Radio Shack MD500 - Manual (Page 7)

6 Operation
3. Repeatedly press VOLUME UP or VOL-
UME DOWN to increase or decrease the
volume.
Notes:
• The keyboard’s volume ranges from 0
(no sound) to 10 (maximum), and the
current volume level appears on the
display. Each time you turn on the
keyboard, the volume is set to 6.
• To quickly return to the default vol-
ume setting of 6, turn the keyboard off
then back on.
4. To turn off the keyboard, set POWER to
OFF . The POWER indicator turns off.
PLAYING THE
PRERECORDED TUNES
You can listen to any of the 50 tunes that
come prerecorded in the keyboard, or you
can turn off a tune’s melody or accompani-
ment and play along on the keyboard.
Playing Back a Prerecorded Tune
1. Press SONG .
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and the number of
the current tune appears.
Note: The keyboard always selects the
tune “Canon” (No. 01) each time you
turn it on.
2. Choose a tune from the SONGS list and
enter its two-digit number on the key-
pad.
Or, you can press – or + to move to the
next higher or lower numbered tune.
Notes:
• Precede a single-digit number with a
0. For example, to select 06
(“Wiegenlied (Schubert)”), press
0 6 .
• If you enter an incorrect first digit,
repeatedly press + or – to move to the
next higher or lower numbered tune.
3. Press START/STOP to start playing the
tune.
You can change the tune by repeating
Step 2 even while a tune is playing. The
new tune immediately begins to play. As
it plays, the display shows:
• a “score” to show you the notes that
are playing (right side of the display)
• a “keyboard” to show you the finger-
ing and which keys are pressed (bot-
tom of the display)
• the black dots above the metronome
show the beat count in the measure
• the chord name (center left of the dis-
play)
Note: Each tune plays a different preset
tone for the melody.
4. Use VOLUME to adjust the volume as
desired.
5. To change the tempo, repeatedly press
TEMPO UP or TEMPO DOWN . The current
tempo setting appears.
6. To select a different tune, repeat Step 2.
To stop the tune completely, press
START/STOP .
Using DEMO
To play the prerecorded tunes one by one (in
order from the selected starting point), press
DEMO . To stop the demo, press DEMO again.