Kawai sx 240 owner manual

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PROGRAMMABLE
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OWNERS MANUAL

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. MAIN FEATURES .................. 3
1.1 Programming capabilities ............... 3
1.2 Ease of Operation .................. 3
1.3 Playing the Synthesizer ............... 3
1.4 Builtln Sequencer ................... 3
15 Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) , _ 3
1.6 Memory Capacity .................... 3
1.7 Tape Interface ...................... 3
2. BASIC OPERATION ................ 5
2.1 Setting Up ........................ 5
2.2 Tones ............................ 5
2.3 Keyboard assignment . . . . ............ 6
2.4 PORTAMENTO and GLISSANDO ......... 6
2.5 KYBD ASSIGN and CHORD MEMOHY ..... 7
2.6 HOLD .......................... s
2,7 OCTAVE UP ....................... 8
2.8 LFO DISABLE/START ................ 8
2.9 BENDER ......................... 3
2.10 RELEASE ......................... 8
3. SEQUENCER OPERATION .......... 9
3.1 Playback .......................... 9
3.2 Linked Playback ..................... 9
3.3 Storing Sequences .................... 10
4. PROGRAMMING ................... 11
4,1 Editing .......................... 11
4.2 Ending the Edit , . .................. 11
4.3 Sample Editing Session . . . ............ 11
4.4 Storing Programmed Tones .............. 12
4.5 Adding Names ...................... 12
4.6 MEMORY EXCHANGE. . . ............ 12
4.7 Linking Tone Data .................... 12
5. TONE PARAMETERS ............... 13
5.1 Tone Generator (TG) ................. 13
5.2 Voltage Controlled Filter lVCF) .......... 14
53 Voltage Controlled Filter Envelope Generator

(VCF-EG) ......................... 14
54 Voltage Controlled Amplifier (VCA) ....... 14
5.5 Voltage Controlled Amplifier Envelope

Generator IVCA-EGI . . . . ............. 14
5.6 LFO Trigger .......... . . ......... 14
5.7 High Pass Filter (H?F) ................. 14
5.8 Ensemble ........................ 14
5.9 Low Frequency Oscilator ILFOI .......... 15
5.10 Other, Miscellaneous Parameters ......... 15
5. MUSICAL INSTRUMENT DIGITAL

INTERFACE (MIDI) ................ 16

6.1 Connecting Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.2 Linking Two SX-2405 . . .............. 16
6.3 Linking Three SX»240$ ................ 16
6.4 Linking to Sequencers and Other

Equipment ....................... 16
7. TAPE INTERFACE ................. 18
7_1 SAVE .......................... 1a
7.2 LOAD ......................... 18

7.3 VERIFY .......................... 18