Kenwood MDS-JA20ES 33EN, Falling Asleep to Music, Changing the Pitch (Pitch Control Function), Setting the pitch automatically in steps (Auto Step Control Function)

Playing MDs

Falling Asleep to Music

You can let the deck turn off at the specified time, so you can sleep to the music.

You can specify the time to be turned off by 30 minutes.

￿AMS ± MENU/NO

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Changing the Pitch (Pitch Control Function)

You can change the MD playback speed (pitch). The tone rises at higher pitches, and falls at lower pitches.

￿AMS ± MENU/NO

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1Press MENU/NO twice to display “Setup Menu”.

2Turn AMS to select “Setup 14”, then press AMS.

3Turn AMS to select the time.

The minutes display changes as follows: 30min ˜60min ˜90min ˜120min

4Press AMS.

5Turn AMS to select “Setup 15”, then press AMS.

6Turn AMS to select “Sleep On”, then press AMS. “SLEEP” lights up in the display.

7Press MENU/NO.

To change the time to turn off

Start over from Step 1 above.

To cancel the Sleep Timer Function

Select “Sleep Off” in Step 6 above, then press AMS.

Setting the pitch automatically in steps (Auto Step Control Function)

Each step changes the musical scale by a half-tone*. You can increase the pitch by up to 2 half-tones or lower the pitch by up to 48 half-tones.

* One octave equals 12 half-tones.

1While the deck is playing, press MENU/NO twice to display “Setup Menu”.

2Turn AMS to select “Setup 10”, then press AMS.

3Turn AMS to select the desired pitch step, then press AMS.

4Press MENU/NO.

Notes

•When you change the pitch control step, the playback sound drops out momentarily.

•The step control setting returns to the initial value (0) when you turn off the deck or eject the MD.

•When a dot (.) appears to the right of the step value in the step display as shown below, this indicates that you have performed fine adjustment (see the next page) and the pitch value is between steps. (The step and fine control values are linked.)

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