KETRON SD5 Owner's Manual page 35

bass tracks without the need to keep the chord pressed on the keyboard. In fact if the LED is off, the accompaniment
plays only as long as the chord is pressed on the keyboard, whereas the drums tracks continue playing irrespective
of whether the chord is held pressed or not.
TEMPO - : Decreases the Tempo value of the Arranger or the Sequencer.
Increases the Tempo value of the Arranger or the Sequencer. Pressing both T T E E M M P P O O + + / / - - push buttons at the same time
TEMPO + :
blocks the Tempo value (which will then be marked with an *) so that this will not be modified when calling up another
Style having a different Tempo. If you wish to disable the blocking, press T T E E M M P P O O + + / / - - . at the same time.
INTRO/ENDING 1, 2, 3: The Arranger has three Intros and three Endings. Intro1 and Ending 1 are programmed without chord changes, so you
may develop the harmony as you prefer by manually playing the chords on the left part of the keyboard. On the other
hand, Intro 2 and 3, as well as Ending 2 and 3, are programmed with harmony variations within these parts, so it is
recommended that you do not change the chords while these parts are playing.
Pressing one of these buttons while the Arranger is in Stop causes the instrument to activate the selected Intro and
to go on to the Arrange A variation, unless you have previously selected a different type of Arrange. If the Arranger
is in Start condition, pressing one of these buttons activates the relevant Ending. If the J J u u m m p p function is enabled and
the Arranger is being executed, pressing any Intro button starts the execution of the selected Intro.
ARR. MUTE: This is used to mute some sections of the automatic accompaniment, which can be defined by the user. This func-
tion enables greater control on behalf of the user of the automatic accompaniments and offers additional musical
flexibility. When editing the pattern, you can define which sections are to be muted by pressing this key.
MENU LEFT
Pressing this push button, you access a menu that is dedicated to programming a
number of Arranger parameters and to calling up some specific functions. Press
L L E E F F T T M M E E N N U U to enable this menu.
F1 Retrigger & Mode: This calls up the R R e e t t r r i i g g g g e e r r function and the relevant
editing page. It is set by default on the bass and Chord
2 track of the Style, thus allowing you to repeat the fun-
damental note every time a chord is changed. If the
retrigger is activated also for the accompaniment
tracks, these repeat the chord programmed on the first
step of the first Style measure. The following parame-
ters are available:
F2 Dyn. Arranger: Using the keyboard velocity, you may control the volume of the single tracks of a Style. The page called up by Dynamic
A A r r r r a a n n g g e e r r allows you to set for each track the keyboard dynamics sensibility, thus modifying the volume of the track.
F1 Smooth Alternate: allow to enable or disable
alternate bass width play coherence instead on
usually root repetition
F2 Bass: this is activated by default and is disa-
bled by pressing the F2 push button again;
F3 Chord 1: pressing the relevant push button activates the R R e e t t r r i i g g g g e e r r function for the C C h h o o r r d d 1 1 track;
F4 Chord 2: pressing the relevant push button activates the R R e e t t r r i i g g g g e e r r function for the C C h h o o r r d d 2 2 track;
F6 Chord 3: pressing the relevant push button activates the R R e e t t r r i i g g g g e e r r function for the C C h h o o r r d d 3 3 track;
F7 Chord 4: pressing the relevant push button activates the R R e e t t r r i i g g g g e e r r function for the C C h h o o r r d d 4 4 track;
F8 Chord 5: pressing the relevant push button activates the R R e e t t r r i i g g g g e e r r function for the C C h h o o r r d d 5 5 track.
F9 Inversion: This makes it possible to choose the highest note for the chords in the parallel mode. If this note
is exceeded, the chord goes down to the lower octave, Range EB/G.
Mode: The M M o o d d e e function defines the harmonic behaviour of the accompaniment tracks (C C h h o o r r d d 1 1 , , 2 2 , , 3 3 , , 4 4 , , 5 5 ) to
be chosen between Close, the mode using chords with close inversions, and P P a a r r a a l l l l e e l l , the mode moving the
chords without altering the intervals it is made up of. Generally speaking the Close option is the most musical
and natural one. If you wish to modify the M M o o d d e e parameter, select the Style track pressing the D D A A T T A A C C U U R R S S O O R R
buttons and modify the parameter pressing F F 1 1 0 0 S S e e l l e e c c t t . To go back to the second page of L L e e f f t t M M e e n n u u , press F F 5 5
E E s s c c a a p p e e .
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