Radio Shack MD501 Electronic Keyboard User Manual


 
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When the metronome is on, repeatedly press
BEAT
until you hear the desired beat to adjust
it. 9 beats (00, 02
09) are available and can
be selected cyclically. The beat number you
selected appears.
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You can record a sequence of notes up to 37
notes in length.
1. Press
RECORD
to start recording.
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2. Play the notes you want to record.
3. Press
PLAY
to play the notes you
recorded.
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4. To turn off recording, press
RHYTHM
,
TONE
, or
SONG
.
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Your keyboard’s One-Touch Setting (O.T.S.)
feature lets you automatically play a preset
tone to match a selected auto-rhythm you
changed.
1. Press
RHYTHM
.
2. Enter a two-digit auto-rhythm number.
3. Press
O.T.S.
.
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4. Press
TONE
. The preset tone that
matches the selected auto-rhythm
appears.
To exit One-Touch Setting, press
O.T.S.
.
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For added flexibility and control as you make
music, you can set the keyboard so it
sustains sound.
1. Press
SUSTAIN
.
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appears. The
keyboard sustains the notes you play.
2. Press
SUSTAIN
again to turn off sustain.
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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
keyboard plays the selected percussion
sound once each time you press the pad.
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You can record any of the available
percussion sounds onto any of the
percussion pads. This lets you quickly select
and play any percussion sound that the
keyboard can make.
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1. Press
TONE
then enter
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on the
keyboard.
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.
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The keyboard automatically selects the key
of middle C each time you turn it on. For
added flexibility, you can transpose (change)
the keyboard’s key using as many as 12
steps (+6 to
-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.
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Using BEAT
The higher the beat number, the faster the
beat.
Recording
If the keyboard loses power, recording is
turned off and any recording you made is
erased.
Recording/Playing a Percussion Pad
Sound
The keyboard clears any sound you assign to
a percussion pad each time you turn it off.