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USER’S GUIDE GUÍA DEL USUARIO Please keep all information for future reference. Guarde toda documentación para futuras consultas. PX320ES1A Safety Precautions Before trying to use the piano, be sure to read the separate “Safety Precautions”. Precauciones de seguridad Antes de intentar usar el piano, asegúrese de leer las “Precauciones de seguridad”...
When you need to have the apparatus completely disconnected from the MAINS, you must unplug the power cord. For that purpose, locate the apparatus in a way that secures easy access to the power cord. Model Number: PX-320 Trade Name: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. Responsible party: CASIO AMERICA, INC. Address: 570 MT. PLEASANT AVENUE, DOVER, NEW JERSEY 07801...
Contents General Guide... E-2 Installing the Music Stand... E-3 TONE, Area Buttons (1 through 12) ... E-4 Using the /NO and /YES Buttons... E-5 Saving Settings and Using Operation Lock ... E-5 Returning the Digital Piano to Its Factory Default Settings ... E-5 Power Outlet ...
NOTE • The names shown here are always indicated in bold when they appear within the text of this manual. 1 VOLUME controller 2 METRONOME button 3 INTRO/ENDING, REW button 4 SYNCHRO/FILL-IN, FF button 5 START/STOP, PLAY/STOP button 6 RHYTHM, MUSIC LIBRARY button 7 TRACK/PART button 8 RECORDER button 9 FUNCTION button...
General Guide TONE, Area Buttons (1 through 12) The following three functions are assigned the digital piano’s 12 TONE, Area buttons, depending upon the type of operation you are performing. • Tone selection (TONE buttons) (page E-10) • Registration area selection (Area buttons) (page E-25) •...
Using the /NO and Buttons Use the /NO and /YES buttons to change the currently displayed setting as you view the results of your changes on the display. Example: Rhythm number 01 • The rhythm number (page E-17) appears first whenever you turn on the digital piano.
Power Outlet Your digital piano runs on standard household power. Be sure to turn off power whenever you are not using the digital piano. Using an AC Adaptor Use only the AC adaptor that is specified for use with this digital piano. Specified AC Adaptor: AD-12 Left Side DC 12V terminal...
Connections Connecting Headphones IMPORTANT! • Before connecting headphones, be sure to use the digital piano’s VOLUME controller to turn the volume down to a low level. After connecting, you can adjust the volume to the level you want. • The digital piano automatically adjusts sound output to optimize for headphones (when headphones are connected) or the built-in speakers (when headphones are not connected).
Connections Pedal Connector You can connect the optionally available 3-Pedal Unit (SP-30) to the pedal connector on the bottom of the digital piano. You can then use the pedals for expression that is similar to that available on an acoustic piano. Bottom NOTE •...
(such as AUX IN) to which the piano is connected. Use the piano’s VOLUME controller to adjust the volume level. Connecting to a Musical Instrument Amplifier 3 Use commercially available cables to connect the amplifier to the piano’s LINE OUT jacks as shown in Figure 3.
Selecting and Playing a Tone START/STOP MUSIC LIBRARY METRONOME VOLUME Your digital piano has the following types of tones built in. Tone Tone Type Numbers — Refined Tone 001 to 061 Various 062 to 189 GM (General MIDI) 190 to 191 Drum Sets To select a refined tone Press the POWER button to turn on the...
Press one of the TONE buttons (not the VARIOUS/GM TONES button) to select the tone you want. • The names of the refined tones are marked above the TONE buttons. • This will cause the lamp of the selected tone’s button to light.
Selecting and Playing a Tone Layering Two Tones Use the following procedure to layer two tones, so they sound at the same time. The tone you specify first is called the “main tone”, while the tone you specify second is called the “layered tone”. While holding down the TONE button of the tone that corresponds to the main tone, press the button that corresponds to the layered...
To specify the keyboard split point While holding down the SPLIT button, press the keyboard key where you want the left limit of the high range (right) tone to be. Flashing • This will change the split point and display the name of keyboard key that you pressed.
Selecting and Playing a Tone Using the Metronome Press the METRONOME button. • This will start the metronome. • The two lamps above the START/STOP button will flash along with the metronome beats. Flashes on the first beat of each measure. To change the beats per measure, hold down the METRONOME button as you press the /NO or...
Playing a Piano Duet You can use the Duet Mode to split the piano’s keyboard in the center so two people can play a duet. The left and right side keyboards have virtually the same range. If you have the optionally available SP-30 Pedal Unit installed, the left pedal operates as the left side damper pedal, while the right pedal is the right side damper pedal.
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Selecting and Playing a Tone Changing the Octaves of the Keyboards You can change the ranges of the left and right keyboards in octave units from their initial default settings. This comes in handy, for example, if the initial default range is not enough when one person is playing the left hand part and another person is playing the right hand part.
Playing a Rhythm RHYTHM START/STOP SYNCHRO/FILL-IN INTRO/ENDING Selecting a Rhythm You can select from among 70 built-in rhythms. Press the RHYTHM button so the lamp above it is lit. • Each press of the button toggles between the lamps above and below the button. •...
Accompaniment makes it feel like you have your own private backup group with you all the time. NOTE • With the rhythms listed below, make sure that CASIO CHORD, FINGERED, or FULL RANGE CHORD is selected as the Auto Accompaniment mode before you try playing chords.
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The following shows where the accompaniment keyboard range is located, Flashes on and explains how to finger chords in the CASIO subsequent beats. CHORD mode. CASIO CHORD Mode Keyboard...
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Playing a Rhythm IMPORTANT! • In the CASIO CHORD mode, the keys in the accompaniment keyboard range of the keyboard operate as “chord switches” only. You cannot use the keys in this keyboard range to play notes. • You can use the split point to change the size of the accompaniment keyboard range.
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Fingered Chord Notes • Except for the chords whose names have *1 after them in the above examples, you also can use inverted fingerings. This means that fingering either E-G-C or G-C-E will produces a C chord. • Except for the chords whose names have *2 after them in the above examples, you need to press all of the indicated keys in order to finger a chord.
Playing Back Built-in Songs MUSIC LIBRARY TRACK/PART PLAY/STOP IMPORTANT! • After you select a built-in song, it can take a number of seconds for the song data to be loaded. While the data is being loaded, the song number will flash on the display, and the keyboard keys and button operations will be disabled.
Playing Back a Specific Music Library Song The Music Library includes both built-in songs (01 to 60), plus up to 10 songs (61 to 70) that have been saved to digital piano memory from a computer* or SD memory card (page E-41). You can use the procedure below to select one of these songs and play it back.
Playing Back Built-in Songs To skip forward through a song While playback is in progress, hold down the FF button. • This skips forward through the song measure-by- measure. • The measure number appears on the display while you are skipping forward. Measure number When you reach the point you want, release the FF button to resume playback.
Saving Digital Piano Setups (Registration Memory) You can save up to 96 digital piano setups in registration memory, including tone, rhythm, and tempo settings, for quick and easy recall whenever you need them. Registration Areas and Banks Each setup is stored in an “area”. There are a total of 96 areas, which are grouped into eight “banks”.
See “Using an SD Memory Card” on page E-41 for more information. IMPORTANT! • CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. takes no responsibility for any damages, lost profits, or claims by third parties arising from the loss of deleted recorded data due to malfunction, repair, or for any other reason.
To recall a setup from registration memory Press the TONE/REGISTRATION button so the registration lamp is lit. • This will cause the currently selected bank number to appear on the display. • Each press of the button toggles between the upper lamp and lower lamp.
See “Using an SD Memory Card” on page E-41 for more information. IMPORTANT! • CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. takes no responsibility for any damages, lost profits, or claims by third parties arising from the deletion of recorded data due to malfunction, repair, or for any other reason.
Using the RECORDER Button Each press of the RECORDER button cycles through the recording options in the sequence shown below. Playback Record Standby Standby Flashing Recording Your Keyboard Play After recording to either of the tracks of a song, you can record to the other track while listening to playback what you recorded in the first track.
Recording and Play Back When you are finished, press the START/ STOP button to stop recording. • To stop recording with a rhythm/Auto Accompaniment ending pattern, press the INTRO/ ENDING button. • Stopping recording will cause the REC lamp to go out and the PLAY lamp to light.
To play back from digital piano memory Press the RECORDER button so the PLAY lamp is lit. Use the /NO and /YES buttons to display a song number (1 to 5). NOTE • When a song has something recorded in both tracks, you can turn off one track and play back just the other track, if you want.
Other Settings FUNCTION This section explains how to configure key, touch, pedal, MIDI, and other settings. • The basic procedure below is used for configuring all settings. The only difference is the button that you press to select a parameter. •...
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To change the setting of one of the EFFECT button parameters Press the EFFECT button in step 3 of the “To configure other settings” procedure to toggle between the two parameters shown below. Brilliance parameter (“b” stands for “brilliance”.) Acoustic Resonance parameter (“A”...
Other Settings Secondary Parameter Reference Tones Setting Parameter Name VARIOUS/GM TONE SEL TONES button assignment Tone layering volume LAYER BAL balance Split point SPLIT POINT Reverb type REV TYPE Chorus type CHOR TYPE Brilliance level EFFECT Acoustic Resonance EFFECT * Split Point Key Name Display Display Settings E-34...
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• When playing a song from the user area or from an SD memory card, the pre-count may not sound, even though the pre-count setting is turned on. oFF : NORMAL Specifies the Auto Accompaniment mode. C.C. : CASIO CHORD FnG : FINGERED FUL : FULL RANGE CHORD Settings oFF : Off Specifies the relative touch of the keyboard keys.
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Other Settings Pedals Setting Parameter Name Soft/Sostenuto pedal OTHERS jack setting Damper pedal OTHERS adjustment (half-damper) MIDI and Other Settings Setting Parameter Name Send channel MIDI Accomp MIDI out MIDI MIDI In Chord judge MIDI Local control MIDI Registration Filter OTHERS E-36 Settings...
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Setting Parameter Name Setup Memory OTHERS Operation Lock OTHERS * Setup Memory Data Contents Tone selection, layer/split on/off, reverb/chorus on/off, rhythm number, SD memory card playback selection, settings on pages E-34 through E-37 (except VARIOUS/GM TONES button assignment, Accomp MIDI out, MIDI In Chord judge, Local control, Operation Lock), RHYTHM/MUSIC LIBRARY button setting, TONE/REGISTRATION button setting, CARD button setting.
MIDI data with the digital piano. You also can use the USB connection to transfer files you downloaded from the CASIO MUSIC SITE from your computer to the digital piano. You will need a commercially available USB cable to connect a computer to the digital piano’s USB port.
• You need to have Adobe Reader or Acrobat Reader installed on your computer in order to view the contents of the “CASIO USB MIDI Driver User’s Guide” (manual_e.pdf). If your computer does not have Adobe Reader or Acrobat Reader installed already, use the procedure below to install it.
Music Library and practice along with them as they play, just as you do with the built-in songs. You also can use the CASIO SMF conversion software (SMF Converter) to convert SMF data files you have purchased or created, and transfer them to the digital piano’s Music Library.
SD memory card. The digital piano also can read SMF song data and CASIO format song data from an SD memory card. Supported SD Memory Cards The maximum supported SD memory card size is 2 GB.
When this happens, you need to purchase a new SD memory card. * Note that CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. shall not be held liable for any loss of data stored on an SD memory card.
“SvC” (save as CSR file) to appear on the display. This setting will save song data in CASIO CSR format. • If you want to save the song data in SMF Format 0, press the CARD button again. This will cause “SvS”...
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Using an SD Memory Card Use the /NO and /YES buttons to display the file number where you want to save the song data. This mark indicates that the currently displayed file number on the SD memory card has data stored already. When everything is the way you want, press the FUNCTION button to begin saving data.
Recorder Area...Song data recorded on the digital piano (CASIO CSR format) Registration Area ...Registration data saved with the digital piano (CASIO CR6 format) PREPARATION • Insert the SD memory card, which contains the data you want to transfer, into the piano’s SD memory card slot.
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Using an SD Memory Card To transfer song data from an SD memory card to the recorder area Press the RECORDER button so the PLAY lamp is lit. Use the /NO and /YES buttons to display the number of the recorder area song (1 through 5) to which you want to transfer the song data.
Playing Back a File Stored on an SD Memory Card Playback of SMF format data and song data converted using SMF conversion software to CASIO CM2 format. IMPORTANT! • Note the following important precautions whenever playing back a data file you copied to a memory card with a computer.
Using an SD Memory Card SD Memory Card Errors Display Message No SD memory card loaded in the SD memory card slot or the card is not loaded correctly. You are trying to load data from an SD memory card that does not contain any data that is supported by this digital piano.
3. MIDI Local Control is turned off. 4. Check the current accompaniment mode setting. Normally, the accompaniment keyboard range will not produce any note while CASIO CHORD or FINGERED is selected as the Auto Accompaniment mode. No rhythm Accompaniment volume is set to 0.
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This is due do limitations in the range of the original musical instrument for each tone, and does not octaves.
• Number of Rhythms: 70 • Tempo Range: 20 to 255 • Controllers: START/STOP, INTRO/ENDING, SYNCHRO/FILL-IN • Auto Accompaniment modes: NORMAL, CASIO CHORD, FINGERED, FULL RANGE CHORD • Accompaniment Volume Level: Adjustable Demo Songs 71 (11 tone demo songs; 60 Music Library songs) Music Library •...
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Appendix/Apéndice Tone List/Lista de tonos Bank Select Program MSB/ No./ Tone Name/ Change/ MSB de N º Nombre de tonos Cambio de selección programa de banco GRAND PIANO MODERN GRAND PIANO CLASSIC GRAND PIANO VARIATION ROCK PIANO ELEC PIANO 1 ELEC PIANO 2 60’S E.PIANO ROCK ORGAN...
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Appendix/Apéndice Bank Select Program MSB/ No./ Tone Name/ Change/ MSB de N º Nombre de tonos Cambio de selección programa de banco GM HARP GM TIMPANI GM STRINGS 1 GM STRINGS 2 GM SYNTH-STRINGS 1 GM SYNTH-STRINGS 2 GM CHOIR AAHS GM VOICE DOO GM SYNTH-VOICE GM ORCHESTRA HIT...
Drum Assignment List/ Lista de sonidos de batería Key/Note Number STANDARD SET Número de clave/nota HIGH Q SLAP SCRATCH PUSH F # 1 SCRATCH PULL STICKS SQUARE CLICK METRONOME CLICK METRONOME BELL STANDARD 1 KICK 2 STANDARD 1 KICK 1 C # 2 SIDE STICK STANDARD 1 SNARE 1...
Song List/Lista de canciones Tone Demo/Demostración de tonos Tone Name/ No./Nº Nombre de tonos GRAND PIANO Pr_lude [Suite bergamasque] (MODERN) GRAND PIANO 3 Romances Sans Paroles 3 (CLASSIC) GRAND PIANO Ungarischer Tanz 5 (VARIATION) ROCK PIANO Original ELEC PIANO 1 Original ELEC PIANO 2 Original...
• For details about footnotes 3 through 5, see MIDI Implementation at http://world.casio.com/. *5 : Mensaje exclusivo del sistema de este modelo • Si desea más información sobre los pies de página 3 a 5, vea Implementación MIDI en http://world.casio.com/. Mode 2 : OMNI ON, MONO...
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