HS Virtual Piano - Users Manual Introduction: HS Virtual Piano (also HVP) is a musical keyboard having 36 keys made for

Microsoft Windows operating systems. You can choose from 128 channels (musical and percussion instruments), and 12Drumset sounds (selectable from 32 different effects). For playing Drumset effects use the Numpad Keys ( /,*,-, and 1 to 9 ) to play this Drumset sounds. Also there are 4 quick jump buttons for quickly switching to your favorite channels. To get all of the latest information about HVP Visit our website. For our other products please visit our products page here. Copyright 2008 Hyper Solutions. Table of Contents

System Requirements Quick Reference Basic Settings of HVP

Channels

Channel quickjumps Jump directly to any channel

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Drumset Base note Intro Music

Intro Tempo

Troubleshooting

System Requirements To run HVP successfully on your computer, you'll need the following Minimum configuration: Processor: Pentium III/AMD 500 MHz or Better Operating System: Windows XP/2000/ME/9X Ram: 64MB RAM for Windows 9X (256MB for Windows XP) Hardware: a Sound card HDD space: 3-4 MB Back to Top Quick Reference

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Basic Settings of HVP This section will tell you about the basic settings and functions of HVP. To begin just scroll down to your desired information, you can also use the "Back to Top" button to jump to the Top of this page. Channels: channels are basically different instruments, from which you can play different sound effects by using same keys. In this version, there are 128 different channels available. You can quickly change the channel by using the Right OR Left arrow keys. If you know the number of your desired channel, you can

jump directly to that channel by using keyboard shortcuts. Back to Top Channel Quickjumps: Channel quick jumps are shortcuts (Function keys F1 to F4 ) to your favorite channels. Before using this feature you need to bind your favorite channels to the correspondent shortcut key. Look at the example shown below. To bind a channel for Quicljumps (Function key F1F4), Right-Click on desired Button from the piano interface (or Press Ctrl + F1-F4), the Channels Menu will appear (as shown in the figure below) and then Select the desire channel name from the Menu. Now whenever you press that Function key it will jump directly to your favorite channel. In the Following Example : the Channel "Clavinet" is Selected for the Key F4. Now When you Press "F4" on your Keyboard the Piano will automatically jump to the "Clavinet" Channel. The selected channel number will appear in the box "Current channel number" and the selected channel name will appear in the box "current channel name".

click here to know how you can jump directly to any channel, also you'll find the complete list of available shortcuts there.

Back to Top Drumset: You can also play Drumset sounds while playing the piano. To play drumset , misc sounds, use Numpad keys ( / * - , 7 8 9 , 4 5 6 , 1 2 3 ). The Numlock must be ON to use Numpad keys for the piano.

There are "32" different effects available in drums menu, but you can play only 12 sounds at a time. If you want to choose the sounds, just click any of the drumset sound keys and then select your desired sound effect from the menu. In the following example : the sound "Pedal Hi Hat" is selected for the key "Numpad 6".

Note : You can also use the shortcut "Control + Numpad [ /, *, -, 7, 8, 9, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3 ]" for setting Drumset effect.

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Basenote: Basenote are different Octaves, by which you can change the frequency of vibration for the same channel. There are 12 Base notes available in HVP. The quickest way to change the Basenote is using the Up/Down arrow keys on your keyboard. Otherwise you can also click on the current Basenote and select other basenote from the drop down menu. Note: To access the Basenote menu, you can also use the shortcut "Control + B".

Back to Top Intro music: Intro music is pre-recorded sets of music, which can be played by pressing the "F5" Function key.. There are 5 controls for the Intro music which can be accessed by pressing the Function key F5 to F9. Below is the Description of all the Five keys. F5 - Play Intro Music F6 - Add Effect to the Current Intro Music F7 - Pause Playing Intro Music F8 - Ending of Intro Music F9 - Stop Playing Intro Music

The Box on the top above these control keys shows the current intro music, which can be changed by clicking on it. Intro Tempo: By using this control you can control the playing speed of the Intro music. To slow down the Intro music simply scroll down the Intro Tempo slider or use the shortcut "Shift + Down arrow" Back to Top Troubleshooting here you'll find the answers if you've any problem playing the piano. Problem: Error "Unable to open Midi out!!" (See figure below)

If your getting this error, it means that your systems midi port is already in use by other applications, and thus cannot be opened for the piano. To resolve this problem do one of the following. 1. Try to close other processes and applications which may interfere with the midi port (Close all sound related applications). Then click on the <Menu ><

Refresh Piano> or press Control + F5 Key this will

refresh the piano to reopen the midi port. 2. Second option is click the menu <Settings

Menu>(Top-left button)<Midi Device> and then select

any other midi device that is not currently selected, see example shown below: