Radio Shack CONCERTMATE 580 - Manual (Page 21)

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USING VIBRATO
The Concertmate-580’s vibrato feature
lets you give your music a “wavering”
effect, slightly varying the pitch of
notes as you press the keys. To turn
on the vibrato feature, simply press
VI-
BRATO before or during play.
To turn off vibrato, press VIBRATO
again.
Note: Turning on SUSTAIN along with
VIBRATO lets you produce a more ex-
aggerated vibrato sound.
CHANGING KEYS
The Concertmate-580 automatically
selects the tone of middle C each time
you turn it on.
For added flexibility as you make mu-
sic, the Concertmate-580 lets you
change (transpose) the musical key it
plays in.
To quickly raise the key one octave,
press
ONE OCTAVE . The red indicator
beneath TRANSPOSER turns on. Press
ONE OCTAVE again to return to middle
C. The indicator turns off.
To raise or lower the key 1 /
2
-tone,
press TRANSPOSER s or t. The red in-
dicator beneath TRANSPOSER turns
on.
Note: You can change the Concert-
mate-580’s key to within ±12
1 /
2
-tones
(6 whole tones) of middle C with
TRANSPOSER .
To reset the keyboard to its default key
(middle C), press
TRANSPOSER s and
t at the same time so the red indicator
beneath
TRANSPOSER turns off.
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