Casio XW-P1 User Manual

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Learning to Play by Playing (For Synthesizer Novices)E-12First, let’s see what a Solo Synthesizer tone sounds like.Press bl SOLO SYNTH so the button becomes lit.Play something on the keyboard to hear what the tone soundslike. Use 6 VOLUME to adjust the volume.• Note that the Solo Synthesizer tones are monophonic. Ifyou press multiple keys, only the note of the first key willsound.Solo Synthesizer actually is a category that contains 100built-in (preset*) tones. What we played here is just one ofthem. Now let’s play some more of the preset tones in thiscategory.* There are also “user tones” which are those that you createand store for later recall. The terms “preset” and “user” arealso used for other types of data, such as Step Sequencerdata, performance data, etc.Press the bq plus (+) button. Each press increases thepreset tone number and changes the tone setting.The tones of this Synthesizer are divided into 10-tone groupscalled “banks”. There are a total of 10 Solo Synthesizer tonebanks numbered 0 through 9, with 10 tones in each bank for atotal of 100 Solo Synthesizer tones.You can quickly select a bank and a tone number by rotatingthe bo dial.Or you can use the bp buttons to input specific bank andtone numbers (page E-20).You can use the same operations to select the tones in theother categories besides Solo Synthesizer, so experiment foryourself to find out what tones are available.Tone creation is actually what using a synthesizer is all about.Starting from a preset tone, you can change variousparameters to create a tone that is your own original sound.With this setting, pressing the 7 EDIT button provides youwith a collection of powerful editing capabilities (page E-21).In addition, you also can use the 5 sliders to easily altertones without using the 7 EDIT button. Here we will take asimplified look at editing a Hex Layer tone. This process iscovered in greater detail later in this manual.Press bl HEX LAYER and select the 0-0 preset Hex Layertone.bqLitBack ForwardBankTone numberTone nameCategory name (abbreviation)P: PresetU: UserCreating Tones