TRANSPOSE –

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

To quit one-touch setting, press O.T.S. 276 disappears.

USING SUSTAIN

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

To sustain notes you play, press SUSTAIN. 6867$,1 appears and the keyboard sustains the played note until you release SUSTAIN. Press SUSTAIN again to turn off sustain.

PERCUSSION PADS

Using a Percussion Pad

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 key- board plays the selected percussion sound once each time you press the pad.

Recording/Playing a

Percussion Pad Sound

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

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

1.Press TONE then enter 5 0 on the key- board.

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.

TRANSPOSING

The keyboard automatically selects the key of middle C each time you turn it on. For add- ed 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 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.

Special Features

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Radio Shack MIDI Keyboard owner manual Using Sustain, Percussion Pads, Transposing, Using a Percussion Pad