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When the metronome is on, repeatedly press BEAT until you hear the desired beat to adjust it. 9 beats (00, 02– 09) are available and can be selected cyclically. The beat number you selected appears. ±

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You can record a sequence of notes up to 37 notes in length.

1.Press RECORD to start recording. H;9EH: appears.

2.Play the notes you want to record.

3.Press PLAY to play the notes you recorded. FB7O appears.

4.To turn off recording, press RHYTHM,

TONE, or SONG. ±

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Your keyboard’s One-Touch Setting (O.T.S.) feature lets you automatically play a preset tone to match a selected auto-rhythm you changed.

1.Press RHYTHM.

2.Enter a two-digit auto-rhythm number.

3.Press O.T.S.. E$J$I$ appears.

4.Press TONE. The preset tone that matches the selected auto-rhythm appears.

To exit One-Touch Setting, press O.T.S.. E$J$I$ disappears.

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For added flexibility and control as you make music, you can set the keyboard so it sustains sound.

1.Press SUSTAIN. IKIJ7?D appears. The keyboard sustains the notes you play.

2.Press SUSTAIN again to turn off sustain.

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Your keyboard’s percussion pads put the sound of 5 different percussion instruments (bass drum, snare drum, hi-hat open, high tom-tom, and hi-hat close) at your fingertips.

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

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You can record any of the available percussion sounds onto any of the percussion pads. This lets you quickly select and play any percussion sound that the keyboard can make. ±

1.Press TONE then enter 5 0 on the keyboard.

2.Select the tone 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 tone you want to record, hold down the percussion pad you want to assign the sound to and press the white key.

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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 to -6). You can adjust the transposition freely by pressing the TRANSPOSE buttons.

To transpose the keyboard’s key, press TRANSPOSE + to raise a chromatic scale or

to decrease a chromatic.

To reset the keyboard’s key to its default, press TRANSPOSE + and TRANSPOSE – at the same time.

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Using BEAT

The higher the beat number, the faster the beat.

Recording

If the keyboard loses power, recording is turned off and any recording you made is erased.

Recording/Playing a Percussion Pad Sound

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

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