Radio Shack MIDI Keyboard - Manual (Page 12)

11 Special Features
4. Press TONE . The preset tone that
matches the selected auto-rhythm
appears.
To quit one-touch setting, press O.T.S.
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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 .
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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
TRANSPOSE – to decrease a chromatic.
To reset the keyboard’s key to its default,
press
TRANSPOSE + and TRANSPOSE – at
the same time.