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Transpos i t ion and Pitch Control
Transpos i t ion
Transposition is the ability to shift the keyboard into a higher or lower key. This
is extremely useful when accompanying a vocalist, for instance, to bring a given
song into the vocalist's range.
The keyboard can be transposed up to one octave either up or down.
Procedure:_
Press
one the notes in the range F6#
to F7 while holding down the MIDI/
TRANSPOSE switch. The keyboard trans¬
poses into the selected key; that is,
the selected note may now be played
by pressing C7,
and all other notes
are shifted accordingly.
Pi t c h
Example:_
Pressing D7 while holding down the
MIDI/TRANSPOSE switch transposes as
follows:
C major
D major
• Turning off power returns to the
original key (A = 440 Hz).
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Pitch control is the ability to make minor adjustments in the C-800's pitch,
especially useful for matching to the pitch of other instruments
ensemble.
(Range of adjustment is +50 cents. )
Procedure: To raise the pitch-_
While holding down the leftmost two
white keys (AO and BO),
press one of
the pitch control keys (C4 to B4).
Each press of the key raises the pitch
by about 2 cents.
This is
when playing in an
Procedure: To lower the pitch._
While holding down the leftmost two
keys (AO and AO#),
press one of the
pitch control keys- Each press of the
key lowers the pitch by about 2 cents.
•Turning off power returns the C-800
to the original pitch (A = 440 Hz).
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