Kawai CP205/CP185 - Manual (Page 82)

Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital Piano P. 76
Creating Your Own Styles
The CP can store up to 20 User Styles on board at one time.
However since you can also save your original Styles onto a floppy
disk, your library of Styles is virtually unlimited.
Thanks to the Style Convert Software developed by EMC Software,
you can also convert style data from many other manufacturers
for use on the CP. That way you can take advantage of the hundreds
of Style disks that are available on the market!
The Concert Performer contains 220 built-in Styles covering a wide
variety of musical genres. There are two powerful features that
allow you to edit any of these Styles to better suit your musical
tastes, or even create your own Style entirely from scratch! These
are the Conductor and the Style Maker.
The Conductor allows you to edit the Style data and personalize it
to your taste. The Conductor offers two ways to edit: Easy Edit
and Advanced Edit.
The Style Maker allows you to create Styles of your own.
There are three ways of using this feature: Make a New Style, Edit
an Existing Style, and Phrase Combination.
Conductor
The Conductor is used to edit Preset or User Style data.
There are two editing methods offered by the Conductor.
Easy Style Edit This is an easy way to edit the Style data. The CP built-in styles are comprised
three different types, Full, Intimate, and Solo Piano Styles. A Full Style
consists of six instrument tracks called Sections. These are the Drums,
Bass, and four Accompaniment tracks. The Intimate Styles have four
Sections, Drum, Bass, And Two Accompaniment tracks. The Solo piano
Styles have two Accompaniment Tracks (Right and Left hand) and no Drum
or Bass tracks.
When you play a Style, each of these sections plays a musical Phrase
composed for that type of instrument. Each section can play one of four
different musical phrases, one for each of the four variations within a Style.
Easy Edit lets you assign which of these four Phrases will be played by each
section for each of the four variations within the style. This means you can
mix and match the different phrases for each section to create your own
unique arrangements. Once you are satisfied with your edits, you can save
your Easy Style edits to the PRESET STYLE.