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  • Page 1 Owner’s manual...

  • Page 2: Care Of Your Keyboard

    Generalmusic S.p.A. Generalmusic reserves the right to apply any aesthetic, design or function modifications it considers necessary to any of its products without prior notice. Generalmusic declines all liability for damage to property or persons resulting from improper use of the instrument.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Introduction ....................1 Power supply ....................... 1 Using the AC adaptor ..................1 Using batteries ..................... 1 To insert the batteries ..................1 Important battery information ................1 Connections ....................2 The Phones jack ....................2 The Damper jack ....................2 The Aux.
  • Page 4 Start the Style with an Intro pattern ..............13 Stop the Style with an Ending phrase ..............13 Fade the Style Volume to zero while playing ............. 13 Harmony ......................13 Balancing the Style accompaniment tracks with the Mixer ........ 14 Muting the Style tracks ..................

  • Page 5: Introduction

    Introduction Thank you for purchasing the new GEM GK350 electronic keyboard. The GK350 offers the following features: • 61 note keyboard with Touch Response; • 147 PCM voices including 7 Drumkits; • On-board Digital multi-effects processor with 8 Reverb and 8 Chorus effects, each with independent Effect Level control;...

  • Page 6: Connections

    Connections The Phones jack If you prefer to play with headphones for high quality personal monitoring, plug a standard stereo headphone set into the rear panel PHONES jack. Plugging a set of headphones into the Phones jack disconnects the speakers automatically. Use the VOLUME slider to adjust the headphone volume.

  • Page 7: Listen To The Demo Song

    Listen to the Demo Song You can listen to the automatic playback of your GK350 to get an idea of what the instrument is capable of doing. 1. Turn the power ON by pressing the [POWER] switch. After a short period, the display appears showing the NORMAL playing mode with a piano sound (Piano1) ready to play across the full keyboard.

  • Page 8: Basic Operation

    Basic Operation This section explains all the basic operations that you can carry out when the instru- ment is in NORMAL mode. Every time you turn on your instrument, it sets to NOR- MAL mode. To return the instrument to NORMAL mode, press the [MODE] button to the left of the display.

  • Page 9: Select A Voice With The Numeric Keypad

    Select a Voice with the numeric keypad Using the numeric keypad is the quickest way to go directly to the Voice you need, but you must know the exact number of the voice. The name and corresponding number of all the Voices in memory are silkscreened above the display on the right. You’ll see that they start from number 01 through to number 147.

  • Page 10: Split Keyboard

    Split keyboard To play on a split keyboard with one or two voices on the right hand side (UPPER keyboard) and one voice on the left (LOWER keyboard), press the [MODE] button as many times as necessary until the left display arrowhead points to the SPLIT function.

  • Page 11: The Performances

    The Performances So far, you have learnt how to select single and combined Voices in Normal, Dual and Split modes using several panel interventions. If, every time you want to create a preferred sound combination, you have to take several steps to arrive at your goal, you would ask yourself if there wasn’t a quicker way of selecting what you want.

  • Page 12: Muting The Sections

    Muting the sections If you want to exclude a section (mute, or turn off), you can use the MIXER control buttons. Simply press both [INCREASE VOLUME] and [DECREASE VOLUME] buttons at the same time to mute the section required. For example, if you press both the top and bottom buttons of the [UPPER MIXER], the display shows UPPER OFF.

  • Page 13: Play With Effects Or Bypass Them

    Play with Effects or bypass them While you play, one or both effects (Reverb and/or Chorus) will be shown active by the corresponding display icons at the top of the display. This means that the cur- rent Performance is being processed by one or both effect types. REVERB/CHORUS ICONS By means of the [REVERB] and [CHORUS] buttons on the extreme right hand side of the control panel, you can turn the effect on or off at will.

  • Page 14: Styles - Auto-Accompaniment

    Styles - Auto-Accompaniment What are the Styles? Styles are a collection of musical patterns representing many types of music, rang- ing from rock and pop to traditional and ethnic music. The GK350 contains 96 differ- ent auto-accompaniment Styles that can be used to provide fully-orchestrated ar- rangements.

  • Page 15: Use The Numeric Keypad To Select A Style

    Use the numeric keypad to select a Style Using the numeric keypad is the quickest way to go directly to the Style you need, but first, you must know the exact number of the Style. The name and correspond- ing number of all the Styles in memory are silkscreened above the display on the left.

  • Page 16: Changing The Style Tempo

    Changing the Style Tempo Note: If you change Style while the rhythms are play- Every time you select a Style, you also recall a memorized playing speed, (TEMPO), ing, the current Tempo rests unchanged. The memo- rized Style Tempo is recalled only when the Style is shown in the bottom right hand corner of the display.

  • Page 17: Using The Style Auto Functions

    Using the Style Auto functions The Styles provide a wide variety of automatic functions that make the GK350 very easy to play. The functions are found in the ACCOMPANIMENT CONTROL section. Select the Fill In and change Style Variation Each Style has two accompaniment patterns, NORMAL and VARIATION, which you can select at any time before or after starting to play the Styles by pressing the corresponding button.

  • Page 18: Balancing The Style Accompaniment Tracks With The Mixer

    The display shows the Harmony OFF situation for a short period. If you are playing with Styles, start the Style with [START/STOP]. 2. Press the [HARMONY] button again to select the first Harmony type, 01, shown in the display for a short period. 3.

  • Page 19: Muting The Style Tracks

    Muting the Style tracks If you want to exclude a section (mute, or turn off), simply press both [INCREASE VOLUME] and [DECREASE VOLUME] buttons at the same time to mute the sec- tion required. For example, to play your Upper and Lower voices with the BASS accompaniment only, mute the DRUMS and ACCOMP tracks.

  • Page 20: Changing The Accompaniment Split Point

    Changing the accompaniment Split Point If you want to increase or decrease the keyboard area dedicated to the Style chords, you can change the Split Point setting to any note of the keyboard and memorize the setting to a Performance. The factory setting corresponds to note F#3. 1.

  • Page 21: The Performance Buttons And Store Performance

    The display shows two digits relating to the effect type (in this case Reverb) shown flashing, and the corresponding level (shown fixed): Flashing Note: The display remains active for a short period to allow you to make your selection. If you fail make a selection, the display returns to the previous situa- tion automatically.

  • Page 22: Panel Reset - Restore Performance

    You only need to change one aspect of any factory setting to be able to save the new setting as a new Performance. In our example, let’s change the voice assigned to the Voice 1 section. 1. Press the [STYLE] button, press the [S.T.PLAY] button, then select Style n. 45 (Swing).

  • Page 23: Floppy Disk (F. Disk)

    Floppy Disk (F. DISK) The GK350 is equipped with an on-board Disk drive which allows you to work with a storage device (floppy disk). The GK350 can work with MS-DOS formatted HD disks (1.44 Mbytes). Other sizes, (ex. 720 Kb), or formats, (ex. Mac), are not recog- nized.

  • Page 24: Load All

    Load All The Load All operation allows you to load a previously memorized “GK350.MEM” file into the GK350 memory. The incoming “GK350.MEM” file will completely rewrite the instrument’s memory. Procedure 1. Insert the disk containing a GK350 Memory file into the drive and press the [F. DISK] button.

  • Page 25: Preselect The Next Midifile

    Pre-select the next MidiFile to play During the playback of a MidiFile, it is possible to scroll the MidiFiles contained in the Floppy Disk in order to select the next one to play. Note: During MidiFile playback, you can use the 1.

  • Page 26: The Sequencer

    The Sequencer Your GK350 contains a very simple and easy-to-use sequencer which records what- ever you play and plays back the recorded sequence just as you played it. You can record in Voice mode or Style mode with one or two melody tracks. In playback, you can play along with the recorded sequence using different voices to those used in the Melody tracks.

  • Page 27: Record A New Song

    Record a new song To record a new Song and cancel the old, simply press the [RECORD] button and Flashing LEDs the buttons you want to record. For example, if the ACCOMP and MELODY 1 buttons already contain recorded notes (LEDs on), press the [RECORD] button, then press the [ACCOMP] and [MELODY 1] buttons.

  • Page 28: The Gk350 Utility Functions

    The GK350 Utility functions INCREASE VALUE The GK350 features several utility functions which affect the keyboard globally. The functions are: TRANSPOSE, TUNE and PAN. The UTILITY functions are twin-ac- tion buttons organized in two rows: the top row are increase [INC] controls while the bottom row are decrease [DEC] controls.

  • Page 29: Midi

    MIDI The MIDI section consists of two functions, TX and RX, which allow you to set the Transmission (TX) and Reception (RX) channels independently for the keyboard as a whole. Both Reception and Transmission channels also feature a Control Change filter (on/off).

  • Page 30: Specifications

    Specifications Keys : 61 keys with Touch Response Voices : 147 PCM voices including 7 percussion keyboard kits Polyphony : 64 notes Digital Effects : 8 Reverb and 8 Chorus effects, both with Effect Level control Styles : 96 styles with 2 Variations (Normal and Var) Modes : Normal, One Finger, Fingered, Split, Dual Styles Control :...

  • Page 31: Index

    Index Melody Off 21 Memorize e Performance 17 Metronome 23 AC adaptor 1 MIDI 25 Accompaniment Control 13 MIDI channel 25 Auto-Accompaniment 10 MIDI files 20 Aux. Out jack 2 MIDI interface 2 MIDI ports 2 Mixer Volume controls 7 Balancing the Lower and Upper sections 7 Music Stand 26 Balancing the Style accompaniment 14...
  • Page 32 Style Tempo 12 Style Variation 13 Styles 10 Touch Response 9 Transmission channel, Midi 25 Transpose 24 Tune 24 Using batteries 1 Utility 24 Variation 13 Voices 4 Write protection (floppy disks) 19 28 GK350 Owner’s manual...

  • Page 33: Appendix

    Appendix Appendice GK350 A•1...
  • Page 34 Appendix A - One finger chords chart Appendice A - Tabella accordi “One Finger” F#m/ #m7/ #m7/ G#m/ #m7/ #m7/ A#m/ #m7/ A•2 GK350...

  • Page 35: Appendix B: Fingered Chords Table 1

    Appendix B - Fingered chords chart - Table 1 Appendice B - Tabella 1 - accordi “Fingered” MAJOR MINOR (Cm) DOMINANT 7th (C7) MINOR 7th (Cm7) MAJOR 7th (Cmaj7) DIMINISHED (Cdim) AUGMENTED (Caug) (C6) MINOR 6th (Cm6) GK350 A•3...
  • Page 36 Appendix B - Fingered chords chart - Table 2 Appendice B - Tabella 2 - accordi “Fingered” MAJOR MINOR (Cm) DOMINANT 7th (C7) MINOR 7th (Cm7) MAJOR 7th (Cmaj7) DIMINISHED (Cdim) AUGMENTED (Caug) (C6) MINOR 6th (Cm6) A•4 GK350...

  • Page 37: Gk350 Sounds Table

    GK350 Sound table ETHNIC group CHOIR PIANO group 105 SITAR VOXOOH PIANO 1 106 BANJO SynVOX PIANO 2 107 SHAMISEN ORCHHIT PIANO 3 108 KOTO HONKY BRASS group 109 KALIMBA El. PNO 1 TRUMPET 110 BAGPIPE El. PNO 2 TROMBONE 111 FIDDLE HARPSI TUBA...

  • Page 38: Gk350 Styles Table

    GK350 Style tables († = Via Midi Common only) GK350 Performances † GK350 Digital Effects † † † GK330 STYLES CC00 = 48 REVERB METRONOME BIG BAND 1 CC32 = 00 CC16 = 0 BIG BAND 2 8 BEAT PC Performance 00-05 CC48 = n.

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