Tuning The Keyboard; Using Touch Response; Changing Auto Power Off - Radio Shack MD-1210 Owner's Manual

• The keyboard automatically resets
the key to the default value of 0
(middle C) each time you play a pre-
recorded tune.

TUNING THE KEYBOARD

Although your keyboard never goes out
of tune, it lets you adjust its pitch to
match other instruments or musical re-
cordings.
Note: You cannot tune the keyboard
while a prerecorded tune is displayed or
playing.
Follow these steps to tune the keyboard.
1. Repeatedly press
until
TUNE/MIDI
appears.
2. Repeatedly press
TUNE appears.
Note: The number on the display is
the number of "cents" to which the
keyboard is currently tuned, com-
pared to its default pitch. A cent is
the measurement that represents
the acoustical interval between two
tones. 1,200 cents equal 1 octave.
You can tune the keyboard to within
50 cents (101 levels) of its default
pitch.
3. Within 5 seconds, repeatedly press
or to lower or raise the key-
– +
board's pitch. Each time you press
the key, the number decreases or
increases by 1 (cent).
Notes:
• Memory playback uses the pitch
with which the memorized tune was
recorded.
• Auto accompaniment uses the cur-
• The keyboard automatically resets

USING TOUCH RESPONSE

Your keyboard has a touch response
feature that lets you adjust the volume of
your music's tone based on how hard
you strike the key(s), so you can add
emotion to your music.
Repeatedly press
until its indicator appears (to turn touch
TRANSPOSE/
response on) or disappears (to turn it
00 Trans
off).
Notes:
or until
00
• The touch response setting does not
• The MIDI data sent out from the
CHANGING AUTO POWER
OFF
When you operate the keyboard with
battery power, the keyboard automati-
cally shuts off after about 6 minutes if
you do not press a key. Press
again to turn power back on.
To have the keyboard not automatically
turn off during a session, turn the key-
board on while holding down
The next time you turn the keyboard off
then back on again, it automatically
turns off after about 6 minutes.
Special Features
rently set pitch.
the tuning pitch to the default value
of 00 (cents) each time you turn off
the keyboard.
TOUCH RESPONSE
affect auto accompaniment
received MIDI data.
keyboard is affected by the touch
response setting.
or
POWER
.
TONE
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