Welcome Welcome... Thank you and congratulations on your purchase of the High-Performance STAGE PIANO. Your new High-Performance STAGE PIANO delivers various specifications in compact body. Sharing much in common with high-end models, your piano offers 128-polyphony, new Advanced Real Hammer Action keyboard(ARHA3), useful external memory(SD Card)slot, USB MIDI interface and hundreds of additional sounds and rhythm styles.
Contents Welcome/Main Features Contents Care of Your Digital Piano Unpacking Setting Up Your Piano Panel Controls and Terminals Performance Screen Adjusting the Volume VP Player Selecting Voices GM Voice Main Voice Volume Layer Split Reverb Effect Using the Metronome Using the Pitch Bend Wheel SETUP (Tune, Transpose) SETUP (Octave Shift, Brilliance) SETUP (Pitch Bend, Pedal)
Care of your Digital Piano Care of your Digital Piano Avoid heat, humidity or direct sunlight. Take care not to drop the unit and avoid strong impact. Keep the unit free from liquids, dust, etc... Never attempt to modify any parts of the unit. During thunderstorms, turn the product off and disconnect the plug from the power.
Unpacking Unpacking Carefully remove the digital piano and its accessories from the packing box. The digital piano set consists of the following items. Main Unit Music Stand Non-Slip Pedal AC Adapter SD Card Owner's Manual Cleaning Cloth Inspect each item carefully to make sure that it is in good condition. If you find any item missing or damaged, contact the place of purchase immediately for replacement.
Setting Up Your Piano Setting Up Your Piano TURNING ON THE POWER Connecting the AC adapter. First insert the DC plug of AC Adapter into DC In connector on the piano then plug a AC plug of AC adapter into the proper AC outlet on the wall.
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Setting Up Your Piano CONNECTING PEDAL REAR PANEL Connecting the non-slip pedal. Insert the pedal plug into the damper or the assignable pedal connector on the piano. Damper pedal connector With piano tones, depressing the pedal causes notes to linger, much like a piano's damper pedal. With organ tones, depressing the pedal causes notes to continue to sound until the pedal is released.
Setting Up Your Piano CONNECTING AUDIO DEVICES REAR PANEL Line in jacks(Standard phone jacks of L/Mono and R) The stereo outputs from another instrument can be connected to these jacks, allowing the sound of an external instrument to be reproduced via the instrument's speakers. Connect the output jacks (LINE OUT etc.) of an external synthesizer or the tone generator module and the instrument's Line In 'L/Mono' and 'R' jacks using appropriate audio cables.
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Setting Up Your Piano Connecting Other Devices Connecting the external MIDI devices (MIDI Terminals) Use the built-in MIDI terminals and standard MIDI cables to connect external MIDI devices. MIDI IN Receives MIDI messages from an external MIDI device. MIDI OUT Transmits MIDI messages generated by the instrument. What's MIDI? MIDI(Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is the international standard for digital communication of electronic musical instrument data.
Performance Screen Performance Screen When you first turn on your piano. The power up status screen briefly appears in the display followed by the Performance Screen. The performance screen shows you all of the most important playing parameters. Main Voice This shows the selected main voice.
Adjusting the Volume Adjusting the Volume The piano has one volume knob on the panel for adjusting the volume. MASTER VOLUME This determines the entire volume of the piano. This also determines the volume level of the HEADPHONE(s). ACCOMPANIMENT VOLUME This determines the playback volume of the auto-accompaniment volume.
VP Player VP Player Your piano comes with over 1000 VP tunes. You can playback VP player music for your own listening pleasure, or you can use them for practice. Insert the bundle SD memory card into the SD card slot on the piano. The VP player does not work without the SD memory card that has system data.
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VP Player Choose the desired music in the selected VP music group. Choose the desired music by pressing the DATA UP and DOWN buttons in the VP music pop-up screen. ' ' means Group and ' ' means VP tune. To go to the VP music group pop-up display, press the EXIT button or select ' ..' and press the ENTER button.
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VP Player Stop playback of a music. Press the PLAY/STOP button. When pressing the STOP button, the Repeat and the ALL options will be off. Change the VP music group. Press the EXIT button in the VP music tune pop-up. Then the VP music group will be displayed on the screen.
Selecting Voices Selecting Voices The piano features a wealth of rich, authentic voices, including piano, strings and brass instruments. It also features a keyboard percussion function that lets you play realistic drum, percussion sounds, and various effect sounds directly from keyboard. Voice Types 80 Sounds with GM 128 Voice Sounds 7 Drum kits...
GM Voice GM Voice There are 128 different voices in the piano. When the GM VOICE button is selected, one of 128 GM voices can be assigned. CHANGING THE GM VOICE BY DATA BUTTONS. Press the GM VOICE button. The Pop-up display shows you the current selected voice number and voice name. Default GM voice: 102 Goblin Select the desired voice by pressing the DATA UP and DOWN buttons.
Layer Layer The layer mode of the piano allows you to select and play two different voices simultaneously in a layer. This makes it easy to create exceptionally rich and thick tonal textures. The volume balance can be set for the two voices. PLAYING WITH THE LAYER VOICE Select the main voice.
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Layer B. Adjusting the LAYER VOLUME by using the LAYER VOLUME UP and DOWN keys. Call up the volume pop-up display. Press and hold down the SETUP/KEYPAD button and press LAYER VOLUME UP or DOWN key. The Volume pop-up display appears. Adjust the layer volume.
Split Split The split mode of the piano allows you to select and play two different voices with your left and right hands - For example, play bass with the left and piano with the right . PLAYING WITH SPLIT VOICE Select the main voice.
Split ADJUSTING THE SPLIT VOLUME This determines the volume of the split voice. There two ways to adjust the split volume. A. Adjusting the SPLIT VOLUME in the split pop-up display. Call up the split mode. To call up the split mode, press the SPLIT button. Lamp lights and the split is set on.
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Split ADJUSTING THE MAIN VOICE VOLUME Call up the volume pop-up display. Press and hold down the SETUP/KEYPAD button and press SPLIT(or LAYER) VOLUME UP or DOWN key. The volume pop-up display appears. Move the cursor to main voice in the volume pop-up display. Press the ENTER button in the volume pop-up display.
Reverb Reverb Reverb is an effect that recreates the decaying reflections of a sound in a performance space, and reproduces the special ambience of a concert hall. REVERB ON/OFF To turn on reverb, press the REVERB button. The lamp lights and reverb is set on. The reverb pop-up display appears.
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Reverb ADJUSTING THE TOTAL DEPTH This determines the total depth of the reverb. Call up the SETUP/KEYPAD mode. Press and hold down the SETUP/KEYPAD button. The setup pop-up appears in the LCD screen. Adjust the total depth. Adjust the total depth by using the REVERB DEPTH UP and DOWN keys . If you press both UP and DOWN Keys at the same time automatically return to the default reverb total depth (50).
Effect Effect This control adds richness to the sound. There are four different Chorus types: Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4 , Feedback, Flanger Short delay and Feedback Delay. EFFECT ON/OFF To turn on effect, press the EFFECT button. The lamp lights and effect is set on. The effect pop-up display appears.
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Effect ADJUSTING THE TOTAL DEPTH This determines the total depth of the effect. Call up the SETUP/KEYPAD mode. Press and hold down the SETUP/KEYPAD button. The setup pop-up appears in the LCD screen. Adjust the total depth. Adjust the total depth by using the EFFECT DEPTH UP and DOWN keys . If you press both UP and DOWN Keys at the same time automatically return to the default reverb total depth (50).
Using the Metronome Using the Metronome The piano features a convenient metronome that is ideal for practicing. START/STOP OF THE METRONOME To start the metronome, simply press the METRONOME button. Press the METRONOME button again to stop the metronome sound. The LCD screen shows the metronome pop-up display. ADJUSTING THE TEMPO OF THE METRONOME You can set the tempo over range 40 ~ 250 beats per minute by using the TEMPO buttons.
Setup Setup TUNE The tune function lets you make fine adjustments to the pitch, allowing you to accurately match the tuning with that of other instruments. Press and hold down the SETUP/KEYPAD button and press the TUNE UP or DOWN button. The Tune pop-up display appears and shows current value.
Setup OCTAVE SHIFT The octave function makes it's possible to shift the octave of the keyboard, allowing you to match the octave of the keyboard to the range of other instruments. Changing the octave of the main voice. Press and hold down the SETUP/KEYPAD button and press the OCTAVE UP or DOWN button. The octave pop-up display appears and shows current value.
Setup PITCH BEND This determines the pitch bend range and the voice part for applying the pitch bend. Changing the pitch bend range. Specified the maximum change in a tone that can be applied using the PITCH BEND wheel. Press and hold down the SHIFT button and press the PITCH BEND UP or DOWN button.
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Setup TOUCH Touch determines how your playing strength (velocity) affects the volume of the voices. 10 types are available for tailoring the keyboard response to the selected voice, type of song, or your own playing preference. Selecting the touch Press and hold down the SETUP/KEYPAD button and press the TOUCH button. The touch pop-up display appears and shows current touch.
Auto Accompaniment Auto Accompaniment This keyboard automatically plays bass and chord parts in accordance with the chords you finger. The bass and chord parts are played using sounds and voices that are automatically selected to select the rhythm you are using. All of this means that you get full, realistic accompaniments for the melody notes you play with your right hand, creating the mood of a one-person ensemble.
Auto Accompaniment Rhythm Style List TEMPO CONTROL ADJUSTMENT Whenever you select a different style, the preset tempo for that style is also selected, and the tempo is shown in the Multi Function display after STYLE SELECT Pop-up display. (Unless you try changing the style during playback, in which case the same tempo is maintained.) Press the TEMPO buttons.
Auto Accompaniment PLAYING A RHYTHM There are several ways to start the accompaniment style, as described. Straight start Press the START/STOP button. The lamp will flash and the rhythm will start. Each of the styles also has two main loops. The lamp of the currently selected pattern lights. Main loop1(FILL1) is basic pattern of the style and Main loop2(FILL2) is a variation of Main loop 1.
Auto Accompaniment USING THE AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT The following procedure describes how to use the keyboard's Auto Accompaniment feature. Before starting, you should first select the rhythm you want to use and set the tempo of the rhythm to the value you want. Select a rhythm style.
Auto Accompaniment START THE AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT To start Auto accompaniment, press the START/STOP button. Alternately, press the FILL1/SYNC or FILL1/SYNC button, then play the keyboard. TYPES OF AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT MODE Single Finger The Single Finger method makes it easy to produce accompaniment using major, minor, seventh and minor seventh chords by pressing certain key (according to simple rules) in the left range of the keyboard (lower than split point).
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Auto Accompaniment Fingered Allows you to play a complete style arrangement when you play three or four fingered chords in the left range of the keyboard split. Major: C Minor: Cm Dominant 7: C7 Minor 7th: Cm7 Major 7th: CM 7 Augmented: Caug Diminished: Cdim Suspended 4: Csus4...
Auto Accompaniment Full Keyboard When the Full Keyboard mode is selected, the piano will automatically creates appropriate accompaniment while you play just about anything using both hands, anywhere on the keyboard. You don t have to worry about specifying the accompaniment chords. The name of the detected chord will appear in the display.
Recording Recording The piano features comprehensive song recording functions that allow you to record your own performance. Also your recorded song can be stored into an SD memory card. RECORDING A SONG Select the record mode. Select the desired voice and press the RECORD button, the RECORD lamp lights and the TRACK 1 lamp flashes.
Recording Stop recording. Recording stops when pressing the PLAY/STOP button. PLAYBACK OF THE RECORDER SONG Playback of the recorded song. Press the PLAY/STOP button again. The recorded song is played. To delete the recorded track, press and hold the TRACK button about 2~3 seconds. To delete the recorded song, press and hold the RECORD button about 2~3 seconds.
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Recording Call up the save song pop-up display. Go to the SAVE RECORDED SONG by using DATA UP and DOWN buttons and press the ENTER button. The save song pop-up appears. Save the recorded song into the SD memory card. Change the big-character in the box by using the DATA UP and DOWN buttons and when a desired character appears in the character box, press the ENTER button.
Registration Registration A Registration is a particular setup of rhythm, sound, Auto Accompaniment or any other parameters or features you are using. To change the functions during playing you can store your desired conditions in one button. And then if you select the button, your desired conditions will be loaded immediately.
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Registration Call up the save registration pop-up display. Go to the SAVE RECORDED SONG by using DATA UP and DOWN buttons and press the ENTER button. The save song pop-up appears. Save the registration data into the SD memory card. Change the big-character in the box by using the DATA UP and DOWN buttons and when a desired character appears in the character box, press the ENTER button.
SMF Player SMF Player The letters "SMF" stand for Standard MIDI file, which is a file format that allows MIDI data to be shared between different software and sequencers. There are actually three SMF formats, named SMF 0, SMF 1 and SMF 2. The piano supports the SMF 0 and SMF 1 format, which are widely used today, and so all mentions of "SMF data"...
SMF Player Start Playback of the selected SMF. Press the PLAY/STOP button. Playback of the selected music will start. Adjusting volume of the SMF. (Same as the adjusting accompaniment.) Press and hold the SETUP/KEYPAD button and adjust volume by using the ACCOMP VOLUME UP and DOWN keys . 1) See the ADJUSTING THE ACCOMPANIMENT VOLUME section of page 12.
General MIDI Voice & Drum Table General MIDI Voice & Drum Table Piano1 Soprano Saxophone Piano2 Alto Saxophone Piano3 Tenor Saxophone Honky Tonk Baritone Saxophone Electric Piano 1 Oboe Electric Piano 2 English Horn Harpsichord Basson Clavinet Clarinet Celesta Piccolo Glockenspiel Flute Music Box...
VP Music Library VP Music Library CLASSIC 01 - CHOPIN GROUP NAME Clssic01 Display Title Composer C H 0 0 1 E t u d e o p . 1 0 n o . 1 C h o p i n , F r y d e r k C H 0 0 2 E t u d e o p .
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VP Music Library CLASSIC 02 - Chopin GROUP NAME Clssic02 Display Title Composer C H 0 5 1 M a z u r k a o p . 2 4 n o . 3 C h o p i n , F r y d e r k C H 0 5 2 M a z u r k a o p .
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VP Music Library CLASSIC 03 - Chopin and Brahms GROUP NAME Clssic03 Display Title Composer C H 1 0 1 B a l l a d e n o . 3 i n A f l a t M a j o r , o p . 4 7 C h o p i n , F r y d e r k C H 1 0 2 B a l l a d e n o .
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VP Music Library CLASSIC 04 - Mozart and Others GROUP NAME Clssic04 Display Title Composer P i a n o S o n a t a n o . 9 i n a m i n o r , K V 3 1 0 M o z a r t , W o l f g a n g M 0 1 K 3 1 0 - 1 ( A l l e g r o m a e s t o s o )
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VP Music Library CLASSIC 05 - Debussy and Others GROUP NAME Clssic05 Display Title Composer D 0 1 J a r d i n s s o u s l a p l u i e D e b u s s y , C l a u d e D 0 2 A r a b e s q u e N o .
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VP Music Library CLASSIC 06 - Schumann and Others GROUP NAME Clssic06 Display Title Composer S C H U 0 1 P a p i l l o n o p . 2 n o . 1 , W i d m u n g S c h u m a n n , R o b e r t S c e n e s f r o m C h i l d h o o d o p .
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VP Music Library CLASSIC 07 - Haydn and Others GROUP NAME Clssic07 Display Title Composer A N O N 0 1 F u g a g - m o l l A n o n y m o u s P i a n o S o n a t a O p .
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VP Music Library CLASSIC 08 - Bach GROUP NAME Clssic08 Display Title Composer - H a r p s i c h o r d o r C l a v i c h o r d w o r k s - B a c h , J o h a n n S e b a s t i a n B A 1 - 0 1...
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VP Music Library CLASSIC 09 - Bach GROUP NAME Clssic09 Display Title Composer - H a r p s i c h o r d o r C l a v i c h o r d w o r k s - B a c h , J o h a n n ( F o u r D u e t t o s ) D u e t t o s f r o m ' C l a v i e r U b u n g ' I I I S e b a s t i a n...
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VP Music Library CLASSIC 10 - Bach GROUP NAME Clssic10 Display Title Composer - H a r p s i c h o r d o r C l a v i c h o r d w o r k s - B a c h , J o h a n n - F r e n c h S u i t e s S e b a s t i a n...
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VP Music Library JAZZ 01 - Ensemble GROUP NAME JAZZ01 Display Title/Artist J E 0 0 0 1 B l u e s i n C - F u l l e r , L J E 0 0 0 2 G o o d B a i t - D a m e r .
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VP Music Library JAZZ 02 - Ensemble GROUP NAME JAZZ02 Display Title/Artist J E 0 0 5 1 D e v o n i t e l y - R o n J o h n s t o n J E 0 0 5 2 D e v o n ' s D e l i g h t - R o n J o h n s t o n J E 0 0 5 3...
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VP Music Library JAZZ 03 - Ensemble GROUP NAME JAZZ03 Display Title/Artist J E 0 1 0 1 C o n g a r a m a - C o n g a J E 0 1 0 2 D e s c a r g a n d o - M a m b o L a t i n J E 0 1 0 3 T h r e e 2 S a m b a - S a m b a J E 0 1 0 4...
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VP Music Library JAZZ 04 - Piano Solo GROUP NAME JAZZ04 Display Title/Artist J S 0 0 0 1 O h l a d y b e g o o d - G e r s h w i n J S 0 0 0 2 S o m e o n e t o w a t c h o v e r m e - G e r s h w i n J S 0 0 0 3...
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VP Music Library JAZZ 05 - Piano Solo GROUP NAME JAZZ05 Display Title/Artist J S 0 0 5 1 G r o w w o r m - L i n c k e J S 0 0 5 2 W h a t a r e y o u d o i n g t h e r e s t o f y o u r l i f e - L e G r a n d e , M .
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VP Music Library JAZZ 06 - Piano Solo GROUP NAME JAZZ06 Display Title/Artist J S 0 1 0 1 M o o n W a l k - M i l e s B l a c k J S 0 1 0 2 O u t o f t h e V a l l e y - B r a d T u r n e r J S 0 1 0 3 T o m o r r o w ' s T u n e - M i l e s B l a c k...
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VP Music Library GOSPEL GROUP NAME GOSPEL Display Title G E 0 0 0 1 A m a z i n g G r a c e G E 0 0 0 2 H o w G r e a t T h o u A r t G E 0 0 0 3 H o l y , H o l y , H o l y G E 0 0 0 4...
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VP Music Library HOLIDAY GROUP NAME HOLIDAY Display Title C A E 0 0 1 G o d R e s t C A E 0 0 2 I t ' s B e g i n n i n g C A E 0 0 3 H a p p y X - m a s C A E 0 0 4...
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VP Music Library CONTEMPORARY MUSIC PIANO 01 GROUP NAME CPiano01 Display Title C P 0 1 L a k e l o u i s e - Y u k i G u r a m o t o C P 0 2 R o m a n c e - Y u k i G u r a m o t o C P 0 3 A S o n g f r o m S e c r e t G a r d e n - S e c r e t G a r d e n...
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VP Music Library CONTEMPORARY MUSIC PIANO 02 GROUP NAME CPiano02 Display Title C P 5 1 S h o j i C P 5 2 S k y w a r d C P 5 3 S o L o n g , M i g u e l C P 5 4 S o p h i a C P 5 5...
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VP Music Library Ragtime 1 GROUP NAME RAGTIME1 Display Title/Artist R A G 0 0 1 A B r e e z e F r o m A l a b a m a ( 1 9 0 2 ) - S c o t t J o p l i n R A G 0 0 2 S c o t t J o p l i n ' s N e w R a g ( 1 9 1 2 ) - S c o t t J o p l i n R A G 0 0 3...
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VP Music Library Ragtime 2 GROUP NAME RAGTIME2 Display Title/Artist R A G 0 5 1 C a t a r a c t R a g ( 1 9 1 4 ) - R o b e r t H a m p t o n R A G 0 5 2 C h i c k e n C h o w d e r ( 1 9 0 5 ) - I r e n e G i b l i n R A G 0 5 3...
Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Be sure to check to following table whenever you encounter problems with the DIGITAL PIANO operation. PROBLEM CAUSE SOLUTION No sound 1. Power supply problem. 1. Check the power cord whether it's properly in AC outlet. 2. Volume setting is too low. 2.
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