Editing The Grand Piano Tone - Roland HP702 Owner's Manual

Creating Your Own Piano Tone (Piano Designer)

Editing the Grand Piano Tone

You can adjust various aspects of the grand piano's tone, including the string and pedal resonances, and the sound of the hammers striking the
strings.
* Only the sounds of the [Piano] button can be adjusted.
1.
Press the [Piano Designer] button.
2.
Turn the [ ] knob to access the "Piano Tone Edit"
screen.
3.
Press the [ ] knob to confirm.
4.
Turn the [ ] knob to access the screen of the item
that you want to edit.
5.
Press the [ ] knob to confirm, and turn the [ ] knob
to choose the value of the setting.
Items
Lid
Key Off Noise
Hammer Noise -2–0–+2
Duplex Scale
Full Scale
String Res.
Piano Tone Edit
Damper
Resonance
Key Off
Resonance
Cabinet
Resonance
Soundboard
Type
Damper Noise Off, 1–10
Single Note
Tuning (*)
Single Note
Volume (*)
Single Note
Character (*)
Reset Setting
Single Note settings (*)
1.
Select the Single Note settings screen, and press the [ ] knob to confirm.
18
Value Explanation
Adjusts the extent to which the top lid of the grand piano is open.
0–6
The sound will become more mellow as you close the top lid of the piano in the screen. The
sound will become brighter as you open the top lid of the piano in the screen.
Adjusts the action noise that is heard when you release a key.
Off, 1–10
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.
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
Off, 1–10
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.
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
Off, 1–10
strings vibrating in sympathy with 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 the damper pedal, and the
Off, 1–10
resonance of the entire instrument).
Higher settings produce louder sympathetic resonance.
Adjusts the resonance of the subtle sounds that occur when a key of an acoustic piano is
Off, 1–10
released. A higher value produces a larger tonal change during the decay.
Adjusts the body resonance of the grand piano itself.
Off, 1–10
Higher values will produce a larger body resonance.
Selects how the soundboard of the acoustic piano will resonate.
1–5
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 tuning of each individual key. For example, you can adjust the width of stretched
-50–0–+50
tuning, which tunes the higher register slightly higher and the lower register slightly lower.
-50–0
Adjusts the volume of each key. Lower settings decrease the volume.
Adjusts the tonal character of each key. Higher settings produce a harder sound, and lower
settings produce a softer tone.
-5–0–+5
* The result of this effect will differ depending on the pitch range.
Resets the "Piano Tone Edit" settings of the selected tone to their factory settings.
6.
When you are finished editing the piano tone, press
[ ] button.
A confirmation message appears.
If you decide to cancel, press the [ ] button.
7.
Turn the [ ] knob to select "Yes," and press the [ ]
knob to confirm.
The Grand Piano tone settings are saved.
2.
Play the key for which you want to make adjustments, and turn the [ ]
knob to change the value.
3.
Press the [ ] button to exit the screen of that item.