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Contents
Taking Care of Your Clavinova............... 2
Preparation 3
The Music Stand ....................................3
The Key Cover (CVP-79A/69/69A) ........3
The Power Switch ..................................3
Headphones........................................... 3
The Panel Controls 4
The Volume Controls 6
Master Volume....................................... 6
ABC/Song Volume .................................6
Other Volume Controls........................... 7
Expression Control (CVP-79A only)....... 7
General Operation: The Display &
Related Controls 8
The Display & LCD Buttons ...................8
The [DISPLAY HOLD] Button ................9
The PAGE [<] and [>] Buttons ........... 10
The [MIXER] Button .............................10
The [EXIT] Button................................. 10
The [CONTRAST] Button..................... 11
The Help Function................................ 11
Memory Backup ...................................12
Demonstration Playback 13
Voice Selection 15
Keyboard Percussion............................ 16
The Keyboard & Polyphony.............. 16
Dual Mode 17
Engaging the Dual Mode &
Selecting the 2nd Voice .......................17
Dual-mode Voice Balance.................... 18
Detune Depth....................................... 18
Split Mode 19
Engaging the Split Mode...................... 19
Changing the Split Voices.................... 19
Split-mode Voice Balance.................... 20
Changing the Split Point....................... 21
Digital Reverb 22
Selecting a Reverb Type...................... 22
Total Depth Control.............................. 23
Individual Part Depth Control ...............23
Voice Effects 24
Selecting a Voice Effect .......................24
Effect Depth Control............................. 25
One-touch Preset Recall...................... 25
The Pedals 26
Right Pedal (Damper Pedal) ................26
Center Pedal (Sostenuto Pedal —
CVP-79A/69/69A only)......................... 26
Left Pedal (Multi-function) ....................27
Accompaniment 28
Style Selection .....................................28
Tempo Control .....................................29
Starting the Accompaniment................ 30
Fill-ins................................................... 32
Left-pedal Break................................... 32
Stopping the Accompaniment ..............32
Metronome........................................... 33
Auto Bass Chord (ABC) 34
Single-Finger, Fingered Chord, and
Full Keyboard Accompaniment ............34
Overall Accompaniment Volume
Control.................................................. 37
Individual Part Volume Control............. 38
Small ABC............................................ 39
Changing the ABC Split Point ..............39
Chord Assist......................................... 40
Harmony............................................... 41
One Touch Setting ...............................44
Custom Style 45
Other Custom Style Functions .............50
Playing Back Your Custom Styles........ 52
Custom Style Alert & Error Displays ....53
Style File Load 55
Loading Disk Styles.............................. 55
Using Loaded Style Files .....................57
Registration Memory 58
Recall the Registered Panel
Settings ................................................ 60
The ABC Freeze Function.................... 60
Disk Orchestra Collection &
Song Playback 61
Straight Playback .................................61
Playing Back Specific Parts .................63
Part Assignment for Original Song
Playback............................................... 65
Overall Song Playback Volume
Control.................................................. 65
Individual Part Volume Control &
Voice Selection ....................................66
Guided Right- and Left-hand
Practice ................................................ 67
Repeat Functions................................. 69
Other Playback Controls ......................70
Playing Other Types of Music Data...... 71
Song Recording 72
Quick Recording ....................................72
Multi-track Recording & Playback........ 75
Adding New Tracks.............................. 77
Punch-in/out Recording........................ 78
The Chord Sequence Function............. 80
Chord Sequence Page 2 & 3
Functions.............................................. 81
Other Song Recording Functions ........83
Track Mix.............................................. 83
Track Delete......................................... 84
Track Quantize..................................... 84
Initial Edit.............................................. 85
Renaming Song Files........................... 87
Recording Without a Disk..................... 89
Playback............................................... 89
The Utility Functions 90
Keyboard.............................................. 91
Sound................................................... 92
Pedal.................................................... 92
MIDI 1................................................... 94
MIDI 2................................................... 95
MIDI 3................................................... 97
Format.................................................. 98
Registration.......................................... 99
Transform........................................... 101
Song Copy .........................................102
Song Delete .......................................104
Micro Tuning ......................................104
Backup ............................................... 107
Recall ................................................. 108
Popup Time........................................ 109
Song List Priority................................ 109
Alert Sound ........................................109
Messages 110
The Connectors 113
Troubleshooting 114
Options 114
Index...................................................... 115
Voice List.............................................. 116
Style List............................................... 120
Drum/key Assignment List.................. 121
Backed Up Parameters........................ 122
Fingering Chart ....................................123
MIDI Data Format .................................124
Specifications....................................... 135
CVP-79A: Assembly............................. 136
CVP-69/69A: Assembly........................ 142
CVP-59S: Assembly............................. 150
MIDI Implementation Chart .................156