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User’s manual
Version 1.1 August 2006
K1800FX
EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK 12) Where the MAINS plug or an appliance coupler is IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS used as the disconnect device, the disconnect device shall remain readily operable. 13) Only use attachments/accessories specified by the manufacturer. 14) Use only with the cart, stand, tripod, bracket, or table specified by the manufacturer, or sold with the apparatus. When a cart is used, use caution when moving the cart/apparatus combination to avoid injury from tip-over. CAUTION: To redu
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EG2080- EG2080-RW/BK RW/BK EG2080- EG2080- EG2080-RW/BK RW/BK RW/BK EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK EUROGRAND The Sound, Touch and Elegance of an Acoustic Grand Piano — The Cutting-Edge Performance of a Digital Piano The ultimate piano for homes, music schools, houses of worship, etc. No traditional tuning or maintenance needed Elegant wood grain cabinet with either black or dark rosewood finish, sliding key cover and full modesty panel 88-note weighted hammer-action keyboard accurately recreates the
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK FOREWORD Dear Customer, Welcome to the team of EUROGRAND users and thank you very much for expressing your confidence in BEHRINGER products by purchasing this digital piano. It is one of my most pleasant tasks to write this letter to you, because it is the culmination of many months of hard work delivered by our engineering team to reach a very ambitious goal: to present you with a extraordinary digital piano that gives you maximum flexibility and performance with its uniq
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK TABLE OF CONTENTS 7. CONNECTION TO EXTERNAL EQUIPMENT .............22 1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................... 6 7.1 Connecting external sound sources .......................... 22 1.1 Before you get started ................................................. 6 7.2 Connection to external amplifiers and recording 1.1.1 Shipment ............................................................ 6 equipment ............................................
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK Registering your purchase and equipment with us helps us 1. INTRODUCTION process your repair claims quicker and more efficiently. Congratulations! With the EG2080 you have purchased a master- Thank you for your cooperation! class digital piano which is on a par with its acoustic counterpart in terms of sound and feel. The keyboard features 88 weighted keys with hammer action, in combination with the RSM stereo 2. ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS sound generator this gives you an unpa
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK S2 S2 S3 S4 S1 S1 Fig. 2.2: Assembling the EG2080 This section describes how to assemble the piano step by step. 1) Put the two side panels + on the floor and use the four S1 screws to screw the pedal unit to the two side panels. 2) Route the cable of the pedal unit to the outside (bottom side), so that it is lying loosely on the floor. 3) Stand the frame comprising side panels and pedal unit upright. 4) Put the rear panel , slightly inclined, on the feet of the two
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK 8) Insert the plug of the pedal unit into the PEDALS connector 3. QUICK START on the underside of the playing console. 9) Keep turning the supporting screw underneath the pedal 3.1 Power on/off unit until it rests firmly on the floor without pushing the pedal unit upwards. The EG2080 is a digital, i.e. electronic, piano. Therefore, mains power is required to operate the instrument and it has to be Correct positioning is necessary to avoid damage switched on or off. The fo
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK 4) Press the START/STOP button again to stop playback. 3.3 Demo playback The EG2080 offers you 14 sound and 15 piano music demos. These music pieces give you an impression of the instrument’s versatility and range of sounds. 3.3.1 Playing back the sound demos This section describes how to play back the 14 sound demos. These demos are specially designed to highlight the various 5) Repeat steps 2 to 4 to play back other pieces. sounds and their features and show you what can
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK 4. CONTROL ELEMENTS AND CONNECTIONS 4.1 Control panel Fig. 4.1: Control elements of the EG2080 The control elements of the EG2080 are described below. To give you a clear overview of the control panel, its elements have been grouped in separate sections. SELECT: Selects the TEMPO parameter and menu pages for EDIT mode. The EDIT MODE LED shows in EDIT mode, the TEMPO LED in TEMPO mode. : Depending on which mode you have selected with the SELECT button, these two buttons can
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK EFFECT: Is used to select one of four modulation effects If no LED lights up, no key velocity has been selected and (CHORUS, FLANGER, TREMOLO, DELAY) for the selected playing a key always triggers a fixed volume level, sound. An LED shows which effect is currently active. If irrespective of how hard you play the key. no LED lights up, no modulation effect is active. TRANSPOSE : Is used for setting keyboard/pitch VELOCITY: Is used to set the key velocity to SOFT, MEDIUM tra
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK 1) Keep pressing the REVERB button until the effect of your 5. BASIC OPERATION choice has been selected. The following chapters describe some further basic functions which you can use in addition to those already explained. 5.1 Using two sounds (layer mode) Instead of a single sound you can also play two sounds simultaneously on the EG2080. These sounds are layered and can be played together over the entire keyboard. The active effect is shown by an LED lighting up next to
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK 2) Keep the EFFECT button pressed while adjusting the original 1) Play the notes to be sustained. vs. effect signal ratio in the VALUE/SONG section using the 2) Press the pedal to sustain the tones you just played. -/NO and +/YES buttons. 3) Play the next notes. These are played with normal decay. 4) Release the pedal for normal playing. Damper/Forte pedal (right): The damper pedal allows you to sustain the notes already played (and held) plus all + subsequent notes, w
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK 6.2 Transposition 6. ADVANCED OPERATION The sounds produced by the EG2080 can be transposed up or The following chapters provide information on advanced down by half-tones (key by key). This is useful, for example if operating functions of the EG2080. you want to play a piece in a key that is easier to play because it has few or no accidentals at all (e.g. C major), but intend the piece is to sound in a difficult key with lots of accidentals (e.g. D 6.1 Using EDIT mode fla
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK Please note the order of voices used in the sound Function: E3.5 (effect intensity voice #1) combination selected, in order to understand which E3.6 (effect intensity voice #2) settings apply to which voice in the examples below. Value: 0 20 Description: A layer combination consisting of two sounds must be set up before you can adjust the following 1 20: Effect intensity (default setting) functions (see chapter 5.1). 0: No effect 6.3.1 Volume ratio 6.3.5 Reset Use this
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK The memory of the music sequencer can store up The display reads: to 10,000 notes. However, this number can 04: No stressed beats (default setting) decrease depending on how much pedaling information is stored. 24, 34, 44, 54, 64, 74: quarter meter (e. g. 2/4) 38, 68, 78, 98, 128: eighth-note meter (e. g. 3/8) You can quit record mode by pressing the REC button again. 6.4.1 Metronome volume 2) If necessary, adjust the metronome tempo and meter as Use this function to adj
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK Recording mode will thus be canceled automatically. 8) Repeat the whole procedure to record a second track. This time, however, select TRACK 2 instead of TRACK 1 in step #3. TIP: If the right-hand part of a music piece you want ATTENTION: If you select a track for recording, to practice has been recorded on track 2 and the which already contains note information, all left-hand part on track 1 (for example, by your piano previously recorded notes on this track will be te
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK You can only activate those tracks for playback 1) Select the track to be played back, so that the PLAY LED which actually contain note information. above the corresponding TRACK button lights up. 2) If you want to have a metronome-backed playback, press the METRONOME button to switch on the metronome. . The volume of a muted track is adjustable (see 3) Press the SELECT button in the TEMPO/EDIT MODE section chapter 6.5.5). until the TEMPO LED lights up, then use the two
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK Function: E6 6.5.7 Sync start You can set the music sequencer playback-ready, so that it will Value: 0 20 start playback as soon as you play a key on the keyboard. This Description: function can be very helpful when the music sequencer is used as an „accompanist“. The function is also available in DEMO 1 20: Volume of muted track (default setting: 5) mode. 0: Muted tracks are not audible 1) Make sure that the playback tracks are active (PLAY LED above the corresponding
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EUROGRAND EG2080-RW/BK Function: E4.2 6.6.1 Key velocity This parameter determines the volume of the sounds with Value: 1 5 reference to the key velocity applied, i.e. you can set here how Description: hard you have to strike a key to achieve maximum volume. 3: Normal soft pedal intensity (default setting) The following section describes how to change the key velocity. 1: Low soft pedal intensity 1) Press the VELOCITY button to select one of the following settings: 5: High soft pedal intensit
