Bontempi MUSIC ACADEMY 16 6120 Manuel D'instructions page 5

E N G L I S H
SOUNDS
To select one of the 200 sounds recorded in the instrument, press SOUND
㉘
and enter a number from 0 to 199 to select one from the list of 200
⑲
SOUNDS ; the display indicates the selected sound number (e.g.: 001).
To select the next or previous sound, press +/– from the numerical keyboard.
The white and black keys played light up with a red LED; to disable this
⑱
function, press LED ON/OFF
.
N.B.: Only 40 sounds are listed on the keyboard; the full list can be found in the "SOUNDS LIST" table at the end of this
manual.
Sustain
Prolongs the sound of a note when the key is released.
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To enable or disable this function, press SUSTAIN .
Vibrato
The vibrato effect is a sound modulation.
⑬
To enable or disable this function, press VIBRATO .
THE TRANSPOSER
The TRANSP +/– controls shift the whole keyboard tonality by +/– 6 semitones.
By pressing one of the two buttons, the display temporarily shows the current value.
By simultaneously pressing the "+/–" buttons of TRANSP, you will return to the standard 0 value.
DIVISION OF THE KEYBOARD (SPLIT)
It has 61 keys and can be used in the following ways:
1. When simply turned on, one single sound is enabled over the whole
keyboard.
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2. By entering SPLIT , the keyboard will be divided into two sections: one
dedicated to accompaniment to form chords (keys on the left
from C1 to B2) and the other one to play the melody (keys on the
right from C3 to C6).
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ACCOMPANIMENT SOUNDS
The selection of Accompaniment sounds is achieved by typing a code between 0 and 199, when the rhythm is off and
the keyboard is split.
RHYTHM SELECTION
The keyboard has 200 rhythms recorded.
⑫
To select them, press RHYTHM followed by a number from 0 to 199
to select one from the list of 200 RHYTHMS; the display will indicate the
selected rhythm number.
N.B.: Only 40 rhythms are listed on the keyboard; the full list can be found
in the "RHYTHMS LIST" table at the end of this manual.
⑳
To start or to stop a rhythm press the START/STOP button
.
To increase or decrease the speed of the song press the two buttons TEMPO
+ and TEMPO – . By holding the button pressed down, the variation beco-
mes continuous. To go back to standard rhythm press buttons TEMPO +
and TEMPO – together.
The TEMPO + / – buttons are also used to adjust the speed of a demo or
metronome.
FILL-IN
㉔
Pressing this button while a rhythm is playing, reproduces a rhythmic variation of the drums.
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