Document Outline

• USING THE UNIT SAFELY
• IMPORTANT NOTES
• Introduction
  • Features
  • Checking the Included Items
  • How to Use This Manual
    • Conventions Used in This Manual
• Contents
• Panel Descriptions
  • Rear Panel
  • Front Panel
• Before You Play
  • Installing the Music Stand
  • Connecting the Power Cord
  • Connecting Pedals
  • Turning the Power On and Off
  • Adjusting the Sound’s Volume and Brilliance
  • Connecting Headphones
  • Connecting a Microphone
  • About the Touch Screen
    • Basic Screen
  • MEMO
• Quick Start
  • Playing the Keyboard
    • Listening to the Demo Song
    • Playing the Keyboard Like a Piano (One-touch Piano)
    • Performing with Various Instrument Sounds
    • Handy Features for Selecting Tones ([Tone Navigator] Button)
    • Practicing a Song Using Music Files (Piano Master)
  • Playing with Accompaniment
    • Playing with Automatic Accompaniment ([Style Navigator] Button)
      • Enjoying Automatic Accompaniment with Ease (EZ Arranger)
      • Playing with your band (Virtual Jam)
    • Playing with an Automatic Accompaniment (One-touch Arranger)
      • Let’s Try Playing, “Little Brown Jug”
  • Recording a Performance
    • Recording a Song ([Composer Navigator] Button)
    • Recording a Performance with Automatic Accompaniment
    • Listening to the Recorded Performance
  • Using Music Files
    • Listening to Music Files
      • Inserting and Ejecting a Floppy Disk
      • Playing Back Music Files
      • Playing Back All Songs Continuously (All Song Play)
    • Enjoying Karaoke Performances with Music Files
    • Adding the Effects to Your Voice
      • Adjusting the Echo
      • Modifying Your Voice
      • Adding Harmony
      • Starting Song and Automatic Accompaniment by Vocal Count
      • Playing the Keyboard Notes with a Voice Scale
      • Adding the Harmony to the Song
• Reference
  • Chapter 1 Performance
    • Playing the Keyboard Like a Piano (One-touch Piano)
    • Playing a Wide Variety of Instrument Sounds
    • Combining the Sounds of Two Instruments (Layer Play)
    • Playing Different Tones with the Left and Right Hands (Split Play)
      • Selecting a Different Tone in the Current Tone Group
    • Shifting the Keyboard Pitch in Octave Steps (Octave Shift)
    • Playing Drum Sounds
      • Playing Effect Sounds
    • Adding Reverberation to Sounds (The Reverb Effect)
    • Effects Adding Three-Dimensional Breadth to Your Performances (Advanced 3D)
    • Applying Effects to the Sound (Effects)
    • Sounding the Metronome
      • Changing the Animation
      • Adjusting the Tempo
      • Determining the Tempo with Tempo Marks
      • Changing the Beat of Metronome
      • Changing How the Metronome Beat (Pattern) Sounds
      • Changing the Type of Sound
      • Changing the Volume
  • Chapter 2 Using Automatic Accompaniment
    • Music Style and Automatic Accompaniment
    • About Chords
      • Playing Chords with Simple Fingering
      • Displaying the Chord Fingering On Screen (Chord Finder)
    • Choosing a Music Style
      • Choosing a Music Style from Data Disk
    • Playing Sounds with the Left Hand Along with the Automatic Accompaniment
    • Playing Just the Rhythm Pattern
    • Adjusting the Tempo for Automatic Accompaniment
    • Playing a Music Style (Start/Stop)
      • Starting Automatic Accompaniment When You Play the Left-hand Section (Sync Start)
      • Starting at the Press of a Button
      • Stopping Automatic Accompaniment
      • Adjusting the Timing During a Performance and Starting Over
    • Playing the Count Sound at the End of the Intro
    • Modifying an Accompaniment
      • Changing the Accompaniment Pattern Within a Song (Fill-In)
      • Changing the Arrangement of the Accompaniment
    • Adding Harmony to the Right-hand Part (Melody Intelligence)
    • Adding Automatic Accompaniment to Regular Piano Performance (Piano Style Arranger)
    • Changing the Volume Balance for the Accompaniment and Keyboard
    • Adjusting the Volume of Each Performance Part
  • Chapter 3 Some Handy Features
    • Playing Back Songs for Practice
      • Displaying the Score
    • Adjusting the Tempo
      • Determining the Tempo Using the Selected Interval
    • Playback with No Change in Tempo
    • Counting Down Before a Performance Starts
    • Preventing the Part to Be Practiced from Sounding
    • Placing a Marker Within a Song
      • Placing/Erasing a Marker Within a Song
      • Playback from a Marker Location
      • Moving a Marker
    • Playing Back to the Same Passage Over and Over
    • Transposing the Key of the Keyboard (Key Transpose)
    • Transposing a song for playback
    • Checking Your Performance On Screen
      • Specifying the Part to Display
  • Chapter 4 Recording and Saving the Performance
    • Recording Your Playing with Ease
    • Recording a Performance Using Automatic Accompaniment
    • Redoing a Recording
    • Erasing a Recorded Song
      • Erasing the Sound Recorded at Specific Track Buttons
    • Changing How Recording Stops
    • Recording Songs Starting with Pickups
    • Composing an Accompaniment By Entering Chords (Chord Sequencer)
    • Creating a Rhythm Part with Ease
    • Saving Songs to Floppy Disks
      • Formatting Floppy Disks (Format)
      • Saving Your Songs on Floppy Disk
    • Deleting Songs from Floppy Disks
    • Changing the Order of Songs on Floppy Disk
  • Chapter 5 Advanced Recording Function
    • Selecting the Recording Method
      • Recording While Erasing the Previous Recording (Replace Recording)
      • Overdubbing Without Erasing the Previous Recording (Mix Recording)
      • Repeatedly Recording Over the Same Location (Loop Recording)
      • Re-Recording Part of Your Performance (Punch-in Recording)
    • Multitrack Recording with 16 Parts (16-Track Sequencer)
      • The 16-track Sequencer Screen
      • Recording with the 16 Track Sequencer
      • Getting the Most Suitable Part Tones for the Musical Genre (Tone Set)
    • Changing the Settings of Each Part
    • Composing a Song That Changes the Beat Partway Through
    • Changing a Song’s Basic Tempo
    • Changing the Tempo Within the Song
      • Adjusting the Tempo While Listening to a Song
      • Adjusting the Tempo at a Particular Measure
  • Chapter 6 Editing Functions
    • Choosing an Editing Function
    • Canceling an Edit
    • Copying a Measure
    • Copying a Rhythm Pattern
    • Correcting Timing Discrepancies
    • Deleting a Specific Measure
    • Inserting a Blank Measure
    • Transposing Individual Parts
    • Making a Measure Blank
    • Exchanging Parts
    • Correcting Notes One by One
    • Modifying the Tone Changes in a Song
  • Chapter 7 Using Other Functions
    • Creating an Original Style (User Style)
      • Combining Styles to Create a New Style (Style Composer)
      • Creating a Style from a Song You Composed Yourself (Style Converter)
    • Saving a User Style
      • Saving on the Floppy Disk
      • Saving on the [Disk/User] button
      • Deleting a User Style Saved on Floppy Disk
    • Storing the Panel Settings (User Program)
    • Calling Up User Program
      • Changing How Button Settings Are Called Up
    • Saving User Programs on Floppy Disk
      • Calling Up Saved User Programs from Floppy Disk
      • Erasing a User Program Saved on a Floppy Disk
    • Disabling Everything Except Piano Play (Panel Lock)
  • Chapter 8 Changing Various Settings
    • Changing the Settings for One Touch Piano
      • Adding Ambience from Different Venues to Songs (Ambience)
      • Changing the Tuning
      • Adjusting Resonance
      • Changing Key Touch (Key Touch)
      • Fine Adjustment of the Piano Tone
    • Changing the Settings for Automatic Accompaniment
      • Changing the Keyboard’s Split Point
      • Changing How the Automatic Accompaniment Plays
      • Changing the Chord Tone and Bass Tone
      • Canceling the Chord Intelligence Function
      • Keeping the Same Tone and Tempo When the Music Style Changes
      • Assigning Functions to Pedals
    • Changing the settings for Score screen
    • Changing the Tone Set When Playing Back a Song
    • Changing the Settings for the Marker and the Count Sound
      • Changing the Number of Measures Counted and the Count Sound
      • Playing the Count Sound at Each Repetition
      • Placing a Marker in the Middle of a Measure
    • Adjusting the Standard Pitch (Master Tuning)
    • Changing the Type of Reverb Effect
    • Changing the Type of Chorus Effect
    • Changing the Bend Range
    • Changing the Screen Settings
      • Hiding the On-screen Lyrics
      • Changing the Language
      • Adjusting the Contrast of the Screen
    • Changing the Screen Message When the Power Is Turned On (Opening Message)
    • Maintaining Settings After the Power Is Turned Off (Memory Backup)
    • Restoring the Factory Settings (Factory Reset)
    • Repositioning the Touch Screen
  • Chapter 9 Connecting External Devices
    • Connecting MIDI Devices
      • Connectors
      • Making the Connections
    • MIDI Settings
      • Selecting the Transmit Channel (Tx. Channel)
      • Disconnecting the Internal Sound Generator and Keyboard (Local Control)
      • Sending Recorded Performance Data to a MIDI Device (Composer Out)
      • Sending Tone Change Messages (Program Change/ BankSelect MSB/BankSelect LSB)
    • Synchronizing with Connected MIDI Devices
    • MIDI Ensemble
    • Connecting to Audio Equipment
      • Connectors
      • Making the Connections
    • Connecting a Computer
      • Connectors
      • Making the Connections
• Appendices
  • Trouble Shooting
  • If this Message Appears on Screen
  • Drum/SFX Set List
    • SFX
  • Tone List
  • Music Style List
  • Rhythm Pattern List
  • Chord List
  • Effects List
  • Demo Song List
  • Data Disk Song List
  • Music Files That the KF-90 Can Use
    • The KF-90 allows you to use the following music files
    • About the KF-90 Sound Generator
  • Glossary
  • MIDI Implementation Chart
  • Main Specifications
  • Index
    • MEMO
    • MEMO