Suzuki Musical Instrument Corp HG-425e manual Welcome

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WELCOME!

We would like to express our appreciation and congratulate you for purchasing this Suzuki Mini-Grande digital piano. This piano has been designed to provide you with years of musical enjoyment. State of the art electronics are combined with an elegant cabinet that will add beauty and sophistication to any home environment. Just a few of the features your new piano is equipped with include:

•hammer action piano for an authentic acoustic piano feel

•128 instrument sounds stereo sampled for ultra authentic acoustic realism

•64 note polyphony - which ensures acoustic piano performance

•a dynamic 6 speaker concert hall sound delivery system with EQ controls

•100 professional quality orchestrated rhtyhm accompaniments with variations

•built-in play along songs for your learning and enjoyment

•easy 5 track music recorder for writing songs or to record your lesson progress

•karaoke display and video output to external TV for musical enjoyment for the entire family

•Floppy Disk Drive to save Performances or Lessons plus play thousands of MIDI songs!!

•complete MIDI controls allows for computer hook up and enables you to update your pianos features so that it never becomes obsolete

You will find many more features and functions listed within this owners manual. In order to fully appreciate all the impressive features of this digital piano, please take a few minutes to read the following pages of instruction. We will cover general precautions, assembly, the function of each control button, and warranty information.

Thank you and congratulations again, for choosing this Mini-Grande Digital Piano from the Suzuki Corporation’s piano product line of portable pianos, home digital pianos, home composer ensembles pianos, elegant digital grand ensembles, and the acoustic upright and grand piano line.

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Contents Suzuki SuzukiPage Welcome General Precautions Taking Care of Your Digital Piano Table of Contents Assembly Remove the protective foam Unpacking Your NEW Grand PianoYou should have 3 cartons as pictured To begin, remove outer cartonPiano Accessories Unpacking Your NEW Grand Piano Inner cartonPlastic Cover Unpacking Piano Legs & Pedal Assembly Attaching the Legs to the Piano Pedal Assembly Attachment Pedal Assembly AttachmentPre-Pedal Assembly Pedal Assembly PreparationSupport Rods Installingtheleftleg Install the Left LegPad the Piano Adjust the Pedal Feet Install the Power CordPositioning Your NEW Grand Piano Audio OUT L Connector PanelsHG-425e Panel ControlsDemo Panel Controls 13 14 15 16 Panel Controls Cursor 26 2 Sound Group Grand Piano Vibes Organ Composer Disk 37 38 39 40 Reset Disk Metronome Record BEG. Mark Midi Song Disk Drive Piano Pedals PedalsDisplay Screen Grand PianoBig Band Samba Time Demomonstration SongsDemo Song Select Bossa NuevaAssigning Different Piano Sound Channel Modes Piano Voices Sound Channel ModesScroll Through the Instrument Voices Piano Voices Voice SelectionUpper 20 Church Organ There are TWO Ways to Select AN Instrument VoiceLayer 1 Grand Piano For all 88 Key voice selections Upper ModeFor the Layer and Lower Sound Mode Sections of the Piano Piano Voices Quick SelectionUpper 70 English Horn Piano Voices Selecting ALL VoicesReed Group a Reed Group BPiano Voices Effects and Reset Style Rhythm Section Selecting a RhythmJazz Swing Group aSwing Group B Grand PianoStyle 1 Grand Piano Big BandSwing Trio Rhythm Section Playing the Rhythm Fade Adjust the Tempo ControlsHOW Auto Accompaniment Works Auto AccompanimentONE Finger HOW to Play ChordsBasic Mode One Finger Auto Accompaniment TypesFingered One Finger Piano ModeFingered Mode Accomp FingeredFingered Piano ModeAccomp Piano One FingerOne Finger Auto Accompaniment HOW to USEFingered Piano Mode FingeredAuto Accompaniment HOW to Play Playing in the Auto Accompaniment ModeSynchronized Intro Start Fill Fill to VAR Intro / Ending Fade Reverb SetupSetup PerformanceSplit Point Setup Performance MenuPerformance Setup Velocity NormLCD Screen Display Hold Performance Setup Velocity Norm Split PointPERFORMANCE- Setup Menu Transpose100 Performance Setup Tune Fixed Level 100Performance Setup Tune Fixed Level 105 Octave ShiftOctave Shift 10S10S Octave Shift Fade TimeHarmony Setup Harmony MenuHarmonysetupmenu Harmony Trio Duet OctLower Hold Setup KEY Mode MenuKey Mode Manual Bass KeymodesetupmenuSustain Setup Sustain MenuSustain Setup Menu SustainSetup Reverb Menu Reverb SettingRoom Setup Effects Menu Effect SettingChorus Setup Chord Menu Chord Setup MenuChord Mode Auto Accompaniment Mode Intro/Ending Fill Lower Hold Setup Pedal MenuPedal Assign Start/StopSFX Setup -PERCUSSION MenuPercussion Setup Drum Kits Percussion Drum KIT SelectionMetronome Setup Metronome MenuMetronome Setup Time Signature Tempo 120 Sound Volume 100 Metronome Setup MenuRegistration Save Your Settings in the Registration MemoryRecall Contents in the Registration Memory Registration MemoryRecord Melody Only Record FeaturesRecord Functions Outline of a Music Recorder or SequencerRecord Features Auto Accompaniment Track Accomp Button Rec Record Accomp HOW to Record RecordingRecording Record MelodyTo Pause the Playback Recording PlaybackPlayback To Playback Your Recorded MusicHOW to USE BEG. Mark and END Mark Buttons Recording MarkMark Measure Play RHnd=Y LHnd=Y Acmp=Y Test Song Play Along SongSong Select Bumble BeePlay RHnd=Y LHnd=Y Acmp=Y Using the Lesson FeatureSong Lesson MeasureRight and Left hand exercise Select R=Y L=Y Lesson FeaturesStop the Song Mode Test ModesUtility Save Song Play Disk Disk FeaturesDisk Load SongLoad Song Disk Load SongUtility Play Disk Disk Save SongLoad Song Save SongPlay Disk Disk Play DiskLoad Song Utility Save Song Play DiskDisk Play Disk Menus File DataLyrics Mute Channel Solo Channel Format Disk UtilityDisk Utility UtilityFormat Delete Copy FormatDelete Copy RenameMidi Midi & Video OUT JacksMidi Basic Midi SetupsMidi RPNL, Rpnh Midi Implementation ChartGrand Piano Voice ListHollywood Style ListDrum KIT List Drum KIT ListDrum KIT List Specifications SpecificationsQuestions Questions AND/OR ProblemsPage Warranty WarrantyPage Suzuki