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MD-1160 MIDI Keyboard
Owner’s Manual
Please read before using this equipment.
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Contents Features ................................................................................................................... 4 The FCC Wants You to Know ............................................................................. 5 Preparation .............................................................................................................. 6 Connecting Power .............................................................................................. 6 Using Batteries .
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Special Features ................................................................................................... 19 Changing Keys ................................................................................................. 19 Tuning the Keyboard ........................................................................................ 20 Using Touch Response .................................................................................... 20 Using Pitch Bend ...........................
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Features Your RadioShack MIDI Keyboard is a Large LCD Music Information Display state-of-the-art keyboard with many ex- — shows you the notes and chords as citing features. You can set the key- you play them, along with the current board to sound like 100 different musical tone, rhythm, and tempo. The display’s instruments or sound effects. To accom- built-in backlight makes it easy to read it pany your music, the keyboard has 100 even in dim light. rhythms, as well as auto accompani- 16-Note
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ment portion so you can play along with nate interference, you can try one or the tunes. more of the following corrective mea- sures: 100 Auto-Rhythms — give you a • reorient or relocate the receiving steady beat for many styles of music, antenna from rhumba to slow rock. • increase the distance between the MIDI In/Out Jacks — let you connect equipment and the radio or TV the keyboard to another MIDI-equipped device. • use outlets on different electrical cir- cuits for the keyboard and the radio
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Preparation Note: To connect a MIDI device to your Follow these steps to install batteries. keyboard, see “Making the MIDI Connec- 1. Slide POWER/MODE to OFF. tions” on Page 22. 2. While pressing the tabs on the bat- CONNECTING POWER tery compartment cover on the bot- tom of the keyboard, pull up the You can power your keyboard in either cover to remove it. of these ways: 3. Place the batteries in the compart- • internal batteries ment as indicated by the polarity symbols (+ and –) marked belo
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keyboard's DC 9V jack. Using an adapter that does not meet these specifications could damage the keyboard or the adapter. • Always connect the AC adapter to the keyboard before you connect it PHONES/ to AC power. When you finish, dis- OUTPUT connect the adapter from AC power before you disconnect it from the Insert the headphones’ plug into the keyboard. PHONES/OUTPUT jack on the back of the keyboard. Follow these steps to connect an AC adapter to the keyboard. Note : Connecting headphones disco
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To connect an external amplifier to your USING THE SHEET MUSIC keyboard, insert the cable’s plug into the STAND PHONES/OUTPUT jack on the back of the keyboard, and connect the cable’s To easily view sheet music while playing other end to the amplifier’s input jack(s) your keyboard, insert the supplied sheet (such as AUX IN or TAPE IN). music stand into the slot on the top back panel. Your local RadioShack store sells a full line of amplifiers, speakers, and connec- tion cables. A Quick Look a
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Operation Notes: BASIC OPERATION • The keyboard’s volume ranges 1.To turn on the keyboard, set from 0 (no sound) to 9 (maxi- POWER/MODE to NORMAL. The mum). Each time you turn on the POWER/MODE indicator lights. keyboard, the volume is set to 7. Note: To save power when operat- • To quickly change the volume set- ing on batteries, the keyboard auto- ting, hold down MAIN VOLUME s matically turns off after about 6 or t . minutes if you do not press a key. To turn on the keyboard again, set • To
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dy or accompaniment and play along on • a “score” to show you the notes the keyboard. that are playing (right side of the display) Playing Back a Prerecorded Tune 1. Press . An indicator appears SONG next to and the number of the SONG current tune appears. • a “keyboard” to show you the fin- gering and which keys are The keyboard always selects Note: pressed (bottom of the display) the tune “A Whole New World” (No. 00) the first time you press SONG after turning the power on. 2.Choose a tune
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number keys (between 0 and 9) or Playing Along with a press + or – within 5 seconds. Prerecorded Tune 5. To move to a particular section of a Follow these steps to have the keyboard tune, hold down REW or FF during not play the melody of a prerecorded play. The indicator ( or ) tune, so you can! appears along with the play indica- tor ( ). The keyboard sounds a Note: You can find the scores for most beep for each measure. When you of the prerecorded tunes in the Play have reached the section y
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6. To temporarily stop playing the tune, different notes at the same time with press PLAY/PAUSE again. To stop most of the keyboard’s preset tones. Some of the keyboard’s preset the tune completely, press STOP. tones, however, are capable of only 8-note polyphony. Turning Applause Off/On • Most tones on this keyboard have been recorded and processed using When you turn off either the melody or a technique called digital sampling. accompaniment and then play a tune, To ensure a high level of ton
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Notes: board (below middle C). The instrument listed next plays on the right half of the • Precede a single-digit number keyboard (above middle C). For exam- with a 0. For example, to select ple, BS/PNO (No. 90) plays a bass tone ELEC PIANO 1 (No. 04), press 0 on the left half of the keyboard and a pi- 4. ano tone on the right. • If you enter an incorrect first digit, press TONE to clear your entry, Layered Tones then enter the correct digit. The preset tones numbered 80 through 3. Play the key
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Note: When you select the Fingered or digit number on the keypad. Or, Concert Chord mode, the keys in the repeatedly press + or – to move to 1 lower 1 /2 octaves become the accom- the next higher or lower numbered paniment keys and do not produce per- rhythm. cussion sounds. See “Using Auto Notes: Accompaniment” on Page 15. • Precede a single-digit number with a 0. For example, press 0 9 USING THE PRESET to select POP BALLAD (No. 09). AUTO-RHYTHMS • If you incorrectly enter the first Your keyb
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• — lets you play Concert Chord Using SYNCHRO chords on the accompaniment keys using chord formations of from one This feature lets you synchronize the to four notes. The number of keys start of an auto-rhythm with the begin- you press determines the type of ning of your music. chord that plays (see “Concert After you select and enter an auto- Chord” on Page 16). rhythm, press . The SYNCHRO/FILL-IN • Standard Fingering — lets you play bars of the metronome flash to show the chords on the accomp
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To reset the accompaniment volume to est note is C, the keyboard plays a C its default value of 7, press – and + at chord. the same time. Note: You can press any labeled note(s) Note: You can adjust the accompani- to the right of the lowest note in the ment volume separately for your key- chord to produce a minor, a dominant seventh, or minor seventh chord. board play and prerecorded tune playback. Follow these steps to start concert chord auto accompaniment. Concert Chord 1. Set POWER/MODE to C
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Standard Fingering The standard fingering method uses standard formations of three or four notes, and lets the experienced musician play a wider variety of accompaniment chords. This chart shows the 15 chord types you can play on your keyboard by using stan- dard fingering. Major (M) Minor (m) Augmented (aug) () () Suspended Dominant Minor 7th 4th (SUS4) 7th (7) (m7) () Major 7th Minor Half- Major Half- (M7) Diminished Diminished -5 -5 (m7 ) (7 ) () () Dominant Major 9th Minor 9th Suspended (add
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–5 • When you play an aug, 7 , or dim7 7. To stop auto accompaniment and chord, the lowest note you play START/STOP the auto-rhythm, press . determines the root of the chord. Be sure that your fingering correctly USING THE CHORD BOOK defines the root you want. You can use your keyboard’s chord Note : See “Standard Fingering Chord book display feature to see which keys Charts” on Page 27 for a list of all the to press and which fingers to use to form chords you can play on your keyboard a chord.
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chord you entered in Step 3. Or, 6. Using the center “hands” as a guide, press a different root key to see the play the displayed chord on the key- chords based on that key. board. Notes: 7.When you have finished, press CHORD BOOK to turn off chord • If the chord is not recognized by book. the keyboard, only a dash ap- pears. To display the name of the chord you play, press CHORD BOOK, then play the • Since the keyboard automatically chord on the accompaniment keyboard. changes some chords so y
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(middle C) each time you play a pre- 2. Within 5 seconds, repeatedly press recorded tune. – or + to lower or raise the key- board’s pitch. Each time you press • Each preset tone plays within a the key, the number decreases or specified range. If a key change increases by 1 (cent). causes a note to exceed its range, Notes: the same note sounds in the nearest octave. • You can use the number keypad to raise the pitch by entering the cent • When you select preset tones 90 change value. through 96 a
