User manual CASIO CTK-551

[. . . ] This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: · Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. · Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. [. . . ] Press 9. This starts the variation pattern. Variation Pattern Fill-in 2. Pressing 8 returns to normal pattern. Lights 1. While a variation pattern is playing, press 9. This plays the fill-in for the variation pattern. · Variation pattern play will resume after the fill in pattern is complete. Lights Auto Accompaniment Intro Use the following procedure to play an intro of a few measures. 1. Press 7. This starts the intro pattern. Normal pattern play will start when the intro pattern is finished. · If you press 9 while an intro pattern is being played, the variation pattern will start when the intro pattern is finished. Lights Auto Accompaniment Ending Use the following procedure to play an ending of a few measures. 1. While an Auto Accompaniment is playing, press bk. This will play the ending pattern and then stop Auto Accompaniment play automatically. Lights E-39 English Using Auto Accompaniment Effectively Auto Accompaniment Fill-in Use the procedure below to play a fill-in pattern during a performance. · A "fill-in" is a short phrase played where you want to change the mood of a piece. A fill-in pattern can be used to create a link between two melodies or an accent. · Normal and variation patterns have their own unique fill-in patterns. Using Auto Accompaniment Using Synchro Start Use the following procedure to configure the Digital Keyboard to start Auto Accompaniment play as soon as you press a keyboard key. Adjusting the Accompaniment Volume Use the following procedure to adjust the balance between what you are playing on the keyboard and the volume of the Auto Accompaniment. 1. Adds big band style harmony. 002 · Auto Harmonize is controlled using the same button cq as the Arpeggiator (page E-56). Because of this, these two functions cannot be used at the same time. Duet 2 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 Country Octave 5th 3-Way Open 3-Way Close Strings 4-Way Open 4-Way Close Block Big Band 1. Press bm to enable Auto Accompaniment with chords (ACCOMP indicator lit) (page E-37). · Auto Harmonize cannot be used while FULL RANGE CHORD is selected as the chord input mode. Select another mode if you want to use Auto Harmonize. 2. Hold down cq until the Auto Harmonize or Arpeggiator type number and type name appear on the display. · If you do not perform any operation for a few seconds, the display will return to previous screen automatically. Type number Due t Type name 1 4. Press cq to turn on Auto Harmonize. If you play chords with your left hand and the melody with your right hand, harmony notes will be added to the melody. · Press cq again to turn off Auto Harmonize. Lit when on 3. Use the br (10-key) [­] and [+] keys to select the Auto Harmonize type you want. · 013 through 102 are Arpeggiator types (page E-56). Do not select them when using the Auto Harmonize. Due t 2 S tGrPno E-41 English Editing Auto Accompaniment Patterns 1 5 bp br 7 8 9 bk bl bm You can use the procedure in this section to edit the Digital Keyboard's built-in Auto Accompaniment rhythm patterns and create your own "user rhythms". · You can store up to 10 user rhythms in Digital Keyboard memory, using rhythm numbers 201 through 210 (CTK-551: 181 through 190). cs Editable Contents · · · · · · · Rhythm number Part on/off Tone number Volume level Left-right speaker balance (panning) Reverb depth (reverb send) Chorus depth (chorus send) Editable Accompaniment Patterns and Instrument Parts Any of the following parts that make up each rhythm that is assigned a rhythm number can be edited. Accompaniment patterns (intro, fill-in, etc. ): 6 types Instrument parts (drum, bass, etc): 8 types Accompaniment Pattern VARIATION VARIATION FILL-IN NORMAL NORMAL FILL-IN ENDING INTRO To edit and save an Auto Accompaniment 1. [. . . ] · Use a computer to create a folder named "MUSICDAT" on the SD memory card (page E-62). · Format the SD memory card on the Digital Keyboard (page E-60). Playback of SMF Format 0 or 1 only is supported. Adjust the SD memory card's write protect switch to enable data storage. [. . . ]