Regular piano sound, please. Disable knobs, sliders, and wheels.

[TomAviv]

Help please: I've been unable to settle on the right levels for the knobs, sliders, and wheels for a regular piano sound in the stock Concert Grand (0-0).

Ideally, I'd like to disable them altogether so that I continually knock them out of place when I remove the dust cover, move sheet music around, grab a drink, etc...

 

Wheels: Modulation clearly belongs at the lowest point (and it's hard to keep from bumping it away from that point), and the Bender should be in the middle (and it's nice that it likes to rest there).

Sliders: I usually keep S1 in its middle setting and the rest at their lowest.

Knobs: I usually keep them all in their middle setting.

Regardless, sometimes it just sounds like something funky is going on, and so I'd like to be able to express to the instrument that I just want the piano without anything fancy. I've started to suspect that when sunlight has been on the keyboard some of these adjustments behave as if they aren't at rock bottom, but I'm not sure about that.

 

I should probably actually learn how to use this powerful instrument. I bought it as a clear upgrade to my previous electric piano which didn't have nearly as nice of a key feel (Yamaha P85), and I thought that I might want to use the more powerful features one day. But for now, they just get in the way, and I just want a reliable piano sound that isn't different from day to day.

 

Any tips, pointers, leads, or specific instructions would be very much appreciated.

 

Thanks!

Tom

 

[Display Name]

Hi Tom and welcome to the forums. You want go to edit ---> Stage Settings --> Controller Edit and then go thru disable all the controllers. 

[Mike Martin]

I'll also add that if you don't touch the controllers you'll just have piano and nothing will be altered.  Simply selecting the Stage Setting 0-0 again will reset any controller movements or alterations to the sound.

[theodorn]

Welcome to the forums, TomAviv. Incidentally, I also upgraded from Yamaha P85, and felt it was quite a jump up in dynamics and features. I also mostly use a piano sound. The 0-0 setting is good enough, but I also like to use 5-0, Just the Way, because I like to add a warm pad to the grand piano sound.

 

Yesterday, I decided to add volume control to it, it's not that hard. You just choose the stage setting, then push

 

EDIT -> Stage Setting -> Common Edit -> Slider [1,2,3,4,5 or 6] and set it to CC07:Volume.

 

Then EXIT all the way back. You can do this for any and each of the four zones.

 

One more thing you need to do, is disable the slider you just set to control volume on zone 1 (or any of the zones) for the other three zones, this way:

 

EDIT -> Stage Setting -> Zone Edit -> Slider1 Enable -> [Off]

 

Instead of Slider1 it could of course be any of the six sliders, just the one you chose in the first step to control the volume for zone X. Again, the slider has to be disabled for all the other three zones.

 

When you're done you simply save the modified stage setting:

 

WRITE -> Stage Setting -> Replace No/Yes? -> +/YES.

 

If you change an existing stage setting,and regret your changes, you can always restore the original ones, the factory settings can be found online.

[dc2k]

I'd also like to add to that if you have equalizer controls set to the knobs (as they in the default 0-0 stage setting), then turning them off for a zone/zones makes no difference. You cannot turn them off. They will still alter all four zones as they are a global setting. If you fear you will adjust them by accident, set something else to the knobs instead and then turn the knobs off for all the zones or just zone 1 where your piano tone is. Personally I prefer the 7-0 stage setting for a piano sound, not sure why.