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- Page 2 ∗∗∗ WARNING: READ THIS FIRST! AVIS IMPORTANT! WARNING RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN AVIS RISQUE DE CHOC ÉLECTRIQUE NE PAS OUVRIR This symbol is intended to alert the user to the Ce simbole sert pour avertir l’utilisateur presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage” qu’à...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS ..........................35 TECHNICAL DRAWINGS ........................36 ASSEMBLY SCHEME OF MAESTRO....................36 ASSEMBLY SCHEME OF GRANDE ......................3 1.GETTING TO KNOW VISCOUNT MAESTRO, GRANDE AND SINFONIA ........38 1.1. MAIN FEATURES ...........................38 1.2. LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE INSTRUMENT................40 1.3. CONNECTIONS ..........................41 1.4. -
Page 4: Technical Drawings
Viscount Maestro – Grande - Sinfonia TECHNICAL DRAWINGS ASSEMBLY SCHEME OF MAESTRO... -
Page 5: Assembly Scheme Of Grande
Viscount Maestro – Grande – Sinfonia ASSEMBLY SCHEME OF GRANDE... -
Page 6: Getting To Know Viscount Maestro, Grande And Sinfonia
VISCOUNT trademark, is among the world's most appreciated thanks to the incredibly faithful reproduction of timbres, especially those of the acoustic and electric piano; you can choose among 25 VISCOUNT IS timbres. 9 YAMAHA XG ®... - Page 7 9 CARE IN THE DESIGN. The elegant and refined wood chassis makes VISCOUNT MAESTRO, GRANDE and SINFONIA enjoyable from an aesthetic point of view: this aspect, too, contributes to the realistic emulation of the acoustic piano.
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Page 8: Let's Take A Look At The Instrument
Viscount Maestro – Grande - Sinfonia 1.2. LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE INSTRUMENT Here below you can find the front panel of the instrument, split in two parts for sake of clarity. On the panel you can recognize different zones associated to the instrument functions;... -
Page 9: Connections
Viscount Maestro – Grande – Sinfonia 1.3. CONNECTIONS The figure below shows the connection box placed under the keyboard, in front of the player, on the left side. The following list explains the functions of each connector. 1. MIDI THRU connector: 5-pin DIN socket that repeats the MIDI messages sent to the instrument. -
Page 10: The User Interface: How To Interact With The Instrument
Viscount Maestro – Grande - Sinfonia 1.4. THE USER INTERFACE: HOW TO INTERACT WITH THE INSTRUMENT VISCOUNT MAESTRO, GRANDE and SINFONIA have a great number of user- defined features, concerning all aspects of their functionment. Therefore, the interaction between the user and the instrument has been made as simple as possible, dividing to the front panel into sections separated in their functions. -
Page 11: How To Modify The Instrument Parameters
Viscount Maestro – Grande – Sinfonia 1.5. HOW TO MODIFY THE INSTRUMENT PARAMETERS The front panel section concerning the parameters editing is displayed below: You can move on the edit fields of each window using the cursor buttons, on the right of the screen, and activate them using the ENTER button;... -
Page 12: The Timbre Section
If we consider timbres, the instrument is two machines in one. First of all, you can choose among a set of 25 VISCOUNT timbres, 22 for 1ST and 2ND parts, and 3 for MANUAL BASS. VISCOUNT timbres have been created with the IS... -
Page 13: A List And A Description Of Viscount Is Timbres
For XG timbres, the level and effects send settings are found in the timbre pop-up selection window. For the MANUAL BASS part you can choose among 3 VISCOUNT timbres and an XG timbre. You can follow the same procedure shown for the 1ST and 2ND parts to select these timbres. - Page 14 Viscount Maestro – Grande - Sinfonia • Strings 2. Same as before, but with a faster attack. • Choir. Human choir simulation. • Brass. A typical brass timbre. • Synth Horn. Typical synthesized sound of brass instruments. • Jazz Organ 1. Drawbar organ, with standard settings.
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Page 15: The Keyboard Modes
Viscount Maestro – Grande – Sinfonia 3. THE KEYBOARD MODES 3.1. DESCRIPTION You can associate the 1ST, 2ND and MANUAL BASS parts to the keyboard range in different ways. You can divide it into zones (split mode) or you can overlay the parts on the same keys (layer mode);... -
Page 16: How To Recognize The Programmed Mode
Viscount Maestro – Grande - Sinfonia For instance, if you set Bass Mode to OVERLAP and Priority to LEFT, making some chords with your left hand, these will be played by the 1ST and/or 2ND parts, whereas the MANUAL BASS will play the lowest note of the chord. -
Page 17: The Automatic Accompaniment Section
4. THE AUTOMATIC ACCOMPANIMENT SECTION 4.1. DESCRIPTION VISCOUNT MAESTRO, GRANDE and SINFONIA are able to generate in real time, while you are playing, a complete and enjoyable accompaniment, featuring high quality arrangements, made of five sections: drums / percussions, bass and up to three instruments, changing after the accompaniment style you have chosen. -
Page 18: The Metronome
Viscount Maestro – Grande - Sinfonia The START / STOP button runs and stops the accompaniment; alternatively, the SYNC START and SYNC STOP buttons allow to run or stop the accompaniment, respectively when you press and release the notes played on the keyboard; this can be useful, for instance, to start the accompaniment simultaneously with the first chord of a song. -
Page 19: List Of The Automatic Accompaniment Styles
Viscount Maestro – Grande – Sinfonia AUTOMATIC ACCOMPANIMENT – ONE FINGER MODE NUMER OF PRESSED KEYS CHORD Major (Maj) Minor (Min) Seventh (7) Diminished (dim) 5 or more 4th Sustain (sus4) 4.5. LIST OF THE AUTOMATIC ACCOMPANIMENT STYLES In the current and next page you will find the complete list of the automatic accompaniment styles, divided into families. - Page 20 Viscount Maestro – Grande - Sinfonia (ªcontinued from previous page) FAMILY No. STYLE FULL NAME USA 2 Blues Gospel Bluegr. BlueGrass CntrWltz Country Waltz LATIN 1 Samba Bossa 1 Bossa Nova 1 Bossa 2 Bossa Nova 2 Beguine LATIN 2...
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Page 21: The Volumes Section
Viscount Maestro – Grande – Sinfonia 5. THE VOLUMES SECTION 5.1. DESCRIPTION At the farthest left of front panel, you can find the volumes section (VOLUMES), shown in the figure below. As already seen in the previous chapters, the instrument allows you to play up to... - Page 22 Viscount Maestro – Grande - Sinfonia Pressing the ON/OFF key below the accompaniment sliders, you can disable the related section, and it will disappear immediately. The LED on the button will turn off when the section is disabled; if you press again the same key, the section will be on again immediately.
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Page 23: The Effects Section
Viscount Maestro – Grande – Sinfonia 6. THE EFFECTS SECTION 6.1. DESCRIPTION The parts played by the user can be enriched and made more realistic and enjoyable by having them elaborated by the digital effect processors (DSP) inside the instrument; you can select an effect for each 1ST and 2ND parts, and an overall ambience simulation effect (reverberation), acting on all the three user parts. -
Page 24: User Effects For 1St And 2Nd Parts
NOTA BENE: you can have a section effect for the 2ND part only, when playing XG timbres: this means that the selected section effect for 1ST part will be enabled only if a Viscount timbre plays on that part. Moreover, the ‘Rotary Speaker’ effect is available only on 1ST part, whatever timbre is selected. -
Page 25: User Ambience Choices For The Reverberation Global Effect
Viscount Maestro – Grande – Sinfonia 6.3. USER AMBIENCE CHOICES FOR THE REVERBERATION GLOBAL EFFECT In the following table you can find all the choices of ambience you may wish to set for the reverberation global effect, selecting the C.EFF.1 key. -
Page 26: The Recorder
This allows you to exchange the musical tracks recorded on VISCOUNT piano with any other instrument having a floppy disk driver. In this way the huge data bank of pre-recorded MIDI bases you can find on the market is available to you. -
Page 27: The "Metronome" Option
Viscount Maestro – Grande – Sinfonia pop-up window on the screen asking for the file name to be associated to the sequence on the floppy disk. The recorded sequence will become the active one, and its name will be displayed on the SONG NAME box on the screen: now you can listen to it, using the PLAY, FF, REW and PAUSE buttons as shown before. -
Page 28: How To Use The Floppy Disk
Viscount Maestro – Grande - Sinfonia 7.6. HOW TO USE THE FLOPPY DISK The disk option, activated with the DISK key above the RECORDER section of the panel, allows to have access to the functions of the floppy disk. Above all, the floppy disk is considered as a permanent memory unit for MIDI tracks, but you can use it also to save and recall the instrument presets, called performances . - Page 29 Viscount Maestro – Grande – Sinfonia sequence of pop-up windows where you are asked to insert or remove, each time, either the source disk or the destination disk. NOTA BENE: you cannot copy a file between two disk having different capacity (DS/DD – DS/HD) 4-Ld Perf: load a memory.
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Page 30: How To Store The Instrument Settings
8. HOW TO STORE THE INSTRUMENT SETTINGS 8.1. INTRODUCTION The user is able to change all the parameters concerning VISCOUNT MAESTRO, GRANDE and SINFONIA functionment; the instrument has a buffer memory, so the values set are stored up to the next machine power-on, even if it is switched off and disconnected from mains. -
Page 31: The Performance Settings
MIDI value. 4-Tone Eqlz: tones equalization. Only for the VISCOUNT IS timbres, you can set up a two-band tone control, separately for 1ST and 2ND parts: the parameters to be changed are named 1st bass , 1st trbl , 2nd bass and 2nd trbl , and their value is displayed graphically on the screen. - Page 32 Viscount Maestro – Grande - Sinfonia 5-Pdl Func: pedal functions. The VISCOUNT MAESTRO, GRANDE and SINFONIA pedal board, working as that of a real tail piano, is fully configurable: you can associate a different function to each of the three pedals, which allows the pedal to work on both 1ST and 2ND parts, or only on one part.
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Page 33: Global Settings
1-MIDI: MIDI interface settings. For a full explanation, please contact Viscount. 2-Display: setting of the LCD screen contrast. If you select this option, a pop-up window will appear, where it is possible to set the LCD screen contrast, turning the encoder when the cursor is on the Contrast field. -
Page 34: Midi Settings
(Viscount and XG), allowing the instrument to act as a mere MIDI event generator. When the Loc.KeyBrd box is unchecked, the notes played on the keyboard will only be sent to the MIDI output, while the internal synthesis will stay idle, whatever timbre or mode is selected. -
Page 35: Factory Settings Recall
MIDI 'panic-solving' messages were sent. 8.5. FACTORY SETTINGS RECALL The VISCOUNT MAESTRO, GRANDE and SINFONIA buffer memory is originally set in the factory for a standard functionment of the instrument, both for the performances and for the global settings. If you want to bring back all the programmable values to the factory preset, you have to follow this procedure: 1. - Page 37 Viscount Maestro – Grande - Sinfonia APPENDIX A: Sound List Piano Dulcimer ChorusGt Name CC32 Dulcimr2 Mute Gtr GrandPno Cimbalom FunkGtr1 GrndPnoK Santur MuteStlG MelloGrP Organ FunkGtr2 PianoStr Name CC32 Jazz Man Dream DrawOrgn Ovrdrive BritePno DetDrwOr Gt.Pinch BritPnoK 60sDrOr1 Dist.Gtr...
- Page 38 Viscount Maestro – Grande - Sinfonia APPENDIX A: Sound List Strings Tuba2 Saw.Lead Name CC32 Mute.Trp Saw 2 Violin Fr.Horn ThickSaw SlowVln FrHrSolo DynaSaw Viola FrHorn2 DigiSaw Cello HornOrch Big Lead Contrabs BrasSect HeavySyn Trem.Str Tp&TbSec WaspySyn SlowTrSt BrssSec2 PulseSaw...
- Page 39 Viscount Maestro – Grande - Sinfonia APPENDIX A: Sound List Synth Effects Ethnic SFX Voice Name CC32 Name CC32 Name CC32 Rain Sitar CuttngNz ClaviPad DetSitar CttngNz2 HrmoRain Sitar 2 Str Slap AfrcnWnd Tambra FI.KClik Caribean Tamboura Rain SoundTrk Banjo...
- Page 40 Viscount Maestro – Grande – Sinfonia APPENDIX B: MIDI Implementation Chart MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART Viscount MAESTRO – GRANDE – SINFONIA Date: 11/06/2001 Digital Pianos with Styles Ver.: 1.666 FUNCTION TRANSMITTED RECOGNIZED REMARKS BASIC Default 1-16 1-16 see manual CHANNEL Changed...
- Page 41 CAUTION! This product contains a lithium battery. There is danger of explosion if battery is incorretly replaced. Replace only with a Maxell CR2032. Replace only with the correct polarity. Discard used battery according to manufacter’s instruction’s. ADVARSEL! Lithiumbatteri – Eksplosjonsfare. Vade utksifting benyttes kun batteri som anbefalt av apparatfabrikanten.
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