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Adjusting the Piano Sound to Your Taste (Piano Designer)
Piano Designer Settings
Parameter
Value Description
Key Touch
Fixed,
S.Light (Super Light),
Light,
Medium,
Heavy,
S.Heavy (Super Heavy)
Adjusts the touch sensitivity of the keyboard.
If you select “Fixed,” notes will sound at a uniform volume regardless of how strongly you
play the keyboard.
Key Touch Offset
-10–0–9
This lets you make further detailed adjustments to the keyboard sensitivity as appropriate
for the strength of your fingers.
Higher settings will produce a heavier playing feel.
Lid
0–6
Adjusts the extent to which the top of the grand piano is open.
Lower values produce a softer sound.
Higher values produce a brighter sound.
Tone Character
-5–0– +5 Larger values produce a harder sound, and smaller values produce a softer sound.
Damper
Resonance
Off, 1–10
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.
String
Resonance
Off, 1–10
This adjusts the string resonance of the acoustic piano sound (the sympathetic vibrations
of strings for previously played notes that occur when you play another note).
Higher settings will make the sympathetic vibration louder.
Key Off
Resonance
Off, 1–10
This adjusts sympathetic vibrations such as an acoustic piano’s key-off sound (the subtle
sound that occurs when you release a note).
Higher settings will make the sympathetic vibration louder.
Cabinet
Resonance
Off, 1–10
Adjusts the body resonance of the grand piano itself.
Higher values will produce a larger body resonance.
Hammer Noise
-2–0– +2
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
Off, 1–10
This adjusts the time from when you play a key until the piano sound is heard.
Higher settings will produce slower response.
Duplex Scale
Off, 1–10
This adjusts the sympathetic vibrations of an acoustic piano’s Duplex Scale.
Higher settings will make the sympathetic vibration louder.
Damper Noise
Off, 1–10
This adjusts the damper noise of the acoustic piano sound (the sound of the damper
releasing the strings when you press the damper pedal).
* If damper resonance is turned “Off,” damper noise will not be heard.
What is the Duplex Scale?
The Duplex Scale is a system of sympathetically vibrating strings sometimes included in
grand pianos.
These sympathetically vibrating strings are not struck directly with hammers, but sound by
vibrating in sympathy with the vibrations of other strings. By resonating with the overtones,
these strings add richness and brilliance to the sound. These sympathetic strings are added
only to the high register above approximately C4. Since they do not have a damper (a
mechanism that stops them from sounding), they will continue sounding even after you
play a note and then release it to stop the sound of the string that was actually struck.
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