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Personalizing Your Piano Sound (Piano Designer)
What is Piano Designer?
The LX-15 lets you adjust the piano sound to your taste by
modifying various aspects of a grand piano’s sound, such as its
strings and pedal, as well as the keyboard resonances.
This function is called “Piano Designer.”
String
Resonance
Temperament
Hammer
Noise
Adjusting the
piano sound to
your taste
Making Detailed Adjustments to the Piano Sound
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1. While holding down the Piano [Grand] button, press the Piano [Early] button.
The Piano Designer screen will appear.
The “ConcertPiano” tone will be selected.
2. Press the [ ] [ ] (Slow/Fast) buttons to select the item that you want to edit.
3. Use the [–] [+] buttons to adjust the value.
4. Repeat steps 2–3 to adjust the piano sound to your taste.
5. When you’re nished using Piano Designer, press the Piano [Grand] button or the Piano
[Early] button.
Piano designer parameter
Parameter Value Description
Lid
0–6
(default: 4)
Adjusts the extent to which the lid of the grand piano is open.
The sound will become more mellow as you close the lid of the piano in the screen. The sound will become brighter as you
open the lid of the piano in the screen.
Soundboard
Behavior
O, 1–10
(default: 5)
When you play a chord, this setting improves the clarity of the individual notes in the chord, creating a more beautiful
resonance.
Higher settings produce a clearer resonance.
Damper
Resonance
O, 1–10
(default: 5)
This adjusts the damper resonance of the acoustic piano sound (the sympathetic vibration produced in strings other than
those actually played when you press the damper pedal).
Higher settings will make the sympathetic vibration louder.
Hammer Noise
-2–0–2
(default: 0)
This adjusts the sound produced when the hammer of an acoustic piano strikes the string.
Higher settings will produce a louder sound of the hammer striking the string.
Hammer
Response
O, 1–10
(default: 2)
This adjusts the time from when you play a key until the piano sound is heard.
Higher settings will produce slower response.
Duplex Scale
O, 1–10
(default: 5)
This adjusts the sympathetic vibrations of an acoustic piano’s Duplex Scale.
Higher settings will make the sympathetic vibration louder.
Saving your settings
The LX-15’s settings will revert to
the default values when you turn o
the power, but you can save them as
described in “Retaining the Settings Even
After Power-o (Memory Backup)” (p. 40).
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