Document Outline

• IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
• USING THE UNIT SAFELY
• IMPORTANT NOTES
• Introduction
  • Main Features
  • Conventions Used in This Manual
• Contents
• Panel Descriptions
  • Front Panel
  • Jack Panel (RG-1’s Bottom Left Panel)
  • RG-1’s Bottom Right Panel
• Before You Start Playing
  • Opening and Closing the Top
  • Opening and Closing the Lid
  • Connecting the Pedal Cord and the Power Cord
  • Turning the Power On and Off
    • Turning On the Power
    • Turning Off the Power
  • Adjusting the Sound’s Volume and Brilliance
  • About the Pedals
  • Connecting Headphones
    • Using the Headphone Hook
  • Using USB Memory/Floppy Disk
    • Connecting USB Memory
    • Installing the Floppy Disk Drive
  • Using CD
    • Connecting a CD Drive
  • About the Screens
    • Main Screens
    • Adjusting the Contrast of the Screen
• Performance
  • Performing with a Variety of Sounds
    • Changing the Volume Balance of the Layered Tones (Layer Balance)
  • Making Fine Adjustments to the Piano Sound (Piano Customize)
    • Changing the Timing of Sounds According to the Force Used to Press the Keys (Hammer Response)
    • Adjusting the Sound of Hammers Striking Strings (Hammer Noise)
    • Adjusting Resonance when the Damper Pedal is Depressed (Damper Resonance)
    • Adjusting the Sound Heard at String Release When the Damper Pedal is Depressed (Damper Noise)
    • Adjusting the Sympathetic Vibrations of an Acoustic Piano’s Duplex Scale (Duplex Scale)
    • Producing the Resonance of the Strings When the Keys Are Played (String Resonance)
    • Playing Sounds When the Keys Are Released (Key Off Resonance)
    • Setting the Tuning Curve (Stretched Tuning)
    • Changing the Tuning
  • Adjusting the Keyboard Touch (Key Touch)
  • Adding Liveliness to the Sound (Dynamics Sound Control)
  • Adding Reverberation to the Sound (Reverb)
  • Tuning to Other Instruments’ Pitches (Master Tuning)
  • Playing Different Tones with the Left and Right Hands (Split Performance)
    • Changing the Keyboard’s Split Point
  • Changing the Pitch of the Keyboard Sound (Key Transpose)
  • Performing with the Metronome
    • Changing the Tempo
    • Changing the Beat
    • Changing the Volume
• Playing Back Songs
  • Listening to Songs
    • [Song] Button Functions
    • Listening to the Tone Demos
    • Listening to the Internal Songs
    • Listening to Songs on CDs
    • Listening to Songs on USB Memory and Floppy Disks
  • Playing Back Individual Parts (Track Mute)
    • Determining the Volume of a Muted Part (Melody Guide)
  • Changing the Song Playback Volume
    • Adjusting the Volume of the Music CDs and Audio Files
    • Minimizing the Center Sounds in the Playback (Center Cancel)
  • Changing the Volume Balance of the Accompaniment and the Keyboard
  • Changing the Song Tempo
    • Adding a Count to Assist Your Timing
  • Changing the Key of the Song Being Played (Playback Transpose)
  • Copying Songs
    • Copying Songs Stored on USB Memory, CD-ROMs, and Floppy Disks to the “Favorites”
    • Deleting Songs Saved to the “Favorites,” USB Memory, and Floppy Disks
• Recording the Performance
  • Recording Performances
    • Play Back the Recorded Performance
  • Saving Recorded Performances
    • Deleting Performances Saved to the “Favorites” or USB Memory
• Changing Various Settings
  • Preventing Changes to the Current Settings (Panel Lock)
  • Preventing Song Playback (Playback Lock)
  • Making Detailed Settings
    • Changing the Velocity When the Key Touch is Set to “Fix”
    • Adjusting the Sound to Achieve the Preferred Tone Quality (Equalizer)
    • Specifying What the Transpose will Affect (Transpose Mode)
    • Assigning Functions to Pedals
    • Changing the Song Playback Method (Play Mode)
    • Changing the Parts Assigned to the Track During SMF Playback (Track Assign)
    • Remembering the Settings Even When the Power is Turned Off (Memory Backup)
    • Using the V-LINK Function
    • MIDI Transmit Channel Settings
    • Preventing Doubled Notes When Connected to a Sequencer (Local Control)
    • Sending Recorded Performance Data to a MIDI Device (Composer MIDI Out)
    • Making the Settings for the USB Driver
    • Changing the Communication Settings for USB Memory (External Memory Mode)
    • Switching the Muted Part (Accompaniment Track Assign)
    • Switching VIMA CD-ROM Recommended Tones
    • Initializing the User Memory, USB Memory, and Floppy Disks
    • Restoring the Factory Settings (Factory Reset)
• Connecting External Devices
  • Connecting to Audio Equipment
    • Connecting Speakers to the RG-1 and Outputting Sounds
    • Playing Sounds of an Audio Device through the RG-1
  • Connecting to MIDI Devices
    • Connecting a MIDI Sequencer to the RG-1
    • Producing Sounds from a MIDI Sound Module by Playing the RG-1
  • Connecting a Computer
• Appendices
  • Troubleshooting
  • Error Messages
  • Tone List
  • Internal Song List
  • Parameters Stored to Internal Memory
  • Music Files That the RG-1 Can Use
  • MIDI Implementation Chart
  • Main Specifications
  • Index
  • Installing the Brackets