Bontempi Music academy 16 5415 Manuel D'instructions page 5

E N G L I S H
SOUNDS
To select one of the 100 sounds recorded in the instrument, press
⑱
SOUND/RHYTHM and enter a number from 0 to 99 to select
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one from the list of 100 SOUNDS ;
the display shows a dot after the first digit, indicating that you
are selecting sounds.
To select the next or previous sound, press +/- from the nume-
⑮
rical keyboard .
Sustain
Prolongs the sound of a note when the key is released.
⑫
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
.
RHYTHM SELECTION
The keyboard has 100 rhythms recorded.
⑱
To select them, press SOUND/RHYTHM followed by a num-
ber from 0 to 99 to select one from the list of 100 RHYTHMS;
the display shows a dot after the second digit, indicating that you
are selecting rhythms.
①
To start or to stop a rhythm press the START/STOP button .
To increase or decrease the speed of the song press the two
⑥
buttons TEMPO + and TEMPO – . By holding the button
pressed down, the variation becomes 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.
FILL-IN
④
Pressing this button while a rhythm is playing, reproduces a
rhythmic variation of the drums.
SINGLE CHORD (easy chord)
To compose the simplified chords, play a rhythm by pressing
③
① :
START/STOP press SINGLE for the keyboard to auto-
matically be split into two sections. This way, it is possible to
compose chords on the left side (from C1 to F#2) in easy mode
with one, two or three fingers (refer to the SINGLE CHORD table
at the end of this manual).
SYNC
In SINGLE CHORD mode, instead of pressing START/STOP, press
⑤
SYNC , in this way the rhythm will start after composing the
chord.
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