Radio Shack 580 owner manual Features

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FEATURES

Your Radio Shack Concertmate-580 Portable Electronic Keyboard is a state-of-the-art musical instrument with many exciting features. You can set the keyboard to sound like 100 dif- ferent musical instruments or sound ef- fects. To accompany your music, the keyboard has 16 different preset rhythms, as well as auto-accompani- ments and percussion sounds.

Your Concertmate-580’s features in- clude:

Built-In Demonstration Tune — lets you hear a sample of what you and the Concertmate-580 can do.

100 Sounds — let you set your Con- certmate-580 to sound like anything from a harpsichord to a honky-tonk pi- ano when you press a key.

16Auto-Rhythms — give you a steady beat for several styles of music from rhumba to slow rock.

Tempo Control — lets you speed up or slow down the tempo of any select- ed music pattern.

Fill In Rhythm — lets you insert a short variation into any auto-rhythm.

Automatic Intro Rhythm — lets you set the Concertmate-580 to automati- cally add a short introduction to the se- lected auto-rhythm.

Auto Accompaniment — lets you au- tomatically play a preset harmonic pat- tern to match the selected auto- rhythm.

Transpose Function — lets you in- stantly change the key of the music, even while you are playing.

Two Built-In Speakers — provide ex- cellent sound to help make your music come alive.

Output Jack — lets you connect headphones so you can play without disturbing others, or an external ampli- fier so you can play for a crowd.

Three Power Options — let you pow- er the keyboard from internal batteries (not supplied), standard AC power (with an optional adapter), or your ve- hicle’s cigarette lighter socket (with an optional adapter) so you can make mu- sic almost anywhere.

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