Yamaha CLP-990, CLP-990M Selecting and Playing Voices

30 CLP-990

Selecting and Playing Voices

Selecting Voices

Procedure

To learn characteristics of

the voices, listen to demo

songs for each voice group

(page 24). Refer to “Preset

Voice List” on page 103 for

more information on charac-

teristics of each preset voice.

1. Select a voice group.

Press one of the MAIN voice group buttons (upper row).

Voice

On the Clavinova, a voice

means “tone” or “tonal color.”

You can control the loudness

of a voice by how hard you

play the keyboard, although

different playing styles (touch

sensitivities) have little or no

effect with the sound of cer-

tain musical instruments.

Refer to “Preset Voice List” on

page 103.

2. Select a voice.

Use the A [–]/[+] buttons to select a voice.

DEMO SONG SELECT

TRANSPOSE

MASTER VOLUME TEMPO VOICE EFFECT

SONG

CLP-990

MIN MAX

NEW SONG

SONG BALANCE UPDOWN

BRILLIANCE

TRACK

1TRACK

2EXTRA

TRACKS FILE METRONOME CONTRAST

SONG

SETTING

START/ STOPSETTING

SPLIT

POINT VOICE

SETTING

REVERBCHORUS MIDI

SETTING

OTHER

SETTING

REC

PIANO

MAIN

LEFT

E. PIANO/

BASS HARPSI-

CHORD MALLET ORGAN STRINGS/

CHOIR

STOP START/

PAUSE

SYNCHRO START

EXIT

PIANO/

E. PIANO HARPSI/

MALLET ORGAN/

STRINGS BASS

A B

C D

NO YES

1

2MAIN voice

group buttons

TIP

TERMINOLOGY

TIP

Voice group Voice name Voice group Voice name

PIANO GrandPiano1

MALLET

Vibraphone

GrandPiano2 Marimba

E.PIANO/

BASS

E.Piano1 Celesta

E.Piano2

ORGAN

PipeOrganPrincipal

SynthPiano PipeOrganFlute1

WoodBass PipeOrganFlute2

ElectricBass PipeOrganTutti

Bass&Cymbal JazzOrgan

HARPSI-

CHORD

Harpsichord8'

STRINGS/

CHOIR

Strings

Harpsichord8'+4' SynthStrings

ElectricClavichord SlowStrings

Choir

SlowChoir

Scat

Contents

Main SPECIAL MESSAGE SECTION CAUTION PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING WARNING CAUTION Page About this Owners Manual and Reference Booklet Reference Booklet: Appendix: Detailed Settings: Table of contents Introduction.......................................................... 2 Basic Operation .................................................. 21 Table of contents Detailed Settings ................................................69 Table of contents Page Application Index Application Index Settings Connecting the Clavinova to other devices Quick solution Handling the Floppy Disk Drive(FDD) and Floppy Disk Cleaning the Disk Drive Read/Write Head To eject a oppy disk: Inserting/Ejecting Floppy Disks Maintenance Tuning Transporting Included Accessories Features Features Before Using the Clavinova Adjusting the music stand angle Key cover 12 2. Turn on the power to the Clavinova. 1. Connect the power cable. Turning the power on Adjusting the display contrast Using headphones Setting the volume Page Part Names 3 5 C [] [+] / D [] [+]...............................P23 R Center C Page Listening to the Demonstration Tunes Demonstration tunes 1. Press the [DEMO] button to engage the demo mode. The MAIN voice group (upper row) button indicators light up in sequence. Page Listening to 50 Piano Preset Songs Press the [START/PAUSE] button to start playback. Playing the 50 piano preset songs 1. 2. 3. Fast forward and rewind 4. Practicing a one-hand part using 50 preset songs 1. 2. Press the [START/PAUSE] button to start playback. Play the part you just turned off. Starting playback automatically as you start playing the keyboard (Synchro Start) 3. Selecting and Playing Voices Selecting Voices Use the A []/[+] buttons to select a voice. 1. Press one of the MAIN voice group buttons (upper row). Using the pedals Damper (right) pedal .q Sostenuto (center) pedal Soft pedal (left) Adding variation to the sound [BRILLIANCE]/[REVERB]/[CHORUS] NOTE Press the [EXIT] button to return to the main screen. [BRILLIANCE] Press one of the BRILLIANCE [ ]/ [ ] buttons to select the desired tonality. [REVERB] Pressing the [REVERB] button repeatedly toggles the reverb on and off. [CHORUS] Pressing the [CHORUS] button repeatedly toggles the cho- rus on and off. Transposition ... [TRANSPOSE] 1. Press one of the TRANSPOSE [ ] and [ ] buttons. 2. Use the C [] and [+] buttons to select Manual or Song. Manual............... Your manual performance Song.................... Playback song 1. Press two MAIN voice group buttons (upper row) simulta- neously. Use the A []/[+] buttons and B []/[+] buttons to select a voice. 3. Press any MAIN voice group button. 1. 3. 4. CLP-990 37 Splitting the keyboard range and playing two differ- ent voices (Split mode) 1. Press one of the LEFT voice group buttons (bottom row). 2. Use the MAIN voice group buttons (upper row) and the A []/[+] buttons. 3. 4. and left-hand range). The normal setting of the split point is FI2. 5. Using the metronome 1. Press the METRONOME [START/STOP] button. When the metronome is sounding, the beat indicator ashes at the current tempo. Adjusting the tempo The default tempo is 120. (If a song has been selected, the song tempo is used.) Recording Your Performance 5 Recording a New Song Recording to [TRACK 1] 1. 3. Press and hold down the [REC] button and press the [TRACK 1] button. 4. Recording begins automatically as soon as you play a note on the keyboard. To stop recording, press the [STOP] button. The Clavinova locates the top of the song. 5. 1. 2. 3. 3-1 CLP-990 45 1. Select a voice (or voices) for recording. Repeat Step 2 on page 42. 2. Press and hold down the [REC] button and press the [TRACK 2] button. 21 1. 2. Other recording techniques 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. Recording in Dual or Split mode Saving Recorded Songs and Handling the Files...[FILE] Clavinova memory Basic le operation 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Saving recorded or other songs to Clavinova Storage memory...[SaveToMemory] 4-1 4-2 Saving recorded or other songs to oppy disk...[SaveToDisk] 4. inserted in the disk drive. Deleting songs in Clavinova Storage memory or a oppy disk...[DeleteSong] 4-1 Use the C []/[+] buttons to select a song. 4. CAUTION Copying data from one oppy disk to another...[CopyDisk] 4-1 4-2 4-3 Formatting a oppy disk...[FormatDisk] 4-1 the disk drive. 4-2 cute?. Playing Back Recorded Songs and Commercially-available Music Data Playing back a song To play back a song from a oppy disk, insert the disk into the disk drive. 1. Press either the SONG SELECT [ ]/[ ] buttons. 3. 4. 5. Press the [EXIT] button. Turning track playback on and off Supported song data type Song data recorded on other instruments Connections Connectors 1 2 3 4 5 6 Connecting a personal computer 1. Connection CLP-990 65 Type of serial cables and connection pin assignments mini DIN 8-pin D-sub 25-pin According to the type of computer you connect, use one of the following serial cables. Clavinova HOST SELECT switch setting Windows (with a serial port of D-sub 9-pin) 2. Connection Set the Clavinova HOST SELECT switch to MIDI. Use a MIDI interface device to connect a computer to the Clavinova using special MIDI cables. Clavinova HOST SELECT switch setting 3. HOST SELECT MIDI computer TO HOST Page Page Detailed Settings In Dual mode, parameters with the * mark are set for Voice 1 and Voice 2 individually. Parameter List The following parameters are available. Recording and playback [SONG SETTING] [OTHER SETTING] Making detailed settings 1. Press the [EXIT] button any time to close the setting menu. 2. Press the setting button, A []/[+], and/or C []/[+] but- tons repeatedly as required. 3. 4. If Execute? or Start? appears: If Set? appears: 5. 74 Detailed settings for recording and playback [SONG SETTING] 3 3 3 Specifies the type of note. Select the desired song and press the [SONG SETTING] button to access the Song Setting menu. Specifying whether playback starts immediately along with the rst voicing [QuickPlay] Auditioning the channels [Chan- nelListen] Deleting data from each channel [ChannelClear] Specifying the range and playing back repeatedly [FromToRepeat] 76 Detailed settings for recording and playback [SONG SETTING] Playing back the phrase specied by the phrase number [Phrase- Mark] Playing back a song repeatedly [SongRepeat] CLP-990 77 Detailed settings for the metro- nome METRONOME [SETTING] To mute the beat count, select BellOff. You can set the time signature, volume level, and voice of the Clavinova metronome. Press the [METRONOME SETTING] button to access the Metro- nome Setting menu. Setting range for the numerator: Detailed settings for the voices [VOICE SETTING] Voice for editing (Voice 1 or Voice 2) 1. Voice Setting menu. 2. Setting the position of right and left channels [Pan]* Fine tuning the pitch (only in Dual mode) [Detune] Selecting the reverb type [ReverbType] Setting the reverb depth [ReverbSend]* 80 Selecting the chorus type [Chorus Type] Setting the chorus depth [Cho- rusSend]* Setting the chorus on/off [ChorusOnOff] Selecting the variation effect type [VariationType] Setting the variation effect depth [VariationSend]* Setting the touch sensitivity [TouchSense]* Setting the right pedal function [RPedal] 82 Setting the center pedal function [MPedal] Setting the left pedal function [LPedal] Setting the auxiliary pedal func- tion [AuxPedal] MIDI [MIDI SETTING] You can make detailed MIDI settings, such as setting up MIDI transmit/receive channels. About MIDI MIDI connectors [TO HOST] connector 84 Press the [MIDI SETTING] button to enter MIDI setting mode. Select a voice part. Specify the channel. On for all channels This parameter enables you to specify the channel on which the Clavinova transmits MIDI data. Setting the MIDI receive channel (Port B) [MidiInAChannel] Setting Local control on/off [LocalControl] Selecting performance from the keyboard or song data for MIDI transmission [MidiOutSelect] Selecting a type of data received via MIDI [ReceiveParameter] 86 Selecting a type of data transmit- ted via MIDI [TransmitParameter] Executing song data bulk dump [SongBulkDump] Transmitting the initial settings on the panel [InitialSetup] Executing voice data bulk dump [VoiceBulkDump] Other settings Press the [OTHER SETTING] button to enter Other Setting mode. Selecting a touch response [TouchResponse] Fine tuning the pitch [Tune] Selecting a tuning curve for a piano voice [PianoTuningCurve] 88 Selecting a scale [Scale] [StringResonanceDepth] Depth of sustain sampling for the damper pedal [SustainSam- plingDepth] Page 90 Setting the point at which the damper pedal starts to affect the sound [HalfPedalPoint] Pitch bend range [PitchBendRange] Replacing the XG voices with pre- set voices [XGAlternative] Selecting items saved at shut- down [MemoryBackUp] Restoring the normal (default) settings [FactorySet] B 6 C7 Other method for restoring the normal settings Message List Page Page Page Page Questions about Operations and Functions Questions about Operations and Functions Page Troubleshooting Data Compatibility Basic Check Points Disk format Sequence Format Data Compatibility Voice Allocation Format Preset Voice List Voice name Vibraphone ElectricClavichord Harpsichord8'+4' Preset Voice List Voice name Scat SlowChoir Choir Voice Combination Examples (Dual and Split) Index Numerics A B C Index O P R S PLEASE KEEP THIS MANUAL FCC INFORMATION (U.S.A.) 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