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.
