Radio Shack MD-1210 Video Game Keyboard User Manual


 
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Operation
Full-Range Chords
While the easy random and standard fin-
gering methods limit chord formations to
the accompaniment keys, the full-range
chord method lets you play chords of
any type using any of the keyboard’s
keys.
Set
MODE
to
FULL RANGE CHORD
and
follow the steps under “Standard Finger-
ing” on Page 16. If you press three or
more keys anywhere on the keyboard
that form a chord, the keyboard plays
that chord. The keyboard responds with
melody sounds if you press fewer than
three keys.
Notes:
In the full-range chord mode, the
keyboard recognizes these 23
chords in addition to the 15 chords
in the standard fingering mode
(examples show C as the base
note):
When the composite notes of a
chord are more than five notes
apart, the lowest sound becomes
the base note.
Using One-Touch Preset
The keyboard’s one-touch preset fea-
ture recalls the tone and tempo best
suited for the rhythm you selected. After
selecting a rhythm, press
ONE TOUCH
PRESET
, then start the accompaniment.
The rhythm starts playing at a suitable
tempo, and the keyboard sounds the
suitable tone for the rhythm you selected
as you play the keyboard.
USING THE MIXER
The keyboard plays multiple parts at the
same time during auto accompaniment,
or memory playback, or when receiving
MIDI data, in up to 16 separate chan-
nels. You can control the on/off setting,
volume, and parameters of each of the
keyboard’s channels just as you would
with a sound mixer.
This chart shows the parts assigned to
each channel.
C6 Cm6 C69 C#/C D/C E/C
F/C G/C A /C B /C B/C C#m/
C
Dm/
C
Fm/
C
Gm/
C
Bm/C Dm7
-5/C
A7/
C
F7/
C
Fm7
/C
Gm7/
C
A add9/
C
Channel Part
1 Main tone
2 Layered tone
3 Split tone
4 Layered/split tone
5 These channels only produce
sound when they receive
MIDI signals
6
7 Auto accompaniment chord
part 1
8 Auto accompaniment chord
part 2
9 Auto accompaniment bass
part
10 Auto accompaniment rhythm
part, drum pad
11 Memory Track 1