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gk380
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  • Page 1 D I G I T A L K E Y B O A R D S owners manual gk380 •English...
  • Page 2 IMPORTANT NOTE: To reduce the risk related to the correct and normal use of the instrument, all Generalmusic products are accuralety tested in a safety laboratory. DO NOT modify the present unit, the safety standard and the correct instrument operativity could be com pro mised, and as a further con se quence the warranty will be invalidated.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    MANUAL INDEX General Guide Page1 To Store A Memory Page19 Recall Your Memory Page19 Introduction Page4 Synth Page19 Power Supply Page4 Select A User Voice Page19 Using The Ac Adaptor Page4 Edit A Pcm Voice Page19 Using Batteries Page4 Demo Page20 To Insert The Batteries Page4...
  • Page 4 GK380 LAYOUT...

  • Page 5: General Guide

    General Guide POWER SWITCH O.T.S. (ONE TOUCH SETTING) MASTER VOLUME UTILTY MIXER CONTROL SAVE HARMONY DISK SUSTAIN NUMERIC KEYPAD DEMO DATA DIAL NEXT SYNTH BACK PLAY TEMPO + ACCOMP TRACK TEMPO - 4 MELODY TRACKS ACCOMPANIMENT CONTROL RECORD •START STOP...
  • Page 6 DISPLAY A.B.C LOWER DUAL KEYBOARD VOICE L-R-1-2/STYLE/SONG/ALBUM CHORD TEMPO MEASURE BEAT MEMORY TOUCH SUSTAIN HARMONY BASS CLEF VIOLIN CLEF DISK REAR PANEL MIDI IN MIDI OUT DAMPER VOLUME PHONES DC 12V MIDI IN MIDI OUT DAMPER VOLUME AUX.OUT...
  • Page 7 MAIN FEATURES 61 keys touch keyboard, 3 touch level. Multi-functional LCD which can display the key board and staff. Use number function key or wheel to select voice, style and song. Function feature that includes transpose, tune, octave, split point, pedal select, touch, DSP, midi etc.

  • Page 8: Care Of Your Keyboard

    INTRODUCTION Thank you for purchasing the electronic keyboard. This electronic keyboard provides you with the following features and functions. •186 Voices (178 factory + 8 User) •96 Styles •92 albums •50 songs and 5 demo songs with playing along feature •Multi-functional LCD which can display the key board and staff...

  • Page 9: The Midi In/Out Jacks

    CONNECTIONS THE HEADPHONE JACK A pair of stereo headphones can be plugged into the PHONES jack for private practice or late night playing. The internal speaker system is automatically turn off when the headphones is plugged into the PHONES jack.
  • Page 10 PLAY VOICE The voice mode features 186 authentic VOICES (including 128 General MIDI compatible sounds, and 8 User Voice.(See appendix 1 VOICE LIST) SELECT THE DESIRED VOICE NUMBER Press the VOICE button,you can switch three separate voice modes: VOICE R1,VOICE R2, VOICE L.
  • Page 11 LOWER VOICE This function allows to SPLIT the gk380 keyboard in two parts: left and right area. Press the LOWER button to turn on the lower voice. The LCD lights the lower voice fl ag and displays “VOICE L” and the relative lower voice name.
  • Page 12 PORTAMENTO AND MODULATION To have portamento effect,press and hold [PORTAMENTO] button and play the keyboard. There are four types portamento time (0-4). The default time setting is 2. (You can modify the portamento time with function menu). You can set button to modulation function. (See FUNC- TION MENU).

  • Page 13: Auto Accompaniment

    HARMONY Press any one note above split point on keyboard,there will be duet, trio or octave effect. Press the [STYLE] button to choose your desired style. Press the [A.B.C] button. Press the [START/STOP] or [SYNC] to play the style with accompaniment.
  • Page 14 USING AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT (ALL TRACKS) Press the [STYLE] button. Select a style. Select the desired style number with the controller you prefer (DIAL], [+/YES] [-/NO] or keypad [0]-[9] ) (See the style list in the APPENDIX). A.B.C (AUTO BASS CHORD) Press the [ABC MELODY/OFF] button after choosing the style.
  • Page 15 [FILL A] or [FILL B] button. This automatically plays the fi ll section, and smoothly leads into the next section-even if it is the same section. ENDING When you press the [ENDING] button, the gk380 plays the ending section appropriate for the style SELECTING A STYLE The keyboard has 96 different auto-accompaniment styles that can be used to provide fully-or- chestrated accompaniment.

  • Page 16: Accompaniment Operation

    ACCOMPANIMENT OPERATION Press the [STYLE] button. Select a style. Recall the desired style number with the control you prefer (dial, [+/YES] [-/NO] [0]-[9]) (See the Appendix 2 style list) Start the accompaniment. The style start immediately, by pressing the button, the rhythm starts playing without bass and chord accompaniment.
  • Page 17 The LED will light up above the FILL B button. Press the ENDING button, the ending will begin from the fi rst beat of the next measure. Note: holding down the [FILL A] or [FILL B] button, gk380 will play the fi ll section all along. Page13...
  • Page 18 Playing the ENDING section, the LED is fl ashing above the [FILL] button. Press the INTRO button, the intro will begin from the fi rst beat of the next measure. Press the FILL A button, the fi ll A will begin immediately and smoothly lead into the normal.

  • Page 19: Chord Recognize

    CHORD RECOGNIZE Press the ABC ON/OFF button, the A.B.C icon will appear next to “A.B.C” on the display. Chords can be produced by pressing any keys below the split point. split point You can change the chords of the accompaniment by playing keys on the auto accompaniment section of the keyboard using either the “...

  • Page 20: Volume Control

    VOLUME CONTROL ACCOMP VOLUME CONTROL The gk380 has 5 accompaniment tracks: CHORD 1, CHORD2, CHORD 3, BASS, and DRUM. You can adjust the volume of each accompaniment track. TRACK CHANNEL RANGE DEFAULT ACCOMP CH1, CH3, CH5, CH7, CH10...

  • Page 21: Keyboard Volume

    KEYBOARD VOLUME The gk380 has 3 keyboard tracks: VOICE 1, VOICE 2, LOWER. TRACK CHANNEL RANGE DEFAULT VOICE 1 CH 13 0 -127 VOICE 2 CH 14 0- 127 LOWER CH 15 0- 127 HOW TO ADJUST Press the MIXER button.
  • Page 22 METRONOME In the FUNCTION menu, you can turn the metronome ON/OFF . (See Function Instruction on p.29). When you turn on the metronome, the metronome sound and style will play at the same time. note: the time signature changes automatically when a style is selected.
  • Page 23 TO STORE A MEMORY Holding down the [STORE] button and press the [M1]-[M4] button.You can store your desired memory. RECALL YOUR MEMORY First select your desired memory bank and press the M1/M4 button. You can recall your desired memory.
  • Page 24 DEMO Press the DEMO button to play demos Use the VOLUME knob to adjust the volume of DEMO Press the TEMPO+/TEMPO- buttons to adjust the tempo of the DEMO. There are 5 classic demos at all. You can select the demo number with the control you prefer. To escape the demo mode,press the [DEMO] or [START/STOP] buttons.
  • Page 25 ALBUM 92 well-known album songs are provided to you for performance without melody and chords. After pressing the ALBUM button,four beats will fl ash simultaneously. Press any keys on the keyboard below the split point, then the chord will be appeared on LCD. A preset voice is set to each album song.
  • Page 26 OCTAVE Press the NEXT button to select and adjust the OCTAVE parameter with the control you prefer. Parameter Range:-2 to +2. Note: You can set the OCTAVE and TRANSPOSE parameters to VOICE1, VOICE2, VOICE L separately. The TUNE parameters is set to VOICE 1 only.

  • Page 27: Portamento Time

    PORTAMENTO TIME Press the NEXT button to adjust PORTAMENTO time with the control you prefer. Parameter Range: from 0 to 3. PAD ASSIGN Press the NEXT button to adjust PAD parameter with the control you prefer. Parameter Range: from 1 to 5: Sustain, Soft, Accomp, Tempo Tap, Memory.

  • Page 28: Local On/Off

    REVERB TYPE Press the NEXT button to adjust REVERB TYPE parameter with the control you prefer. Parameter Range: from 0 to 7. REVERB LEVEL Press the NEXT button to adjust REVERB LEVEL parameter with the control you prefer. Parameter Range: from 0 to 127.
  • Page 29 DEFAULT PARAMETERS PARAMETER RANGE DEFAULT METRO ON/OFF XPOSE -12~12 TUNE -50~50 OCTAVE -2~2 TOUCH OFF -1~3 SPLIT POINT 1-61 PB RANG 0~12 KEYPORTA KEYPORTA/KEYMODUL KEYPORTA PORTAMEN PEDALSUS PEDALSUS,SOF ,ACC,TAP ,MEM PEDALSUS DSP TYPE ON/OFF REV. TYPE REV. LEVL 0~127 CHO.TYPE...
  • Page 30 fl ashing. The disk icon will stop fl ashing and light it after loading. There are enough memory to store the disk song data in gk380. Playing any one of disk song will load nothing after all disk songs data have been loaded.
  • Page 31 If the midi format of a playing song is format2,the LCD will display :”Format Err”. If the ticks in one beat of a playing song is greater than 1024 or less than 24, the LCD displays “Midi Err”.
  • Page 32 DELETE MIDI Select the disk midi deletion function by pressing the UTILITY and [+] button or rotate the DIAL. The message ”DelMid” will appear on the display. Press the NEXT button and the disk song name (.midi) will display.

  • Page 33: Load Midi

    LOAD MIDI Select the load disk mid function by pressing the UTILITY button or rotate the DIAL ”. The mes- sage "LoadRec" will appear on the display. Press the [+] button and the saved disk mid name (*.mid) is displayed.

  • Page 34: Save Midi

    DISK SAVE SAVE MIDI Press the SAVE button to select Disk Save mid menu. Press the NEXT button to enter the save midi fi le mode. “MIDI0001” will appear on the LCD and the character “0” will fl ash.”H” will be changed by keyboard.
  • Page 35 RECORDING There is one user song can be recorded, each song has 5 tracks (1 ACCOMP track, 4 MELODY tracks). You can choose either RECORD or STEPRECORD to record the user song and edit some datum of song in any tracks and save them into disk with standard MIDI format.

  • Page 36: Stop Recording

    LCD. It will also stop recording at the end of the style if pressing the ENDING button when the STYLE is playing. MANUAL STOP Pressing the RECORD button during the recording gk380 will stop recording. If the recorded track has data, the fl ag of this track will display on the LCD. PLAYBACK Select track: press the [Melody1], [Melody4], [Accomp] button to select a record track.
  • Page 37 STEP RECORDING PREPARE TO STEP RECORD The preparative works for step record include selecting tracks, beats etc. Press the STEP REC button and LCD will display “SelTrack”. You can select the track by pressing the [MELODY1]- [MELODY4]/[ACCOMP] buttons. Press the NEXT button to confi rm and then enter next step.

  • Page 38: Input The Note And Time Value

    INPUT THE NOTE AND TIME VALUE Play the keyboard or chord to input the note. Press the 0-9 numeric keys, to input the time value (see the table). Semibreve Semiquaver Triplet Minim Demisemiquaver Rest Quarter note Quaver...
  • Page 39 MELODY TRACK STEP RECORD Input the note by number keys after pressing any keys on keyboard. Input the time value by pressing the time value button. The MEASURE BEAT and TICK Displayed on LCD will refresh in time. Repeat step1,2 to the end.

  • Page 40: Play Back The Step Record

    PLAY BACK THE STEP RECORD The same as the real time record. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION 61 keys with dynamics keyboard 64 notes max. polyphony 186 (178 + 8 user), gm compatibles, sound edit sounds performances 32 memories, 92 albums...
  • Page 41 APPENDIX 1-VOICE LIST Dis- SoundName Patch Instr. / Drum- Dis- SoundName Patch Instr. / Drum- Dis- SoundName Patch Instr. / DrumKit play (Prog- play (Prog- play (Prog- Num. Bank- Num. BankMSB) Num. BankMSB) MSB) Piano1 Instrument Fr.Horn...

  • Page 42: Song List

    CHORD TABLE Chord Chord Name/[Abbreviation] Normal Voicing Chord (C) Display Major [M] 1-3-5 Major sixth [6] 1-(3) -5- 6 Major seventh [M7] 1-3-(5)-7 Major seventh sharp Eleventh [M7#11] 1-(2) -3-#4-(5) -7 CM7#11 CM7#11 CM7#11 Major add ninth [Madd9]...

  • Page 43: Midi Implementation Chart

    MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART Function ransmitted Recognized Remarks Basic Default Channel Changed 1-16ch 1-16ch Default Mode Messages Altered *********** Note 0-127 0-127 0-127 Number: True voice *********** Velocity : Note on 9nH,V=1 -127 9nH,V=1 -127 te off 9nH,V=0 X (9nH,V=0;8nH,V=0 - 127) Af ter key' s Touch...
  • Page 44 STOCK CODE 271467 Specifi cations are subject to change without prior notice. PRINTED IN CHINA Generalmusic S.p.A. Via delle Rose, 12 47842 S.Giovanni in Marignano (RN) - Italy Tel. +39 0541 959511Fax +39 0541 957404 www.generalmusic.com...

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