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Cover CDP-S160 USER’S GUIDE Preparing a Power Supply Turning Power On or Off Connecting a Pedal Using Headphones Selecting a Tone Splitting the Keyboard for Changing the Pitch in Fine Tuning a Pitch (Tuning) Duet Play Semitone Steps (Transpose) Listening to Demo Play...
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Overview and Setup General Guide Back • Some of the button names shown here include the $ mark. This indicates that you need to long-press the button to perform its operation. 1 P (Power) button 7 PEDAL UNIT jack 2 VOLUME knob 8 PHONES/OUTPUT jack 3 GRAND PIANO FUNCTION button...
Overview and Setup *1 Keyboard note names and pitches Preparing a Power Supply The keyboard note names and pitches used in this manual follow the international standard. Middle C is C4, the lowest C Your Digital Piano uses an AC adaptor for power. is C1, and the highest C is C8.
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Overview and Setup ■ Using Batteries • Note the important precautions below to avoid damage to the power cord. During Use • Be sure to turn off power before loading batteries. • Never pull on the cord with excessive force. •...
Overview and Setup ■ Low Battery Indication Auto Power Off Low batteries are indicated by the 1P(Power) button lamp This Digital Piano is designed to turn off automatically to avoid flashing. When this happens, replace batteries. wasting power after no operation is performed for a preset amount of time.
Overview and Setup Returning the Digital Piano to Its Connecting a Pedal Factory Default Settings DAMPER PEDAL Jack Perform the procedure below when you want to return the Connect the supplied pedal (SP-3) to the 6 DAMPER Digital Piano’s stored data and settings to their initial factory PEDAL jack.
Overview and Setup ■ To change the functions assigned to pedals Using Headphones While holding down 3 FUNCTION, perform Using headphones cuts off output from the built-in speakers, procedure (A) or (B) below. which means you can practice playing even late at night without disturbing others.
Digital Piano Operation Selecting a Tone The Digital Piano has 10 built-in tones. In addition to using a Listening to Demo Play single tone, you can also select two different tones and sound them together. Use the Tone keyboard keys (C3 through A3) to select a tone. Tone keys (C3 through A3) DEMO key (B2) [–] key (D4)
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Digital Piano Operation To select a single tone To layer two tones While holding down 3 FUNCTION, press one While holding down 3 FUNCTION, press the of the Tone keyboard keys (C3 through A3). Tone keyboard keys (C3 through A3) of the first •...
Digital Piano Operation ■ To add the chorus effect to notes Using Effects While holding down the 3 FUNCTION button, Your Digital Piano has a number of effects that change the perform procedure (A) or (B) below. reverberation of notes (reverb), and effects that make note deeper and more expansive (chorus).
Digital Piano Operation ■ To change the metronome beat Using the Metronome While holding down 3 FUNCTION, perform The metronome sounds a regular tone to mark time. Use the steps (1) and (2) below. metronome when you want to practice playing at a regular tempo.
Digital Piano Operation ■ To adjust the metronome volume Splitting the Keyboard for Duet Play • You can adjust the metronome value within the range of 0 You can split the keyboard in the center for duet play so the (muted) and 42 (maximum).
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Digital Piano Operation ■ To play a duet ■ Changing the Octaves of the duet keyboards You can change the ranges of the left and right keyboards in While holding down 3 FUNCTION, press the octave units from their initial default settings. This comes in handy, for example, if the initial default range is not enough DUET TYPE (B5) keyboard key.
LED flashes at the tempo of the recording. To stop playback, press 4 a again. • Playback will stop automatically when the end of the • CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. takes no responsibility recording is reached. 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.
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Digital Piano Operation ■ To change the reverb and chorus settings of a ■ To delete a recorded performance recorded performance While holding down the 3 FUNCTION button, Perform one of the operations below to select perform steps (1) and (2) below. the reverb or chorus effect you want to apply to the recorded performance.
■ To download the smart device app which determine how Digital Piano volume changes in Download the smart device app from the CASIO website and accordance with how strongly keyboard keys are pressed. install it on the smart device you want to use.
Configuring Settings ■ To change the Touch Response setting Changing the Pitch in Semitone Steps (Transpose) While holding down 3 FUNCTION, perform procedure (A) or (B) below. The transpose feature lets you raise or lower the overall pitch of the Digital Piano in semitone steps. You can use this (A) Press the TOUCH RESPONSE keyboard key (D5).
Configuring Settings ■ To use a value to specify the transpose setting Fine Tuning a Pitch (Tuning) The tuning feature specifies the frequency of the A4 note. You • While the setting value is within the range of 0 to +12 can set a frequency within the range of 415.5 to 465.9 Hz.
Configuring Settings ■ To change the tuning setting Selecting a Scale While holding down 3 FUNCTION, perform You can change the scale (tuning system) of the keyboard steps (1) through (3) below. from standard equal temperament to another tuning that is more suitable for playing Indian music, Arabic music, classical pieces, etc.
Configuring Settings For example, to select the “Bayati” scale, press [0] (E4) Changing the Beep Setting and then [9] (C{5). Inputting the second and final digit will cause a short and then long beep to sound, indicating You can use the 3 FUNCTION button operation below to that the value you input was applied.
Configuring Settings ■ To toggle Local Control between on and off Configuring MIDI Settings While holding down 3 FUNCTION, press the Keyboard Channel A6 (Local Control) keyboard key. This setting specifies a channel from 1 through 16 as the MIDI channel that can be used for sending data to an external •...
■ Playing an External Device from the Digital Piano Connecting External Devices Connection requires commercially available connecting cords, supplied by you. • The connecting cords should have a 3-pole stereo mini plug Connecting to Audio Equipment on one end and a plug that matches the configuration of the external device on the other end.
Doing so can cause problems Configure the music software settings to select with your computer. “CASIO USB-MIDI” as the MIDI device. • For information about how to select the MIDI device, see the user documentation that comes with the music •...
Reference Troubleshooting Symptom Action Included Accessories I can’t find something that should be here. Carefully check inside all of the packing materials. Power Requirements Power will not turned on. • Check the AC adaptor or make sure that the batteries are facing correctly (page EN-3).
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Reference Symptom Action Computer Connection I can’t exchange data between the Digital Piano and • Check to make sure that the USB cable is connected to the Digital a computer. Piano and computer, and that the device is selected correctly with your computer’s music software settings (page EN-23).
Reference Tone List Program Bank Tone Name Change Select MSB GRAND PIANO STANDARD GRAND PIANO MELLOW GRAND PIANO BRIGHT ELEC.PIANO 1 ELEC.PIANO 2 ELEC.PIANO 3 HARPSICHORD STRINGS PIPE ORGAN JAZZ ORGAN EN-27...
Reference Keyboard Function List Note Assigned function (marked above the keyboard key) name Demo (DEMO) Grand Piano (GRAND PIANO) Standard (STANDARD) Grand Piano (GRAND PIANO) Mellow (MELLOW) Grand Piano (GRAND PIANO) Bright (BRIGHT) Elec. Piano (ELEC. PIANO) Elec. Piano (ELEC. PIANO) Elec.