and ignore all
data on the other channels set multi-timbral to "Off". Remember, if you
want the CN piano to receive MIDI information from an external device,
you must match the receiving channel with the transmitting channel.
Program change numbers are recognized as listed in page 63.
To demonstrate the multi-timbral capability of the CN piano, let's choose
Multi-timbral ON.
Press the HARPSICHORD button while holding down the TOUCH
and TRANSPOSE buttons. The LED display will read "OFF", which
means Multi-timbral Off is currently selected. Use the VALUE button
to select Multi-timbral ON. The display will read "On".
After choosing the multi-timbral setting, press any SOUND SELECT button
to exit from the function mode.
Multi-timbre Multi-timbre
On off
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