Disabling Orchestration Accompaniment

[Pavementii]

So when you play the first song, "Over There", there is a long intro in which no piano is being played. It's all these accompanying orchestration (flutes, violins, cymbals, etc.). 
I want to eliminate/disable all of that.

I simply want to set the tone to piano and hear (and practice) every song with only piano-- no fancy orchestration.
 

I've tried going to Function --> AccompVol and Function --> Song Vol but the sounds stay and the whole system's volume seems to increase or decrease. 

Any ideas?

[Jokeyman123]

Are you playing the factory installed arrangements-the ones already part of the keyboard itself? I don't have an LK so I can't check this-but if this is what you are playing-I don't think you can separate the different instruments-I don't think you can "mute" the separate parts as you can if you are using just the preset auto-arranger "patterns". 

 

If you post which specific LK model-I can look up the manual online and be a little more specific. I do know that many of these Casios have 3 separate functions- one of which is to 1) play the entire keyboard with a single sound that you pick, with no backing arrangements playing. Or 2) play in arranger mode-where you select a preset backing rhythm-rock, jazz latin, waltz etc. and that arrangement will play as it matches your left hand playing chords while your right hand plays the melody at the same time-and the keyboard is now split and finally 3) there will be an assortment of full songs-complete with or without different backing instruments depending upon how Casio installed these into the keyboard's permanent memory-but you can not interact with these or modify these, all you can do is start and stop to listen to the pre-arranged composition in its entirety, without being able to modify it at all.

 

I think what you want to do is use #2-play in arranger mode-but these will not have pre-arranged melodies-these are purely backing instrumentation for playing your own melody and you must play the correct chords along with that backing rhythm or arrangement-the typical arranger keyboard function. Hope this helps. and sorry if I'm covering things you already understand, but online it is hard to tell!

[Pavementii]

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Are you playing the factory installed arrangements-the ones already part of the keyboard itself? I don't have an LK so I can't check this-but if this is what you are playing-I don't think you can separate the different instruments-I don't think you can "mute" the separate parts as you can if you are using just the preset auto-arranger "patterns". 

Thanks for taking the time to respond, Jokeyman! I am playing the factory installed arrangements. 

 

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If you post which specific LK model-I can look up the manual online and be a little more specific.

I'm playing an LK-280.

 

55 minutes ago, Jokeyman123 said:

3) there will be an assortment of full songs-complete with or without different backing instruments depending upon how Casio installed these into the keyboard's permanent memory-but you can not interact with these or modify these, all you can do is start and stop to listen to the pre-arranged composition in its entirety, without being able to modify it at all.

 

Yep! this is what I think I'm working with.  I've never tried to install songs myself. But maybe there are libraries with songs that I like already have them broken down into the lessons...? That would be nice. Or, once i get through all of the pre-set songs I like on the piano, I can maybe learn to do create my own songs and lessons.

 

58 minutes ago, Jokeyman123 said:

Hope this helps. and sorry if I'm covering things you already understand, but online it is hard to tell!

 

Excellent, Jokeyman! You did a great job. I don't know what I'm doing and I've read the book a few times but couldn't find what I was looking for so every bit of information helps. 🙂