Using the Custom Tone Synthesizer

Radio Shack MD-1600 owner manual Using the Custom Tone Synthesizer, Editing the Parameter

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5.To edit other channels, press or to return to the channel selection screen and repeat Steps 2–4.

To exit the edit mode, press MIXER. The display shows the performance status of the channels as edited.

Editing the Parameter

You can change the settings of six pa- rameters such as tone, volume, and pan (relative position of the tone between the left and right speaker channels) for the selected channel.

Follow these steps to edit the parame- ters.

1.Select the channel you want to edit as described in Steps 1 and 2 of “Editing the Status of a Channel” on Page 23.

2.Press under CURSOR ENTER to enter the parameter edit mode.

3.Repeatedly press or to select the parameter you want to change.

Program Change Number (000 to

199)— sets the tone assigned to the channel.

Note: Channel 10 is reserved for percussion, so only tone numbers 160 (DRUM SET1) through 167 (DRUM SET 8) can be set for Chan- nel 10.

Volume (000 to 127) — controls the volume of the selected channel.

Pan (000 to 127) — controls the pan. 000 is fully left, 64 is the center position, and 127 is fully right.

Fine Tune (–50 to +50) — fine tunes the pitch of the selected chan- nel in cent units. A cent is one hun- dredth of a semitone. There are 12 semitones per octave.

C (Coarse) Tune (–12 to +12) — coarsely tunes the pitch of the selected channel in semitone units.

Express (Expression) (000 to 127)

— controls the volume of the selected channel. Similar to the vol- ume setting, this is often used to control crescendo/decrescendo.

4.Use the number buttons or + or – to change the parameter setting.

5.To edit other channels, press to return to the channel selection dis- play, select the channel, then repeat Steps 2–4.

6.To exit the parameter edit mode, press MIXER.

The MD-1600’s custom tone synthesizer lets you create up to 32 of your own original tones. To create a “user” tone, you simply select one of the keyboard’s preset tones, change its parameters, then store the new tone in any memory location from 168–199. You can select and use a user tone the same as a pre- set tone.