Listening To Songs (Midi Player - Casio PX-S3100BK User Manual

Listening to Songs (MIDI Player)

Your Digital Piano has a MIDI player that can play back the
MIDI file types described below.
■ Playable songs
Song Type Description
User songs You can add up to 10 songs to Digital Piano
memory as user songs (Song Number 1
through 10). To add user song data (up to
320 KB per song of data that is playable by
this Digital Piano), store it on a USB drive or
smart device and then transfer the song
data to Digital Piano memory. For details,
see "USB Flash Drive
EN-62) and
(APP Function)" (page EN-66).
MIDI recorder Songs recorded with the Digital Piano's
songs MIDI recorder. See
Recorder to Record
EN-43).
USB memory You can easily play standard MIDI files
songs (SMF format 0/1) or CASIO MIDI files (CMF
format) saved on a USB flash drive without
importing them into the Digital Piano user
song area. For information about how to
store song data, see
Copy General Song Data to a USB Flash
Drive" (page EN-65).
■ Getting Ready to Use the MIDI player
Your Digital Piano has two players: a MIDI player and an
audio player. Depending on the type of data you want to
record or play back, you first need to select the MIDI Mode or
Audio Mode.
• The MIDI player can be used while the Digital piano is in the
MIDI Mode. If the Digital Piano is in the Audio Mode,
perform the procedure below to switch to the MIDI Mode.
• Note that the Digital Piano is in the MIDI Mode under initial
default settings, so the operation below is not necessary if
you have not changed the setting.
1.
Perform the steps below to put the Digital
Piano into the MIDI Mode.
(1) Hold down the bp^ button until "[FUNCTION]"
appears on the display.
This enters the FUNCTION Mode.
(2) Use the bk U and bl I buttons to select the
following menu items in sequence: "SONG" 3
"Song Type".
(3) Use the bk – and bl + buttons to change the setting
to "MIDI".
(4) To exit the FUNCTION mode, hold down bp EXIT
until "[FUNCTION]" disappears from the display.
Operations" (page
"Linking with a Smart Device
"Using the MIDI
Performances" (page
"Using a Computer to
■ To select and play back a song
1.
If you want to play a song stored on a USB
flash drive, insert the drive into the Digital
Piano's cq USB Type A port.
• After mounting of the USB flash drive is complete, the
Digital Piano will start to read a list of songs on the
drive, which is indicated by the message "WAIT" on
the display. Wait until the read operation is complete.
• For precautions when handling a USB flash drive, see
"USB Flash Drive" (page EN-60).
2.
Use the 3 mode selector button to cycle
through settings until the "SONG" (SONG
Mode) indicator is lit.
3.
Use the bk – and bl + buttons to select a song
number.
Song Number Song Type
1 to 10 User songs
11 to 15 MIDI recorder songs
16 to 999 USB memory songs
• Selecting some songs will initially cause "LOADING" to
be displayed. This indicates that data is being loaded.
Digital Piano Operations
EN-51