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Kawai Anytime Owner's Manual

Kawai Anytime Owner's Manual

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  • Page 1 ANYTIME PIANO Owner's Manual - 1 -...

  • Page 2: Safety Instructions

    The example instructs the user to remove the power cord plug from the AC outlet. WARNING G Use the AC adapter supplied with the product The product should be connected to or one recommended by Kawai. an AC outlet of the specified 120V 230V...
  • Page 3 CAUTION Do not use the product in the following areas. Using the product in such areas may result in G Areas, such as those near windows, where the product is product breakdown. exposed to direct sunlight G Extremely hot areas, such as near a heater G Extremely cold areas, such as outside G Extremely humid areas G Areas where a large amount of sand or dust is present...
  • Page 4 As its name implies, the most compelling aspect of the Anytime Piano is that it can be played literally anytime without disturbing family or neighbours. It will let you enjoy the touch of a fine Kawai acoustic piano but still have the privacy and power of built-in digital sound.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS ............. . .

  • Page 6: Setting Up Your Anytime Piano

    Anytime Piano in a location where electricity is available. You can find the DC IN jack on the left side of your Anytime Grand Piano and on the lower left, at the rear, of your Anytime Upright Piano. Find the AC power adaptor (which is supplied with the instrument) and plug the smaller end into the DC IN jack (see Figure 1).

  • Page 7: Enjoy Playing In Private With "Anytime" Mode

    You’re now ready to activate the “Anytime” capability. This function mutes the acoustic piano sound by stopping the piano hammers before they hit the strings. With “Anytime” capability, you will never lose the “touch and feel” of an acoustic piano. Your playing on the keyboard will activate a digital sound generator so that sound will only be heard through headphones.

  • Page 8: Selecting A Sound

    Anytime Piano. • Normal Mechanical Sound In Anytime Mode, you will not hear acoustic piano sound, but you may hear the normal mechanical noise that is produced when the keys are struck. All acoustic pianos make this type of noise, but you generally will not be aware of it when the sound of the piano strings is present.

  • Page 9: Adjusting Volume And Reverb

    4. ADJUSTING VOLUME AND REVERB Plug headphones into the HEADPHONE JACKS on the front panel of the Control Box. Find the volume knob on the front panel of the Control Box and adjust the volume appropriately. Then adjust the reverb setting to suit your taste. Reverb adds a rich ambient effect to the digital sound.

  • Page 10: Transpose

    Hold the Mute Lever and gently move it to the right as far as it will go. This turns the Anytime Mode off and returns you to normal playing mode. In Normal Mode, the piano produces normal acoustic sound when you play the keys.

  • Page 11: Other Advanced Capabilities

    OTHER ADVANCED CAPABILITIES 1. RECORDING YOUR PERFORMANCE The Anytime Piano is equipped with a digital recorder that records what you play on the piano and plays it back with digital sounds. This is very helpful and useful function to practice and check your playing by yourself. A built-in metronome helps you stay at the right tempo when practicing.

  • Page 12: Using The Metronome

    The total recording capacity is approximately 15,000 notes and the piano stores and plays the song you have recorded in memory up to 3 songs. You can start recording again but the song that was previously recorded would be erased. PLAYING BACK To listen to the music, start playback by pressing the PLAY/STOP button.
  • Page 13 VOLUME of metronome Press the Metronome button and the VIRTUAL TECHNICIAN button at the same time to put the piano in Volume setting mode. Let go of the METRONOME button and VIRTUAL TECHNICIAN button and press “VALUE +” or “VALUE - ” button to change the volume.

  • Page 14: Virtual Technician

    Virtual Technician simulates the work of a piano technician electronically and allows you to customize the Anytime piano to your personal taste. These are the functions of Virtual Technician.

  • Page 15: Tuning

    2. VOICING Voicing is a technique used by piano technicians to mold the character of a piano’s sound. The Voicing functions lets you change the Anytime piano’s tone quality by choosing one of four types of voicing. To do this, hold down the VIRTUAL TECHNICIAN button and press the VALUE button a few times and set the piano in Voicing mode.

  • Page 16: Damper Effect

    Mellow 1, 2 Produces a mellower tone throughout the entire dynamic range. Mellow 2 is more mellow than Mellow 1. Let go of the VIRTUAL TECHNICIAN button and press the “VALUE +” or “VALUE - ” button to change the voicing. If you have finished setting, press any button other than the REC, PLAY/STOP button to turn the setting mode off.

  • Page 17: Touch Curve

    “VALUE - ” button to change the value. If you have finished setting, press any other than the REC, PLAY/STOP button to turn the setting mode off. 5. TOUCH CURVE Touch lets you select different touch sensitivity for the keyboard from the standard touch of an acoustic piano.

  • Page 18: Temperament

    6. TEMPERAMENT The Anytime piano offers not only equal temperament (the modern standard) but also immediate access to temperaments popular during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. It should be interesting and educational to try some of the different temperaments, although the equal temperament is dominant today.
  • Page 19 WERCKMEISTER III TEMPERAMENT KIRNBERGER III TEMPERAMENT These two temperaments are placed in between Mean tone and Pythagorean. For music with few accidentals, this temperament produces the beautiful chords of the mean tone, but as accidentals increase, the temperament produces the characteristic melodies of the Pythagorean temperament.

  • Page 20: Key Of Temperament

    7. KEY OF TEMPERAMENT Limitless modulation of the key became available only after the invention of Equal temperament. When we use a temperament other than Equal temperament, we must carefully choose the key signature to play in. For example, if the song you are going to play is written in D major, choose “D”...

  • Page 21: User Memory

    10. FACTORY RESET This function resets the Anytime piano to the factory settings. All parameters you saved in “User Memory” will be reset to the factory-preset values. To do this, hold down the VIRTUAL TECHNICIAN button and press the VALUE button several times and put the piano in Factory Reset mode.

  • Page 22: Setting Mode

    SETTING MODE In “Setting Mode”, you can select a sound, reverb, resonance, tuning or transpose type by using Anytime’s pedal and keyboard. a. Hold down the left pedal and press the highest white key. b. Holding down the key, release your foot from the pedal.

  • Page 23: Selecting Sounds In "Setting Mode

    Selecting Sounds in “Setting Mode” To select the sound you desire, press the corresponding white key after entering the setting mode. The assignment of the keys and sounds is shown in the following figure (see Figure 3). 9 10 11 12 13 Fig.

  • Page 24: Selecting Metronome In "Setting Mode

    Selecting Metronome in “Setting Mode” Tempo Metronome Volume Tempo 1 down Down Tempo 10 down Off 2/4 3/4 4/4 Tempo Metronome Tempo 10 up Metronome Volume Tempo 1 up Starting the Metronome To activate the metronome, you must enter the "setting mode" (see Page 22). The assignment of keys and types are shown in the figure above.

  • Page 25: Using The Anytime Piano With Your Home Audio System

    USING THE ANYTIME PIANO WITH YOUR HOME AUDIO SYSTEM The Kawai Anytime Piano is equipped with Audio In and Out jacks so that you can connect it to your home stereo, CD player, Karaoke machine or other device. As an example, you might play your favorite compact disc song and practice along on the Anytime Piano.

  • Page 26: Connecting The Anytime Piano To A Home Stereo Or Receiver

    Using headphones, the Anytime Piano allows you to listen to music played back on your stereo receiver, CD player or tape recorder along with digital sound of the Anytime Piano itself. You can play the digital piano sound along with your favorite CD. Connect your external device to the Anytime Piano’s AUX IN jacks. This will allow you to hear the audio through the Anytime Piano’s headphone jacks.

  • Page 27: Using Midi

    While MIDI capability is very common on digital instruments, it is quite rare on acoustic instruments. Because MIDI capability is built into the Anytime Piano, you can enjoy the varied and extremely powerful features that MIDI can provide.

  • Page 28: Midi Channel

    Fig. 6 When connected as shown in the illustration (see Fig. 6), MIDI data sent from the Anytime Piano (as notes are played) will also be played on the digital synthesizer. Also, by connecting the synthesizer’s LINE OUT jack to the AUX IN jack on the Anytime Piano, you can use headphones to hear the sound of the Anytime Piano “layered”...
  • Page 29 2. Connection to a sequencer and sound generator module When connected as shown in the illustration (see Fig. 8), you can record songs played on the Anytime Piano with a sequencer, and play them back as many times as you like through the Anytime Piano’s tone generator.

  • Page 30: Midi Local Control O N / Off

    (see Fig. 9) and turn the power on. Local Control setting of the Anytime Piano will be switched to OFF. To return to Local Control ON, turn the power off and on again without pressing any key.

  • Page 31: General Information

    GENERAL INFORMATION 1. Parts and Names Control Panel Mute Lever Control Box CONTROL PANEL Song Select Buttons Reverb Button Virtual Technician Button Sound Select Buttons/ Dual Transpose Buttons Recording & Playing Metronome Button Value Select Buttons DC IN Jack - 31 -...

  • Page 32: Control Panel

    DC IN Jack Control Panel Control Box Mute Lever CONTROL PANEL Reverb Button Song Select Buttons Virtual Technician Button Sound Select Buttons/ Dual Transpose Buttons Recording & Playing Metronome Button Value Select Buttons DC IN Jack - 32 -...
  • Page 33 CONTROL BOX Volume Knob Headphone Jacks Power Switch MIDI Jacks AUX OUT Jacks AUX IN jacks - 33 -...

  • Page 34: Digital Specifications

    2. Digital Specifications Number of polyphony Max. 96 notes Number of sounds 10 Piano Sounds (Concert Grand, Concert Grand 2, Studio Grand, Studio Grand 2, Mellow Grand, Mellow Grand 2, Modern Piano, Rock Piano, Classic E. Piano, Modern E. P.) 10 Other Sounds (Jazz Organ, Drawbar Organ, Church Organ, Diapason, Harpsichord, Harpsichord Oct, Vibraphone, Slow String, Choir, New Age Pad) Reverb...

  • Page 35: Midi Implementation Chart

    3. MIDI Implementation Chart Date : Jan 2005 Version : 1.0 Model: Kawai Anytime Piano "K-25EA ATII / K-50E ATII / RX-1 ATII / RX-2 ATII / GE-20 ATII / GE-30 ATII FUNCTION TRANSMITTED RECOGNIZED REMARKS Basic Default ✕ ✕...
  • Page 36 Anytime Piano Owner's Manual OME011E-I 0505 Printed in Japan - 36 -...

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