Casio AP-24 Using Digital Effects, To toggle digital effects on and off, Basic Operation, More about tones

Basic Operation

Using Digital Effects

Power on effect settings

The table below shows the effect settings that are assigned

Your digital piano provides you with a selection of digital

to each tone whenever you turn on the digital piano.

effects that you can apply to tones.

Tone Name

Digital Effect Setting

Digital Effect Types

REVERB

CHORUS

GRAND PIANO 1

HALL 1

OFF

REVERB : 4 Types

GRAND PIANO 2

HALL 1

OFF

The REVERB effect gives you a choice of the four variations

ELEC PIANO 1

HALL 1

CHORUS 1

listed below. Each one simulates the acoustics of different

environments.

ELEC PIANO 2

HALL 1

CHORUS 1

ROOM 1 ....... Small, intimate live house

HARPSICHORD

ROOM 2

OFF

VIBRAPHONE

HALL 1

CHORUS 1

ROOM 2 ....... Small stage

HALL 1 ......... Stage area of a large hall

PIPE ORGAN

HALL 1

OFF

HALL 2 ......... Audience area of a large hall

STRINGS

HALL 1

OFF

ACOUSTIC BASS

OFF

CHORUS : 4 Types

RIDE ACO BASS

OFF

The CHORUS effect is most effective for the E.PIANO tone.

* The above digital effect settings can be changed after you

* The names of the settings are marked above the keyboard

turn on power.

keys to which they are assigned.

NOTE

Digital Effect Keys

•

Selecting a tone automatically selects the digital effects

currently assigned to it.

•

Digital effect settings remain in effect until you turn off

the digital piano.

•

Demo tunes have their own digital effect settings, which are

automatically selected whenever you select a demo tune.

More about tones

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Polyphony

This digital piano can play up to 32 notes at the same time.

REVERB OFF

CHORUS 4

Also note that some of the tones offer only 16-note polyphony

ROOM 1

CHORUS 3

(GRAND PIANO 1, ELEC PIANO 2, RIDE ACO BASS).

ROOM 2

CHORUS 2

Touch Response

HALL 1

CHORUS 1

The touch response feature of this digital piano causes the

HALL 2

CHORUS OFF

volume of the tones and the sound of the tones themselves to

change slightly in accordance with how much pressure you

apply to the keyboard, just like with an acoustic piano. Touch

To toggle digital effects on and off

response affects the HARPSICHORD tone only slightly,

because the original musical instrument normally produces

1 While holding down the CONTROL button, press

the same sound, no matter how much pressure is applied.

Digitally Sampled Tones

the keyboard key that corresponds to the digital

effect you want to turn on or off.

The tones of this digital piano are produced using digitally

* A note does not sound when you press a keyboard

recorded samples of actual musical instruments. Not all of

key while holding down CONTROL button.

the instruments, however, can produce tones across the entire

range played by this digital piano (A0 through C8). In such a

case, digital recordings are used for the range that actually

can be produced by the original instrument, and synthesized

tones are used for notes that cannot be produced naturally.

Because of this, you may notice very slight differences

between natural notes and synthesized notes in sound quality

and in results produced when using effects. These differences

are normal and do not indicate malfunction.

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