Donner DDP-400 - Digital Piano Manual

BODY ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS

• To ensure the correct assembly of the Piano, read this manual carefully before assembly and place the manual where it is readily available for inspection.
• Please remove the main unit from the box and remove the protective cover and foam box. (Packaging and packaging materials must be kept for half a month).
• During assembly or handling, keep the device raised horizontally.
• Be careful of handling, be careful not to pinch your hands, or drop the device to your feet.
• Before you screw the screw to the final position, gently tighten the screw slightly more easily. Wait until the screw has entered about normal time and then increase the force. Do not use excessive force when screwing to the final position of the screw, which may damage the screw.
• After tightening the screws, place the device in a flat and stable place. Do not place it in a fluffy stall or on the ground. In this case, the pedals are easily swayed, resulting in skin lesions
• Do not place the main body of the device directly on the floor This will damage the bottom of the interface and bracket, and damage the host's bottom panel.
• Open the box, check the box items, such as the screw package is complete.
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  Be sure to install the pedal to support the bolt. The black plum plastic part of the pedal support handle bolt should be unscrewed until it touches the ground (This largest bolt is to play the role of supporting the pedal force).

INSTALLATION STEPS

1. Host
2. Left Bracket
3. Right Bracket
4. Support Backplane
5. Pedal Bar
6. Plum-shaped Foot Support Screw: 1 Pcs
7. Plum-shaped Handle Screw: 6 Pcs
8. Large Screws: 4 Pcs

Be sure to install the pedal support bolts before depressing the treadle to avoid trampling the tread.

HEADPHONE PORT

The bottom of the left side of the host

THREE PEDAL INTERFACE

Three - pedal
According to the traditional grand piano, the electronic piano is manufactured. It adopts a damper pedal, a sostenuto pedal and a soft pedal which are same to that of the traditional grand piano
Step on the pedal to open; Release the pedal to close.
Please connect the pedal cord to the pedal connector at the bottom of the piano

Damper pedal
(Right) After depressing the damper pedal, notes will be extended; After releasing, the portamento effect is closed immediately.
If you step on the damper pedal there, the note and the note that you played before releasing the pedal will extend longer.

Sostenuto pedal
(Middle) Press and hold the note key while depressing the pedal, which can prolong the pressed note (as if depressing the damper pedal) but the subsequent notes will not stretch.
This can lengthen the chord or single bass note while playing other sounds in a staccato way.
If you press and hold the note, while depressing the back damper pedal, this can extend the note until the pedal is released.

Soft pedal
(Left) Depress the soft pedal to reduce the volume of the note that you are playing, at this time, the timbre changes. The notes played before depressing the pedal are not affected.

Before depressing the pedal, be sure that you have instakked the pedal support screw and it is fully grounded.

CONTROL PANEL

1. +/- KEY
   1. You can press one of them for a short time to adjust the function selected
   2. You can press one of them for a long time to fast adjust the function selected.
   3. Press the two keys at the same time to make the function selected restore to its default value
   4. For some optional functions, +/- key stands for Yes/No or ON/OFF.
2. VOICE/STYLE
   VOICE
   1. If the current status is not the timbre selection, press the key of timbre/rhythm to switch to the timbre selection status, the indicator lamp lights.
   2. [+/-]Key adjusting
   3. The default choice is the main keyboard piano timbre.
   4. When the split function is opened, the left hand keyboard timbre is selected.
   5. When the dual function is opened, the second layer of music is selected
      RHYTHM
      1. If the current status is not the rhythm selection, press the key of timbre/rhythm to switch to the rhythm selection status, the indicator lamp flashes
      2. [+/-]KEY ADJUSTING
      3. [START/STOP] key for starting/stopping rhythm
      4. A, B Intro/Ending 3 groups of paragraph control
      5. When stopping the rhythm, press the key of INTRO/END one time to insert Intro, press it again to cancel the inserting of Ending. When playing, insert this key to insert the Ending at the same time, the indicator lamp flashes.
      6. When stopping the rhythm, press the key of A/SY START or the key of BISY STOP for a short time to choose the main paragraph A or B, at the same time, the indicator lamp lights. When it is playing, press the key for a short time to insert the interlude, then return to the main paragraph. While inserting the interlude, the indicator lamp.
      7. Pressing the key of A/Sy Start or the key of B/Sy Stop for a long time to open turn off the function of A SY START/ B SY STOP. When the function of SY START is opened, the rhythm stops with the release of the chord.
3. START/STOP
   Start the rhythm pattern and turn off the rhythm pattern.
4. AISY START BISY STOP
   A, B, Intro /Ending 3 groups of paragraph control; long press [A/SY START B/SY STOP] can choose to open or close the A/SY START BISY STOP function; When the A/SY START function is on, press any key or active chord to A/SY START the rhythm; when the B/SY STOP function is on, the rhythm stops synchronously with the chord release.
5. METRO
   Press the [METRO] button to turn the metronome on / off, the indicator light [On].
6. MEM1 MEM2
   1. Long press [MEM 1/ [MEM2] to save all current user settings to the selected memory location, the indicator light [ON];
   2. Short press [MEM 1]/ [MEM2] key to recall the user settings of the selected memory location.
7. FUN/TRANS
   Function: Short press [Function/Trans] key to enter the respective function adjustment status, indicator [BRIGHT]
   Transpose: Long press [Function/Trans] key to enter Transpose adjustment state, indicator [Flash]; [+, -] key adjustment.
8. INTROIEND
   Press the [INTRO/END] key, and then press the [START / STOP] key to enter the prelude of the auto accompaniment. To stop the accompaniment, press the [START/STOP] key. then the electric piano automatically play a piece of ending music, the end of playing automatically play.
9. TEMPO
   1. Press the [TEMPO] key to enter the speed adjustment status, the indicator light [ON];
   2. [+/-] key adjustment;
   3. Adjustable rhythm, metronome, songs, record speed
10. CHORD
    1. Press the [CHORD] key combination at the same time to turn on / off the auto chord;
    2. Auto chord can recognize single-finger chords and multi-finger chords at the same time.
11. REC
    1. Press [REC] key combination simultaneously, enter record preparation state;
    2. [+/-] key to select the track you want to record;
    3. play any key or an effective chord A SY/START record
    4. Press [REC] again to finish record
12. PLAY
    Simultaneously press the [PLAY] key combination to start / stop playing
13. CLEAN
    Simultaneously Press [CLEAN] key combination, according to the prompt operation can delete the currently selected user record content; press [+] key to confirm
14. DEMO
    1. Simultaneously press the [DEMO] key combination to open / stop the demo song, and switch to the demo song selection status;
    2. [+/-] key adjustment; the user record, and simultaneously switch to the user record selection state, [+/-] key adjustment;
15. MASTER VOL
    Turn the knob of total volume to adjust the main volume of the piano
16. RHYTHM VOL
    Turn the knob of accompaniment volume to adjust the piano's accompaniment volume, demo music volume, metronome volume
17. SWITCH
    Before opening the power switch of the host, please tune all volume down to the minimum

DEMO SONG \ INTELLIGENT TEACHING FUNCTION

Play demo song
Digital Piano has 120 built-in demo songs, including 20 normal demo songs and 100 Cherney teaching demo songs, used to demonstrate its rich and colorful sound and beautiful sound quality.
Users can have a preliminary understanding of this piano through the demo songs
Simultaneously press the [MEM1 MEM2] and [MEM1 MEM2] combination keys to start demo song function, and the screen is shown on the right. All the demo songs will be played back in sequence. You can press [+] or [-]key in the process to select the previous song or the next song, and the display will show the name of he corresponding track (for details (please refer to the demo song list). If you want to quickly select the song you can hold down the [+] or [-] button, and at this time the track will quickly flip -When the demo song is playing, press the [TEMPO] button, then press the [+][-] button to change the play speed of the current demo song.

Cherny teaching and practice functions
In addition to the digital piano 1-20 normal demo song, there are 100 examples of Cherny Etude and intelligent teaching function
For example: Press the [MEM1] and [MEM2] combination keys first to start the demonstration song function, and then press the [+] key to bring up the first one. The screen will be displayed synchronously as shown below; Press the [FUNCTION / TRANS] key until the [ACTUAL FUNCTION] word appears on the screen, as shown in the figure below. Press the [+] or [-] key to select the right hand trainer or the left trainer as shown below.

METRONOME

The digital piano has built-in international standard metronome, as a reference for practice or performance. Press the [METRO] button, the metronome starts working, and the button light is on. Press the [TEMPO] button, the indicator light, and the screen shown below.
Press the [+] [-] key to speed up or slow down the metronome. Press the [FUNCTION / TRANS] button several times while the metronome is working until [BEEP TYPE] appears on the screen.
Press the [+][-] key at this time to select different beats, as shown in the figure, and the order is 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8. Metronome speeds are consistent with those set for auto accompaniment or etudes and demo songs. Press the [METRO] button again and the metronome stops working. Use the accompaniment volume knob to adjust the volume of the melody independently without changing the master volume of the piano

TIMBRE

Timbre selection
This digital piano has 128 international standard timbres GM and 10 sets of drum percussion timbres
For details, please refer to Appendix "Timbres List"
In the boot default, it is the timbr eselect state. Press key to select the desired timbre, and long press key to quickly switch the desired timbre. The screen will display the timbre name synchronously. As shown on the right; Simultaneously press the [+] [-] key to restore the default timbre(grand pianotimbre)

Dual
The Dual feature allows you to hear a superposition of two timbres when playing a key,

1. Press the [FUN/TRANS] button several times until the screen appears [Dual] as shown on the right;
2. Press [+] key to open dual function, and press [-] key to close dual function.

For example: Combine "carillon" timbre with "bass saxophone" timbre, the operation is as follows:
Press the [FUN/TRANS] button to switch to the timbre selection mode, and press the [+] button to switch to the "Carillon" tone corresponding to the number "10". Press [FUN/TRANS] several times until the screen appears [Dual] and press [+] to turn it on, then press [FUN/TRANS] again to switch to the state of timbre selection, press [+] to switch to "Bass Sax" corresponding to number "68".The timbre is the dual of "Glockenspiel" and "Bass Sax"

Split
When playing with the keyboard split mode, the keyboard is divided into the left and right parts by the keyboard split point. The right part is played by the normal music, while the left part of the keyboard is played by another sound. You can also make the left and right keyboard play out the same pitch
For example: let the left keyboard change into "glockenspiel" timbre and the right keyboard into a "bass saxophone" timbre, the operation is as follows:
Press the [VOICE/STYLE] key to switch to the timbre selection mode, and press [+] key to select the "Bass Saxophone" key corresponding to the number "68", and then press the [FUN/TRANS] button until [Dual] appears on the screen. Press the [+] button to activate the Dual Keyboard function. Press the [VOICE/STYLE] button again to switch to the timbre selection state. Press [+] to select the left "Carillon" sound, making it correspond to the number "I O" At this time, both the left and right keyboards

AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT

There are 100 kinds of automatic accompaniment, composed of percussion rhythm and instrumental accompaniment, representing a variety of different musical styles, and these styles are basically determined by the rhythm

Rhythm selection
Press [START/STOP] key to start rhythm accompaniment, and press [Music/ Rhythm] key to switch to rhythm selection state, and the indicator light flashes. The screen synchronously displays as shown on the right. Press [+] or [-] key to switch to the rhythm you need (Refer to the tempo list). Press the [TEMPO] button, then press the [+] [-] button to adjust the tempo of the current tempo, and press the [START / STOP] button again to stop the tempo accompaniment.
Note: Long press [A/SY START] [B/SY STOP] key to select whether to enable or disable the A/SY START function. When the A/SY START function is on, press any key or a valid chord. A/SY START rhythm; When the BISY STOP function is on, the rhythm is released as the chord

Chord separation point for natural accompaniment
The natural accompaniment a nd chord separation points divide the keyboard into two areas. The left side of the separation point is the accompaniment area. The right is the melody area. The preset separation point is the A key (A group key) and this separation point can be changed; Press the [FUN/TRANS ] button several times until the "Chord Split Point" appears on the screen. The default separation point now shows the number "25" (25 refers to the number from the left to the right of the keyboard contains black keys, up to 25, that is the A group of large keys). Press the [+][-] key at this time to change the keyboard chord separation point.

Auto accompaniment mode
There are three auto accompaniment modes to choose from: one-finger chord, multi-finger chord, full keyboard mode

Single chord I Fingered chords
In single-finger chord mode, the four most basic chords can be played using the simplest fingering (one finger, two fingers or up to three fingers)
Junior Chord: Play the root note of the chord
Triad: Simultaneously plays the root of the chord and a black key adjacent to the left.
A seventh chord: Play chords and roots together with a white key adjacent to the left.
Small seven chords: Simultaneously playing the chord root and the left side of the adjacent white and black keys (three keys at the same time play).
In Fingered mode, you can play more chord types than single-finger mode. It automatically produces the accompanying accompaniment based on the full chord played, so it is more suitable for those who are familiar with chords playing on the keyboard.
Note: If an unrecognizable chord is played while the accompaniment is in progress, keep the existing chords constant.

Full keyboard mode
When entering Full Keyboard mode, chords can be played throughout the keyboard without being limited to the auto accompaniment keypad
Set "Full Keyboard Mode" Instructions: Press [Function / Shift] several times until [Chord Split] appears on the screen and then press the rightmost key of the keyboard. At this time, you can entert he full keyboard mode.

Using Auto Accompaniment function
A/ B section inserted
When using Auto Accompaniment, the performance of the song can be enriched by different performance modes of Section A and Section B. When the rhythm stops state, short press [A/ SY START] or press [B / SY STOP] key to select main paragraph A or B, and the indicator light is on. Then press the [START / STOP] key to enter the auto chord accompaniment of the A or B segment selected by the user. When the rhythm is playing, press the [A/ SY START] key briefly or the [B / SY STOP] key briefly to insert the door and return to the selected main paragraph

INTRO\END
Press the [INTRO/END] key, and then press the [START STOP] key to enter the Auto Accompaniment Prelude, and you can press [START / STOP] key to stop Auto Accompaniment function. When the rhythm is playing, press the [INTRO/END] key again, and the electric piano will play an ending piece automatically, ending the automatic accompaniment.

RECORD

Record function
Simultaneously press [START/ STOP] [INTRO/END] key combination to start the record function, then enter the record preparation state, as shown in the following figure.
Press [+] or [-] key to select the track to be recorded. Press any key or synchronize with the chord to start recording, and the upper left box turns into a circle, as shown in the figure below. Press the [START / STOP] [INTRO/END] button simultaneously to stop ending the current recording

Record play/stop
Press the [A/ SY START] [B / SY STOP] button simultaneously to play / stop user recording.

Clear the record
Simultaneously press the [METRO] and [TEMPO] combination key to enter the clear state, then press the [+] key to confirm the deletion to delete the currently selected user record, as shown below.

TRANSPOSE

Transpose in semitone steps, adjust the keyboard pitch up or down to a maximum of 24 semitones. Long press 3 seconds [FUN/TRANS] key to enter the transpose adjustment state, and the indicator light flashes, the screen as shown below. Adjust the desired pitch by [+] [-] key. To restore the factory pitch, press the [+] [-] key simultaneously while the transpose adjustment is in process.

MEMORY

Storage is commonly used as functions, timbre, rhythm shortcuts Long press [MEM1] or [MEM2] to save all the current user settings to the selected storage location, and the indicator light is on. Shortly press the [MEM 1] or [MEM2] key to recall the selected user settings for storage location.

RHYTHM LIST

DEMO SONG LIST

TROUBLE SHOOTING

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