CLP-295GP Owner’s Manual 57
Basic Operation

Playing Back Recorded Songs and Commercially-available Music Data

2-1 Use the A [–][+] buttons to select the song type:

“PRESET,” “MEMORY,” or “USB1.”

PRESET......Stands for Preset song memory. This memory contains 50
piano preset songs.
MEMORY...Stands for Storage memory. This memory contains recorded
songs or copied songs. “MEMORY” is not displayed when this
memory does not contain any songs.
USB1...........Stands for USB storage device. This device contains commer-
cially available song data, etc. “USB1” is not displayed when
the USB storage device is not connected to the instrument.
When several USB storage devices are recognized to the instru-
ment, numbers are added after “USB,” like “USB1,” “USB2”...
The numbers are not fixed and may change according to the
order in which the devices are connected and disconnected.
2-2 Use the C [–][+] or [SONG SELECT] button to select a

song.

Letters (page 46) and song numbers are displayed on the left of the
song names.
3. Start playback.
Press the [PLAY/PAUSE] button.
Starting playback automatically as you start playing the
keyboard (Sync Start)
You can start playback as soon as you start playing the keyboard. This is
called the “Sync Start” function.
To enter Sync Start standby mode, press and hold down the [STOP] button
and press the [PLAY/PAUSE] button. The [PLAY/PAUSE] indicator flashes.
Now play the keyboard. Playback starts simultaneously.
To cancel the Sync Start function, press the [STOP] button while the Clavi-
nova is in Sync Start standby mode.
You can move back and forth (rewind and fast forward) through the bars by
using the B [–][+] buttons in the song select screen while the Clavinova is
playing or stopped.
You can play the keyboard while the Clavinova is playing back a song. You
can also play the notes in a voice different from the playback voice by select-
ing the voice from the panel, and adjusting the volume balance between the
playback parts and your current performance using the [SONG BALANCE]
slider. (See page 44.)
Press the [SONG SELECT] button to return to the song select screen.
B
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A
C
USB1 Bar 005
U1-001:Song001.MID
The bar number in playback
Bar: measure
You can play the metronome
along with the song playback.
When you stop playback, the
metronome is also stopped.
Press the C [+] button during
playback to start playback
from the next song. Press the
C [–] button during playback to
start playback from the previ-
ous song.
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