Playing Along With A Prerecorded Tune; Turning Applause Off/On; Consecutively Playing Back The Tunes; Using The Preset Tones - Radio Shack MD-982 Owner's Manual

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Playing Along with a
Prerecorded Tune
• You can find the scores for most of the
prerecorded tunes in the Play Guide for the
Prerecorded Tunes , supplied with your
keyboard.
• Tunes 80 to 99 are solo tunes. You can turn
off either the right-hand or left-hand portion,
but not both.
• If you select tunes 00 through 79 and turn
off both the melody and accompaniment,
the keyboard plays an obligato
accompaniment (a simple background
accompaniment).
• You can turn the melody on or off by
repeating Step 2 even while the current
tune is playing.

Using the Preset Tones

• The keyboard has 12-note (maximum)
polyphonic sound. This means that you can
play up to 12 different notes at the same
time with most of the keyboard's preset
tones. Some tones are only capable of 6-
note polyphony.
• Most tones on this keyboard have been
recorded and processed using a technique
called digital sampling . To ensure a high
level of tonal quality, samples are taken in
the low, mid, and high ranges and are then
combined to sound amazingly close to the
originals. You might notice very slight
differences in volume or sound quality for
some tones when you play them at different
positions on the keyboard. This is an
unavoidable result of multiple sampling and
is not a malfunction.
• Some sound effect tones, such as
PERCUSSION (No. 99), do not follow the
musical scale when played, but change
effect as you play them in different octaves
on the keyboard.

Selecting/Playing a Preset Tone

• Precede a single-digit number with a 0. For
example, to select ELEC PIANO 1 (No. 04),
press 0 4.
• If you enter an incorrect first digit, press
TONE to clear your entry, then enter the
correct digit.
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7. To temporarily stop playing the tune,
press PLAY/PAUSE again. To stop the
tune completely, press .
STOP
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Follow these steps to have the keyboard not
play the melody or accompaniment of a
prerecorded tune, so you can play it instead!
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1. Select and enter the tune you want to
play.
2. Press to turn off the mel-
ON/OFF RIGHT
H H H H
ody. disappears from the "hands,"
indicating that the keyboard is not play-
ing the right-hand portion of the music.
Or, press to turn off the
ON/OFF LEFT
B B B B
accompaniment. disappears from the
"hands."
3. Press to start play.
PLAY/PAUSE
4. Adjust the tempo and volume as
desired.
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Your keyboard can simulate 100 different
musical instruments or sound effects. The
TONES list on the keyboard's top panel
shows the name and two-digit number for
each 100 preset tone.±
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1. Press . An indicator appears next
TONE
to TONE and the current tone's number
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2. To play a different tone, choose a preset
tone from the 100 TONES list and enter
its two-digit number on the keypad. As
you press the keys, the selected digits
appear.
Or, you can use + or – to move to the
next higher or lower numbered tone.
3. Play the keyboard to hear the selected
tone and adjust
MAIN VOLUME
desired level.
4. To select a different tone, repeat Steps
1 and 2.
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SYNTH-SOUND
60 SYN-LEAD 1
61 SYN-LEAD 2
62 SYN-LEAD 3
63 SYN-CALLIOPE
64 SYN-PAD 1
65 SYN-PAD 2
66 SYN-PAD 3
67 GLASS HMCA
68 COUNTRY FARM
5. Play along with the tune on the
keyboard.
6. To temporarily stop playing the tune,
press
PLAY/PAUSE
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tune completely, press
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When you turn off either the melody or
accompaniment and then play a tune,
applause automatically sounds at the end of
the tune. To turn off the applause, hold
down and press either
STOP
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ON/OFF RIGHT .
applause on again, press the same buttons.
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appears.
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Normally, the tune you selected plays
continuously until you press
all 100 prerecorded tunes consecutively,
press either TONE
. The keyboard plays the tunes
PLAY/PAUSE
in sequence starting with Tune 00.
To stop consecutive playback, press
69 SYN-BASS
70 PEARL DROP
71 COSMIC SOUND
72 SOUNDTRACK
73 SPACE PAD
74 VOICE BASS
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75 APPLAUSE
76 SYNTH-SFX (sound effects)
77 VEHICLE
78 PHONE
79 FUNNY
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The preset tones numbered 80 through 89
on your keyboard let you automatically play
two different layered tones at the same time
when you press one key. For example, STR
PNO (No. 80) plays string and piano tones
when you press a key.
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to the
80 STR PIANO
81 STR E.PIANO
82 CHOIR E.P
83 CHOIR ORGAN
84 STR GUITAR
85 STR HARP
86 BRASS STR
87 VIB PAD
88 12 STR GTR
89 CHOIR STR
again. To stop the
.
STOP
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or
ON/OFF LEFT
appears. To turn the
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. To play
STOP
or RHYTHM , then press
.
STOP