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Topic: Playing Pianoteq through my Kawai CS11 internal Speakers

Does anyone own a Kawai CS11 hybrid/digital?   I am desperate to figure out how to get the sounds through the piano.  I am currently running from my laptop, through an audio interface to external speakers and have great speaker sound without difficulty, but I'm missing the natural vibration of the sounds coming through the Kawai CS11 speakers/soundboard action.
I have tried to run a line from my USB A port on the Kawai directly to my B/camera adapter to my laptop.  (I might have those backwards, but it's basically a printer cable from my piano to my laptop).  It's not working!   I thought also once I had all the lines proplerly hooked up I could simply turn up the volume of the piano when I wanted to hear the sounds through the piano itself, or turn up the volume on the audio interface when I wanted to hear the speakers.  Not so!  Is there a setting I need to choose on the piano itself or in Pianoteq?  There's got to be something I'm missing, or my new piano is broken!  Please help!


Also, If you can please provide a detailed step by step, that would be great!   Some of the posts I've read have not been as detailed as needed...ie, "I just use a USB cable from piano to laptop".  Either something is broken on my piano, or it's an operator error.  I'm really hoping it's the latter!

Thank you in advance!
Kelly

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Re: Playing Pianoteq through my Kawai CS11 internal Speakers

Hi Kelly,

if you want to hear the audio output from Pianoteq through your CS11's speakers, you need to run an audio cable from your audio interface's line out to the Kawai's line in (that should be a stereo cable with 3.5 mm audio jacks, at least on the CS11 end). There's also a level adjustment knob right next to the line in socket on the CS11 (further level adjustments are possible via the menu, check the CS11 manual for that).

The USB port on the Kawai does not provide an audio interface, so you cannot use that to send live audio to the instrument.

Hope this helps,
Daniel

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Re: Playing Pianoteq through my Kawai CS11 internal Speakers

bandoneonista wrote:

Hi Kelly,

if you want to hear the audio output from Pianoteq through your CS11's speakers, you need to run an audio cable from your audio interface's line out to the Kawai's line in (that should be a stereo cable with 3.5 mm audio jacks, at least on the CS11 end). There's also a level adjustment knob right next to the line in socket on the CS11 (further level adjustments are possible via the menu, check the CS11 manual for that).

The USB port on the Kawai does not provide an audio interface, so you cannot use that to send live audio to the instrument.

Hope this helps,
Daniel

Thank you SO MUCH! That makes perfect sense now!   I had an extra aux cable with a 3.5 mm audio jack on both ends. I used a larger jack converter on the end that goes into the interface because the 3.5mm was too small for the interface phone jack).  It worked like magic!  Sounds so much better through the internal piano speakers than the Genelec (more natural vibration and dimension/depth) than the speakers, although the speakers are good.   I tried to play the demo songs and lessons that are included in the piano using the Pianoteq sounds, but it didn't work.   I guess that's because it's already programmed in there. It would be super fun to play the lessons using the Pianoteq sounds! The good news is that I am able, thanks to your post, to play my classical repertoire utilizing all the Pianoteq sounds!  If you know how I can play the preprogrammed pieces using the Pianoteq, let me know!  Thanks again!

Kelly

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Re: Playing Pianoteq through my Kawai CS11 internal Speakers

Bandoneoista, are you totally fully secure of your answer?

I meant, I could be very wrong but I sort of remember I have managed to achieve what the Kawai person is after. I have a CA78, pretty much his same model and again I would swear I have managed to achieve this with the only connection between Piano and Laptop being the USB-MIDI cable. I just don’t remember how

Its also truth that when I did, few months ago, was using Pianoteq inside a DAW and using an external audio interface connected to the laptop and the DAW

Unfortunately all my memory about its very weak. I remember (I think) having turned the local control in the Kawai settings to ON, I remember (I think) had turned the volume bar in the Kawai to 0 and I also remember (again I think) that I selected MIDI-USB as the output in the DAWs track

YET today I try connecting both again today but this time trying just Pianoteq as standalone with no DAW neither any audio interface but it didn’t worked as the USB-MIDI does not show as an option for the output. I them tried the more complicated way with the DAW, the external audio interface... but differently from when I try months ago, again, neither the USB-MIDI shows up as the option for the output.... thanks