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Contents
1. Important notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2. Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3. Panel description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Front Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4. Before you start using the JM-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Connecting the AC adaptor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Connecting the JM-5 to an amplifier, mixer, etc.. . . 14
Connecting a microphone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting a television set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting an external audio device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Listening through headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Attaching the JM-5 to a stand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Turning the power on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Turning the power on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Turning the power off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Demo of the JM-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5. Basic operation of the JM-5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
About the display and cursor operation. . . . . . . . . . . 19
Main page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Moving between windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
6. Playing back songs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Playing back songs on a USB storage device. . . . . . . 20
If you can’t see the song (or folder) you need. . . . . . . . .21
Supported song files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7. Singing and playing along to a song. . . . . . . . . . . 22
Connection and basic settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Adding effects to the microphone signals . . . . . . . . . 23
Adding ambience to your vocal performance . . . . . . . . .23
Adding echo to your vocal performance . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Talk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Harmony and vocal effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Changing your voice/adding harmonies . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Setting the microphone equalizers and phantom
power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using ‘Melody Mute’ and ‘Center Cancel’. . . . . . . . . . 28
Selecting the track(s) to mute for SMF songs . . . . . . . . .28
8. Other important functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Singing or playing in a different key (Key). . . . . . . . . 29
Changing the tempo (playback speed) of a song . . . 29
Recording your performance as audio data . . . . . . . 30
Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Listening to your recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Saving your recording as an audio file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
9. Adding pictures to the music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Displaying photos automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Enjoying a VIMA TUNES slide show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Enjoying a slide show of your own pictures. . . . . . . . . . .32
Using one of your own pictures as background . . . . 33
10. Functions related to song playback. . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Using the Finder to locate songs or pictures. . . . . . . 34
Using ‘Next’ to create transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using playlists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Loading a playlist and playing back a song. . . . . . . . . . . 36
Renaming a playlist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Deleting a playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Specifying the playlist behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Creating new playlists and adding songs . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Quickly finding songs for your playlists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Deleting playlist steps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Moving existing steps to a different position. . . . . . . . . 41
Transposing songs in the ‘Playlist’ environment . . . . . . 42
Saving an edited playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
11. Playback functions for SMF songs. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SMF Cover: changing the orchestration . . . . . . . . . . 43
Saving your modified SMF song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Using the SMF compressor and SMF equalizer. . . . . 44
SMF Compressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
SMF Equalizer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Song (SMF) Makeup Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Using the SMF Makeup Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Freeze Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Saving your new song version. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
12. Menu parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
General procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
‘Menu’ parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Internal Lyrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
External Lyrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
User Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Saving your ‘User’ settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
13. External Tone Parts (for MIDI module operation) 59
General procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Operation details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Family and Tone selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Setting the remaining ‘External Tone Parts’ parameters 60
Saving your settings to a ‘User’ memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Loading the settings of an existing ‘User’ memory . . . . 61
14. Using the JM-5’s MIDI functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
About MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Using the JM-5 as a MIDI module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Setting MIDI channels on the external module for the
‘Tone Parts’ Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Setting MIDI channels and other MIDI parameters for the
‘Edit Tone Parts’ environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
MIDI parameters for the ‘Song Parts’. . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Activating the ‘Song Parts’ section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Setting MIDI channels and other MIDI parameters for the
‘Edit Song Parts’ environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
MIDI synchronization (Edit Sync) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
General MIDI parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
MIDI Sets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Saving your settings to a MIDI Set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Loading a MIDI Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Connecting the JM-5 to your computer . . . . . . . . . . 69
If the computer doesn’t ‘see’ the JM-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
15. Other useful operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Factory Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Formatting a USB memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
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