Basic Concepts; Styles, Song Styles And Songs - GEM WK1 Owner's Manual

• 2 Basic Concepts
In this chaper you will find the basic concepts to make WK1 work, along
with general information that will help youunderstand the various parts of
the instrument.
To gain access to the keyboard functions, as well as following the instructions
in the Owner's Manual chapter, you can follow a friendly shortcut: by holding
down the key relative of the function you wish to modify, WK1 will
automatically set into the desired function edit mode..

Styles, Song Styles and Songs

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Style/RealTime mode: to play with the accompaniments or use WK1 as
a normal keyboard. To enable this mode, select one amoung the 63
PERFORMANCES or a STYLE from the Style selection keypad. This
is the default mode when WK1 is powered up.
Song Style mode: to record the keyboard sounds with accompaniments
and create 8-track Songs. To enable this mode, press the STYLE key
(led ON), select the desired number (104-110) on the numerif keypad
and press the RECORD key.
Song mode: to playback Songs from a disk or from the memory. To
enable this mode select the Song number (111-117) on the numeric
keypad.
Style and Real Time modes (Style accompaniments OFF)
Style and Real Time mode have a Performance in common.
In Style mode up to 8 (5+3) tracks can play simultaneously, while only up to
3 can play in Real Time mode. Performances are edited in the same way in
both modes.
Style/Real Time Performances are always divided into two parts:
• the first 5 tracks are dedicated to the automatic accompaniment;
• the other 3 tracks are dedicated to the keyboard sections
(Upper 1, Upper 2, Lower) to play in Real Time.
Sounds and accompaniments can be recalled by selecting:
a Style (press the STYLE key, then select a number on the numeric
keypad )
or
a Performance (press the PERFORMANCE key, then select a Perfor-
mance using the function keys located below the display).
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