The Singing Machine SMI-1420 Using Percussion Pad, Transposing, Assigning a Percussion Pad Sound

Using Percussion Pad

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Your keyboard’s percussion pads follow sounds of 5 different percussion instruments, (bass drum, snare drum, hi-hat open, high tom-tom, and hi-hat close) to play at your finger tips.

To play a percussion pad sound, simply press the desired pad at any time. The keyboard plays the selected percussion sound each time you press the pad.

Assigning a Percussion Pad Sound

You can assign any of the available percussion sounds onto any of the percussion pads. This allows you to quickly select and play any percussion sound that the keyboard can make.

Note:

The keyboard clears any and sound you assign to a percussion pad each time you turn if off.

Follow these steps to record and play a percussion pad sound.

[1]Press VOICE then enter “5” and “0” on the keyboard.

[2]Select the voice you want by pressing any of the 16 white keys in the middle of the keyboard until you hear the sound you want.

[3]When you hear the voice you want to record, hold down the percussion pad you want to assign the sound to and press the white key.

[4]Play the percussion pad to hear the assigned voice.

Transposing

The keyboard automatically selects the key of middle C each time you turn it on. For added flexibility, you can transpose (change) The keyboard’s key using as many as 12 steps (+6/-6). You can adjust the transposition freely by pressing the X’POSER buttons.

To transpose the keyboard’s key, press X’POSER + to raise a chromatic scale. Or X’POSER - to decrease a chromatic.

To reset the keyboard’s key to its default, press X’POSER + and X’POSER - at the same time.

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