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Concertmate 970
OWNER’S MANUAL Portable Electronic Keyboard
Please read before using this equipment.
970
100 SOUNDS 50 RHYTHMS 20 SONG BANK
PIANO ORGAN GUITAR/BASS STRINGS/ENSEMBLE BRASS REED/PIPE SYNTH-SOUND 1 POPS ROCK JAZZ/DANCE EUROPEAN/LATIN VARIOUS 00 WHEN YOU WISH 10 JINGL BELLS
00 PIANO 1 10 ELEC ORGAN 1 20 GUT GUITAR 30 VIOLIN 40 TRUMPET 50 SOPRANO SAX 60 SYNTH-LEAD 1 00 POP FUSION 10 ROCK WALTZ 20 BIG BAND 30 POLKA 40 MERENGUE 0
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42-4032.fm Page 2 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM FEATURES Your Optimus Concertmate 970 Porta- Fill-In Rhythm — lets you insert a ble Electronic Keyboard is a state-of- short variation into any auto-rhythm. the-art musical instrument with many exciting features. You can set the key- Auto Accompaniment — lets you au- board to sound like 100 different musi- tomatically play a preset harmonic pat- cal instruments or sound effects. To tern to match the selected auto- accompany your music, the
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42-4032.fm Page 3 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM To fully enjoy the features and func- THE FCC WANTS YOU tions of this electronic keyboard, TO KNOW please read this manual carefully and completely. This keyboard complies with the limits for a Class B digital device as specified Note: This owner’s manual explains in Part 15 of FCC Rules. These limits how to use this electronic keyboard. It provide reasonable protection against does not teach music. radio and TV interference in a residen-
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42-4032.fm Page 4 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM CONTENTS Preparation ........................................................................................................... 5 Connecting Power ........................................................................................... 5 Using Batteries .......................................................................................... 5 Using AC Power ..............................................................................
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+ - 42-4032.fm Page 5 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM PREPARATION 1. Press the tab on the battery com- CONNECTING POWER partment cover, then pull up to remove the cover. You can power your Concertmate 970 in any of these ways. • Internal batteries (see “Using Bat- teries”) • Standard AC power using an 2. Put the batteries in the compart- optional AC adapter (see “Using ment as indicated by the polarity AC Power” on Page 6) symbols (+ and –) marked beside • A vehicle’s cigarette lighter soc
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42-4032.fm Page 6 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM 2. Plug the adapter into a standard Using AC Power AC outlet. You can power your Concertmate 970 from standard AC power using a 9-volt Using Vehicle Battery Power AC adapter (not supplied), such as Ra- dioShack Cat. No. 273-1656. You can power your Concertmate 970 from your vehicle’s cigarette lighter Cautions: socket using a 9-volt DC adapter (not • You must use an AC adapter that supplied), such as RadioShack Cat. supplies 9 volts and del
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6.0V 4.5V 42-4032.fm Page 7 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM PHONES/ DC 9V OUTPUT PHONES/ DC 9V OUTPUT 1. Plug the 5.5 mm outer diameter/ Note: Connecting headphones discon- 2.1 mm inner diameter barrel plug nects the Concertmate 970’s built-in into the cable so it reads – TIP. speakers. 2. Set the adapter’s voltage switch to 9 volts. Listening Safely 3. Insert the adapter’s barrel plug into the DC 9V jack on the back of To protect your hearing, follow these the Concertmate 970. guidelines
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42-4032.fm Page 8 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM CONNECTING AN USING THE SHEET EXTERNAL AMPLIFIER MUSIC STAND To amplify your Concertmate 970’s To easily view sheet music while play- sound, you can connect it to an exter- ing your Concertmate 970, insert the nal amplifier (not supplied) using an supplied sheet music stand into the 1 audio cable with a /4-inch plug (not holes on the top back panel. supplied). To connect an external amplifier to 1 your keyboard, insert the cable’s /4- inch
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42-4032.fm Page 9 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM A LOOK AT YOUR KEYBOARD UNDERSTANDING THE CONTROLS Speaker 100 SOUNDS List 50 RHYTHMS List Speaker Display 20 JUKE BOX List 970 100 SOUNDS 50 RHYTHMS 20 SONG BANK PIANO ORGAN GUITAR/BASS STRINGS/ENSEMBLE BRASS REED/PIPE SYNTH-SOUND 1 POPS ROCK JAZZ/DANCE EUROPEAN/LATIN VARIOUS 00 WHEN YOU WISH 10 JINGL BELLS 00 PIANO 1 10 ELEC ORGAN 1 20 GUT GUITAR 30 VIOLIN 40 TRUMPET 50 SOPRANO SAX 60 SYNTH-LEAD 1 00 POP FUSION 10 ROCK WALTZ 20 BIG BAND 3
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42-4032.fm Page 10 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM OPERATION • The scores of the Juke Box BASIC OPERATION songs appear in this Owner’s POWER/MODE VOLUME SYNCHRO/ START/ TEMPO Manual (see “Songbook” on FILL-IN STOP FINGERED Page29). CONCERT CHORD ON NORMAL OFF 3. Press VOLUME s to increase the TRANSPOSE/TU sound level or VOLUME t to decrease it. The current setting appears on the display. 1. To turn on the Concertmate 970, set POWER/MODE to NORMAL. Notes: The POWER/MODE indicator • The vol
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42-4032.fm Page 11 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM 3. Press START/STOP to start playing USING THE JUKE BOX the tune. SYNCHRO/ START/ TEMPO VOLUME You can sit back and listen to the 20 FILL-IN STOP tunes that come prerecorded in the juke box, or you can turn off a song’s melody and play along on the key- TRANSPOSE/TU board. You can change the tune by repeating Step 2 even while a Playing Back a Juke Box tune is playing. Tune Note: Each tune plays a different preset sound for the melody, b
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42-4032.fm Page 12 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM 2. Press MELODY ON/OFF to turn off Notes: the melody. • The Concertmate 970 has 12-note SOUND (maximum) polyphonic sound. This means that you can play up MELODY to 12 different notes at the same ON/OFF RHYTHM time with most of the keyboard’s preset sounds. Many of the key- 3. Press START/STOP to start playing board’s preset sounds, however, the tune. are capable of only 6-note polyph- ony. 4. Adjust the tempo and volume as desired. • Mos
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42-4032.fm Page 13 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM 3. Play the keyboard to hear the Selecting/Playing a Preset selected sound. Sound 4. Adjust the volume to the desired 1. Press SOUND. The SOUND indi- level. cator lights and the current 5. To select a different sound, repeat sound’s number appears on the Steps 1 and 2. display. 50 RHYTHMS ROCK JAZZ/DANCE EUROPEAN/LATIN VARIOUS 00 POP FUSION 10 ROCK WALTZ 20 BIG BAND 30 POLKA 40 MERENGUE 01 BALLAD 11 SLOW ROCK 21 SLOW SWING 31 MARCH 41 REG
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42-4032.fm Page 14 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM Percussion Sounds PERCUSSION (No. 99) lets you play the 35 different percussion sounds shown be- low. The symbol for each percussion sound appears above each percussion key. Bass Drum High-Mid Tom High Bongo Side Stick Crash Cymbal 1 Low Bongo Acoustic Snare High Tom Mute High Conga Hand Clap Ride Cymbal 1 Open High Conga Electric Snare Chinese Cymbal Low Conga Low Floor Tom Ride Bell High Timbale Closed Hi-Hat Tambourine Low Timbale High
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42-4032.fm Page 15 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM RHYTHMS List Keyboard Split Sounds PIANO ORGAN GUITAR/BASS 100 SOUNDS STRINGS/ENSEMBLE BRASS REED/PIPE SYNTH-SOUND 1 POPS ROCK 50 RHYTHMS JAZZ/DANCE EUROPEAN/LATIN VARIOUS 00 WHEN YOU WISH 20 SONG BANK 10 JINGL BELLS 00 01 PIANO 1 PIANO 2 11 10 ELEC ORGAN 2 ELEC ORGAN 1 21 20 ACOUS GUITAR GUT GUITAR 30 31 CELLO VIOLIN 41 40 TRUMPET TUBA 50 51 ALTO SAX SOPRANO SAX 61 60 SYNTH-LEAD 2 SYNTH-LEAD 1 01 00 BALLAD POP FUSION 11 10 SLOW ROCK ROCK
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42-4032.fm Page 16 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM 2.To select a different rhythm, • To reset the tempo to its default choose an auto-rhythm from the (original) speed, press TEMPO s 50 RHYTHM list and enter its two- and t at the same time. digit number on the keypad. 6. Play the keyboard to hear the Notes: selected preset tone along with the auto-rhythm. • Precede a single-digit number with 0. For example, to select 7.To select a different rhythm, FUNKY POP (No. 05), press 0 repeat Steps
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42-4032.fm Page 17 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM You can set the Concertmate 970 to Using FILL-IN play two different types of auto accom- The FILL-IN feature lets you insert a paniment using the accompaniment short (1- to 2-measure) variation in the keys. beat pattern of a selected auto-rhythm. • Concert Chord — lets you play chords on the accompaniment Simply press and release SYNCHRO/ keys using chord formations of FILL-IN while the auto-rhythm is play- from one to four notes. The num-
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42-4032.fm Page 18 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM The number of accompaniment keys Follow these steps to start concert you press determines the type of chord chord auto accompaniment. that plays. The following table shows 1. Set POWER/MODE to CONCERT the type of chord that plays when you CHORD. press one, two, three, or four accom- POWER/MODE VOLUME SYNCHRO/ START/ TEMPO paniment keys at the same time. FILL-IN STOP FINGERED CONCERT CHORD ON NORMAL OFF Number of Keys Chord Type TRANSPOSE/
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42-4032.fm Page 19 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM Standard Fingering The standard fingering method uses standard formations of three or four notes, and lets the experienced musician play a wider variety of accompaniment chords. You can play the following 15 chord types on your Concertmate 970, in any key, us- ing the standard fingering method. ( ) Major (M) Minor (m) Augmented Suspended Dominant (aug) 4th (SUS4) 7th (7) ( ) ( ) Minor 7th Major 7th Minor Half- D
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42-4032.fm Page 20 Wednesday, August 11, 1999 4:45 PM Note: See “Standard Fingering Chord 7. To stop auto accompaniment and Chart” on Page 25 for a list of all the the auto-rhythm, press START/ chords you can play on your Concert- STOP. mate 970 using standard fingering ac- companiment. CHANGING AUTO Follow these steps to start standard POWER OFF fingering auto accompaniment. 1. Set POWER/MODE to FINGERED. To have the keyboard not automatical- ly turn off during a session, turn the POWER/MOD
