Document Outline

• USING THE UNIT SAFELY
• IMPORTANT NOTES
• Contents
  • Conventions Used in This Manual
• Before You Begin Playing
  • Making the Connections
    • Connecting the pedal cable
    • Connecting the Speaker Cable (HPi-7LE only)
    • Attach the music rest
    • Connect the power cord
    • Connect headphones
    • Using the Headphone Hook
  • Opening and Closing the Lid
  • Turning the Power On/Off
  • Adjusting the Volume or Brightness of the Sound
  • Adjusting the Contrast of the Screen
  • About the Pedals
  • Disabling Functions Other Than Piano Performance (Panel Lock)
  • Cancelling Auto Demo
• Panel Descriptions
  • Front Panel
  • Rear Panel
  • Bottom Panel
  • Music Rest
• Basic Operation and the Main Screen
  • Basic operation
  • 1. Notation screen (basic screen)
  • 2. List screen
  • 3. Detailed settings screen
  • Messages
• Playing Along With A Song
  • Notation Screen
  • Button Operations
  • Playing a Song
    • Playing songs consecutively (All Song Play)
    • Playing back at a fixed tempo
    • Registering the Songs You Like (Favorites)
    • Removing Songs from Favorites
  • Using the Metronome
  • Adding a Count to Assist Your Timing
  • Assigning Markers to a Song for Repeated Practice
    • Assigning a marker in the middle of a measure (Resolution)
  • Changing the Key of the Keyboard or Song Playback (Transpose)
  • Adjusting the Keyboard Touch (Key Touch)
• Adding Variety to Your Performances
  • Selecting the Sound to Play
    • Playing percussion instruments or sound effects
  • Applying Effects to the Sound
    • Adding reverberation to the sound (Reverb)
    • Adding richness to the sound (Chorus)
  • Playing Two Sounds Layered Together (Dual)
  • Playing Different Sounds in the Right and Left Hand (Split)
    • Changing from dual performance to split performance
    • To switch from split to dual performance
• Using the Lesson Function (Visual Lesson)
  • Practicing with Internal Songs and Songs on Floppy Disks
• Adding an Accompaniment to Your Performance (Pianist Function)
• Playing in a Wonderland of Sound
  • Explanation of each selection
• Recording Your Performance
  • Recording Along with a Song
  • Recording a New Song
  • Re-recording
  • Erasing a Recorded Song
  • Other Recording Methods
    • Recording with an accompaniment (the Pianist function)
    • Multitrack recording on five tracks
• Saving Your Performance
  • Using Floppy Disks
    • Inserting/removing a floppy disk
    • Formatting a floppy disk
  • Saving Songs
    • Deleting Saved Songs
    • Copying Songs
• Playing Back Music Files or a Song that was Saved on Floppy Disk
• Convenient Functions
  • Changing the Notation Screen Settings
  • Editing Songs
    • Undoing Edits (Undo)
    • Copying Measures (Copy)
    • Correcting Timing Discrepancies (Quantize)
    • Deleting Measures (Delete)
    • Inserting Blank Measures (Insert)
    • Transposing Individual Parts (Transpose)
    • Making Measures Blank (Erase)
    • Exchanging Parts (Part Exchange)
    • Correcting Notes One by One (Note Edit)
    • Modifying the Tone Changes in a Song (PC Edit)
  • Saving the Notation Data in BMP Format
  • Functions that Can be Selected Using the [Function] Button
    • Adjusting the volume balance between accompaniment and keyboard (Balance)
    • Adjusting the Piano Sounds (Piano Setting)
    • Adjusting the depth of the effects (Effect)
    • Setting the reference pitch and temperament (Tuning)
    • Mic Echo
    • Changing the function of the pedals (Pedal)
    • Changing the language displayed in the screen (Language)
    • Selecting Images To Be Shown on the Displays (User Image Display)
    • Setting the Demo (Auto DEMO)
    • Changing the parts assigned to the track buttons during SMF playback (Track Assign)
    • Recording and Playing Back Performances of Specific Instruments (16 Track)
    • Formatting the User Memory (Initialize User Memory)
    • Remembering the settings even when the power is turned off (Memory Backup)
    • Restoring the factory settings (Factory Reset)
    • Using the V-LINK function
    • Changing the Tone Settings When Playing Back Songs (Play Mode)
  • Playing the Demos
• Connecting External Devices
  • Connecting Audio Devices
  • Connections with MIDI Devices
    • What is MIDI?
  • Connections to a Computer
  • Making MIDI-Related Settings
    • MIDI settings
  • Making the Settings for the USB Driver
• Trouble Shooting
• If this Message Appears on Screen
• Tone List
  • SFX Set
• Drum Set List
• Chord List
• Internal Song List
  • Songs for Visual Lesson
• Pianist Style List
• Music Files That the HPi-7 Can Use
  • The HPi-7 allows you to use the following music files
  • About the HPi-7 Sound Generator
• MIDI Implementation Chart
• Main Specifications
• Index