Getting Started
This section will take you through a few basic tasks to get you started with your new piano. These steps will help you begin to get the sound you want out of ALICIA’S KEYS. For more detail on how the various controls work, refer to the Interface and Operation section of this guide.
Choosing and saving Presets
ALICIA’S KEYS offers a selection of a number of factory and user effect presets.
Choosing a Factory Preset
The factory presets offer the piano in three different rooms: Studio, Auditorium or Concert hall, in small or large sizes. These rooms can be adjusted even further by choosing the room as experienced by the audience or the artist. Together there are 14 different factory presets.
Creating your own Preset
Once you have created a sound you like, you can save your settings as a user preset. To do this, click the Preset drop-down menu and select Save as User-preset from the list provided. This preset will now contain all the values of the Room Settings controls you have defined and can be loaded again at any stage.
Setting the Ambience
For more control over the Room settings, check out the Room controls. Press the Settings button to open up the Settings window. Here you can adjust the digital ambience and select the type of room you want the piano to be played in. You’ll hear how each room experiences different reverb amounts when the piano is played. You can also choose the perspective of where the sound of the piano is being heard from here, artist or audience.
More Authentic Sound
ALICIA'S KEYS has many controls for tweaking the piano to produce a more authentic instrument sound. A few of these controls can be found in the Noise settings. Here you can adjust the sounds produced when keys are played and released as well as the sound the pedal makes while being played. Finally you can adjust the level of static microphone noise to create that old-school sound.