TRANSPOSE

OCTAVE SHIFT

Transpose and Octave Shift

Transpose raises or lowers the CP’s pitch in half- step increments. Octave Shift does the same but in octave increments.

Transpose can be especially useful when you have learned a song in one key and have to play it in another key. The transpose feature allows you to play the song in the original key, but hear it in another key. You can transpose the Concert Magic songs, the Accompaniment Styles, any songs played back by the Easy/Advanced Recorder and any of the over 900 instrument and drum sounds available in the CP. Songs recorded on the CD-R Drive cannot be transposed once they have been recorded.

Octave shift can be very useful when you are playing multiple sounds across the keyboard. You may want to use the octave shift to adjust a bass sound assigned to the LEFT/SPLIT Part to play in the proper pitch range, or to set one sound in a layer to play in a different octave so that it mixes well with other sounds in the layer. Octave shift is only available for the four Parts: LEFT/SPLIT, RIGHT1, RIGHT 2, and SOLO.

To Transpose:

1)

Press either the § or

TRANSPOSE buttons. The LCD screen shows you a number telling you how

 

many half steps up or down you have transposed the piano. -5, for example, represents a transposition

 

that is 5 half steps lower.

 

 

2)

To cancel the Transpose setting, press both the § and

buttons at the same time. The transpose

 

amount will disappear from the LCD screen, indicating that the CP is now back to its original setting.

To use the Octave Shift:

 

 

 

1)

Select the Part that you would like to apply the shift to.

 

2)

Press either the § or

OCTAVE SHIFT buttons. The number of shifted octaves (up or down) will be

 

displayed with an “§” in the LCD screen.

 

 

3)

To cancel the octave shift, press both the § and

buttons at the same time. The symbols will

 

disappear from the screen, indicating that the selected Part is back to its normal octave range.

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Kawai CP205/CP185 manual Transpose and Octave Shift, To Transpose Press either the § or, That is 5 half steps lower