Kawai CP115 Owner's Manual

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Kawai Concert Performer Series Digital PianoP. 82Auto-accompaniment SystemThe Concert Performer Auto-Accompaniment System (ACC) analyzes your playing and adjusts thenote data recorded in the different Phrases in a pattern to match the root key and chord type youare playing. The ACC System also shifts the octave for each phrase to keep each section playingwithin its musically useful range. To get the most out of this System, any new Style you create canbenefit from some fine tuning of these settings.When you press the DETAIL SETTINGS button (L5) on the Style Maker Record screen, the StyleMaker Detail Settings screen will be displayed.Accompaniment Type (ACC Type)This setting determines how Phrases being played by a particular section in a pattern will be analyzedby the Auto-accompaniment (ACC) System. There are Two Accompaniment Types: Chordal andScalic (melodic). Chordal Phrases usually consist of block chords or arppegiated chords. Youshould set this kind Phrase to Chordal. Scalic Phrases usually play melodic phrases that serve toadd interest to the style as well as provide counter melodies and riffs. Melodic Phrases or Phrasesthat contain chromatic passages should be set to Scalic. Scalic Phrases can also contain chords butthey will be analyzed differently than chords in a Chordal Phrase. The Bass section is automaticallyset to Scalic since it will rarely if ever play chords.The terms Open and Close apply to Chordal Phrases, and refer to how the CP will regulate thevoicing of a Chordal Phrase. Setting a Section to Open will allow for open-voiced chords, whichmight be good for guitar and string sounds. Setting a Section to Close maintains closed voicedchords, which are better suited to piano parts and other chording or comping instruments.RangeThis determines the chord inversions that a Chordal Phrase will play.The term “range” here has nothing to do with the span of actual chord notes. It selects which notein the chord will serve as the basis of the chord inversion.HI is the initial setting and is recommended as a starting point. MID plays an inversion based on thenext lower note in relation to HI, while LO plays an inversion based two-notes lower.CrossoverThis determines the point where a Scalic Phrase will be transposed to keep the notes in a musicallyuseful range. When notes in a Scalic Phrase fall below the Crossover point you select they will betransposed up one octave by the Accompaniment System. For example if you set the Crossover