EN-53
Connecting External Devices
• Make sure you follow the steps of the procedure below
exactly. Connecting incorrectly can make data send
and receive impossible.
1.
Turn off the Digital Keyboard and then start up
your computer.
• Do not start up the music software on your computer
yet!
2.
After starting up your computer, use a
commercially available USB cable to connect it
to the Digital Keyboard.
• Use a USB 2.0 or 1.1 A-B connector type USB cable.
3.
Turn on the Digital Keyboard.
• If this is the first time you are connecting the Digital
Keyboard to your computer, the driver software
required to send and receive data will be installed on
your computer automatically.
4.
Start up commercially available music software
on your computer.
5.
Configure the music software settings to select
“CASIO USB-MIDI” as the MIDI device.
• For information about how to select the MIDI device,
see the user documentation that comes with the music
software you are using.
• Be sure to turn on the Digital Keyboard first before
starting up your computer’s music software.
• USB send and receive is disabled during playback of a
Song Bank song (page EN-18).
This parameter specifies the channel to be used when
keyboard performance information is sent from this Digital
Keyboard to a computer. For details about how to configure
this setting, see “
FUNCTION
Button (
cs
) Functions” (page
EN-43).
This parameter can be used to display only the notes of
particular channels (parts) as on-screen guide information
from among the performance information sent from a
computer. These channels are called navigate channels.
For details about how to configure this setting, see
“
FUNCTION
Button (
cs
) Functions” (page EN-43).
■
Navigate On/Off
Guidance is not displayed while Navigate is turned off.
■
Right Hand Navigate Channel
Selects the right-hand part channel.
■
Left Hand Navigate Channel
Selects the left-hand part channel.
■
Lessons with Navigate
You can mute the sound of the channel assigned to the right-
hand navigate channel and left-hand navigate channel and
play the part on the keyboard.
Connecting the Digital Keyboard to Your
Computer
MIDI Settings
Keyboard Channel
Navigate
Setting
Number
Display
Description
1
Listen
Both the right-hand and left-hand
parts sound, so you can listen to
them for reference.
2
R Hand
Mutes the right-hand part sound so
you can play it on the keyboard for
practice.
3
L Hand
Mutes the left-hand part sound so
you can play it on the keyboard for
practice.
4
Both
Mutes both hand parts so you can
play them on the keyboard for
practice.
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