Virtual Technician Settings - Kawai Concert Artist CA95 Owner's Manual

Virtual Technician Settings

An experienced piano technician is essential to fully realise the potential of a fine acoustic piano. In addition to
meticulously tuning each note, the technician also performs numerous regulation and voicing adjustments that
allow the instrument to truly sing.
The Virtual Technician settings of the CA95/CA65 digital piano simulate these refinements digitally, allowing
performers to shape various aspects of the instrument's character to suit their personal preferences.
* The table below indicates which Virtual Technician settings affect to all sounds, or acoustic piano and electric piano sounds only.
Virtual Technician Settings
No. Setting
1 Touch Curve
2 Voicing
3 Damper Resonance
4 Damper Noise
5 String Resonance
6 Key-off Effect
7 Fall-back Noise
8 Hammer Delay
9 Topboard
10 Decay Time
11 Minimum Touch
12 Stretch Tuning
User Tuning
13 Temperament
User Temperament
14 Temperament Key
15 User Key Volume
16 Half-Pedal Adjust
17 Soft Pedal Depth
* Default settings will be shown in the first LCD display illustration (i.e. Step 1) for each setting explanation below.
Entering the Virtual Technician menu
While the normal playing mode screen is shown in the LCD display:
Press the FUNCTION button (EDIT).
The LED indicator for the
the Function menus will be shown in the LCD display.
Press the or buttons to select the Virtual Technician menu.
Press the FUNCTION button (ENTER) again to enter the Virtual
Technician menu.
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Description
Adjust the touch sensitivity of the keyboard.
Adjust the tonal character of the instrument.
Adjust the resonance that is heard when pressing the damper pedal.
Adjust the sound that is heard when pressing the damper pedal.
Adjust the resonance that is heard when notes are held.
Adjust the sound that is heard when keys are released.
Adjust the sound that is heard when the key action falls back.
Adjust the delay of the hammer striking strings when playing pianissimo.
Adjust the position of the grand piano topboard.
Adjust the decay time of the piano sound while the keys are pressed.
Adjust the minimum key velocity required to produce a sound.
Adjust the level of stretch tuning for equal temperaments.
Adjust the individual tuning of each of the 88 keys.
Adjust the tuning system to suit Renaissance and Baroque periods etc.
Create a custom, user-defined tuning system.
Adjust the key of the selected tuning system.
Adjust the individual volume of each of the 88 keys.
Adjust the point at which the damper pedal begins to sustain the sounds.
Adjust the depth/effectiveness of the soft pedal.
FUNCTION button will turn on, and
Selecting and adjusting the desired setting
After entering the Virtual Technician menu:
Press the or buttons to move the selection cursor over the
desired setting.
Press the or buttons to adjust the selected setting.
* To reset the current setting to the default value, press the
button (RESET).
All AP EP Default
Normal
Normal
5
5
5
5
5
Off
Open 3
5
1
Normal
–
Equal Temp.
–
C
Off
5
5
FUNCTION