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Page 3: Important Safety Instructions
CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER OR BACK. NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE. REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL Important Safety InStructIonS Do not use near water. Clean only with a soft dry cloth. Visit www.williamspianos.com for detailed cleaning instructions. Do not block any ventilation openings. - Page 4 We would like to express our appreciation, and congratulate you for purchasing this Williams Grand digital piano. With proper care, this piano will provide you with years of musical enjoyment. Williams’ advanced state of the art electronics are combined with an elegant cabinet that adds beauty and sophistication to any home environment.
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Page 5: Table Of Contents
taBle of contentS Music Sequencer ............18 IntroductIon ............6 Recording Pieces of Music .......... 18 Before You Get Started ..........6 Editing Pieces of Music ..........19 Shipment ............... 6 Playing Back Pieces of Music ........20 Initial Operation ............6 Repeating Musical Passages for Practicing ....21 Setting the Volume of Muted Tracks ...... -
Page 6: Introduction
Blown fuses must be replaced by fuses of the same type and rating! Please refer to the "SPECIFICATIONS" for details. Congratulations! With the Williams Grand, you have purchased a state of the art digital piano The mains connection of the piano is made by... -
Page 7: Adjusting The Volume
highlight the various sounds and their features and show you what can be done with your instrument. Press the DEMO button. Press one of the 14 buttons in the SOUND SELECT After playing, switch off the unit with the POWER section to play back an audio demo of the selected switch. -
Page 8: Selecting And Playing Sounds
played in chronological order. ShF: Playback of all music pieces. The pieces are played in random order. Press the START/STOP button in the SONG section to start playback. The LED above the sound button lights up to show that the corresponding sound has been selected. - Page 9 START/STOP: Is used to start/stop playback or recording of the music sequencer. REC: Activates record mode. MAIN VOLUME: Is used to adjust the volume of the built-in loudspeakers, headphone outputs and LINE OUT 1/4" TRS jacks. SELECT: Selects the TEMPO parameter and menu pages for EDIT mode.
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Page 10: Connectors
The connectors on the piano are located on the underside of the playing console (center). The piano has three pedals similar to those found on acoustic grand pianos. Soft/piano pedal: Is used for passages to be played very softly. Connectors of the Williams Grand piano... -
Page 11: Power Supply
Lights up when the piano is ready for operation. headphone connectors In our example, the sounds "GRAND PIANO 1" and "STRINGS" are layered. The headphone connectors are located on the underside of the playing console (front left behind •... -
Page 12: Changing The Sound Character
• If none of the four LEDs lights up, the room changing the Sound character effect is disabled. You can change the sound character by using a Keep the REVERB button pressed while room and a modulation effect as well as a adjusting the original vs. -
Page 13: Using The Pedals
Normally, the pedals are used in accordance with the instructions given in the music, Play the notes to be sustained. -
Page 14: Using Headphones
Release the pedal for normal playing. If required, the SPEAKERS button allows you to switch the built-in loudspeakers of the piano on damper/forte pedal (right): • The damper or off. pedal allows you to sustain the notes already played (and held) plus all subsequent notes, without having to hold the keys down. -
Page 15: Transposition
• Press and hold down the two sound buttons half-tone, you can easily play the piece on the white selected for layer mode (e.g. GRAND PIANO keys (C major). 1 and STRINGS) and press the SELECT It can be helpful to transpose the keyboard by an button in the TEMPO/EDIT MODE section. -
Page 16: Volume Ratio
0: Same pitch for voice #1 and voice #2 ... 0: Voice #2 higher than voice #1 In our example the two sounds GRAND PIANO 1 0 ... : Voice #1 higher than voice #2 and STRINGS are being used in layer mode. -
Page 17: Reset
Keep pressing the SELECT button in the Function: E3.5 (effect intensity voice #1) TEMPO/EDIT MODE section until the TEMPO E3.6 (effect intensity voice #2) LED lights up. 0 ... 20 Value: Description: 1 ... 20: Effect intensity (default setting) 0: No effect reset Use the two (|}) buttons to adjust a tempo of your choice. -
Page 18: Music Sequencer
TRACK-1 or TRACK-2 button lights up. The dots in the display start flashing in the adjusted metronome Proceed as follows for direct access to the metronome tempo, thus indicating the beat. Now, the piano is set volume menu page. to record mode. •... -
Page 19: Editing Pieces Of Music
(for example, by your piano teacher), you can mute one of the two tracks during playback to practice the corresponding part. • TIP: Press the METRONOME button again to stop the metronome click. Switch on the acoustic metronome signal by pressing the METRONOME button, if you want editing pieces of music to make a metronome-backed recording. -
Page 20: Playing Back Pieces Of Music
Start recording by pressing the START/STOP button or simply start playing on the keyboard. The current meter is constantly shown in the display. • The memory of the music sequencer can store up to 10,000 notes. However, this number can decrease depending on how much pedal information is stored. -
Page 21: Repeating Musical Passages For Practicing
Press the SELECT button in the TEMPO/EDIT MODE section until the TEMPO LED lights up, then use the two (|}) buttons to adjust the repeating musical passages for practicing playback tempo. The following section describes how to play back a specific passage of a recorded music piece repeatedly. -
Page 22: Setting The Volume Of Muted Tracks
The display reads: Starting point of the loop is set. editing the music Sequencer Settings Press the SELECT button again when the playback The following paragraphs explain how to edit the reaches the point where you wantto end the playback settings of recordings made with the repetition of a passage. -
Page 23: Sync Start
Edit the settings as described in the chapters mentioned above. If necessary, repeat step 2 for the second track. Press the REC button to quit record mode. A dot in the lower right-hand corner of the display starts flashing in the tempo of the metronome, thus signaling that the instrument is set to sync start mode. -
Page 24: Key Velocity
below which options are available and how you can edit their settings. key velocity This parameter determines the volume of the sounds with reference to the key velocity applied, i.e. you can The display reads: set here how hard you have to strike a key to achieve maximum volume. -
Page 25: Fine Tuning
fine tuning tuning. Apart from these historical reasons the limited tuning aids available in former times played The piano can be detuned slightly to adapt it to other an important role for the practical implementation instruments or tunings. The setting made here affects of tunings. -
Page 26: Saving Parameter Settings
Werckmeister/Kirnberger tuning Saving parameter Settings The Werkmeister and Kirnberger tunings result from The piano allows you to save the changes made to the first attempts to realize a well-tempered tuning which instrument’s settings, so that they won’t get lost when –... -
Page 27: Restoring The Factory Default Settings
• Tip: All saved parameters as well as the music Function: E8.2 sequencer data will be lost during either one Value: On, Off of the following procedures. Description: Off: Save function for MIDI settings Use the POWER switch to switch the instrument is disabled (default setting) off (if not already done). -
Page 28: Connection To External Equipment
Be sure that all devices are switched off before you make any connection. Grand NEVER connect the LINE IN connectors of the piano to its LINE OUT connectors. This will cause a feed- back loop producing high volume levels which could... -
Page 29: Midi Functions
mIdI functions MIDI is an interface and protocol for transmitting of playing data to other MIDI equipment. The most important playing data are pitch and length of notes, key velocity and channel volume, program changes and various controller data generated, for example, by controllers such as the pedals. -
Page 30: Midi Connection To A Computer With Sequencing Software
Controlling external MIDI sound modules Connect the MIDI OUT jack of the piano to the MIDI IN jack of the external sound module. Be sure to set the MIDI transmit/receive channels of both instruments to the same number (see p. 31). Connect the audio outputs of the sound module to the LINE IN jacks of the piano, if you want to play back the sounds of the external device through the... - Page 31 Setting the MIDI Transmit Channel • The multi-timbral reception of MIDI data Use this function to set the transmit channel on allows you to use the piano in combination which the piano is to sent MIDI data. MIDI devices with a sequencing program as a sound must send and receive on the same MIDI channels to generator for multi-track recordings ensure successful MIDI communication.
- Page 32 Function: E7.4 • This setting has no effect on the sound generator of the piano. Value: On, Off Description: On: Program change commands are Send Control Panel Settings (Snapshot) sent and received (default setting) Use this function to transmit the current settings of the piano (e.g.
- Page 33 Sending Music Sequencer Data Use this function to send music sequencer data via the MIDI output of the piano. This allows you to archive recorded music pieces on your music computer or hardware MIDI sequencer. This type of transmission is only for system-exclusive data packages (MIDI dump), but not for MIDI playing data.
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Page 34: Troubleshooting
trouBleShootIng problem remedy The instrument cannot be Check the connection between mains plug and wall outlet. switched on Check the position of the MAIN VOLUME control. No sound Check the SPEAKER button status. Check that the sound generator is switched on. The foot pedals do not work Check that the pedal cable is properly connected to the PEDAL jack on the underside properly... -
Page 35: Specifications
SpecIfIcatIonS keyBoard: 88 weighted keys with hammer action (A1 to C7) Sound generatIon: RSM (Real Sound Modeling) stereo sampling, 16MB ROM polyphony: 64 notes max. SoundS: effectS: Room effects - 4 types (ROOM, HALL 1, HALL 2, STAGE) Modulation effects - 4 types (CHORUS, FLANGER, TREMOLO, DELAY) SeQuencer type: 2-track memory:... -
Page 36: Appendix
appendIx cables Below you will find an overview of all cables you need to connect your digital piano. The cables are not supplied with the piano. Depending on the intended use, adapter cables will be necessary to interface the various connectors. You can use adapter cables or plugs (e.g. -
Page 37: 1/4" To Rca Cable
1/4" to rca cable 1/4" to RCA phono cables are required for connecting a hi-fi playback device (e.g. CD player) to the piano. As an alternative, you can also use an unbalanced 1/4" cable with an appropriate RCA adapter. 1/4" to RCA cable mIdI cables MIDI cables are required for connecting MIDI equipment. -
Page 38: Presets On The Piano
WIllIamS grand pIano mIdI commands Stereo dynamic release Sound description program samples velocity samples samples mSB/ change commands Classic sound of a concert grand ü ü grand piano with a soft 0/122 pIano 1 tonal character Brilliant sound of a... -
Page 39: Midi Implementation Chart
mIdI ImplementatIon chart function transmitted recognized remarks Default Basic channel Changed 1 - 16 1 - 16 Default mode Messages Poly mode only Altered 9-120, v=1-127 0-127, v=1-127 note number True Voice 0-127 Note ON velocity Note OFF Keys after touch Channels pitch Bend control change... -
Page 40: List Of Demo Music Pieces Included
lISt of demo muSIc pIeceS Included piece composer Invention no. 1, C major, BWV 772 Johann Sebastian Bach Piano sonata no. 16, 1st movement, C major, KV 545 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano sonata, op. 13, no. 8 "Pathétique", 2nd mvt., A flat major Ludwig van Beethoven Piano sonata, op. -
Page 41: Edit Parameters
edIt parameterS *Default settings depend on the selected sound combination... -
Page 42: Warranty
(1) year from the date of original purchase. If this to the one (1) year warranty period. Some states do not allow Williams piano is defective, at its option during the warranty limitation on how long an implied warranty lasts, so the period, subject to the terms of this limited warranty and upon above limitation may not apply to you. - Page 44 Sound. Style. Value.
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