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42-4042.fm Page 2 Friday, April 28, 2000 11:18 AM Contents Features ................................................................................................................... 4 The FCC Wants You to Know ............................................................................. 5 Preparation .............................................................................................................. 5 Connecting Power .............................................................
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42-4042.fm Page 3 Friday, April 28, 2000 11:18 AM Special Features ................................................................................................... 19 Changing Keys ................................................................................................. 19 Tuning the Keyboard ........................................................................................ 20 Using a Sustain Pedal ..............................................................................
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42-4042.fm Page 4 Friday, April 28, 2000 11:18 AM Features Your RadioShack MIDI Keyboard is a 100 Tones — you can set your key- state-of-the-art keyboard with many ex- board to sound like anything from a citing features. You can set the key- harpsichord to a honky-tonk piano. board to sound like 100 different musical 100 Auto-Rhythms — give you a instruments or sound effects. To accom- steady beat for many styles of music, pany your music, the keyboard has 100 from rhumba to slow rock. rhyt
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42-4042.fm Page 7 Friday, April 28, 2000 11:18 AM 5. Plug the DC adapter’s other end into 5. Plug the AC adapter’s other end into your vehicle’s cigarette-lighter a standard AC outlet. socket. Using Vehicle Battery Power CONNECTING You can power the keyboard from a ve- HEADPHONES hicle’s 12V power source (such as a cig- arette-lighter socket) using a 9V, 800- To listen to your keyboard without dis- mA AC adapter and a size M Adapta- turbing others, you can connect an op- plug adapter (neithe
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42-4042.fm Page 9 Friday, April 28, 2000 11:18 AM Operation Notes: BASIC OPERATION • The keyboard’s volume ranges 1.To turn on the keyboard, set from 0 (no sound) to 9 (maxi- POWER/MODE to NORMAL. The mum). Each time you turn on the POWER/MODE indicator lights. keyboard, the volume is set to 7. Note: To save power when operat- • To quickly change the volume set- ing on batteries, the keyboard auto- ting, hold down MAIN VOLUME s matically turns off after about 6 or t . minutes if you do not
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42-4042.fm Page 10 Friday, April 28, 2000 11:18 AM board, or you can turn off a tune’s melo- dy or accompaniment and play along on the keyboard. Playing Back a Prerecorded Tune • a “score” to show you the notes that are playing (right side of the SONG 1. Press . An indicator appears display) SONG next to and the number of • a “keyboard” to show you the fin- the current tune appears. gering and which keys are Note: The keyboard always selects pressed (bottom of the display) the tune “A Who
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42-4042.fm Page 13 Friday, April 28, 2000 11:18 AM Notes: Percussion Sounds • Precede a single-digit number PERCUSSION (No. 99) lets you play the with a 0. For example, to select 35 different percussion sounds shown 0 ELEC PIANO 1 (No. 04), press here. The symbol for each sound ap- 4 . pears above the corresponding key on the keyboard. • If you enter an incorrect first digit, TONE press to clear your entry, Bass Drum Cowbell then enter the correct digit. Side Stick Crash Cymbal 2 3.Play t
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42-4042.fm Page 14 Friday, April 28, 2000 11:18 AM paniment keys and do not produce per- the next higher or lower numbered cussion sounds. See “Using Auto rhythm. Accompaniment” on Page 15. Notes: USING THE PRESET • Precede a single-digit number with a 0. For example, press 0 5 AUTO-RHYTHMS to select POP BALLAD (No. 05). Your keyboard has 100 preset auto- • If you incorrectly enter the first rhythms that provide a steady beat for digit of the rhythm, press RHYTHM your music. The name and two
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42-4042.fm Page 15 Friday, April 28, 2000 11:18 AM You can set the keyboard to play two dif- Using SYNCHRO ferent types of auto accompaniment us- ing the accompaniment keys. This feature lets you synchronize the start of an auto-rhythm with the begin- Concert Chord • — lets you play ning of your music. chords on the accompaniment keys using chord formations of from one After you select and enter an auto- to four notes. The number of keys SYNCHRO/FILL-IN rhythm, press . The you press determin
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42-4042.fm Page 18 Friday, April 28, 2000 11:18 AM –5 • When you play an aug, 7 , or dim7 7. To stop auto accompaniment and chord, the lowest note you play the auto-rhythm, press START/STOP. determines the root of the chord. Be sure that your fingering correctly USING THE CHORD BOOK defines the root you want. You can use your keyboard’s chord Note : See “Standard Fingering Chord book display feature to see which keys Charts” on Page 26 for a list of all the to press and which fingers to use t
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42-4042.fm Page 19 Friday, April 28, 2000 11:18 AM – + 5. Use or to scroll through the accompaniment keyboard’s chords associated with the root range. See “Standard Fingering chord you entered in Step 3. Or, Chord Charts” on Page26 for press a different root key to see the more information. chords based on that key. 6. Using the center “hands” as a guide, Notes: play the displayed chord on the key- board. • If the chord is not recognized by the keyboard, only a dash ap- 7. You can also dis
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42-4042.fm Page 20 Friday, April 28, 2000 11:18 AM Notes: keyboard is currently tuned, com- pared to its default pitch. A cent is • You can also use the number key- the measurement that represents pad to quickly raise the key. Simply the acoustical interval between two press the semitone change value (1 tones. 1200 cents equal 1 octave. to 5). You can tune the keyboard to within 50 cents (101 levels) of its default • The keyboard automatically resets pitch. the key to the default value of 0 (
