Casio AP-450 manuel d'utilisation

AP450-ES-1C ES USER’S GUIDE GUÍA DEL USUARIO Please keep all information for future reference. Guarde toda información para tener como referencia futura. Safety Precautions Bef ore tr ying to use the piano , be sure to read the separate “Saf ety Precautions”. Precauciones de seguridad Antes de intentar usar el piano, asegúrese de leer las [...]

Function T ransmitted Recognized Remarks Basic Channel 1 - 16 1 - 16 1 - 16 1 - 16 Def ault Changed Note Number 0 - 127 0 - 127 0 - 127 * 1 T rue voice Program Change OO 0 - 127 :T rue # After To u c h Control Change X X X O Pitch Bender XO System Exclusive OO Key ’s Ch’s V elocity O 9nH v = 1 - 127 O 8nH v = 0 - 127 O 9nH v = 1 - 127 X 9nH v =[...]

E-1 English Contents General Guide .... ............................... E-2 FUNCTION Butto n......... ............. ............. ............. ............ E-3 Saving Settings and Usin g Operation Lock ........... ........... E-3 Power Outlet....... ............................... E-4 Turning Po wer On or Off ................. ............. ......[...]

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General Guide E-3 English * CAUTION • Make sure that the cover is fully open whenever you are playing on the keyboard. A partially open cover can suddenly close unexpectedly and pinch your fingers. NO TE • The names shown here are always indicated in bold wh en they appear within the text of this manual. The FUNCTION button is used when configu[...]

E-4 Power Outlet After you finish assembling the stand, turn on the digital piano. For details, see “Getting Read y” on page E-39. 1. Press the P (POWER) button to turn on digital piano power. • This causes the P ( POWER ) button t o light. • When you turn on the digi tal piano, it performs a power up operation in order to initialize its sy[...]

E-5 English Playing with Different Tones The piano comes with 18 built-in tones. • The names of the tones are marked above the k eyboard keys to which they are assigned. To select a tone 1. Select the tone you want. Selecting and Playing a Tone SONG a FUNCTION METRONOME ELEC PIANO GRAND PIANO V OLUME z To select GRAND PIANO (CONCERT or MODERN) or[...]

E-6 Playing with Differen t Tones 2. Use the VOLUME contro ller to adjust the volume. NO TE • Of the digital piano’s 18 buil t-in tones, the first five are grand piano tone. Each tone has its own distinctive merits, so y ou should select the tone that suits the song you are playi ng along with or your own personal preferences. The CONCERT and M[...]

English Playing with Different Tones E-7 The tones of your digital piano have built-in elements that give them the characteristic reverberation of an acoustic piano. Each of these elements can be individually a djusted to one of fo ur levels. z HAMMER RESPONSE z STRING RESONANCE z LID SIMULATOR NO TE • Opening or closing the d igital piano’s li[...]

E-8 Playing with Differen t Tones To adjust the volume balance between two layered tones 1. While holding down the FUNCTION button, use the keyboard keys shown below to adjust the volume of the layered tones. • To return the volume set ting to its initial defaul t, hold down the FUNCTION button and press both of the keys at the same time. 1. Whil[...]

English Playing with Different Tones E-9 Your digit al piano comes eq uipped with three pedals: damper, soft, an d sostenuto Pedal Functions z Damper Pedal Pressing the damper pedal wh ile playing will cause th e notes you play to reverberate for a long time. • When a GRAND PIANO tone (CONCERT, MODERN, CLASSIC, MELLOW, BRIGHT) is selected as the [...]

E-10 Playing with Differen t Tones 4. Press the METRONOME button or SONG a button to turn off the metronome. NO TE • To return the tempo setting to the default tempo of the currently selected Music Library tune, press the + and – keys at the same ti me in step 3. Pressi ng + and – while recording will return the tempo value to 120. To adjust [...]

English Playing with Different Tones E-11 Changing the Oc taves of the duet keyboards You can change the ranges of the left and right keyboards in octave units from their initial default settings. This comes in handy, for example , if the initial default range is not enough when one person is playing the left hand part and another person is playing[...]

E-12 Playing Back a Song Your digital piano comes wit h a Music Library of 60 built-in tunes. You can play all 60 tunes in sequence, from beginning to end. 1. While holding down the FUNCTION button, press the SONG a button. • This will start repe at demo playback of the built-in songs in sequence, from 01 through 60. • You can play along with a[...]

English Playing Back a Song E-13 The Music Library incl udes bo th built-in songs (01 to 60), plus songs (61 to 70) that have been saved to digital piano memory from a computer * . You can use the procedure below to select one of these son gs and play it back. * You can download music data from the Internet and then transfer it from your computer t[...]

E-14 Playing Back a Song You can use your digital piano to play back audio data (WAV files * ) stored on a commercially available USB flash drive. See “USB Flash Drive” on page E-26 for more information. * Linear PCM, 16bit, 44.1 kHz, Stereo PREP ARA TION • Prepare a USB flash drive that contains data recorded to it using the digital piano’[...]

E-15 English Recording and Playback You can use the Song Recorder to record what you play on the digital piano to built-in song memory. When a commercially available USB flash drive i s inserted in the digital piano’s USB flash drive port, audio data is recorded to and played back from the USB flash drive (Audio Recorder). Tracks A track is a con[...]

E-16 Recording and Playback Each press of the SONG RECORD ER button cycles through the recording options in the sequence shown below. Recording to a Sp ecific Song Track After recording to either of the tracks of a song, you ca n record to the other track while listening to playback what you recorded in the first track. 1. Press the SONG RECORDER b[...]

English Recording and Playback E-17 Recording to One Track while Listening to Playback of the Other Track 1. Press the SONG RECORDER button so its lamp is lit. 2. While holding down the FUNCTION button, press the SONG RECORDER (L/R) button to select the track you want to play back while recording. 3. Press the SONG RECORDER button so its lamp is fl[...]

E-18 Recording and Playback Deleting Recorded Data The following procedur e deletes a specific track of a song. IMPORT ANT! • The proced ure below deletes all of the data of the selected track. Note that the de lete operation cannot be undone. Check to make sure you really do not need the data in digit al piano memory befor e you perform the foll[...]

English Recording and Playback E-19 2. Press the AUDIO RECORDER button. Note that you should press the button and immediately release it. Do not hold it down. • This causes the two SONG a button indicat or lamps to light . 3. Press the SONG RECORDER button so its lamp is lit. 4. Start playing so mething on the keyboard. • The SONG RECORDER butt[...]

E-20 Recording and Playback 3. While holding down the AUDIO RECORDER button, press the SONG a bu tton. • This starts playba ck of the last song you recorded. To select a file and play it Hold down the FUNCTION button as you use the SONG SELECT keyboard keys to select the song you want. • Press the minus (–) keyboard key to scroll back through[...]

E-21 English Configuring Settings with the Keyboard In addition to sel ecting tones and Music Li brary tunes, you also can use the FUNCTION button in combination with the keyboard keys to configure effect, keyboard touch, and other settings. 1. Use the “Parameter List” on pages E-23 - E-25 to find the setting you want to configure, and note its[...]

E-22 Configuring Settings with th e Keyboard • The numbers 1 through cq correspond to the same numbers in the “Parameter List” on pages E-23 - E-25. Keyboard Keys Used for Configuring Settings       −  +  OFF / ON OFF / ON OFF / ON OFF / ON [Left keyboard] [Overall] [Center keyboard] [Right keyboard[...]

Configuring Settings with the Keyboa rd E-23 English ■ Tones ■ Song/Metronome Parameter List Parameter Settings Operation Type (page E-21 ) Description Remarks 7 Tone selection See page E-5. Default: GRAND PIANO (CONCERT) A Assigns a tone to the keyboard. (page E-5) 8 Reverb Off (OFF), 1 to 4 Default: 2 D Specifies the reverb of notes. (page E-[...]

E-24 Configuring Settings with th e Keyboard ■ Keyboard ■ MIDI and Other Settings Parameter Settings Operation Type (page E-21) Description Remarks 1 Keyboard key (Transpose) –12 to 0 to 12 Default: 0 B Raises or lowers the tu ning of the digital piano in semit one steps. • The transpose setting cannot be configured while Music Library play[...]

Configuring Settings with the Keyboa rd E-25 English bt Operation tone Off, On Default: On D Selecting “Off” disables sounding of the operation tone whenever a keyboard key is pressed while the FUNCTION is depressed. • This setting is retained even when the digital pi ano is turned off. • The operation tone setting cann ot be changed while [...]

E-26 USB Flash Drive Your digital piano supports the following USB flash drive operations. z USB flash drive formatting z Data storage to a USB flash drive z USB flash drive data loading to digital piano memor y z Delete data from a USB flash drive z Easy play back of song data from a USB flash drive ■ Save and Load Data Formats an d Capacities *[...]

English USB Flash Dr ive E-27 USB Flash Drive and USB Flash Drive Port Handling Precautions IMPORT ANT! • Be sure to observe t he precaution s provided in the documentation th at comes with t he USB flash drive. • Avoid using a USB flash drive under the following conditions. Such conditions can cor rupt data stored on the USB flash drive. • A[...]

E-28 USB Flash Drive IMPORT ANT! • Be sure to format a USB f lash drive on the digital piano before usin g it for the first t ime. • Before formatt ing a USB flash drive , make sure it does not have any valu able data stor ed on it. • The format oper ation performed by thi s piano is a “quick form at”. If you want to completely delete all[...]

English USB Flash Dr ive E-29 Use the procedure below to save data you recorded on the digital piano to a USB fl ash drive as a MIDI file (SMF format 0). 1. Insert the USB flash drive into the digital piano’s USB flash drive port. 2. While holding down the FUNCTION button, press the keyboard key that corresponds to the USB flash drive mode. • T[...]

E-30 USB Flash Drive 5. Press the SONG a button. • This starts the data save operation. • When saving is complete, the L/R lamps will go out to indicate tha t the USB flash dr ive mode has been exited. ■ USB Flash Drive Data (File) Storage Locations The above pr ocedure s tores piano dat a in a folder named MUSICLIB on the USB flash drive. ?[...]

English USB Flash Dr ive E-31 5. Hold down the FUNCTION button as you use the SONG SELECT keyboard keys to select a song number (61 to 70). • The digital piano will emit a short beep if you specify a correct song number, and a long beep if the song number is not correct. • Selecting song number 00 will batch lo ad the 10 files from 61 through 7[...]

E-32 USB Flash Drive 4. Hold down the FUNCTION button as you use the SONG SELECT keyboard keys to select a song number (61 to 70). • The digital piano will emit a short beep if you specify a correct song number, and a long beep if the song number is not correct. 5. Press the SONG a button. • This starts deletion of the selecte d data. • When [...]

USB Flash Dr ive E-33 English The following sh ows how the lamps indicate the error type when an error occurs due to data transfer failure or some other reason. Error Indicators Lamps Error Type Cause Action No Media 1. The USB flash drive is not connected to the digital piano’s USB flash drive port. 1. Correctly plug the USB flash driv e into th[...]

E-34 USB Flash Drive Convert There is not enough digital piano memory available to convert a song recorder song to SMF data and store it on the USB fl ash drive. Reduce the size of the song data. Example: Delete any tracks that are not required. Format 1. The USB flash drive format is no t compatible with this digital piano. 1. Format the USB flash[...]

E-35 English Connecting to a Computer You can connect the digital piano to a computer and exchange MIDI data between them. You can se nd play data from the digital piano to commercially available music software running on your computer, or you can send MIDI data from your computer to the digital piano for playback. The following shows the minimum c[...]

E-36 Connecting to a Computer What is MIDI? The letters MIDI stand for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, which is the name of a worldwide standard for digital signals and connectors that makes it possible to exchange musical data between musical instruments and computers (machines) produced by different manufact urers. NO TE • For detailed in[...]

English Connecting to a Computer E-37 4. Double-click “PIANO”. • “PIANO” contains folders named “MUSICLIB” and “RECOR DER”. • To transfer a user song to the digital piano from your computer, open the “ MUSICLIB” folder and put the song into one of the numbered subfolders (61 through 70). Each subfolder corresponds to a Music[...]

E-38 Connecting to a Computer ■ To transfer Recorder memory data between the digital piano and your computer To transf er the digital piano’s current Recorder memory data to your computer, copy the contents of the RECORDER folder to your comput er. To return Recorder data yo u previously saved to your computer back to Recorder me m o r y , c o [...]

E-39 English Getting Ready Before assembling the stand, first take a few moments to check that all of the items shown below are present. • This stand does not include any of the tools required for assembly. It is up to you to prepare a large Philips head (+) screwdriver for assembly. IMPORT ANT! • Do not use any screws other than those that com[...]

E-40 Getting Ready 3. Slide back panel C into the grooves 4 of the side panels. • Before sliding back panel C into place, make sure that the widely spaced sc rew holes along the bottom of the panel are on the left (when viewed from the front of the stand), and the narrowly space d holes are on the right. 4. Use the two screws H to secure the top [...]

English Getting Ready E-41 7. Place the piano onto the stand. IMPORT ANT! • In order to ensu re you do not get your fi ngers pinched between the piano and the stand , grasp the piano on its sides (not its ends) at the locat ions marked wit h stars (  ) in the illustration. 8. First, use the two screws J to secure the back of the piano to the s[...]

E-42 Getting Ready * Using the Clip M z To fasten th e clip As shown in the illustration, press down on (a) to force the tip of the clip into th e slot. Press down until you hear the clip click securely into place. z To release the clip As shown in the illustration, press (b) in the direction indicated by the arrow. 2. Orienting the pedal plug as s[...]

English Getting Ready E-43 IMPORT ANT! • Use both hand s whenever open ing or closing the lid, and take care that you do not close it on your fingers. • Do not open the lid too wide. Doing so creates the risk of damage to the cover and dig ital piano. • Stand in front of th e digital pian o on the righ t side when opening or clo sing the lid.[...]

E-44 Getting Ready Your digital piano runs on standard household power. Be sure to turn off power whe never you are not using the digital piano. Using an AC Adaptor Use only the AC adaptor (JEITA St andard, with unifie d polarity plug) that comes with this digital piano. Use of a different type of AC ad aptor can cause malfunction of the digital pi[...]

English Getting Ready E-45 You can connect audio equipm ent or a music amplifier to the Digital Piano and then play through external speakers for more powerful volume and better sound quality. IMPORT ANT! • The Digital Piano automatically ad justs sound output to optimize for headphone output ( when headph ones are connecte d) or built-in spea ke[...]

E-46 Reference Troubleshooting Problem Cause Action See Page No sound is produce d when I press a keyboard key. 1. The VOLUME controller is set to “MIN”. 1. Rotate the VOLUME controller more towards “MAX”. ) E-6 2. Headphones or an a daptor plug is plugged into one of the PHONES jacks. 2. Disconnec t whatever is connected to the PHONES jack[...]

Reference E-47 English • Specifications and designs are subject to change without notice. Product Specifications Model AP-450BK/AP-450BN/AP-450WE Keyboard 88-key piano keyboar d, with Touch Response Maximum Polyphony 256 notes Tones 18 • Layer (excluding bass tones) • Split (Low-range bass tones only) Effects Brilliance (–3 to 0 to 3), Reve[...]

E-48 Reference Be sure to read and observe the following operating precautio ns. ■ Location Avoid the following locations for this product. • Areas exposed to direct su nlight and high humidity • Areas subjected to temperature extremes • Near a radio, TV, video deck, or tuner The above devices will not cause malfunction of the product, but [...]

Reference E-49 English A C Adaptor Ha ndling Precautions Model: AD-E242 50LW 1. Read these instruction s. 2. Keep these instructio ns on hand. 3. Heed all warnings. 4. Follow all instructions. 5. Do not use this product near water. 6. Clean only with a dry cloth. 7. Do not install near radiators, he at registers, sto ves, or any othe r source of he[...]

A-1 Appendix/Apéndice T one List/Lista de tonos Tone Name/ Nombre de tonos Program Change / Cambio de programa Bank Select MSB/ MSB de selección de banco GRAND PIANO CONCERT 0 0 GRAND PIANO MODERN 0 1 GRAND PIANO CLASSIC 0 2 GRAND PIANO MELLOW 0 3 GRAND PIANO BRIGHT 04 ELEC PIANO 4 0 FM E.PIANO 5 0 60 ’ S E.PIANO 4 1 HARPSICHORD 6 0 VIBRAPHONE [...]

Function T ransmitted Recognized Remarks Basic Channel 1 - 16 1 - 16 1 - 16 1 - 16 Def ault Changed Note Number 0 - 127 0 - 127 0 - 127 * 1 T rue voice After To u c h Control Change X X X O Pitch Bender XO Key ’s Ch’s V elocity O 9nH v = 1 - 127 O 8nH v = 0 - 127 O 9nH v = 1 - 127 X 9nH v = 0, O 8nH v = 0 - 127 Note ON Note OFF Mode Mode 3 X Mo[...]

Function T ransmitted Recognized Remarks Basic Channel 1 - 16 1 - 16 1 - 16 1 - 16 Def ault Changed Note Number 0 - 127 0 - 127 0 - 127 * 1 T rue voice Program Change OO 0 - 127 :T rue # After To u c h Control Change X X X O Pitch Bender XO System Exclusive OO Key ’s Ch’s V elocity O 9nH v = 1 - 127 O 8nH v = 0 - 127 O 9nH v = 1 - 127 X 9nH v =[...]

AP450-ES-1C ES USER’S GUIDE GUÍA DEL USUARIO Please keep all information for future reference. Guarde toda información para tener como referencia futura. Safety Precautions Bef ore tr ying to use the piano , be sure to read the separate “Saf ety Precautions”. Precauciones de seguridad Antes de intentar usar el piano, asegúrese de leer las [...]