Melody Off (Pk7 Only); Play All Songs (Pk7 Only); Play A Song With A Track In Real Time - GEM PK5 Owner's Manual

MELODY OFF (PK7 ONLY)

The MELODY OFF function allows you to listen to the Song playback without the melody, useful for a singer to
sing along with the backing, or to play along with the song.
Press MELODY OFF to cancel the playback of the melody - the corresponding display indicator turns on to
show the activation of the function.

PLAY ALL SONGS (PK7 ONLY)

If a Song disk is inserted in the disk drive, pressing this button allows you to listen to all the Songs present on
disk, one after the other, without loading the data into memory.
Simply press the PLAY ALL SONGS button to start the playback.

Play a Song with a track in real time

Most of the Songs that you load into your PK7 will most probably have all the tracks engaged by the sequencer.
You can check this at a glance by looking at the status of the tracks in the display. If they are all on (showing
the assigned Program change number), including tracks 09-16 (use function button F9 toggle between situa-
tion A [01-08] and B [09-16], you'll find that there are no free tracks to play along with the Song during playback.
If one or more tracks are off, this indicates that they are not engaged by the sequencer.
If you want to play along with your Song, you can either:
• A) disengage one of the tracks used by the Song, or
• B) activate one of the tracks not used by the Song.
A. Disengage one of the tracks used by the Sequencer
1. Select a Song and press PLAY/STOP to start the playback.
Check which tracks are not engaged for the Song.
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