TESTING PROCEDURE

1) Be sure to have all the required test tools:

1 Oscilloscope
2 Audio Analyzer
3 1 x USB Flash Memory
4 Stereo jack loaded 47 + 47
5 Damper Pedal DS1H
6 Expression Pedal EXP2
7 2 x Dummy mono 1/4” jacks (6mm)
8 USB cable with A and B connectors
9 MIDI cable
10 TVC with RCA 75 video composite cable
11 Microphone Dynamic (no phantom supply)
12 Headpho

2) Using a screwdriver, remove the Battery/microSD compartment’s plastic cover.

3) Insert the microSD into the socket, and check if a battery is already inserted.

4) Switch on Pa700/Pa700-OR by keeping the button pressed. Release the button as soon
as its LED becomes red.
4.a) As soon as Pa700/Pa700-OR is ready, check the internal clock.
4.b) Press [GLOBAL].
4.c) Touch [General Controls].
4.d) Touch [Clock & Power].
4.e) Verify the date and the clock time, and eventually set them.
4.f) Press [EXIT] and turn the keyboard off.

5) Connect the oscilloscope probe to the LEFT OUT jack socket, insert a dummy mono jack in
the RIGHT OUT jack socket, use a MIDI cable to connect in a loop the MIDI IN and MIDI OUT
sockets, insert the USB Flash memory into the USB sockets (front and rear), connect the DS1H
Damper pedal and the EXP2 Expression pedal, connect the USB cable to a PC, connect the AC
power cord.

6) Rotate the MASTER VOLUME knob to MAX, then turn on the instrument (Pa700/Pa700-OR)
by pressing and keeping pressed these buttons on the control panel:

[STYLE PLAY] + [MEDIA] +

7) Then only release the button as soon as its LED becomes red. Keep the other buttons
pressed.

8) Release the [STYLE PLAY] and [MEDIA] buttons as soon as the display shows the Touch
Panel Calibration page. Calibrate the touch panel by touching the four display corners when
the animated icon moves to them, then touch the Save button on the display to save the
calibration settings.
9) Wait for the following message:

10) Touch the Jump button on the display, to make the following page appear:

If the clock battery is not installed, or the date and time are wrong, this message appears in
the LCD:

In this case turn the instrument off, insert the battery (if it isn't already inside the battery
socket) and turn the instrument on again. Wait for the default screen, then set the date and
time:

Global General Controls Clock & Power Set Data and Time Apply turn the instrument
off.

Go back to step 5), and press the Jump button. Start the test from the Sample RAM test. The
internal test will automatically verify:

SAMPLE RAM μSD Card USB Host Disk test MIDI Loop
11) When all these tests have been completed, the Audio Output – Guitar In HG – Mic In
HG – Audio Input tests will begin. See below for detailed information.

Analogue Audio Output Test: This includes four separate steps. Measure the sine wave level
with the oscilloscope connected to one of the audio outputs. Touch the Next button on the
display to go to the next step. To do a correct measurement, insert a dummy jack in the Right
output while measuring the Left output, and vice-versa. Do the same for the OUT-1 e OUT-2
outputs.

Audio Output: Out Left - Out Right - Out HP Left - Out HP Right

Left Right HP Left HP Right

Output Levels:

Output load: 10Kohm

Output
Min. Level Vpp Max Level Vpp Frequency
Left 21 25 440 Hz
Right 21 25 880 Hz

Headphones Load 47 + 47ohm

HP out
Min. Level Vpp Max Level Vpp Frequency
Left 4 8 1,8 kHz
Right 4 8 3 kHz
12) Guitar Input High Gain (HG) Test: This includes one step: Left Out. Rotate the MIC/GTR
gain potentiometer to max gain. Measure the sine wave level with the oscilloscope connected
to the Left output. Connect the audio analyzer’s 600Ω output to Pa700/Pa700-OR
Mic/GTR/Left Input socket, and a 560KΩ resistor in series to the input jack. Then Check the
signal level of the following signal paths: Guitar In to Left Out.

Left Input Left Out 10Kohm LG

Frequency
Input Signal Level Min. Level Max Level
1 kHz 0,4 Vpp 25 Vpp 28 Vpp

13) Guitar Input Low Gain (LG) Test: Rotate the MIC/GTR gain potentiometer to minimum
gain.

Left Input Left Out 10Kohm LG

Frequency
Input Signal Level Min. Level Max Level
1 kHz 10 Vpp 3 Vpp 7 Vpp

Touch the Next button on the display to go to the next step.

14) Mic Input High Gain Test: This includes three separate steps (one for the Left Out, one
for the Distortion Left Out, and one for the Noise Left Out). Rotate the MIC/GTR gain
potentiometer to max gain. Measure the sine wave level with the oscilloscope connected to
the Left output. Connect the audio analyzer’s 600 output to Pa700/Pa700-OR’s Left input
and check the signal level of the following signal paths: Left In to Left Out, Distortion Left Out,
Noise to Left. Touch the Next button on the display to go to the next step.

MIC Input HG MIC Input Distortion MIC Input Noise

Signal level input: 0.150 Vpp. Signal level frequency: 1kHz.

Left Out 10Kohm Distortion Left Out 10Kohm

Frequency
Min. Level Max Level Min. Level Max Level
1 kHz 20 Vpp 24 Vpp 0.01% 0.2%

Noise Left Out

Min. Level Max Level
-100dB -80dB

Distortion Test: The distortion level shall be less than 0.2%.

Noise Test: The noise level shall be less than -80dB.

15) Input Left and Right Test: This includes twelve separate steps (three for the Left Out,
three for the Right Out, and six for the Headphones Out). Measure the sine wave level with the
oscilloscope connected to one of the outputs, measure the distortion and the noise with the
Audio Analyzer. Connect the audio analyzer’s 600 output to Pa700/Pa700-OR’s input and
check the signal level of the following signal paths: Left In to Left Out (with a dummy jack
inserted in the Right input), Right In to Right Out (with a dummy jack inserted in the Left
input), Left In to Left Headphones Out, Right In to Right Headphones Out.

Touch the Next button on the display to go to the next step.

 Audio In Test

Signal level input: 14 Vpp

Output level
Left Out 10Kohm Right Out 10Kohm
Frequency
Min. Level Max Level Min. Level Max Level
1 kHz 11 Vpp 15 Vpp 11 Vpp 15 Vpp

Signal level input: 3,5 Vpp

Headphones Output level

Headphones Left 47ohm Headphones Right 47ohm
Frequency
Min. Level Max Level Min. Level Max Level
1 kHz 1 Vpp 3 Vpp 1 Vpp 3 Vpp

Touch the Next button on the display to go to the next step.

16) Distortion Test: Measure the sine wave distortion. Connect the audio analyzer’s 600
output to Pa700/Pa700-OR inputs, and Pa700/Pa700-OR outs to the input of the audio
analyzer. Check the distortion in the following signal paths: Left In to Left Out (with a dummy
jack inserted in the Right input), Right In to Right Out (with a dummy jack inserted in the Left
input), Left In to Left Headphones Out, Right In to Right Headphones Out.

Distortion Test

Left Out 10Kohm Right Out 10Kohm

Frequency
Min. Level Max Level Min. Level Max Level
1 kHz 0.01% 0.2% 0.01% 0.2%
 Headphones Left 47ohm Headphones Right 47ohm
Frequency
Min. Level Max Level Min. Level Max Level
1 kHz 0.01% 0.2% 0.01% 0.2%

17) Noise Test: Use the audio analyzer to measure the noise level. Connect the audio analyzer
to the Pa700/Pa700-OR Left Out, Right Out, Left Headphones Out, Right Headphones Out
connectors.

Noise Test

Noise Left Out 10Kohm Noise Right Out 10Kohm

Min. Level Max Level Min. Level Max Level
-100dB -80dB -100dB -80dB
Noise Headphones Left 47ohm Noise Headphones Right 47ohm
Min. Level Max Level Min. Level Max Level
-100dB -80dB -100dB -80dB

18) Panel Buttons Test.

Pa700 Pa700-OR

19) Dial/Value Test: Rotate the DIAL clockwise, until you read +48; then rotate it
counterclockwise, until you read -48; at this point, the check box should become green.
20) Jack Sense Test:
20a) Connect, remove, connect again the Damper pedal’s jack to the Damper socket. When
done, the Damper checkbox will appear filled.
20b) Connect, remove, connect again the Expression pedal’s jack to the Assignable socket.
When done, the Assignable checkbox will appear filled.
20c ) Connect, remove the Headphones jack to the Headphones socket. When done, the
Headphones checkbox will appear filled.
20d) Connect, remove, connect again a dummy jack to the Left Input. When done, the Line In
Sense checkbox will appear filled.
20e) Connect, remove, connect again a dummy jack to the Right Input. When done, the Line
In Sense checkbox will appear filled.

Pa700 Pa700-OR

21) Check all buttons as in the following tables.

Pa700
It SW LED On It SW LED On
1 Style Play Style Play 42 Ensemble Ensemble
2 Song Play Song Play 43 Upper Octave - All LED
3 Sequencer Sequencer 44 Upper Octave + All LED
4 Sound Edit Sound Edit 45 Transpose b All LED
5 Global Global 46 Transpose # All LED
6 Media Media 47 Ass. SW 1 Red Ass. SW 1 Red
7 Lyrics All LED 48 Ass. SW 1 Green Ass. Sw 1 Green
8 Marker All LED 49 Ass. SW 2 Red Ass. SW 2 Red
9 Score All LED 50 Ass. SW 2 Green Ass. Sw 2 Green
10 Player Select All LED 51 Ass. SW 3 Red Ass. SW 3 Red
11 Player << REW All LED 52 Ass. SW 3 Green Ass. Sw 3 Green
12 Player >> FFWD All LED 53 Intro 1 Intro 1
13 Player Home All LED 54 Intro 2 Intro 2
14 Player Play 55 Intro 3 Intro 3
15 Exit All LED 56 Variation 1 Variation 1
16 Menu All LED 57 Variation 2 Variation 2
17 Chord Sequencer Red LED 58 Variation 3 Variation 3
18 Chord Sequencer Green LED 59 Variation 4 Variation 4
19 Accomp. Accomp. 60 Auto Fill Auto Fill
20 Memory Memory 61 Break Break
21 Manual Bass Manual Bass 62 Ending 1 Ending 1
22 Pad 1 All LED 63 Ending 2 Ending 2
23 Pad 2 All LED 64 Ending 3 Ending 3
24 Pad 3 All LED 65 Syncro Start Syncro Start
25 Pad 4 All LED 66 Syncro Stop Syncro Stop
26 Pad Stop All LED 67 Start / Stop Red Start/Stop Red
27 Style to KBD set Style to KBD set 68 Start / Stop Green Start/Stop Green
28 Style Select All LED 69 Tap Tempo Reset All LED
29 Record Record 70 Fade IN/OUT Fade IN/OUT
30 TRK Sel All LED 71 My Setting All LED
31 Keyb. Set 1 All LED 72 Songbook All LED
32 Keyb. Set 2 All LED 73 Set List Set List
33 Keyb. Set 3 All LED 74 Piano & El. Piano Piano & El. Piano
34 Keyb. Set 4 All LED 75 Organ Organ
35 Search All LED 76 Guitar Guitar
36 Shift All LED 77 String String
37 Tempo - All LED 78 Brass Brass
Trumpet & Trumpet &
38 Tempo + All LED 79
Trombone Trombone
39 Tempo Tempo 80 Sax & Woodwind Sax & Woodwind
40 Metronome Metronome 81 Synt & FX Synt & FX
41 Split Split 82 Ethnic Ethnic
 Pa700-ORIENTAL
It SW LED On It SW LED On
1 C C 50 Keyb. Set 4 All LED
2 C# C# 51 Search All LED
3 D D 52 Shift All LED
4 D# D# 53 Tempo - All LED
5 E E 54 Tempo + All LED
6 F F 55 Tempo Tempo
7 F# F# 56 Metronome Metronome
8 G G 57 Split Split
9 G# G# 58 Ensemble Ensemble
10 A A 59 Upper Octave - All LED
11 A# A# 60 Upper Octave + All LED
12 B B 61 Transpose b All LED
13 SC 1 SC 1 62 Transpose # All LED
14 SC 2 SC 2 63 Ass. SW 1 Red Ass. SW 1 Red
15 SC 3 SC 3 64 Ass. SW 1 Green Ass. Sw 1 Green
16 SC 4 SC 4 65 Ass. SW 2 Red Ass. SW 2 Red
17 Style Play Style Play 66 Ass. SW 2 Green Ass. Sw 2 Green
18 Song Play Song Play 67 Ass. SW 3 Red Ass. SW 3 Red
19 Sequencer Sequencer 68 Ass. SW 3 Green Ass. Sw 3 Green
20 Sound Edit Sound Edit 69 Intro 1 Intro 1
21 Global Global 70 Intro 2 Intro 2
22 Media Media 71 Intro 3 Intro 3
23 Lyrics All LED 72 Variation 1 Variation 1
24 Marker All LED 73 Variation 2 Variation 2
25 Score All LED 74 Variation 3 Variation 3
26 Player Select All LED 75 Variation 4 Variation 4
27 Player << REW All LED 76 Auto Fill Auto Fill
28 Player >> FFWD All LED 77 Break Break
29 Player Home All LED 78 Ending 1 Ending 1
 30 Player Play 79 Ending 2 Ending 2
31 Exit All LED 80 Ending 3 Ending 3
32 Menu All LED 81 Syncro Start Syncro Start
33 Chord Sequencer Red LED 82 Syncro Stop Syncro Stop
34 Chord Sequencer Green LED 83 Start / Stop Red Start/Stop Red
35 Accomp. Accomp. 84 Start / Stop Green Start/Stop Green
36 Memory Memory 85 Tap Tempo Reset All LED
37 Manual Bass Manual Bass 86 Fade IN/OUT Fade IN/OUT
38 Pad 1 All LED 87 My Setting All LED
39 Pad 2 All LED 88 Songbook All LED
40 Pad 3 All LED 89 Set List Set List
41 Pad 4 All LED 90 Piano & El. Piano Piano & El. Piano
42 Pad Stop All LED 91 Organ Organ
43 Style to KBD set Style to KBD set 92 Guitar Guitar
44 Style Select All LED 93 String String
45 Record Record 94 Brass Brass
Trumpet & Trumpet &
46 TRK Sel All LED 95
Trombone Trombone
47 Keyb. Set 1 All LED 96 Sax & Woodwind Sax & Woodwind
48 Keyb. Set 2 All LED 97 Synt Synt
49 Keyb. Set 3 All LED 98 Ethnic Ethnic

22) After the Ethnic button test, start the Keyboard Test . Press all the keys from right to left,
one after the other. Apply a playing strength (velocity) between 30 and 110.
23) After having played C2, the Analog Controllers Test will start. First of all, do a Joystick
Calibration:

23.a) First, you must do joystick calibration:

Move the joystick fully to the left and release

it

Touch the Center Pos. button on the display

Move the joystick fully to the right and

release it.

Touch the Center Pos. button on the display

Move the joystick fully up and release it.

 Touch the Center Pos. button on the display

Move the joystick fully down and release it

Touch the Center Pos. button on the display

Touch the Save button on the display

24) Check all theh analog controllers:

 Joystick X: Move the joystick from left to right (0-1023); when in the center
position, the value must be 512
Joystick Y: Move the joystick from down to up (o-1023); when in the center
position, the value must be 512

Damper: Press it and verify that the value field becomes green:

Assignable pedal: Press it and verify that the value field becomes green:

Master: Rotate it and verify that the value field becomes green. (0-1023)

Balance: Rotate it and verify that the value field becomes green. (0-1023)

Assignable Knobs 1: Rotate it and verify that the value field becomes
green. (0-1023)

Assignable Knobs 2: Rotate it and verify that the value field becomes
green. (0-1023)

25) The Touch Screen Test comes next. Slide up a finger on the display; check the corners’
and borders’ sensitivity.
X=0 - Y=0 X = 0 - Y = 255 X = 255 - Y = 0 X = 255 - Y = 255

When done, touch the Next button on the display.

26) Next is the Speaker Test . This includes 5 separate steps. Touch the Next button on the
display to go to the next step.

Speaker Test

27) The serial number should appear in the display. Check the serial number, that should be
the same of the rating label, and press ..OK ..

Continue to step 28.

If the CPU does not contain the serial number, this message appears in the display:

If you can’t find a serial number in the rating label, touch Unreadable and continue to step
28.
If you find a serial number in the rating label, touch Input to enter the Pa700/Pa700-OR serial
number.

Insert the serial number again and press OK two times.

28) Test completed:

29) Turn off Pa700/Pa700-OR, the keep the button pressed for 3 seconds.

30) Turn Pa700/Pa700-OR on again by keeping the button pressed, then release the
button as soon as its LED becomes red.

31.a) Rotate the Mic Gain knob to minimum.

31.b) When the keyboard is ready: Listening with headphones, start to play some notes and
play a style pressing Start/Stop, then press Start/Stop again. Remove the headphones.
31.c) If it’s all right, stop the style. Select [Song Play]. Select in the USB memory an MP3 song
and play the song. If it’s all right, continue to listen the song in the loudspeakers. If it’s all
right, stop the song.
31.d) Connect the Left and Right outputs to an external amplifier, and verify that the outputs
are all right by pressing [DEMO] and listening to the sound on the external amplifier. If it is all
right, stop the [DEMO] (disconnect the headphones).
32) Connect the microphone and press the [MIC] button, then check the audio while adjusting
the level with the Mic Gain potentiometer.
33) Check the USB Device port connected to a personal computer.
33.a) Press [Media] and select the USB tab.
33.b) Touch the Enable button to enable file transfer. Pa700/Pa700-OR becomes the USB
device, while the personal computer becomes the USB host. When finished, the icon of the
internal memory of Pa700/Pa700-OR will appear among the other storage devices connected
to the computer.
33.c) If the USB connection is enabled, disable the connection from the PC, then press
Disable

34) Turn Pa700/Pa700-OR off, then remove all the cables and rotate the Mic Gain
potentiometer to the minimum.

35) Remove the microSD card, and replace and fix the battery/SD cover.
 MEDIA OPERATIONS AND UTILITIES

Formatting storage devices

Formatting a storage device

The Format function lets you initialize a device. Pa700 uses a PC-compliant device format (DOS FAT16 and
FAT32).

Warning: Formatting a storage device deletes all the data it contains!

Choose the device to be formatted

Go to the Media > Format page.

If formatting an external device, connect the device to the USB HOST port.

Use the Device pop-up menu to choose the device.

Assign a name to the device

Use the Volume Label parameter to assign a name to an external device to be formatted.

Since this is a reserved name, you cannot rename the label (name) of the internal volume. When formatting the
internal drive, the label cannot be edited.

Also, if you try to rename the internal volume when Pa700 is connected to a PC through the USB port, the
original name is automatically restored.

Touch the Text Edit ( ) icon to open the virtual keyboard and edit the name. When done editing the name, confirm
by touching the OK button under the virtual keyboard.

Please note that renaming a device, containing MIDI Songs or MP3 Songs used in the SongBook, will break the
links to the files. We suggest to give the device the same name it had before formatting. In case you changed
the name, please use SongBook Editor (freely available on our web site) to edit the links.

Format the device

Touch the Execute button to start formatting.

Confirm the following warning message(s).

 Backing up and restoring musical resources
A set of file backup and restore utilities can be found in the Media > Utility page.

Backing up the musical resources

You can backup the internal data (musical resources and settings) to a storage device. Backup should only be
used for archiving purpose, since you will not be able to load individual data from a backup archive. To save
data that has to remain accessible with the normal Media > Load operations, for example to load User data after
updating the musical resources, use the Media > Save operations instead.

This function only backs up the internal memory, and not the internal or external drives. It will back up Styles,
Keyboard Sets, Sounds, Pads, Voice Presets, Guitar Presets, the Global. It will not back up the MIDI and MP3
Songs contained in the internal or external drives. Also, it will not back up the Direct banks, already residing in
internal or external drives. To back up these data, please make a backup of the internal or external drives by
connecting them to a PC (see the Media > USB page).

Choose the backup command

Go to the Media > Utility page.

Select the Full Resource Backup option, then touch the Execute button to see the file selector.

Choose the target device and folder

After touching Execute, the target device appears:

If you are making a backup to an external device, connect the device to the USB HOST port.

Use the Device pop-up menu to choose the target device.

Browse through the folders. Touch the Open button to open the selected folder. Touch the Close button to close the
current folder.

Select the folder where to backup the data, then touch the Backup command to confirm.

If nothing is selected, data will be saved to the current folder.

Assign a name to the backup archive

After touching Backup, a dialog will appear, asking you to assign a name to the backup file.

Touch the Text Edit ( ) icon to open the virtual keyboard and edit the name. When done editing the name, confirm
by touching the OK button under the virtual keyboard.

When at the Backup dialog again, touch the OK button to start backing up.

When finished backing, save the storage device in a safe place.

 Restoring the musical resources

You can restore data from a backup archive created with the Full Resource Backup command.

Choose the restore command

Go to the Media > Utility page.

Select the Resource Restore option, then touch the Execute button to see the file selector.

Choose the source device and folder

If you are restoring from an external device, connect the device to the USB HOST port.

Use the Device pop-up menu to choose the target device.

Browse through the folders. Touch the Open button to open the selected folder. Touch the Close button to close the
current folder.

When the backup archive appears, select it and touch the Restore command.

Choose the data to restore

After touching Restore, a dialog will appear, with a list of types of data to be restored. Only check the types of data
you want to restore.

Touch OK to start restoring.

Warning: This command will delete from the internal memory all types of data selected in this dialog box (including your
custom data).

When done, a message will appear, asking you to restart the instrument (‘Data Restored. Please switch off’). Turn
the instrument off, then turn it on again.

Restoring the original musical resources

After an OS update, or when you want to erase all changes to your Factory and User data, and restore your
Pa700 to the same condition it was when new, use the Factory Restore operation.

Warning: This command deletes all data from memory (including your custom data).

Go to the Media > Utility page.

Select the Factory Restore option, then touch the Execute button.

A dialog will appear, with a list of types of data to be restored. Only check the types of data you want to restore.

Warning: This command will delete from the internal memory all types of data selected in this dialog box (including your
custom data).

When done, a message will appear, asking you to restart the instrument (‘Data Restored. Please switch off’). Turn
the instrument off, then turn it on again.