Kurzweil M90 Owner’s Manual

M90

FCC STATEMENT

1. This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

(1) This device may not cause harmful interference. (2) This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may

cause undesired operation.

2. Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for

compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment.

NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

Contents

Assembly Instruction

Panel Control

Setup

Basic Operation

Standby/On

AutoStandby4

Deactivate Auto standby Function

Adjusting Volume & Start Playing

Piano Pedals

Piano Reset

Playing Demo Songs

The Connector Box

Headphones

MIDI OUT

Master Tuning

Touch(F3,F#3,Ab3,Bb3)

Reverb

Chorus

Metronome

Song Recording

To Record a Track

Manually Select a Track to Record

Clearing a Single Track in the Song Recorder

Playing Back Your Song Recorder Tracks

To Stop Playback and Exit Song PlayMode

Learning Function

Selecting a song

Listening to the entire song

Line Out

Using USB MIDI/USB Audio

Aux In

Voice/Function

Function Mode

Resetting the Data Control Knob to Voice Select

Using the Voice Select Keys

Split Mode

Layer Mode

Twin

Erp On/O󰀨

Octave

Transpose

Practicing the right hand of the selected song

Practicing the left hand of the selected song

Turn o󰀨 the Learning Mode

MIDI functions

Local On/O󰀨

Appendix

MIDI Implementation Chart

Defaults

Advanced Functions Keyboard Chart

Piano Reset in Detail

Specications

Assembly Instructions

What's Included

Cylindrical Nuts (A) x 4

Foot Bolts (B) x 4 Piano

Body Bolts (C) x 4

Back Panel Bolts (D)x 2

Back Panel Bolts (E)x 3

Pedal Board Bolts (F) x 4

Headphone Bolts (G) x 4

1. Assembling the Stand Legs

Headphones

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Piano Body

Back Panel

Pedal Board

Legs (2)

Feet(2)

Place the do wells in the feet into the appropriate holes in the bottom of the Stand Legs. Make sure that the feet are facing away from the back panel bracket as shown below. Threated two Foot Bolts(B) through the foot and into the cylindrical washers, rotating the washer to align if needed. Firmly tighten and repeat for the other side.

2. Attaching the Pedal Board

Starting with the right Stand Leg, align the holes in the Pedal Board with the holes in the Pedal Board Bracket as shown. Make sure that the pedals are facing towards the front of the Stand Legs. Thread two Pedal Board Bolts (F) through the Pedal Board and into the bracket. Repeat with the left Stand Leg and tighten all bolts fully.

3. Attaching the Back Panel and Piano Body

Place the four Cylindrical Nuts (A) into the holes in the Stand Legs, with the slot facing out. Use a screw driver to align the threads in the nuts with the openings on the bottom of the Stand Legs.

Using two Back Panel Bolts (D) with washers, and three Back Panel Bolts (E) with washers, attach the Back Panel to the stand. Please note that the pedal board is not predrilled for the Back Panel Screws, and they must be driven in manually.

Assembly Instructions

Lift onto stand

slide forward,

With help from another person, lift the piano onto the stand and slide forwards, pushing the guide rods on the bottom of the piano into the slots on the Stand Legs, as shown below. When lifting the piano onto its stand , be careful not to catch/trap hands or fingers.

4. Installing the Headphone Holder

4. Securing the Piano Body

Finish attaching the piano to the stand by

using the two Piano Body Bolts (C) to attach

the bottom of the piano to its stand.

5. Connecting the Pedal Cable and Power Supply

Headphone Holder Installation: Attach the headphone holder to the bottom left of the piano with the four Headphone Bolts(G).

Power, Pedals

Bottom Rear of the Piano

Attach the DC Adaptor and Pedal Cable into their connectors on the bottom of the piano as shown.

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Panel Control

Rear Panel

9. Pedal Connector

10. DC 12V

1. STANDBY/ON

2. MASTER VOLUME

3. LED DISPLAY

4. Metronome/Left Button

5. Function/Right Button

6. Record Button

7. Demo/Learn Button

8. Data Control Knob

Connections Panel

11. Headphones 1 / 2

12. MIDI Out

13. USB to Host Connector

14. Aux Line In

15. Line Out

16. Aux Input Level

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Setup Basic Operation

You are no doubt eager to play your new piano instrument, but first please make sure you have completed the following basic setup steps:

1) Follow the assembly instructions as outlined on page 46 in the appendix of this manual.

2) Once the piano is securely assembled, connect the plug of the foot pedal unit to the pedal jack on the rear panel.

Standby

Press the [STANDBY/ON] button to turn on the power and the LCD display will light.

Auto Standby

Your piano will switch o󰀨 automatically in 30 minutes after no any operation on it. In this

case, press the [STANDBY/ON] button again to turn on the power.

Deactivate Auto Standby Function

Hold the rst white key and rst black key on

the left side of the keyboard at the same time and then press the [STANDBY/ON] button to deactivate the Auto Standby function.

3) Plug the other end of the power cable into the power outlet.

Note

1. Ensure the piano is turned o󰀨 when connecting and disconnecting the power.

2. Turn the volume knob to its minimum level before turning on the power.

Adjusting Volume & Start Playing

The speaker system in the piano is very powerful and can be overpowering in some rooms. Adjust the [MASTER VOLUME] control to a 12 o'clock position as a safe starting point. You can adjust the volume at any time even while you are playing.

Now play the keyboard. You should hear the rich tone of the default Grand Piano sound.

Piano Pedals

Just like a regular grand piano, your piano feature 3 foot pedals:

Damper Pedal (Right)

The damper pedal performs the same function as the damper pedal on an actual acoustic piano, letting you sustain the sound

of the voices even after releasing your ngers from the keys.

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Basic Operation

Sostenuto Pedal (Center)

The sostenuto pedal also allows you to sustain notes, but it works a little different from the damper pedal. If you play a note or chord on the keyboard and press the sostenuto pedal while the notes are held, those notes will be sustained as long as the pedal is held. All subsequently played notes will not be sustained.

Soft Pedal (Left)

The soft pedal on an acoustic piano changes the character of the sound, making it softer and quieter. The soft pedal on your piano does exactly the same. Press the soft pedal when you need to play passages that require extreme pianissimo.

Piano Reset

The Piano Reset Function resets selected aspects of the piano voices back to their default factory state. These elements are carefully selected to give you a quick and easy way to restore back to being a simple Grand Piano once more, with the Data Control knob assigned for selecting voices. Press the [Metronome/Left] button and the [Function/Right] button at the same time. When both buttons are pressed the display will immediately change to show:

Playing Demo Songs

There are 16 preset piano songs that you can play individually. Here's how you can select and play the demo songs.

Listening to the Demo Song

Press the [DEMO/LEARN] button to enter Demo Play Mode and the button will flash.

Press the button to hear Demo Song 1 .While the demo is playing, the [DEMO/LEARN] button will flash , and the LED display will show:

[LEARN] button will flash , and the LED display will show:

If you allow playback to continue past the end of Demo Song 1,Demo Song 2 will begin to play, and after that, each of the remaining demos will continue to play in sequence until you press the [DEMO/LEARN] button. If the [DEMO/ LEARN] button is not pressed to stop demo playback, after the end of the 16 demo songs, demo playback will continue from the beginning of Demo Song 1 until the Song button is pressed.

Selecting the Demo Song

In Demo Song Palyback mode, you can turn the [Data Control] knob to the right until you see the desired Demo Song number appear in the LED display

Stopping Playing

Press the [DEMO/LEARN] button again to stop playing.

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The Connector Box

Headphones

The piano is equipped with two sets of standard stereo headphone jacks to accommodate private practice or late-night playing. The internal speaker system is automatically shut off when a pair of headphones is plugged into the 1. Headphone jack.

MIDI OUT

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a world-standard communication interface which allows electronic musical instruments to communicate with each other, by sending and receiving compatible note, program change and other types of MIDI data. You should only plug the MIDI out in to another device featuring a MIDI input.

Using USB-MIDI/USB Audio

This product allows the transfer of MIDI information over USB to a computer. As complicated this might sound, it's actually pretty straight forward. Because your piano is USB Class Compliant, there is no need to install a driver to enable it to work with compute. Simply just plug it in and the OS will do the rest. The piano will work with all standard MIDI based computer software.

USB AUDIO interface is a digital audio interface. By USB cable, you can digitally transfer intact audio signals of PC to this instrument, and enjoy it on this instrument or use it for accompany when you play this instrument; likewise, you can transfer intact audio signals of the instrument to PC to record and edit music.

Note

MIDI OUT Transmits MIDI data to another MIDI device.

Line OUT

The piano's stereo RCA line output can be used to deliver the output of the piano to a keyboard amplifier, stereo sound system, mixing console or tape recorder. The piano's internal sound system will remain on unless headphones are plugged in to the 1. Headphone jack.

Aux In

The Aux In stereo RCA connectors allow you to mix an external sound source (such as a CD player, MP3 player or computer output) with the piano's internal sounds, for playback through the piano's built-in speakers or headphone outputs.

The Aux In signal level can be adjusted using the Input Level knob.

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