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IMPORTANT NOTES
Power Supply
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Repairs and Data
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Handling Floppy Disks
Using USB Memory
Handling the CDs (CD-ROMs)
Introduction
This manual uses the following conventions in the interest of simpler, more concise instructions.
Main Features
Contents
Performance...................................................................... 21
Playing Back Songs ...........................................................43
Recording the Performance................................................ 62
Changing Various Settings .................................................66
Connecting External Devices............................................... 79
Appendices........................................................................ 83
Panel Descriptions
Front Panel
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Jack Panel (RG-1s Bottom Left Panel)
RG-1s Bottom Right Panel
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Before You Start Playing
Open the Top Board
Raising the Music Rest
Opening and Closing the Top
Opening and Closing the Lid
ABC
Connecting the Pedal Cord and the Power Cord
ABC D E F
D E F
Turning the Power On and Off
Turn the [Volume] knob all the way down.
Turning Off the Power
Soft pedal (left pedal)
Sostenuto pedal (center pedal)
Connecting Headphones
Using the Headphone Hook
Using USB Memory/Floppy Disk
Installing the Floppy Disk Drive
Connecting USB Memory
Using CD
Connecting a CD Drive
About the Screens
Main Screens
Adjusting the Contrast of the Screen
Performance
The tone name appears in the display.
Selecting Variation Tones
Press any Tone button.
Changing the Volume Balance of the Layered Tones (Layer Balance)
Stretch
KeyOff Resonance
Press the [Song] (Select -) button or [ ] (Select +) button to select the item you want to set.
Press the [ ] (Value -) or [ ] (Value +) button to change the value.
Making Fine Adjustments to the Piano Sound (Piano Customize)
Equal, Just Major, Just Minor, Arabic, Kirnberger, Meantone, Pythagorean, Werckmeister
Changing the Timing of Sounds According to the Force Used to Press the Keys (Hammer Response)
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Adjusting Resonance when the Damper Pedal is Depressed (Damper Resonance)
Adjusting the Sound Heard at String Release When the Damper Pedal is Depressed (Damper Noise)
Adjusting the Sympathetic Vibrations of an Acoustic Pianos Duplex Scale (Duplex Scale)
Producing the Resonance of the Strings When the Keys Are Played (String Resonance)
Playing Sounds When the Keys Are Released (Key Off Resonance)
Setting the Tuning Curve (Stretched Tuning)
Press the [Function] (Exit) button, getting its indicator to light.
Changing the Tuning
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Press the [Function] (Exit) button, getting its indicator to light.
Setting the Tonic
Press the [Song] (Select -) button or [ ] (Select +) button to display the TUNE screen.
Press the [ ] (Value -) button or [ ] (Value +) button to change the value.
Adjusting the Keyboard Touch (Key Touch)
You can add liveliness to the sound to give it superb clarity and distinctness.
Press the [Song] (Select -) button or [ ] (Select +) button to display the DYNAMICS screen.
Press the [ ] (Value -) button or [ ] (Value +) button to change the value.
Adding Liveliness to the Sound (Dynamics Sound Control)
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Press the [Song] (Select -) button or [ ] (Select +) button to display the TRANSPOSE screen.
Press the [Song] (Select -) button or [ ] (Select +) button to get the value for Value to flash.
Press the [ ] (Value -) button or [ ] (Value +) button to select the transposition value.
Changing the Pitch of the Keyboard Sound (Key Transpose)
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Changing the Beat
Changing the Volume
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Playing Back Songs
Ext Memory
Floppy Disk
CD
Favorites
Listening to the Tone Demos
Listening to the Internal Songs
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Listening to Songs on CDs
When Selecting Songs in a Folder
To exit a folder:
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Turning Off the Power (When a CD Drive Is Connected)
Listening to Songs on USB Memory and Floppy Disks
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Press the [ ] button once more to stop playback of the songs.
Press the [ ] button.
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Recording the Performance
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Recording the Performance Start Recording
Press the [ ] button.
Play Back the Recorded Performance
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Recording the Performance
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Deleting Performances Saved to the Favorites or USB Memory
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Changing Various Settings
Cancelling the Setting
Making the Setting
Cancelling the Setting
Set the desired tones and other settings.
Making Detailed Settings
Changing the Velocity When the Key Touch is Set to Fix
Adjusting the Sound to Achieve the Preferred Tone Quality (Equalizer)
Specifying What the Transpose will Affect (Transpose Mode)
Assigning Functions to Pedals
Changing the Song Playback Method (Play Mode)
Changing the Parts Assigned to the Track During SMF Playback (Track Assign)
Remembering the Settings Even When the Power is Turned Off (Memory Backup)
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Using the V-LINK Function
MIDI Transmit Channel Settings
Preventing Doubled Notes When Connected to a Sequencer (Local Control)
Sending Recorded Performance Data to a MIDI Device (Composer MIDI Out)
Making the Settings for the USB Driver
Changing the Communication Settings for USB Memory (External Memory Mode)
Switching the Muted Part (Accompaniment Track Assign)
Switching VIMA CD-ROM Recommended Tones
Initializing the User Memory, USB Memory, and Floppy Disks
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Press the [Enter] button once more.
Restoring the Factory Settings (Factory Reset)
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Connecting External Devices
Turning Off the Power
Connecting to Audio Equipment
Playing Sounds of an Audio Device through the RG-1
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Connecting to MIDI Devices
Connecting a MIDI Sequencer to the RG-1
Producing Sounds from a MIDI Sound Module by Playing the RG-1
Connecting a Computer
Caution
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
84
Error Messages
86
Tone List
E.Piano
Vibraphone
Harpsichord
Piano 2
Internal Song List
Classical
Jazz
Parameters Stored to Internal Memory
Parameters Stored without Using Memory Backup
Parameters Stored in Memory Backup
Music Files That the RG-1 Can Use
XGlite
GS Format
General MIDI 2
MIDI Implementation Chart
Main Specifications
RG-1
Main Specifications
RG-1
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