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Kawai CA1000 User Manual

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TUTORIAL: USING MIDI

TUTORIAL

Using MIDI

U

SING

THE

CA

PIANO

AS

A

M

ULTI

-

TIMBRAL

S

OUND

M

ODULE

The CA piano can also be used as a 16-part multi-timbral sound module.

Your CA piano is capable of playing back for example, a four part song

with two piano parts, a string part, and a choir part all sent from an external

MIDI sequencer or a personal computer. You can also play the CA piano

along with a recorded song.

To set the CA piano to receive MIDI as a multi-timbral instrument it must

be connected with an external MIDI device or personal computer with

appropriate software.

Connect the CA piano’s MIDI IN jack and your external MIDI device’s

MIDI OUT jack with a MIDI cable. Please note that the MIDI information

is now being transmitted the opposite of our earlier setup. The CA piano

is now receiving MIDI data from your external MIDI device.

MIDI CHANNEL

The next step is to match your MIDI channels. When receiving MIDI data

on the CA piano with multi-timbral mode ON, it is not necessary to specify

a MIDI channel to use because the CA piano can receive data on multiple

MIDI channels at once. You do have to be careful to match MIDI channels

between each part. A MIDI channel can only have one sound assigned to

it at a time. You must set the MIDI channel for each part on both the

transmitting (external MIDI device) and the receiving (CA piano) MIDI

devices. For example, channel 1 for piano, ch 2 for strings, ch 3 for choir,

etc.

EFFECTS REVERB

REC

RECORDER

PLAY/STOP

TEMPO

METRONOME

BEAT

VOLUME

Dual Balance

left right

DEMO

CONCERT

MAGIC

max

min

MASTER VOLUME

TOUCH

TRANS-

POSE

PIANO

1

SONG 1

PART 1

2

2

3

4

5

PIANO

2

E.PIANO

CHURCH
ORGAN

HARPSI-
CHORD

VIBRA-

PHONE

STRINGS

CHOIR

VALUE

MIDI IN

MIDI OUT

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