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Voyetra Turtle Beach teach Me Piano Deluxe User Manual

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Interactive piano-teaching system
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  • Page 1 Teach Me Piano Deluxe ™ Interactive piano-teaching system You will need the Product ID number from the sticker on your CD sleeve when you install the software. Please keep this number in a safe place and copy it to the line below so you will have it for future reference.
  • Page 2 Notices Teach Me Piano Deluxe - Users Guide; Version 2.0 Februry 2007 Software and documentation Copyright © 1996 - 2007 Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted by any means or in any form, without prior written consent from Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc.

  • Page 3: Program Overview

    Program Overview Teach Me Piano Deluxe is an enhanced version of Voyetra’s Teach Me Piano—so it’s more than just piano lessons! In fact, Teach Me Piano Deluxe provides a complete music experience that lets you create your own songs after you’ve learned how to play.
  • Page 4 Progress Report shows you how you’re doing … Song Book lets you perform what you’ve learned… References introduce you to theory and technology… Teach Me Piano Deluxe Several students can maintain their own progress reports as they learn to play, so every...
  • Page 5 Music Games test your music skills… Recording tools let you create your own songs… Sound Check helps you set up your music system… Teach Me Piano Deluxe Reinforce what you’ve learned by playing these fun arcade-style games: Music Quiz™ tests your knowledge of general music topics.
  • Page 6 Keyboard Lessons will keep track of many students... Your entire family can use Teach Me Piano Deluxe and the software will maintain individualized records of each user’s progress. Just make certain that each user always signs in under his/her own name. (NOTE: To add a new student, you must close the program and re-open it.)

  • Page 7: Getting Started

    Teach Me Piano Deluxe works with Windows 98, Millenium (ME) and Windows 2000 Professional. You must have the disc in the CD-ROM drive to run the program. With the CD in the CD-ROM drive, click Start. Point to Programs. Point to Teach Me Piano Deluxe. Click on the Teach Me Piano Deluxe icon.
  • Page 8 Once your keyboard is properly set up, your PC will be able to record the notes played on the MIDI keyboard, and if your keyboard has a synthesizer, Teach Me Piano Deluxe will be able to play music on that synthesizer.
  • Page 9 Prints the Progress screens. Enter Use instead of clicking on “Do It.” Ctl + Enter Use instead of clicking on “See It.” Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com Click on the menu item associated with the program you want to use...
  • Page 10 Green Sleeves, a fun song to learn, is included in this section, and the newly-learned techniques make it even easier to play. In Chapter 3, 6/8 time is introduced and more songs are learned, including the Marionette March, Waltz in C, the Can-Can and many others. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...

  • Page 11: Preparing To Play

    Keyboard Lessons can keep track of many users’ progress. This means that all of the members of your family can learn to play — at their own pace — and Teach Me Piano Deluxe will keep track of them individually.
  • Page 12 — especially if you’ve had some prior musical training — it is important to go through the lessons in order, since new skills are built from lesson to lesson. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com Click , or double click the lesson’s name to begin...

  • Page 13: Information Screen

    Adjusting the Volume in Keyboard Lessons If you find the volume too loud or too soft in Keyboard Lessons, use the Performance Options dialog box — click on the Metronome — to adjust it. Teach Me Piano Deluxe appear on the of the screen...

  • Page 14: Video Screen

    Practicing rhythm helps you gain a better understanding of meter and improves your counting. It is one of the most difficult components of music to play correctly. You may find that rhythm does not come easily — but don’t get Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...

  • Page 15: Performance Screen

    When you are ready to begin, click Do It. Click again to stop. If you want to hear the piece performed for you, click See It. Click again to stop. When you are finished, click Trainer to return to the Practice Screen. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...

  • Page 16: Performance Options

    The Finger Numbers option also can be disabled to help “clean up” the screen for greater clarity when reading the notes. Should you require assistance with the proper fingering for a piece, you can always enable Finger Numbers at any time. Teach Me Piano Deluxe Click Do It when you are ready...

  • Page 17: Evaluation Screen

    Begin playing. When you are done, you are returned to the Evaluation Screen where the section you just played will be evaluated If you wish to practice another section, click Practice again. Remember: practice makes perfect! Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com Your evaluation score is displayed as a graph.
  • Page 18 Thru sets the last measure in the range Click to return to the trainer screen where the measure in the range will be selected Teach Me Piano Deluxe to practice to set a www.voyetra.com...

  • Page 19: Progress Screen

    Chapter of that particular Section. If you go to the Progress Screen from Keyboard Lessons, the icon reads “Return to Review.” If you go from the Contents Screen, the icon reads “Menu.” Click either one to return the appropriate screen. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com summary of what you’ve learned is...
  • Page 20 A Base Level Synth uses only Channels 13 through 16, where Channel 16 is the reserved for percussion. • An Extended Level Synth uses only Channels 1 through 10, where Channel 10 is reserved for percussion. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...
  • Page 21 • In the Composer section, if the composer is anonymous, the song will be listed under the geographical area from which it originated. Teach Me Piano Deluxe Click Import MIDI to import...
  • Page 22 Importing a MIDI Song into the Song Book The songs you can perform are not limited to those which came with Teach Me Piano Deluxe. If you have songs in MIDI format, you can add them to the Songbook and then print them out, complete with note names.
  • Page 23 Play your imported MIDI files in the Performance screen. Even though you see only the notation for the tracks you specified in the Import dialog box, you will hear the entire MIDI file, including all of its tracks. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...
  • Page 24 If you would like to see note names and finger numbers on the print out, click the Performance Options icon and select “Finger Numbers” and/or “Note Names.” However, finger numbers cannot be printed for songs that have been imported. For imported songs, Teach Me Piano Deluxe can only print note names. Teach Me Piano Deluxe...
  • Page 25 Lyrics When you wish to learn more about a particular topic, just click the green, underlined words. These links to other topics help tie-in related concepts and make it easy to navigate through the screens. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...
  • Page 26 Pianos and Synthesizers. Video demonstrations of these instruments being played will amaze and enlighten you, as the sounds of the instruments fill your speakers! Interesting note: Voyetra was once a synthesizer manufacturer! Our classic Voyetra 8 and CAT synthesizers are featured in this section. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...
  • Page 27 In this section, you’ll discover that MIDI recording is significantly different than analog or real-time digital audio recording. You’ll also learn about analog vs. digital synthesis, and more. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...
  • Page 28 Using Recording Station’s sample MIDI files The Teach Me Piano Deluxe installation procedure also installs a variety of MIDI songs which can be used with Recording Station. There are dozens of MIDI (.mid) and MIDI with digital audio files (.orc) from which to choose.

  • Page 29: Recording Tracks

    Click on the Record Mode button for the desired track. The red indicator will light up to show it is active. Teach Me Piano Deluxe – this site bills itself as “The Most Complete & Best-Maintained List of Sites...
  • Page 30 Connect the output from the source (guitar, radio, etc.) to the microphone input jack on your sound card. Repeat steps 2 through 5 above. This makes it very easy to add that “live” sound to your musical creations. Discrete use of these two digital audio tracks can really make your song shine. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...
  • Page 31 Track 3 Solo riffs Track 4 Background rhythm or chords II Track 10 Drums DA Track 1 Effects pads (works only if you have Jammin’ Keys) Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com sequencer program. If you saved your file in ™...
  • Page 32 8: The beat grid is set to eighth notes. Each note is forced to begin on the nearest eighth note division in the measure. 8S: The beat grid is set to eighth notes with a swing feel. Teach Me Piano Deluxe...
  • Page 33 If you are having problems using Recording Station, you may need to adjust your setup. Refer to the Online Help for complete documentation of the Setup options. Help Click the Help button to view Online Help. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...
  • Page 34 A zero means the original key has not been altered. To decrease or increase the transposition, click the left-facing and right-facing triangular buttons. The Tempo and Key controllers affect only MIDI tracks. The digital audio tracks will remain unchanged. Teach Me Piano Deluxe...
  • Page 35 NOTE: If you receive a message at any time while recording digital audio with your microphone to the effect that you’ve “run out of space” for recording, see the section called “Digital Audio and the Windows TEMP file” in the Sound Check section. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...
  • Page 36 Congratulations! You’ve played, modified, recorded and saved your first songs in Recording Station. Practice often. Experiment with different songs, start your own songs from scratch, or with just a drum file from the drumtrax folder. You’ll have hours of fun building songs! Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...
  • Page 37 You can record a jam in Jammin’ Keys, save it to a folder, then import it into Recording Station, where you can further enhance your jam with new instruments and even vocals. This is great fun, and the tracks you build can get quite elaborate. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com Information Display...

  • Page 38: Keyboard Zones

    The Auto Riffs zone works only when Auto Jam is active. If Auto Riffs is turned off, the second octave becomes part of the Improvising Zone (described below). Teach Me Piano Deluxe Use the upper octave to play the lead...
  • Page 39 Release the button and change to another box in the Jam Grid any time you wish. The harmonies and Auto Riffs will change at the appropriate beat. Teach Me Piano Deluxe Clicking on any of the squares in a row is...
  • Page 40 From the Effects Pad Setup dialog box, choose the digital audio file you’d like to hear — it must be in .WAV format. Click on OK to exit the Effects Pad Setup dialog box. Teach Me Piano Deluxe Flute Saxophone...
  • Page 41 If you press it while a jam session is in progress, Jammin’ Keys brings your song to a close and ends the session. The intros and endings always go with the jam settings that you’ve chosen. Teach Me Piano Deluxe Choose from a wide...
  • Page 42 To speed up the tempo, click the up triangular button of the Tempo control. • To slow down the tempo, click the down triangular button. The window displays the current tempo in beats-per- minute. Teach Me Piano Deluxe Lead Pads www.voyetra.com...

  • Page 43: Transport Controls

    Click on the Intro/End button (it looks like some musical notes). This will trigger an ending passage to play. When this passage ends, the recording stops automatically. Pressing the Record button automatically triggers an introduction passage, giving you a few seconds to get ready to jam. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...
  • Page 44 Press the Load button in the Transport controls. Select the desired file from the Open dialog box. Click OK to load the file. NOTE: Jammin’ Keys will only load files saved with the .JAM extension. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...
  • Page 45 On the top left portion of the Save As window, give your song the name “myjam.orc”. In the folder window on the right, double-click “demos”, then “w_audio”. You’ll see the other Orchestrator files appear on the left. Hit “OK”. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...
  • Page 46 13. Now you can change the instruments, tempos, key, solo, add vocals- everything you learned how to do in your Recording Station exercises. Then you can save your tunes to play or improve upon whenever you like. Record over your solo to make it better. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...
  • Page 47 To run each game, click on the game box in the arcade screen. Overview of Music Games Teach Me Piano Deluxe Music Quiz Test your musical knowledge with a wide variety of questions—...

  • Page 48: Sound Check

    Have their own source of power. Most sound cards can supply enough power for headphones, but not for external speakers. Depending on the type, your speakers will need to be plugged into a wall outlet or an amplifier, or will be powered by batteries. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...
  • Page 49 MIDI file so you can listen for the music. If you don’t hear anything, it may be that your synthesizer and Teach Me Piano Deluxe are not set to send and receive on the same MIDI input device. Use the MIDI Setup dialog box in Keyboard Lessons to check that it is set to receive on the same MIDI input device that the synth is connected to.
  • Page 50 You should now be able to continue recording Wave audio. And again, once saved, these files are no longer in the TEMP directory. If you continually get the problem where you’re running out of space, you might want to consider getting a larger hard drive with more capacity. Teach Me Piano Deluxe www.voyetra.com...

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