EDITING THE SONG
It is not always possible to 
record a song without making any 
mistake.  You may need to make 
adjustments to the song you have 
recorded.
The CP has a full range of 
editing capabilities that allow 
you to make anything from a 
global change to an adjustment 
to a single note.


SONG EDIT
This lets you name the song and 
select transposition and initial 
tempo settings.

To edit the song:

1) Select Song Edit from the 
Advanced Recorder menu.  The 
Song Edit menu is displayed.

2) Use the L and R buttons to 
select the setting that you wish 
to change.

3) Use the Dial to change the 
value.  To name to the song, use 
the F2 and F3 buttons to move 
the cursor over the characters 
in the name, and then use the 
Dial to select characters.

4) Press the MENU button (F1) to 
go back to the Advanced Recorder 
menu.


BAR EDITING
As you edit your song, you may 
need to copy, erase, transpose 
or merge only certain bars.  Bar 
Editing allows you to modify the 
song data by measure.

To bring up the Bar Edit menu:

	
1) In Advanced Recorder menu 
select Bar Edit (R3).  The Bar 
Edit menu will be displayed.
	
2) Use the L and R buttons to 
select the specific type of 
editing that you wish to do.  
Another submenu will then be 
displayed.

QUANTIZE
Quantize automatically shifts 
the timing of a note.  This can 
be used to correct imperfect 
timing in a performance by 
shifting notes that were played 
either too early or too late to 
a spot where they now will fall 
right on the appropriate beat.
If quantizing your notes makes 
the overall feel of the piece 
too rigid or mechanical, you can 
allow for leniency by adjusting 
the beat that the notes will 
shift to (Resolution) and the 
extent to which note timing can 
be allowed to fall around that 
beat (Tolerance).

Resolution dictates what kind of 
timing value the quantization 
will shift the notes to play on.   
Quantizing your song to longer 
note values will result in a 
more rigid, rhythmically 
simplified performance, since 
notes that were originally at 
smaller subdivisions of the beat 
will be shifted onto the closest 
Resolution beat.  For example, 
if you choose a Resolution of a 
quarter note, then all eighth 
notes in your recording that you 
quantize will be shifted to play 
only on the closest quarter note 
beats, greatly simplifying the 
rhythmic complexity of the song.  
This, of course, is not always 
artistically desirable.

Tolerance sets up timing 
"borders" around the 
Resolution beat to which the 
notes outside that range will be 
moved.  The negative value 
represents the placement of the 
"border" before the beat, and 
the positive value represent 
where the "border" after the 
beat will be placed.  Taken 
together, these two "borders" 
form a timing "range" around 
the beat.

Selecting zero Tolerance results 
in no "range", and all notes 
are shifted to the precise beat.

The notes that fall  beyond the 
Tolerance "range" are moved to 
the closest "border" of the 
Tolerance.
The notes that fall inside the 
Tolerance "range" are not 
shifted at all.

By experimenting with Resolution 
and Tolerance settings, you can 
correct the timing of the notes 
in your recording while still 
allowing for a natural, human 
feel.


COPY
This function duplicates the 
data from within a track, and 
copies it to another location.  
This destination may be on the 
same track, or it can be another 
track.

The destination of the copied 
data must either be: 
1) A location that already has 
data in it.
2) The first blank bar after the 
end of a track (Bar 1 if the 
destination track is empty).

For example, if a track only has 
10 bars in it, you cannot copy 
data onto bar 20.  You can, 
however, copy data to bars 1 
through 11. 

Copied data replaces any 
current data that may be at the 
destination.  

DELETE
Delete completely erases and 
removes the bars that you 
specify.

INSERT
The Insert function duplicates 
data from specified bars and 
copies it to a certain location.  
However, the current data at the 
destination is not erased, but 
instead is pushed back to make 
room for the copied data.

If you just wish to insert empty 
bars into a track, select INSERT 
BAR (F3 or F4), and a sub-menu 
will be displayed. You can 
insert empty bars into a track 
between bars that have data, or 
at the first blank bar at the 
end of the track.

ERASE
Erases data in the bars that you 
specify, and leaves them as 
empty bars.

MERGE
Merge combines data from two 
tracks.  You can make complex 
musical phrases using several 
tracks, and then combine them 
down to just one track so that 
all the others can be freed up.  
Keep in mind, though, that there 
can still only be one instrument 
sound assigned to a given track, 
so the resulting track from the 
Merge will play all the combined 
data using one instrument.  This 
is useful for making rhythm 
patterns by first recording 
different percussion parts using 
the same drum kit on several 
tracks and then combining them, 
or combining the right and left 
hand parts of a piano piece.

Merge does not automatically 
erase the track from where you 
copied the data.

GATE TIME MODIFY
Gate time refers to the length 
of a note as a percentage.  
Whatever the length of a note is 
when it is first recorded, this 
value is considered as its Gate 
time of 100%.  By editing the 
length of the note, you can 
shorten it to 10% or lengthen it 
to 300% of the original value.

VELOCITY MODIFY
Velocity refers to how hard a 
key is struck, which translates 
into the dynamics of how loud 
the produced sound is.

A note's Velocity is a numerical 
value from 1-127.  When editing 
the note Velocities in your 
recording, you can change them 
within a +/-100 range of their 
original values.

CLOCK MOVE
The Concert Performer has an 
internal rhythm-keeping Clock, 
which it uses to maintain the 
timing and length of notes when 
playing back your recording.  
The CP's Clock has a resolution 
of 96 pulses per quarter note, 
which means that the time 
between the start of one quarter 
note and the start of a quarter 
note right after it is divided 
into 96 increments. Therefore 
there are 48 clocks per eighth 
note, and 24 clocks per 
sixteenth note.  This 
relationship holds true 
regardless of the song's tempo.  

On the CP, you can adjust the 
timing of all notes in a track 
as a whole by shifting the 
entire track off by a certain 
clock value.

TRANSPOSE
This will transpose the notes 
within a specified bar(s) up or 
down in half-step increments.

EVENT EDIT
Event Edit enables you to 
examine and edit your 
performance note by note.

To work with Event Edit:

1) Select Event Edit in the 
Advanced Recorder menu.  The 
Event Edit menu will be 
displayed.

2) Choose the track that you 
want to work with using the 
TRACK buttons (F3, F4).  Note 
that Style track and Tempo track 
can be edited as well.

3) Use the L buttons to scroll 
up or down the list note events 
in your song until you find the 
specific one that you want to 
edit.  You will hear the 
individual events being played 
as you scroll over them.

4) Select the event using the 
CURSOR buttons (F5, F6) and L3 
and L4 buttons.  The selected 
event will become highlighted.

5) Select the function that 
you'd like to apply to this 
event.  You can select DELETE 
(R1) to remove the element, 
INSERT (R2) to create a new one 
at the same location, or REPLACE 
(R3) to change the existing one.
Enter new values in the Entry 
Box that will pop up when you 
select INSERT or REPLACE.

6) Press the EXEC (F7) button to 
proceed, or press CANCEL (F2).  
The CP will prompt you for 
confirmation.

7) Use the MENU button (F1) to 
return to the Advanced Recorder 
menu when you are done editing.



CREATING YOUR OWN STYLES
The Concert Performer has 128 
built-in Styles selected from 
various musical genres. There 
are two powerful features that 
allow you to change any of these 
Styles to better suit your 
musical tastes, or even create 
your own Style entirely from 
scratch!  These are the 
Conductor and the Style Maker.

The Conductor allows you to 
influence the way a Style plays 
much in the same manner that 
conductor of an orchestra or a 
band leader might direct their 
musicians.  The Conductor offers 
two approaches: Easy Edit and 
Advanced Edit.

The Style Maker allows you to 
actually create Styles of your 
own.  Here, too, there are two 
ways of using this feature: 
Phrase Combination, and Get 
Phrase From Recorder.

The CP can store up to 20 User 
Styles onboard at one time.  
However you can save more of 
your original Styles onto a 
floppy disk.  Your library of 
Styles can truly be infinite!

Thanks to the Style Convert 
Software developed by EMC 
Software, you can convert other 
manufacturer's Style data over 
for use on the CP.  That way you 
can take advantage of the 
hundreds of Style disks that are 
available on the market!

CONDUCTOR
The Conductor is used to modify 
a Style's existing data.
There are two editing methods 
offered by the Conductor.

Easy Edit	
This is an easy way to modify 
the Style data.  A Style 
consists of six parts called 
Sections.  These are the Drums, 
Bass, and Acc 1-4.  When you 
play a Style, each of these 
sections plays a Phrase 
specifically composed for that 
type of instrument.  When all 
six Sections are playing their 
independent Phrases along with 
each other, the overall effect 
is a complete musical ensemble.  
However, a Section is not stuck 
with playing just one specific 
Phrase; for a given Style there 
are actually four Phrases to 
choose from per Section.  Easy 
Edit lets you assign which of 
these four Phrases you'd like 
the Section to play as its 
contribution to the whole Style.  

Advanced Conductor	
This allows you to edit the 
finer details within a Style. 
You have control over each 
Section's volume level, panning, 
chorus and reverb settings, 
sound assignment, and Groove 
type and amount.  Once you are 
satisfied with your adjustments, 
you can save the edited Style as 
a User Style.

To use Easy Edit:

1) Select the Style and the 
Variation (1-4) that you would 
like to edit.

2) Press the EASY EDIT button.  
The Easy Style Edit menu will be 
displayed.

3) Use the F2-F7 buttons to 
select a Section to edit.

4) Use the L buttons to instruct 
the Section as to which of its 
four Phrases to use.  You can 
make your edits while the Style 
is running to hear your changes.

5) To mute the Section, press 
the corresponding F button.  
Pressing the F button again will 
turn it back on.

6) If you would like to save 
your changes, press the SAVE 
button.  Keep in mind that if 
you don't save them, they will 
be discarded when you turn off 
the Concert Performer.

7) Press the EXIT button to 
leave the Easy Style Edit menu.

Pressing the SAVE button will 
save all Styles at one time.  
You cannot save individually.

Resetting the Style
The CP remembers what all the 
settings were for the Style 
before you entered the Style 
Edit menu and made changes.  If 
you wish to restore them, simply 
press the RESET button.

If you would like to revert all 
Styles back to their original 
factory settings, use the Soft 
Reset function. 

Note
Easy Edit doesn't allow you to 
edit the Intro, Ending and Fill-
ins.  However, muting a Section 
in the Style will result in 
automatic muting of the same 
Section in the Intro, Ending and 
Fill-ins.  If you mute a certain 
Section, you need to consider 
what effect it will have on the 
overall Style. 

To use Advanced Edit:

1) Select the Style and the 
Variation (1-4) that you would 
like to edit.

2) Press the ADVANCED EDIT 
button.  The Advanced Style Edit 
menu will be displayed.

3) Use the F2-F7 buttons to 
select a Section to edit.

4) Use the L buttons to select a 
setting and use the Dial to 
change its value.  You can make 
your edits while the Style is 
playing to hear your changes.

5) Press the MORE (F1 button) 
for a screen of other settings.

6) If you would like to save 
your changes, press the WRITE 
button.  Keep in mind that if 
you don't save them, they will 
be discarded the moment you exit 
the Advanced Style Edit menu.

7) Press the EXIT button to exit 
the Advanced Style Edit menu.

Groove is a function that adds a 
"swing-like" feel to your 
music by altering the note 
timing.
There are ten types of Groove:

8th Note Triplet (1-8)	
For 8-beat rhythms.  There are 
eight different rhythmic 
variations of 8th-note triplets.

16th Note Triplet	
For 16-beat rhythms.  
Rhythm of 16th-note triplet.

Swing	
This creates the typical swing 
feeling.

Important Note:  
If you are using a User Style as 
the Source Style of your User 
Conductor, that User Style must 
always be kept at the same 
location in the CP, or else the 
User Conductor will not be able 
to locate it.


Resetting the Style
You can restore the original 
Style settings by pressing the 
RESET button.
This will completely clear the 
changes made to the Styles 
except any data already saved as 
a User Conductor Style.  You can 
also instantly discard the 
current changes by pressing the 
EXIT button to leave the 
Advanced Edit.

To use a saved Style:

1) Press the USER CONDUCTOR 
button.  If there are any Styles 
available, they will be 
displayed.

2) Use the F4-F7 buttons to 
select the page that contains 
your desired Style.

3) Use the L or R button to 
select the desired Style.
PHRASE COMBINATION
The basic idea behind Phrase 
Combination is similar to that 
of the Conductor.  Phrase 
Combination, however, lets you 
edit Fill-ins, basic patterns 
(Variations) and allows you to 
copy a Phrase from a different 
Style.

You cannot change the Intro and 
Ending Phrase.  You can only 
select them from the existing 
Styles.

To use Phrase Combination:

1) In the Advanced Recorder 
menu, press the Style Maker 
button (R5).  The first Style 
Maker menu will be displayed.

2) Use the Dial to select the 
initial Style that will be used 
to supply the Intro and Ending 
Phrases to your new Style.  
Press NEW (F3) if you don't wish 
to have these Phrases copied 
from an existing Style.

3) Press the CONTINUE button 
(F6, F7).  The Edit Mode Select 
menu will be displayed.
If you select no initial Style 
to begin with by pressing the 
NEW button (F3), you will start 
with a completely empty Style.    
However, your new Style will not 
have an Intro or Ending. 

4) Use the L2 or L3 button to 
select Phrase Combination.  The 
Phrase Combination menu will be 
displayed.


5) Use the L1 button to select 
the pattern you wish to modify 
out of  four Variations and four 
Fill-ins.

6) Use the L3 and L4 buttons to 
select the Section to modify.

7) Use the F3 and F5 buttons to 
move the cursor between the 
Style and Phrase column.

8) Use the Dial to change the 
current Style or Phrase.  You 
can jump to the desired Style 
category by pressing the Style 
select buttons directly.

9) Press the LISTEN button (F7) 
to hear the new Style. 

10) Press the SAVE button (F6) 
to store as a new User Style.
GET PHRASE FROM RECORDER
This is the most flexible way to 
create a new Style.
You can take music that you have 
recorded using the CP's own 
Recorder and convert it into 
Style data. Or, you can use an 
external MIDI device or a 
personal computer to create the 
musical phrases, then load the 
data into the CP's Recorder and 
convert those.

Configuration of a Style
A complete Style consists of the 
following patterns:

Basic pattern	
4 patterns (Variation 1-4)	
Max 16 measures

Fill-in	
4 patterns (Fill-In 1-4)
1 or 2 measures

Intro Major	
1 pattern 
Max 16 measures

Intro Minor	
1 pattern	
Max 16 measures

Ending Major	
1 pattern	
Max 16 measures

Ending Minor	
1 pattern	
Max 16 measures

Each of these are made of six 
Sections-Drum, Bass, ACC1, 
ACC2, ACC3 and ACC4.  However 
you don't necessarily have to 
have all of them to create a 
Style.  For example, you may not 
need to use some Variations or 
Sections to accomplish your 
musical idea.  These unused 
sections may be left blank, or 
filled with Section data copied 
from the initial source Style 
that you were asked to choose at 
the beginning of the Style Maker 
process.

The different Sections can be of 
varying bar lengths as long as 
they stay within the limit.  
Having them all the same length 
may make the Style easier to use 
in a song, but you may find that 
having uneven bar lengths among 
the Sections can create 
interesting musical results.

Before you can generate a Style 
from these phrases, you have to 
have them loaded into the  
Recorder, keeping in mind which 
tracks in the Recorder are going 
hold data for which Sections in 
the new Style.

The source recording in the CP's 
Recorder can be in any key.  
However, you need to know what 
key that is, because you will 
have to specify that as part of 
generating a new Style.  For 
simplicity's sake it is 
advisable to record in C if you 
are planing on using the 
recording with the Style Maker.

To create a Style:

1) In the Advanced Recorder 
menu, press the Style Maker 
button (R5).  The first Style 
Maker menu is displayed.

2) Use the Dial to select an 
initial Style.  All of the 
currently blank Sections in the 
new Style will be automatically 
filled with data from the 
initial Style.
If you want your new Style to 
start off completely empty, 
instead of having data copied 
from the initial Style, press 
the NEW button (F3).

3) Press the CONTINUE button 
(F6, F7).  The Edit Mode Select 
menu will come up.

4) Use the L3 button to select 
Get Phrase From Recorder.  The 
Get Phrase From Recorder screen 
will be displayed.

5) Use the F2-F7 buttons to 
select which track from the 
Recorder has the data that you 
want used for each Section of 
the Style.  You can switch off a 
Section by pressing its F button 
twice, and the Section will not 
be created in your Style.

6) Use the L and R buttons to 
set up the options and select 
the proper data from the 
Recorder.  You may have 
different options for each 
track.

7) Press the MORE button (F1) 
for advanced settings.

8) Press the R4 button to 
generate the Style.  You can 
listen to it by pressing the 
START/STOP button.

9) If you would like to save it, 
press SAVE (R2).

AUTO-ACCOMPANIMENT
The Concert Performer is able to 
move the parts of the Style 
around according to your live 
playing.  The Auto-accompaniment 
instruments are shifted about to 
keep the notes playing within 
their musically useful ranges. 
On other manufacturers' 
products, this can sometimes 
result in notes being sounded an 
octave higher or lower than you 
would have preferred, or chord 
inversions that do not quite fit 
the musical feel that you are 
after.

Kawai's Auto-accompaniment 
system is programmed to avoid 
such unexpected shifts.  
However, to get the most out of 
this system, a new Style can 
benefit from some fine tuning.  
When you press the MORE button 
(F1) in the Get Phrase From 
Recorder menu, you will be 
presented with another menu with 
some fine tuning settings for 
your new Style.

Accompaniment Type (ACC Type)
This setting instructs the 
Concert Performer as to how you 
want the different Sections of 
the Style to be handled when 
being transposed across the 
keyboard.  Most of the time, the 
Sections are playing Phrases 
that fill a harmony role in 
relationship to the melody that 
you plan on playing live.  They 
may be playing counter-melodies 
or obbligato lines, and would be 
called Scalic parts.  Or they 
may consist of block chords 
only, in which case they would 
be referred to as Chord parts.

In addition, the terms Open and 
Close apply to these parts, and 
refer to how strictly the CP 
will regulate the voicing of a 
Phrase.  Setting a part to Open 
will allow for open-voiced 
chords, and sounds particularly 
well with guitar, string, or 
brass parts.  Setting a part to 
Close maintains closed-voiced 
chords, which are better suited 
to piano parts.  

Range
This dictates the chord 
inversions made in Sections  
ACC1-4 if they are set to Open 
Chord or Close Chord.
The term "range" here has 
nothing to do with the span of 
actual chord notes.  It selects 
which note in the chord will 
serve as the basis of the chord 
inversion.
HI is the initial setting.  MID 
plays an inversion based on the 
next lower note in relation to 
HI, while LO plays an inversion 
based two-notes lower.

Crossover
This is an option used with 
Scalic Chord and Scalic Phrase 
and lets you set the note range 
for the phrase without breaking 
its pattern.  Select the highest 
note (C-B) for the root of the 
chord.  When the root note goes 
beyond the limit, the entire 
phrase will be transposed down.

Bass Limit
This is an option for the Bass 
part and limits what the lowest 
note is that you want it to 
play.  If a note in the pattern 
tries to fall below the limit, 
it will automatically be 
transposed up an octave.


To adjust the auto-accompaniment 
system:

1) Use the L2-L4 buttons to 
select the setting you wish to 
change.

2) Use the F3-F7 buttons to 
select the Section.

3) Use the Dial to select or 
change a value.

4) When done, press the BACK 
button (F1) to go back the 
previous menu.  Then save the 
Style if necessary.

Note:  
Do not press EXEC again after 
you change the Auto-
accompaniment options.  Doing so 
will generate the new Phrase 
over again and erases these 
settings.

STYLE CONVERT
Style Convert is a technology 
originally developed for 
personal computers by EMC 
Software.  Kawai is proud to 
have licensed it for use in our 
music instruments.

This software reads most of the 
commercially available Style 
data disks made by several 
popular keyboard manufacturers 
and converts them for use with 
the Concert Performer without 
any loss in musical quality.  
This conversion process is 
extremely easy, and once 
converted the Style can be re-
saved on the CP in its own Style 
format. 

To use the Style Convert 
Program:

1) Make sure that there is room 
in the User Style area to hold 
the converted Style, as the 
Style Convert program will 
automatically save the converted 
Style there.

2) Press the STYLE CONVERT 
button (R4) from within in the 
Disk menu.  The Style Convert 
menu will be displayed and 
prompt you to insert the Style 
Convert program disk in the 
floppy drive.

3) Insert the program disk in 
the drive and then press the F7 
button to continue.  Press the 
F1 button to cancel the Style 
Convert process.
	
4) After the CP reads the 
program, it will display a list 
of Style formats that can be 
converted.  Use the L2 and L4 
buttons to indicate which data 
format you plan on converting.  
Then press the F7 button to 
continue.
	
5) Insert your Style disk when 
you are asked to do.  Then press 
the EXEC button to proceed.

6) Select the desired Style to 
convert and press EXEC button.  
The conversion begins.

7) When the conversion is over, 
the SAVE USER STYLE screen will 
come up.  Save the new Style 
using the same procedure for 
saving a new User Style.

You have just learned the basic
 procedure to convert Style 
formats.  For detailed 
information on the Style Convert
program, read the instruction
sheet that comes with the
software.  There you will find a
list of which manufacturers' 
formats are supported.  
For technical information contact
EMC Software directly at the
location listed on the 
instruction sheet.

AUTO PHRASE GENERATOR
Using Styles in conjunction with 
the Auto-accompaniment feature 
is one of the easiest ways to 
play music on the Concert 
Performer.  However, Styles by 
their nature are somewhat 
repetitive and may not allow for 
the kind of variations that you 
would like to have in your song.  

The Auto Phrase Generator (APG) 
is a great solution.  This 
function creates accompaniment 
phrases straight from the note 
data that you have played into 
the Recorder yourself!  It's as 
easy as playing a chord 
progression into the Recorder 
and telling the CP what kind of 
musical style you are looking 
for. APG does the rest, 
generating a six-part 
accompaniment phrase in the 
musical style that you 
requested, using the chords that 
you defined.  The phrases will 
actually be MIDI data in the 
CP's Recorder instead of 
patterns and chord sequences.  
This means you can then edit the 
new accompaniment phrase using 
the extensive editing functions 
available.

One of the truly innovative and 
useful features of the APG is 
its ability to extract chord 
progression data from a MIDI 
sequence.  The Concert Performer 
can read your favorite song in 
Standard MIDI File format and 
create a chord sequence based on 
one of the tracks!

Creating a Chord Sequence
Play and record a series of 
chords with the order and 
rhythmic timing of how they 
progress in your song.  This is 
the chord sequence that APG will 
analyze.  If you already have 
chord data, such as from a song 
on disk, you can copy those 
chords into the Recorder for 
this same purpose. 
Once you have data loaded in the 
Recorder, start APG.

The APG program will use 6 
tracks when creating a phrase.  
Before starting the process, you 
will need to have six tracks 
that are either empty or that 
can be written over.


To create a chord sequence by 
yourself:

1) Press the REC button of the 
Recorder.

2) Select the type of Auto-
accompaniment.  If you have 
chosen Fingered or One Finger, 
make sure that the LEFT Part is 
active.

3) Start playing your chords.  
You may record only chords or 
other parts as well.  You may 
also run a Style and play along 
with it.

4) After the recording is 
complete, press the APG button.  
The APG Menu will be displayed.

5) Press the BEGIN (ANALYZE) 
button (L2).  The Analysis menu 
will be displayed.

6) Select Use Existing Chords 
(L2) to copy the chord sequence 
you have recorded.  Use the 
START BAR (L4) and END BAR (L5) 
to select the range in the song 
to analyze.  Use the Dial to 
change bars.

7) Press the CONTINUE button 
(F6, F7) to go to the next 
screen.




To create a chord sequence from 
existing song data:

1) After loading the song data 
in the Recorder, activate APG, 
select Begin(Analyze)(L2) to 
enter the Analyze menu, and 
select  "Analyze New Track" 
(R2).

2) Use Start Bar (L4)  and End 
Bar (L5) to select the range in 
the song to analyze.  Use the 
Dial to change bars.

3) Press the CONTINUE button 
(F6, F7) to go to the next step.

The APG considers three to five 
notes played at the same time as 
a chord.  It does not recognize 
arpeggio, and cannot generate 
proper chords if told to analyze 
a single note.  Therefore the 
result may depend on how the 
source data is recorded.

If the immediate results need 
some adjusting, you can edit the 
chords.

To use Edit Chords:

1) Press the Edit Chords (L4) 
button in the main APG menu.  
You will be in the Event Edit 
for the Chord track.

2) Look through the data for any 
errors and change if necessary.
Generating a Phrase
To generate a phrase from the 
chord sequence you have created, 
you need to designate the Style 
that you want the new phrase to 
be based on, and the tracks in 
the Recorder where the new data 
is going to be written.

To select the tracks:

1) In the main APG menu, press 
the L3 button to go the Track 
Selection menu.

2) Use the L and R buttons to 
decide which Section will be 
generated to which Track of the 
Recorder.  Use the Dial to 
change track number.  If you 
don't want to generate certain 
parts, select OFF.

3) Press the CONTINUE button 
(F6, F7) to go to the next 
screen (Style Select).

To select the Style:

1) In Style Select menu, use the 
CATEGORY buttons (F2, F3) to 
select the category that 
contains Style that you want the 
new phrase to be based on.

2) Use the L and R buttons to 
select the specific Style.  You 
can also use the Dial to go 
through the list.

3) You can listen to the Style 
by pressing the LISTEN button 
(F5) or the START/STOP button.

4) After you've chosen a Style, 
press the CONTINUE button (F6, 
F7) to go to the next step 
(Recording).

Actually Generating the Phrase
There are two methods for 
generating the new phrase.

One is "Paste Parts to 
Track", which automatically 
creates a phrase using the 
selected Variation.  This method 
is the easier of the two, but it 
means that you will not be able 
to incorporate Variation 
changes, or use the Intro, Fill-
ins, or Ending to influence the 
generated phrase. 

The other method is "Real-time 
Recording", which enables you 
to listen to and interact with 
the phrase as it is being 
generated.  With Real-time 
Recording, you can select and 
change the Variation and Fill-
ins at any moment along the way, 
and start with the Intro and 
stop with Ending as well to have 
these incorporated into the new 
phrase.

You have the option of re-
assigning sounds to the new 
phrase.  You can copy the sound 
assignments from the source 
Style, or keep the new phrase 
unassigned (Track Sound).  If 
you are creating a whole new 
phrase, it is better to use 
Style Sound.  If  you plan on 
using the new phrase in the 
middle of a song that you 
already have recorded, it may be 
better not to assign using Style 
Sound so that once in the song 
the new phrase can have its 
sounds automatically assigned to 
it based on the track sounds in 
the song.

The newly recorded phrases are 
in the track and bars that you 
have designated, replacing any 
previously existing data there.

To generate a phrase:

1) In the Recording menu, select 
the method using either the L2 
or R2 button.

2) Use one of the four Variation 
buttons to select the one you 
would like to use to record.

3) Select the sound assignment 
by pressing the F3 or F4 button.  
Pressing the button toggles the 
option between STYLE SOUND and 
TRACK SOUND.

4) To listen to the phrase 
before recording, press the 
LISTEN button (F5).  To finish 
listening, press the F5 button 
again.

5) Press the RECORD button (F7) 
to start recording.
This will complete the recording 
instantly if you have chosen the 
Paste Parts to Track option.
If you have selected Real-time 
Recording, you need to control 
how the music is playing by 
using the START/STOP button, 
INTO/ENDING button, selecting 
any changes in Variations and 
Fill-ins.

6) When the recording is 
complete, press the EXIT button 
to leave the APG.

7) Use the Recorder to play back 
what you have just created.

Use the FILL IN buttons and 
VARIATION buttons to select and 
change Variations and Fill-ins 
when using the Real-time Rec 
option.

Select a Variation that will be 
used to generate a phrase when 
using the Paste Parts to Track 
option.

EDITING SOUNDS
Even though the Concert 
Performer already has 300 high 
quality sounds built-in, there 
are bound to be times when none 
of them are exactly the sound 
you are looking for.  It may be 
that you can find a sound that 
comes close, but you'd like to 
change some of its qualities to 
really get the sound that you 
have in mind.

The CP allows you this ability.  
You can choose to change subtle 
nuances of the sound to make it 
fit better in your song, or even 
drastically change the sound's 
character to the point where you 
can no longer recognize what it 
was originally! Once you've made 
these changes, you can save the 
sound as one of 20 User sounds 
onboard, or onto a floppy disk.


PRESET EFFECT SETTINGS
Each of the 300 preset sounds 
has been pre-assigned settings 
for Chorus On/Off, Chorus Level, 
Effect On/Off, Effect Type and 
its values to be called up 
automatically whenever the sound 
is selected.  These can be 
adjusted by you to suit your 
tastes and saved so that your 
values will be the ones 
automatically recalled with the 
sound.

Effect Settings can be changed 
by using the EFFECT and CHORUS 
buttons on the front panel, as 
well as from within the Advanced 
Conductor.  The Preset Effect 
Settings override the panel 
settings according to part 
priority. However the Preset 
Effect Settings do not take 
precedent over the ones assigned 
to each Style.  Each Style has 
separate settings that can only 
be adjusted from the Advanced 
Conductor.  (See page 74)

To adjust the settings:

1) Press the SOUND EDIT button.  
The Sound Edit menu will be 
displayed.

2) Press the L2 to select Edit 
Preset Sound Settings.  The 
Preset Sound Settings menu will 
be displayed.

3) Press the L1 button and then 
turn the Dial to select which 
preset sound you wish to modify.

4) Use the L and R buttons to 
select the effect settings and  
turn the Dial to change their 
value.

5) Press the SAVE button (F7) to 
save.

Pressing the SAVE (F7) button 
will save all changes made in 
the Preset Effect Settings menu.  
If you exit the Preset Effect 
Settings menu without saving 
your changes, the settings will 
remain unchanged.
MAKING A USER SOUND
There are two parts to making a 
User Sound:  Editing the effect 
settings-same as described in 
the previous chapter-and 
editing the sound's character.

You can adjust five aspects of 
sound character: Vibrato Depth, 
Brightness, Attack, Decay and 
Release.


Brightness 
controls the "clearness" of a 
sound by influencing the high 
frequencies.

Vibrato Depth 
controls the amount of the 
vibrato effect.  The actual 
speed of the vibrato is preset 
for each sound. 

Attack 
portion of the sound determines 
how quickly a sound reaches its 
maximum volume from the moment a 
key is pressed.  Sounds with 
faster attacks are more 
percussive in nature, while 
sounds with slower attacks are 
more gradual and smooth.

Decay 
portion of the sound determines 
how quickly the volume of the 
sound drops away after hitting 
its maximum value while the key 
is still held down.  A sound can 
end very abruptly with a short 
decay, or sustain for a while 
with a long decay.

Release 
determines how long it takes for 
the sound to fade away to 
silence after you release the 
key.  


To make a User Sound:

1) In the Sound Edit menu, 
select Make User Sound (L3).  
The User Sound Settings menu 
will be displayed.

2) Make adjustments as described 
in the previous chapter.

3) Press the MORE button (F2) to 
go to the next screen in the 
User Sound Settings menu, where 
you can adjust settings for 
Vibrato, Brightness, Attack, 
Decay, and Release.

4) Use the L and R buttons to 
select a setting and use the 
Dial to change its value.  You 
can always play the keys as you 
edit the sound, enabling you to 
hear what changes are being 
made.

5) If you would like to save the 
changes made, press SAVE (F7).  
Otherwise press BACK (F1) to 
return to the previous menu or 
use the EXIT button to get back 
to the main Sound Edit menu.

6) If you pressed SAVE (F7), you 
will be presented with the Save 
To User Sound screen.  Use the 
L3 button and the Dial to select 
the User Sound number where you 
would like this changed sound to 
be stored. The name the sound 
using the F2-F5 buttons.  
Pressing the SAVE button (F7) 
one more time will save the 
sound.

The next time you wish to play 
this new User Sound, simply find 
it in the User Sound category, 
which has a dedicated select 
button right next to the other 
15 preset sound categories.


SONGS FROM FLOPPY DISK
The Concert Performer's Recorder 
can only have one song's data 
loaded for detailed editing 
purposes at any given time.  
However, if you just wish to 
play back a song, without any 
intentions to make note event 
edits or add to it, the CP can 
load the song very quickly.  
Thus if you have a disk full of 
songs in the disk drive, you can 
load them up and start playing 
them very easily.   

This song disk might be a disk 
that you've made yourself, 
containing several of your own 
songs, or it could be one of the 
hundreds of commercially 
available Standard MIDI File 
disks that have popular songs on 
them.

Using the disk drive in this way 
makes the Concert Performer a 
truly enjoyable source of  
entertainment  for parties and 
other social events, as well as 
a great educational tool  for 
the music classroom.

ABOUT THE DISK
If you are planning on a using a 
blank disk to store your own 
compositions made on the CP, 
then you don't have to worry 
about the disk's format, since 
the CP will take care of 
preparing the disk for its own 
use.  However, if you wish to 
purchase a disk of songs from 
your local music store or from 
the many small companies that 
specialize in MIDI files, you 
will need to remember a few 
simple points:

The CP reads only DOS formatted 
disks, either double-sided 
double-density (720Kb) or high-
density (1.4MB). These are by 
far the most commonly used 
formats in the computer as well 
as musical instrument markets.

Other than of course recognizing 
its own song format, the CP only 
recognizes song files which are 
written in Standard MIDI File 
format and that have DOS file 
names ending with ".MID".  
There are two types of Standard 
MIDI File formats, Format 0 and 
1.  The CP can read the song 
data of both formats, however it 
will only display the lyrics of 
a song written as format 0.

Songs that have been composed 
with the General MIDI standard 
in mind will sound fine without 
any additional work, because the 
creators of the disk have 
already included data in the 
files that automatically tell 
the CP what sounds to use when 
playing the song.  Otherwise the 
CP will have no idea as to what 
sounds are appropriate, and you 
may find it necessary to assign 
the correct sounds.    These 
days almost all commercially 
available MIDI files adhere to 
the General MIDI standard, so it 
may be rare that you encounter 
this issue.

The bottom line is that even 
though most MIDI song disks 
available today conform to these 
standards, it is worth your 
while to confirm that they do 
before you make the purchase.
 
Disks made for some of Kawai's 
other products can be used with 
the CP, such as those for the Q-
80 and Q-80EX sequencers, and 
the DRP-10 and ACR-20 
accompaniment modules.

Selecting a Song from Disk
A single floppy disk can store a 
few dozen song files at one time 
depending on the length of the 
songs.   If the disk that you 
are using does have several song 
files on it, simply select the 
one that you wish to hear.

To select a song:

1) Put the disk in the Disk 
Drive and press the SONG SELECT 
button.  The CP searches the 
disk for songs, and the Disk 
Song Select menu will display 
the first ten available files. 
If there are more than ten songs 
on the disk, use the SEARCH 
buttons (F1, F2) to list the 
next ten files.

2) Use the L and R buttons to 
select the song you want to 
hear.  
You can also select using the 
Dial.  Once your desired song is 
highlighted, press PLAY/STOP to 
have the CP load the song and 
automatically start playing, or 
press SELECT (F7) to have the 
Recorder just load the data and 
wait for you to start it.	

3) If you would like the CP to 
automatically start playing all 
the songs, one right after 
another, press SONG CHAIN (F4).  
The first song will be loaded 
and start immediately.

4) Once the songs is loaded, the 
Disk Song Play screen is 
displayed, and you can press the 
PLAY/STOP button to begin 
listening to the song

Playing Back a Song
As the song is playing back, you 
can adjust the tempo, select a 
sound to play along with on the 
keyboard, and even turn on/off 
the different instrument parts 
in the song. 
The status of the different 
instrument parts is displayed at 
the bottom of the LCD screen.  
You will see the parts referred 
to as the CP's four Parts + 
Style if the song was created on 
the CP, or as Channels (ch 1-16) 
if the song is a MIDI file.   
Above each part is displayed its 
current status:

PLAY	
The part will be heard when you 
play the song.

MUTE	
The part has data, but it won't 
be heard when you play the song.

- - - -
The part has no data to play.


Transpose and Octave Shift are 
usable when a song is playing.  
In this situation, Octave Shift 
affects the notes you plan on 
playing live the keyboard, not 
the music playing from the song 
file.  Transpose can be applied 
separately to the keyboard sound 
and the song sounds.  This lets 
you play the keyboard in your 
preferred key when playing along 
with a song in a different key.

Use the front panel's dedicated 
TRANSPOSE  buttons to affect the 
keyboard sound that you are 
going to play live. Use the Song 
Transpose option (R4 and R5) in 
the Disk Song Play menu to 
affect the song data.

The Song Transpose option is 
available only for the song data 
in Standard MIDI file format.


To make adjustments to the 
playing song:

1) In the Disk Song Play menu, 
use the R1-R3 and L3 buttons to 
select and assign sounds to the 
CP's four Parts.  These will be 
the sounds that you can play 
live from the keyboard as the 
song is playing.

2) Use the F2-F5 buttons to turn 
on/off any of the song's 
instrument parts.

3) Press the L4 button to use 
the Mixer to make fine 
adjustments to the song.  (See 
page 44 for the Mixer function.)

4) If you wish, use the R4 and 
R5 buttons to transpose the song 
data.

5) Use the TRANSPOSE and OCTAVE 
SHIFT buttons to adjust the key 
for the CP's Part sounds if 
necessary.

6) Press the PLAY/STOP button to 
start the song.  

7) To adjust the tempo, press 
the L2 button and use the Dial 
to change values.

8) Press the PLAY/STOP button 
again to stop the song.

If the song you are playing has 
lyrics included in the data, the 
Show Lyrics (L5) button will be 
available to display them on the 
screen during playback.  The 
lyrics will disappear from the 
screen as soon as the song comes 
to the end or is interrupted by 
pressing the PLAY/STOP or RESET 
button.

You cannot record while the Disk 
Song Play function is in use, 
since this mode is used just to 
quickly and "informally" load 
songs up for playback only.

If you would like to record your 
live performance along with the 
song from the disk, or if you 
want to make detailed note event 
edits, you will need to 
"formally" load the song's 
data into the Recorder.  See the 
chapter "Recording a Song" 
(page 38) for details on how to 
record a song, and "Floppy Disk 
Operation" (page 142) for an 
explanation of how to load the 
data. 


