owner's manual (PDF) - Kawai

Controlling Playback of a Song
As the song plays, you can adjust the tempo, play or sing along with on the keyboard, and even turn
on/off the different instrument parts (tracks) in the song.
The status of the song parts is displayed at the bottom of the LCD screen. You will see the parts
referred to as the CP’s four Parts + Style if the song was created on the CP, or as Channels (ch 1-16)
if the song is a MIDI file. Displayed above each part is its current status:
PLAY The part will be heard when you play the song.
MUTE The part has data, but it won’t be heard when you play the song.
– – – – The part has no data to play.
• Transpose and Octave Shift are available when a song is playing. Octave Shift affects only the
notes you play “live” on the keyboard, not the music playing from the song file. Transpose can
be applied separately to the keyboard sound and the song sounds. This lets you play the keyboard
in your preferred key along with a song recorded in a different (or more difficult) key.
Use the front panel’s dedicated TRANSPOSE buttons to affect the keyboard sound. Use the
Song Transpose option (R4 and R5) in the Disk Song Play menu to affect the song data.
• The Song Transpose option is available only for the song data in Standard MIDI file.
To make adjustments to the song:
1) In the Disk Song Play screen, use the R1, R2, R3, and L3 buttons to highlight and assign sounds to
the CP’s four keyboard Parts. These will be the sounds that you can play live from the keyboard as
the song is playing. Once a Part is highlighted, press any of the Sound category buttons to select a
new sound.
2) Use the F buttons to play and mute any of the song’s instrument parts.
3) Press the L4 button to use the Mixer to make adjustments to the song’s instrument parts. (See page
49 for the Mixer function.)
4) Use the R4 and R5 buttons to transpose the song data.
5) Use the panel TRANSPOSE and OCTAVE SHIFT buttons to adjust the CP’s keyboard Parts.
6) Press the PLAY/STOP button to start the song.
7) To adjust the tempo, press the L2 button and use the Dial to change values.
8) Press the PLAY/STOP button again to stop the song.
Playing Songs From a Floppy Disk P. 105