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1.Slide VOLUME to MIN (minimum). ￿

2.To turn on the keyboard, press POWER.

The POWER indicator lights and the display turns on. ￿

3.Slide MODE to NORMAL.

4.Slide VOLUME toward MAX slightly and begin playing the keyboard.

To select an auto-rhythm, see “Using the Preset Auto-Rhythms” on

Page 9.

To save power, the keyboard automatically turns off after about 6 minutes if you do not press a key. To turn on the keyboard again, press POWER. To cancel auto power off, turn on the keyboard while holding down TONE. The next time you turn the keyboard off then back on again, it will automatically turn off after about 6 minutes.

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To prevent hearing damage, always set the keyboard’s volume to MIN before you turn it on.

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Basic Operation

The keyboard automatically selects the tone GRAND PIANO (No. 000) when you turn the power on. Each time you turn it on after that, it selects the last selected tone. To select a different tone, see “Using the Preset Tones”.

Using the Preset Tones

To play auto accompaniment, see “Using Auto Accompaniment” on Page 10.

5.Slide VOLUME toward MAX to increase the sound level or toward MIN to decrease it.

6.To turn off the keyboard, press POWER. The POWER indicator and the keyboard’s display turn off.

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Your keyboard can play two prepro- grammed demonstration tunes. To start the demonstration, press DEMO. The keyboard plays the first demonstration tune (No. 0). To select the other tune, press or + on the keypad. The selected tune’s number appears and the tune plays.

The treble and bass

The demo tune number appears here.clefs show the notes as they play.

The keyboard has 32-note (maximum) polyphonic sound. This means that you can play up to 32 different notes at the same time with most of the keyboard’s preset tones. Some tones are only capable of 16- note polyphony.

Most tones on this keyboard have been recorded and processed using a technique called digital sampling. To ensure a high level of tonal quality, samples are taken in the low, mid, and high ranges and are then combined to sound amazingly close to the originals. You might notice very slight differences in volume or sound quality for some tones when you play them at different positions on the keyboard. This is an unavoidable result of multiple sampling and is not a malfunction.

Repeatedly press + or – to select the next highest or lowest numbered tone.

If you enter an incorrect first digit, press TONE to clear your entry, then enter the correct digit.

When you select one of the drum sets (tone numbers 228–237), each key plays a different percussion sound. See “Drum Assignment List” on Page 30. The drum set sounds change when you change the rhythm number, play back data stored in memory, or receive MIDI program change data.

Tone numbers 238–247 are the user tone area. See “Using the Tone Synthesizer” on Page 13.

Basic Operation

The keyboard at the bottom of the display shows the location of the keys being pressed.

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Your keyboard can sound like 248 different musical instruments or sound effects. The TONES list on the keyboard’s top panel shows the name and three-digit number for the first 100 preset tones. For tones 100- 227, see “GM Tones” on Page 27￿.

Follow these steps to select and play a preset tone.

The bar graph shows the sound level on each of the

16 channels. See “Using the Mixer” on Page 12.

1.Press TONE. ￿￿￿￿ and the current tone’s number appear. ￿

2.To play a different tone, choose a preset tone from the TONES list and enter its three-digit number on the keypad. Precede a single- or two-digit

number with zeroes. As you press the keys, the selected digits appear. ￿

3.Play the keyboard to hear the selected tone and adjust VOLUME to the desired level.

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Radio Shack 42-4058 owner manual Basic Operation, Using the Preset Tones