Page 1: Table Of Contents
CONTENTS Safety Precautions P. 2 SYNCHRO Start P. 16 Panel Controls and Terminals P. 6 SYNCHRO Stop P.19 Preparations P. 9 Accompaniment Sections (Main A/B & Setting up P. 9 fill-ins) P. 20 Connections P. 9 Using Auto Accompaniment Headphone and Audio Output P.
Page 2: Safety Precautions
Safety Precautions Symbols Various symbols are used in this user's manual guide and on the product itself to ensure that the product is used safely and Correctly, and to prevent injury to the user and other person as well as damage to property. Those symbols along with their Meanings are shown below.
Page 3 Do not attempt to shape the power cord or subject it to excessive bending, twisting or pulling. This may cause fire or electrical shock. Please use the adaptor specified for this instrument. Use if another adaptor may cause fire, electrical shock, or malfunction. Do not locate the instrument or its stand on an uneven or unstable surface.
Page 4 Be careful of the bags around children. *. Never allow anyone to place the plastic bags of the instrument, its accessories, and its separately sold options over their heads. Doing so many cause suffocation. Particular caution is required in homes with small children. ! CAUTION AC Adapter *.
Page 5 Don not place keyboard on lacquered furniture. *. The instrument's silicone rubber feet may eventually blacken or scar lacquered surfaces. Use felt cloth pads to insulate the feet preferably use a PRELUDE musical instrument stand designed for your keyboard. Do not place heavy objects on the instruments. *.
Page 6: Panel Controls And Terminals
PANEL CONTROLS AND TERMINALS...
Page 8 External Terminals...
Page 9: Preparations
PREPARATIONS PREPARATIONS 1.Fix the left and right feet on the Setting Up Setting Up ground board with 4 black screws at each side. 2.Put 8 wooden screws into the small holes in the front left and right feet. 4 for each side. Then fix these feet separately on the ground board and ground feet.
Page 10: Playing The Piano
PLAYING THE PIANO PLAYING THE PIANO STARTING TO PLAYTHE PIANO STARTING TO PLAYTHE PIANO TURNING ON THE INSTRUMENT Before plugging in the AC cable, set the [POWER] to NOTE: First plug the power cable output in [AC Socket], then You should wait 2 or 3 seconds if you want to restart the instrument.
Page 11: Dual Voice
Dual Voice Dual Voice This function allows you to play two voices at the same time. NOTE: Follow the previous Selecting a Voice process to choose the In Dual Voice mode, if you press t h e k e y b o a r d , i t m a y s o u n d first voice.
Page 12: Reverbpitch Bend Roller
Pitchbend Roller NOTE: It is used to adjust the voice volume when playing this This Roller has no effect on Auto Bass chord. instrument, simulating the pitch bend of natural musical The primary setting is +/- 200 dieresis (2 instruments. This enables certain voices (e.g. guitar) to be more semitones), and the adjust range is +/-1 vivid, and display different music styles.
Page 13: Tuning
Harmony The Harmony section features a variety of performance effects that enhance the melodies you play when using the accompaniment styles of the W8808A. A total of twenty-six Harmony types are available. NOTE: Tremolo, Trill and Echo effects can be used even if For the first ten Harmony Types(Duet, accompaniment is off.
Page 14: Accompaniment Style
ACCOMPANIMENT STYLE ACCOMPANIMENT STYLE W8808A provides dynamic rhymes and accompaniment patterns, as well as voice settings appropriate for each pattern for various popular music styles. A total of 100 kinds of different accompaniment styles are available, in two different categories Group A and Group B. All leading styles are printed on the panel. At the upper part of each style button are styles of Group A and lower part Group B.
Page 15: Playing The Accompaniment
Playing the Accompaniment The panel buttons below function as accompaniment controls. Press this button to call up This button turns on / off This button controls the This button turns on / off Main B, and automatically add Sync Start function. Intro section.
Page 16: Synchro Start
Sync Start W8808A has Sync Start function that allows you to start the accompaniment and rhythm by simply pressing a key on the keyboard. To enable this function, first press the [SYNC START] button, (the beat marks all flash to indicate Sync Start stand-by), then press any key / chord on the keyboard.
Page 17 To use Sync Start with an Intro section: 1). Press [MAIN] to choose which section (A / B) is to follow the Intro. DEMO SONGS. CONTROL & EFFECT DEMO SONGS. CONTROL & EFFECT MINUS PERCUSSION DEMO DUAL REVERB TOUCH CHORUS HARMONY CHANNEL SYNC...
Page 18 Using an Ending section Press the [ENDING] button, then the accompaniment stops after the Ending section is finished. DEMO SONGS. CONTROL & EFFECT DEMO SONGS. CONTROL & EFFECT MINUS DEMO DUAL REVERB TOUCH CHORUS HARMONY PERCUSSION CHANNEL SYNC CHORD SYNC STOP START/STOP INTRO MAIN A MAIN B...
Page 19 SYNC Stop SYNC Stop This convenient feature lets you stop / pause the auto accompaniment by releasing your fingers from the auto accompaniment section of the keyboard. Playing the chord again restarts the auto accompaniment. This is ideal for putting dynamic breaks in your performance for example, stopping the rhythm and accompaniment briefly while you play a melodic break or solo with your right hand.
Page 20: Accompaniment Sections
Accompaniment Sections (Main A / B and Fill-ins) Accompaniment Sections (Main A / B and Fill-ins) While the accompaniment is playing, you can add variation in the rhythm / accompaniment by pressing the [MAIN / AUTO FULL] button. This switches between the Main A and Main B sections, automatically playing a fill-in pattern to smoothly lead into the next section.
Page 21: Using Auto Accompaniment Multi Fingering
Finger you can simply play a one-, two- or three-finger chord indication (see Single Finger Chords below). The Fingered technique is that of conventionally playing all the notes of the chord. Whichever method you use, the W8808A understands what chord you indicate and then automatically generates the accompaniment.
Page 22 NOTE: Notes in parentheses can be omitted. Playing two same root keys in the a d j a c e n t o c t a v e s p r o d u c e s accompaniment based only on the root. A perfect fifth (1+5) produces accompaniment based only on the root and fifth which can be used with both...
Page 23: Percussion
PERCUSSION PERCUSSION KEYBOARD PERCUSSION KEYBOARD PERCUSSION By applying percussion function, you can give a vivid performance as if you were playing a drum or some other percussion instruments. This keyboard can produce 61 different kinds of percussion music, and 18 traditional Chinese percussions. Press [PERCUSSION] button to select the percussion.
Page 24: Saving Songs
SAVING SONGS SAVING SONGS To save songs is to save your own performance (5 melody channels) and the accompaniment (chord channel) together as a song, in case sometimes you want to repeat it again. This instrument can save at most 5 songs. Saving Songs consists of 8 control buttons: [SONG NO.] to choose the song, [SAVE] to do the preparation, [MELODY 1-5] to choose the melody voice part, [CHORD / CLEAR] to select the chord and musical track and as well as clear the saved songs.
Page 25: Song Recording
SONG MEMORY SONG MEMORY Song recording on the W8808A is similar to using a tape recorder; whatever you play on the keyboard is recorded in real time as you play it. Also, when you record subsequent parts to other tracks, you can hear the previously recorded parts as you record new ones.
Page 26 To select a User song number for recording. Press [SONG NO] button, and use [+ / Yes] or [- / No] button to choose song number you want for recording. REGISTRATION MEMORY REGISTRATION MEMORY ACMP REGISTRATION ACMP METRONOME BANK MEMORY FREEZE SPLIT SONG...
Page 27 Muting Tracks During Playback While the recording is enabled, you can selectively mute different tracks. This is useful for when you want to clearly hear certain tracks, and not others, during recording. Muting can also be done on the fly during playback.
Page 28: Song Clear
SONG CLEAR SONG CLEAR The Song Clear operation completely erases all the recorded data on all tracks of a selected User song. Use this operation only when you are sure you want to erase a song and record a new one. To erase an individual track of a song while leaving the other tracks intact, use the Track Clear operation.
Page 29: Track Clear
TRACKS CLEAR TRACKS CLEAR The Track Clear operation is to completely erase all the recorded data on a selected track of a selected User song, leaving the other tracks intact. Use this operation only when you are sure to clear a track and record a new one. To erase the data of an entire song, use the Song Clear operation.
Page 30: Playing A Song
PLAYING A SONG PLAYING A SONG This button is the panel button of song control functions. Its usage covers your saved User songs and the demo songs. This is to enable A-B Song Fast Rewind Function Repeat function. DEMO SONGS. CONTROL & EFFECT DEMO SONGS.
Page 31: A-B Repeat
A B REPEAT A B REPEAT This convenient A-B Repeat function is an ideal aid for practicing and learning. It allows you to specify a phrase of a song (from A point to B point), and repeat it while yourself practice or play along with it.
Page 32 Turn off the A-B Repeat function Turn off the A-B Repeat function Press the [A-B REPEAT] button DEMO SONGS. CONTROL & EFFECT DEMO SONGS. CONTROL & EFFECT MINUS PERCUSSION DEMO DUAL REVERB TOUCH CHORUS HARMONY CHANNEL SYNC CHORD SYNC STOP START/STOP INTRO MAIN A MAIN B...
Page 33: Registration Memory
REGISTRATION MEMORY REGISTRATION MEMORY By applying this convenient function, you can save at most 32 panel settings (8 groups and 4 in each group). And you can recall any setting at any moment if you want. Each panel consists of parameters below: Voice (as well as Group A / B choice);...
Page 34: Recalling A Registration Memory Preset
RECALLING A REGISTRATION MEMORY PRESET RECALLING A REGISTRATION MEMORY PRESET First press [BANK] button, and then use [+ / YES] and [- / NO] to select the register number (from 1 to 18); if you do not select, it means to use the present memory bank. REGISTRATION MEMORY REGISTRATION MEMORY REGISTRATION...
Page 35: Midi Functions
Then what is the information on the keyboard? For instance, if you use W8808A to play a C quarter note, unlike an acoustic instrument that puts out a resonated note, it puts out information from the keyboard such as...
Page 36: Midi Functions
That is, it makes all the instruments a system, and greatly enlarges its function. W8808A can control MIDI device by transmitting note-related data and various types of controller data, and also can be controlled by outside MIDI information, which can automatically decide the music source mode, and choose MIDI track, voice and effect, and change the parameter and as well as perform the appointed voice.
Page 37 CONNECTINT TO A PERSONAL COMPUTER CONNECTINT TO A PERSONAL COMPUTER By connecting your W8808A's MIDI terminals to a personal computer, you can have access to a wide variety of music software. When using a MIDI interface device installed in the personal computer, connect the MIDI terminals of the personal computer and the W8808A.
Page 38: Voice List
VOICE LIST VOICE LIST The W8808A has 64-note maximum polyphony. This means that it can play a maximum of up to 64 notes at once, regardless of what functions are used. Auto Accompaniment uses a number of the available notes, so when Auto Accompaniment is used the total number of available notes for playing on the keyboard is correspondingly reduced.
Page 39 VOICE LIST MIDI MIDI Voice Voice Name of Voice Name of Voice SYNTH REED SOUND EFFECT LEAD1(WOUARE) FRET NOSE LEAD2(SAWTIITH) BREATH NOISE LEAD3(CALLIOPE) SEASHORE LEAD4(CHIFF) BIRD TWEET LEAD5(CHARANG) TELEPHONE RING LEAD6(VOICE) HELICOPTER LEAD7(FIFTH) APPLAUSE LEAD8(BASS+LEAD) GUNSHOT SYNTH PAD FOLK PAD1(NEW AGE) YUNLUO PAD2(WARM) GUANMEILANG...
Page 40: Rhythm List
RHYTHM LIST Name Name COUNTRY-1 8/16BEAT 8/16 COUNTRY-2 8BEAT-1 COUNTRY DANCE 8BEAT-2 COUNTRY ROCK 8BEAT-3 COUNTRY WALTZ 16BEAT-1 16 1 CARIBBEAN 16BEAT-2 16 2 REGGAE-1 16BEAT-3 16 3 REGGAE-2 CARIBBEAN POOPROCK LATIN-1 FOLKROCK BOSSA-1 POPBOLERO BOSSA-2 POPWALTZ SAMBA-1 SOULBALLAD SAMBA-2 MOOTOWN RUMBA DANCE...
Page 41: Drum Set Table
DRUM SET TABLE (MIDI CHANNEL 10) HQ STD SET1 CHINESE SET HQ ROOM SET HQ POWER SET HQ ELEC. SET 39 - D#2 42 - F#2 44 - G#2 46 - A#2 49 - C#3 51 - D#3 54 - F#3 Closed Hi Hat [EXC1] 56 - G#3 58 - A#3...
Page 42 DRUM SET TABLE (MIDI CHANNEL 10) HQ TR808 SET HQ DANCE SET BRUSH ORCHESTRA SFX SET HQ Dance snare1 HQ Dance snare2 808 OHH [EXC1] 808 OHH [EXC1] 89 F6 Horse Gallop 90 - F#6 Birds 91 G6 Rain 92 - G#6 Thunder 93 A6 Wind...
Page 43: Function Parameters
FUNCTION PARAMETERS RANGE/ TYPE DISPLAY INSTRUCTION SETTING W8808A W8808A W8808A W8808A,...
Page 44: Troubleshooting
Not all of the voices seem to sound, The W8808A is polyphonic up to a maximum of or the sound seems to be cut off. 64 notes. If the Dual voice is being used and a...
Page 45 Panel Control Demo songs, Voice, Style Mode, Accompaniment Volume, Touch Sense, Reverb, Sustain, Dual, Function, Song Number, Memory, Song Memory, Registration Memory Functions: Dual Voice, Dual Balance, Sustain, Pitch bend Roller, Touch Response, Reverb, Tuning, Transpose, Tempo, Harmony Metronome Large LCD Screen Display Auxiliary Interfaces DC input, earphone/auxiliary output, Foot Switches...
Page 46: Main Features
WELCOME To the happy family of satisfied PRELUDE electronic musical instrument owners! To get the most out of the many features and functions of the keyboard, please be sure to read carefully this manual and keep it at hand for future reference. MAIN FEATURES Strong multifunctional LCD system with large-scream display in many languages, which makes selecting and editing parameters much easier.

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