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Radio Shack MD-1210 Owner's Manual

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  • Page 1 MD-1210 MIDI Keyboard...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    ˆ Contents Features ........................4 The FCC Wants You to Know ................5 Preparation ......................6 Connecting Power ....................6 Connecting Headphones ..................7 Connecting an External Amplifier ............... 7 Using the Sheet Music Stand ................7 A Quick Look at Your Keyboard ................8 Operation .........................
  • Page 3 Using the Memory ....................27 Real-Time Recording ..................27 Playing Back from Memory ................29 Step Recording ....................29 Recording Multiple Tracks ................31 Editing Memory Contents ................. 33 Using MIDI ......................34 About MIDI ....................... 35 Making the MIDI Connections ................35 MIDI Data ......................

  • Page 4: Features

    ˆ Features Your RadioShack MIDI Keyboard is a you play them, along with the current state-of-the-art musical instrument that tone, rhythm, and tempo. The display’s offers you a vast array of sounds. You built-in backlight makes it easy to read it can choose from 200 different musical even in dim light.

  • Page 5: The Fcc Wants You To Know

    amplifier so you can play for a crowd tion or 3- to 8-measure ending to the (neither supplied). selected auto-rhythm. Assignable Jack — lets you connect a MIDI In/Out Jacks — let you connect sustain pedal (not supplied) to the key- the keyboard to another MIDI-equipped board so you can sustain or soften your device.

  • Page 6: Preparation

    ˆ Preparation Note: To connect a MIDI device to your tom of the keyboard, pull up the cover to remove it. keyboard, see “Making the MIDI Connec- tions” on Page 35. To connect a sustain 2. Place the batteries in the compart- pedal, see “Using a Sustain Pedal”...

  • Page 7: Connecting Headphones

    Listening Safely to AC power. When you finish, dis- connect the adapter from AC power before you disconnect it from the To protect your hearing, follow these keyboard. guidelines when you use headphones. Follow these steps to connect an AC •...

  • Page 8: A Quick Look At Your Keyboard

    ˆ A Quick Look at Your Keyboard STEP SPLIT TOUCH LAYER ONE TOUCH MEMORY ACCOMP RESPONSE PRESET VOLUME RHYTHMS MIXER TRANSPOSE/ List TEMPO SYNTH TUNE/MIDI TONES TONE REVERB Speaker INTRO DEMO List STORE BANK Number PITCH Keys VOLUME REGISTRATION BEND VARIATION/ Speaker Buttons...

  • Page 9: Playing The Demonstration Tunes

    dle row shows the tempo in beats per (No. 000) when you turn the minute, the number of the measure play- power on. Each time you turn it on after that, it selects the last ing and the beat count in each measure. selected tone.
  • Page 10 Follow these steps to select and play a Tone preset tone. STRINGS PIANO 1. Press TONE and the current TONE tone’s number appear. E. PIANO STRINGS Note: The first time you turn the STEREO PIANO keyboard on, it automatically selects 12 STR GUITAR 2 the tone GRAND PIANO (No.

  • Page 11: Using The Drum Pads

    ELEC PIANO 1 (No. 004), press and reverberate. To turn on the reverb, repeatedly press REVERB until an indi- cator appears next to the type of reverb • If you enter an incorrect first digit, you want. press to clear your entry, TONE then enter the correct digit.

  • Page 12: Using Layer

    To select a different low-end tone, enter three-digit number for the new base the three-digit number for the new low- tone. Then press again so the LAYER end tone while the SPLIT indicator ap- LAYER indicator appears. pears. To select a different high-end tone, press to turn off its indicator, To cancel LAYER, repeatedly press...

  • Page 13: Using The Preset Auto-Rhythms

    Selecting/Playing 9. Enter the number of the layered tone for the low-end keys. an Auto-Rhythm 10. If desired, hold down then SPLIT 1. Press and the RHYTHM RHYTHM press the key where you want the name and number of the current high-end tones to begin.
  • Page 14 • To quickly slow down or speed up INTRO . The introduction plays, then the the tempo, hold down selected auto-rhythm automatically TEMPO starts. • You can also adjust the tempo by Using FILL-IN first pressing , then TEMPO entering the desired number of This feature lets you insert a short (1- to beats per minute in three digits 2-measure) variation in the beat pattern...

  • Page 15: Using Auto Accompaniment

    playing, about 3–8 measures before you ENDING ) with all three types of auto accompaniment. want the rhythm to end. The keyboard plays a special ending, then automati- • After you press the auto accompani- cally stops the rhythm. ment keys while using concert chord or standard fingering, the keyboard USING AUTO plays the same chord until you...
  • Page 16 Concert Chord 1. Set MODE CONCERT CHORD 2. Enter a two-digit auto-rhythm num- The concert chord method lets begin- ber. ning keyboard players easily select and play a chord. 3. To start the auto-rhythm before the auto accompaniment, press START/ The number of accompaniment keys STOP INTRO...
  • Page 17 • When you play an aug, 7 – , or dim7 chord, the lowest note you play determines the root of the chord. Be sure that your fingering correctly Augmented Major (M) Minor (m) defines the root you want. (aug) Note: See “Fingered Chord Chart”...

  • Page 18: Using The Mixer

    Full-Range Chords selecting a rhythm, press ONE TOUCH , then start the accompaniment. PRESET While the easy random and standard fin- The rhythm starts playing at a suitable gering methods limit chord formations to tempo, and the keyboard sounds the the accompaniment keys, the full-range suitable tone for the rhythm you selected as you play the keyboard.
  • Page 19 3. Repeatedly press CURSOR Channel Part to display the current status of the channel — , or (solo). Memory Track 2 4. Repeatedly press to select the – Memory Track 3 status you want. Memory Track 4 (default): Turns on the current Memory Track 5 channel.

  • Page 20: Using The Custom Tone Synthesizer

    USING THE CUSTOM 3. Repeatedly press to select the parameter you want to change. TONE SYNTHESIZER Program Change Number (000 to The keyboard’s custom tone synthesizer 199) — sets the tone assigned to lets you create up to 32 of your own the channel.
  • Page 21 Understanding 1DCO and For example, if you selected tone 19 (Church Organ), 019 ChrchOrg 2DCO Tones appears. Then, when you press 026 ChrchOrgA appears. SYNTH A Digital Controlled Oscillator (DCO) controls the sound output of a digital sig- Note: To cancel the save operation nal.
  • Page 22 Notes: lopes. 00 specifies no change, a value from 01 to 19 changes the • If you want to change another vibrato, and a value from 20 to 49 parameter, repeat Steps 3 and 4. changes a parameter other than the vibrato.

  • Page 23: Using The Registration Memory

    Hints on Creating a User Tone sists of eight banks (0-7), and each bank has four memory locations (A – D), total- • Use a preset tone that is similar to ing up to 32 settings. You can save each the one you are trying to create.

  • Page 24: Special Features

    • You can use the keyboard’s MIDI 4. Release STORE REGISTRA- function to save your setup data to TION your PC or other storage device. 5. Repeat Steps 1–4 to store more set- ups. Storing a Setup Recalling a Setup 1.

  • Page 25: Tuning The Keyboard

    • The keyboard automatically resets • Auto accompaniment uses the cur- rently set pitch. the key to the default value of 0 (middle C) each time you play a pre- • The keyboard automatically resets recorded tune. the tuning pitch to the default value of 00 (cents) each time you turn off TUNING THE KEYBOARD the keyboard.

  • Page 26: Using Pitch Bend

    USING PITCH BEND pedal (not supplied), available through your local RadioShack store. A sustain Your keyboard has a pitch bend feature pedal lets you sustain or soften the key- that lets you bend a note by altering its board’s sound, and even start or stop an pitch.

  • Page 27: Using The Memory

    ˆ Using the Memory The keyboard lets you record up to two you play a note or a chord on the separate songs in memory for later play- accompaniment keys. back. You can use either of two meth- • To record using an intro, ending, or ods to record a song —...
  • Page 28 3. Press CHORD/1 to select Track 1. This data is stored on Track 1 along with the notes you played: While the keyboard is in memory record mode, the level meters for • tone number channels 11 through 16 correspond •...

  • Page 29: Playing Back From Memory

    STEP RECORDING • Turning off the keyboard while recording erases the contents of the With step recording, you can record a track you were recording. chord progression one chord at a time. • You can transfer memory contents Before you start, read these tips. (If you to another MIDI device.
  • Page 30 3. Press CHORD/1 to select Track 1. beat, or clock ( of a beat) — and adds your new entry to it. 4. If desired, you can change these settings: • You can enter a 0 (a rest) in Step 6, but the rest is ignored when the •...

  • Page 31: Recording Multiple Tracks

    RECORDING MULTIPLE Hold down (dot) or (triplicate), then press through to enter the lengths of TRACKS the notes. In addition to Track 1, where you record To enter a tie, press and enter the first auto accompaniment as well as key- then the second notes.
  • Page 32 7. Press START/STOP to end record- 7. Use – to enter the length of the note or rest. ing. 8. Repeat entering chords by playing This data is stored on the selected them and specifying their length. track in addition to the notes you played: 9.

  • Page 33: Editing Memory Contents

    press until Navi. Tr. appears. • When you change note, key pres- Then repeatedly press until the sure, chord, or drum pad data, the – track you want appears. keyboard sounds the new setting so you can hear what it sounds like.

  • Page 34: Using Midi

    Pitch — Enter a new note on the key- 2. Within 5 seconds, repeatedly press board or use to change to the next to select a song number. – – higher or lower note. The keyboard and 3. Hold down until MEMORY the staff on the display show your new...

  • Page 35: About Midi

    MAKING THE MIDI quencer, acquire a wider selection of preset tones from a sound module, and CONNECTIONS much more. To connect your keyboard to another MIDI-equipped device, you must use a ABOUT MIDI MIDI cable (available at your local Ra- Every MIDI-equipped instrument has dioShack store).
  • Page 36 Notes: Control Effect Number • The keyboard’s prerecorded tunes cannot be sent as MIDI data. Bank Select 0, 32 Volume • For detailed specifications of the MIDI function, see the “MIDI Imple- mentation Chart” on Page 46. Expression Hold1 (Sustain) Note On/Off —...

  • Page 37: Changing Midi Settings

    Notes: • Program Change = 22 (22nd tone in bank 3) • GM is a standard list of specifica- tions that allows music created on Note: Channel 10 is reserved for drum one MIDI device to sound the sounds only, so it is not necessary to same when played on another send bank select data when changing MIDI device.

  • Page 38: Dumping/Importing Data

    General MIDI mode on/off and selecting and as MIDI data. Set to a MIDI channel. send data only as MIDI data (the speakers on the keyboard remain silent). Follow these steps to change MIDI pa- rameters. AcompOut (Accompaniment Out) (Default: Off): set to on to send auto 1.

  • Page 39: Notes About The Midi Implementation Chart

    Note Number — This number repre- keyboard automatically exits the sents each key of the keyboard. The data transfer mode after all the data lowest number (0) is five octaves below is sent. middle C. Since the keyboard’s lowest note is two octaves below middle C and Importing Data the highest is three octaves above mid- dle C, your keyboard can send a note...

  • Page 40: Troubleshooting

    board. For details, see “MIDI Data” on music to begin at whatever point it was Page 35. last stopped. System Real Time — “Clock” is like a All Notes Off — This feature is a kind of metronome to send the synchronizing panic button: it stops the sounds cur- signal.

  • Page 41: Care

    Trouble Possible Cause Remedy No sound when receiving MIDI cables are not con- Check the connection. and playing MIDI data. nected properly. The key or tuning does The tuning or transpose Set the tuning or transpose to not match when playing parameter is set to a value along with another MIDI other than...

  • Page 42: Appendix

    ˆ Appendix NOTE TABLE Appendix...
  • Page 43 Legend: 1. Tone number 2. Maximum polyphony 3. Digital Controlled Oscillator 4. Range type 5. Recommended sound range for General MIDI * Tones without scale * The following shows maximum polyphone for synthesized tones 128 through 159: 141 BASS SLIDE: 24 notes 1 DCO Other tones: 12 notes 2 DCO Appendix...

  • Page 44: Drum Assignment List

    DRUM ASSIGNMENT LIST Appendix...

  • Page 45: Fingered Chord Chart

    FINGERED CHORD CHART Note: Chords marked with a cannot be played in the FINGERED mode due to the limitation of the accompaniment keyboard range. Use FULL RANGE CHORD to play pieces that contain these chords. Appendix...

  • Page 46: Midi Implementation Chart

    ˆ MIDI Implementation Chart FUNCTION TRANSMITTED RECOGNIZED REMARKS 1–16 * Basic Default 1–16 Held in memory Channel Changed 1–16 1–16 with power supplied Mode Default Mode 3 Mode 3 Messages Altered Note 36–96 0–127 See “Note Table” 12–108 * Number: True voice on Page 42 Velocity...

  • Page 47: Specifications

    Remarks Modulation and after touch for each channel are the same effect. Pitch bend sense, fine tune, coarse tune send/receive, and RPN Null receive In accordance with assignable jack setting GM on/off GM ON:[F0][7E][7F][09][01][F7] GM OFF: [F0][7E][7F][09][02][F7] Reverb change [F0][44][0E][09][XX][F7] XX=00: ROOM, 01: STAGE, 02: HALL, 0F: OFF ×...
  • Page 48 Recording Methods ................... Real-time, Step Memory Capacity ..........Approximately 4,900 notes (total for two songs) Edit Function ....................... Equipped Custom Tone Parameter Function Parameters ..........PCM set, amp envelope set, attack rate, release rate, pitch envelope set, pitch, level, touch sense, pan Mixer Function Channels ..........................
  • Page 49 ˆ Notes Notes...
  • Page 50 Notes...
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  • Page 52 Limited One-Year Warranty This product is warranted by RadioShack against manufacturing defects in material and workman- ship under normal use for one (1) year from the date of purchase from RadioShack company-owned stores and authorized RadioShack franchisees and dealers. EXCEPT AS PROVIDED HEREIN, Ra- dioShack MAKES NO EXPRESS WARRANTIES AND ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THOSE OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ARE LIMITED IN DURATION TO THE DURATION OF THE WRITTEN LIMITED WARRANTIES CONTAINED...

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