Radio Shack 580 owner manual Using Vibrato, Changing Keys

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USING VIBRATO

The Concertmate-580’s vibrato feature lets you give your music a “wavering” effect, slightly varying the pitch of notes as you press the keys. To turn on the vibrato feature, simply press VI- BRATO before or during play.

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To turn off vibrato, press VIBRATO again.

Note: Turning on SUSTAIN along with VIBRATO lets you produce a more ex- aggerated vibrato sound.

CHANGING KEYS

The Concertmate-580 automatically selects the tone of middle C each time you turn it on.

For added flexibility as you make mu- sic, the Concertmate-580 lets you change (transpose) the musical key it plays in.

To quickly raise the key one octave, press ONE OCTAVE. The red indicator beneath TRANSPOSER turns on. Press ONE OCTAVE again to return to middle C. The indicator turns off.

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To raise or lower the key 1/2-tone, press TRANSPOSER s or t. The red in- dicator beneath TRANSPOSER turns on.

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Note: You can change the Concert- mate-580’s key to within ±12 1/2-tones (6 whole tones) of middle C with

TRANSPOSER.

To reset the keyboard to its default key (middle C), press TRANSPOSER s and t at the same time so the red indicator beneath TRANSPOSER turns off.

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