Play With Effects Or Bypass Them; Touch Response; The Octave- Transposer - GEM GK 350 Owner's Manual

Play with Effects or bypass them

While you play, one or both effects (Reverb and/or Chorus) will be shown active by
the corresponding display icons at the top of the display. This means that the cur-
rent Performance is being processed by one or both effect types.
By means of the [REVERB] and [CHORUS] buttons on the extreme right hand side
of the control panel, you can turn the effect on or off at will. When the REVERB and/
or CHORUS icons are shown in the display (top centre), the current voices are
playing with the effects. When one or both icons are off, the respective effect is
bypassed and the sounds play without the deactivated effect (said to play "dry").
To restore the effect, press the same button again.
8 Reverbs and 8 Chorus (Modulation effects) are available to choose from and both
effects units have an independent effect level control. For further details, refer to
the section entitled, "The Digital Effects" on page 16.

Touch Response

The [TOUCH] button is a general function which affects the keyboard globally. The
GK350 keyboard is Velocity Sensitive; in other words, the harder you play on the
keys, the louder the sound becomes, as occurs in an acoustic piano.
If you prefer to play on the keyboard without TOUCH RESPONSE, you can disable
the function by pressing the [TOUCH] button.
The small black arrow pointing to the Touch indicator turns off.
Press the [TOUCH] button again to restore TOUCH RESPONSE to the keyboard.
The Octave– transposer
Whether you are playing with Styles or just Voices in single, dual or split mode, you
can octave-shift the current Voice down one octave (maximum) in real time. The
current Voice is shown in the display by the message VOICE 1, VOICE 2 or LOWER
(when the [SPLIT/LOWER] button is held down).
1. Press the [OCTAVE–] button.
A small black display arrow points to the OCTAVE – function on the right to show
that the current voice is set to play one octave lower than normal. In the exam-
ple, Voice 1 is shown set to play an octave lower.
Cancelling the Octave Transpose setting
2. To cancel the octave transposition, press the [OCTAVE–] button again. The
small black OCTAVE– display indicator turns off.
REVERB/CHORUS ICONS
TOUCH INDICATOR OFF
OCTAVE – INDICATOR
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