Using percussion pad transposing – The Singing Machine SMI-1420 User Manual

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Your keyboard’s percussion pads follow sounds of 5 different percussion instruments,
(bass drum, snare drum, hi-hat open, high tom-tom, and hi-hat close) to play at your
finger tips.

To play a percussion pad sound, simply press the desired pad at any time. The keyboard
plays the selected percussion sound each time you press the pad.

You can assign any of the available percussion sounds onto any of the percussion pads.
This allows you to quickly select and play any percussion sound that the keyboard can
make.

The keyboard clears any and sound you assign to a percussion pad each time you turn if off.

Follow these steps to record and play a percussion pad sound.

Press

then enter “ ” and “ ” on the keyboard.

Select the voice you want by pressing any of the 16 white keys in the middle of the

keyboard until you hear the sound you want.

When you hear the voice you want to record, hold down the percussion pad you

want to assign the sound to and press the white key.

Play the percussion pad to hear the assigned voice.

Assigning a Percussion Pad Sound

Note:

[1]

VOICE

5

0

[2]

[3]

[4]

Using Percussion Pad

Transposing

The keyboard automatically selects the key of middle C each time you turn it on. For
added flexibility, you can transpose (change) The keyboard’s key using as many as 12
steps (+6/-6). You can adjust the transposition freely by pressing the
buttons.

To transpose the keyboard’s key, press

to raise a chromatic scale. Or

to decrease a chromatic.

To reset the keyboard’s key to its default, press

and

at the

same time.

X’POSER

X’POSER +

X’POSER -

X’POSER +

X’POSER -

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