Typically, you will play the pianos with your MIDI controller keyboard and MIDI pedals. However, you can also preview the pianos by clicking on the keys of the keyboard and the three pedals below it in the Editor view.
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To play the piano with your mouse, click the desired note on the keyboard.
In the Editor view, the closer you click to the tip of the key, the higher the velocity and vice versa.
In the Player view, the keyboard always plays with full velocity.
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To play the pedals with your mouse, click the desired pedal to press it. Click the pedal again to release it.
The order of the pedals is as follows (from left to right): soft pedal, sostenuto and sustain. The four acoustic piano models support all three pedals. The CP80 only supports sustain.
The function of the pedals is as follows:
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Pedal |
MIDI controller number |
Function |
|---|---|---|
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Soft pedal |
67 |
This modifies the tone quality towards a softer sound. |
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Sostenuto |
66 |
Notes that are held while pressing the sostenuto pedal will sustain. Any successive notes (after pressing the sostenuto pedal) will not sustain. Either the pedal or the keys must be controlled externally to produce the sostenuto effect. |
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Sustain |
64 |
This lifts all dampers from the strings adding sustain resonances to the sound. All notes played will sustain. |