GEM GK350, Owner'S Manual

Page 1: ...Owner s manual ENGLISH ...

Page 2: ...part or in whole without prior written consent from Generalmusic S p A Generalmusic reserves the right to apply any aesthetic design or function modifications it considers necessary to any of its products without prior notice Generalmusic declines all liability for damage to property or persons resulting from improper use of the instrument Copyright Generalmusic 2000 All rights reserved The keyboa...

Page 3: ...Play in Split mode with a Dual option on the Upper keyboard 6 To cancel Split mode 6 The Performances 7 Selecting the Performances 7 Balancing the Lower and Upper sections 7 Muting the sections 8 Instant Piano Voice 8 Add Pitch Bend to your playing 8 Play with Effects or bypass them 9 Touch Response 9 The Octave transposer 9 Styles Auto Accompaniment 10 What are the Styles 10 Selecting Style Mode ...

Page 4: ...oppy Disk F DISK 19 Save All 19 Load All 20 Playing Midi Files directly from disk 20 Preselect the next MidiFile 21 Melody Off 21 Saving GK350 data to the Midi File data disk 21 Loading GK350 Memory data from a data disk containing Midi Files 21 The Sequencer 22 Listen to the playback of a recorded Song 22 Record a new song 23 Panel Reset Restore Sequencer 23 The Metronome 23 The Beat function 23 ...

Page 5: ...1 Demo song On board Sequencer with Record Play Stop and 3 recordable tracks Accomp Melody 1 Melody 2 Compatibility GeneralMIDI Power supply This keyboard can be powered by current from a standard household wall outlet using the specified AC adaptor or by batteries Using the AC adaptor Always ensure that the instrument is turned OFF when connecting or disconnecting the power adaptor Applying power...

Page 6: ...he Aux Out jack Connect the rear panel AUX OUT jack to amplified speakers amplifiers or domes tic hi fi units for external amplification Use audio cables with standard 1 4 jacks and plug into the LINE IN or AUX IN of the external amp system To use the external amp system only and exclude the internal speakers of the GK350 plug a jack into the PHONES jack The MIDI IN MIDI OUT and MIDI THRU ports Th...

Page 7: ...the halfway mark This control increases or decreases the volume of the internal speakers the headphones and the Aux Out jack 3 Press the DEMO button to start a Demo song The Demo display appears as shown below Playback starts automatically When the Song reaches the end it loops back to the beginning and repeats continually until you stop the playback 4 Press the DEMO button to stop the Song at any...

Page 8: ... D the display shows the following information Selecting playing Voices The GK350 has 147 PCM voices including 7 percussion kits that you can select and play on the keyboard After turning on the GK350 sets to NORMAL VOICE mode with the display showing a black arrow pointing to the NORMAL mode in the top left hand corner of the dis play and the VOICE 1 message at the top central part of the display...

Page 9: ...e assigned to the second voice To return to NORMAL single voice play press the DUAL button again Keyboard percussion To play percussive instruments on the keyboard select one of the 7 available Drum Kits from the DRUMKIT group The DrumKits are recalled using exactly the same method used to recall a Voice by inserting the corresponding number on the nu meric keypad when the instrument is in NORMAL ...

Page 10: ...entering the digits of the voice on the numeric keypad or by using the YES and NO buttons For example with the SPLIT LOWER button held down press the YES button to select voice 50 Slow Strings for the Lower section It is possible to modify the Split point shown in the display and memorize the new setting to a Performance See the section entitled Changing the accompaniment Split Point on page 16 If...

Page 11: ...yle number For more information about how to recall Styles by selecting the Performances refer to the section entitled The Styles on page 10 2 Repeat the selections for all the other Performance buttons observe the changes in the display and play on the keyboard to listen to the change of voices Balancing the Lower and Upper sections If you are playing in Normal mode with Voices on a Split keyboar...

Page 12: ...ame time Instant Piano Voice Regardless of the current situation you can recall the Piano Voice instantly by pressing the PIANO button Pressing this button returns the keyboard to NORMAL single voice play with the PIANO voice active across the entire keyboard Press the PIANO button again to return to the previously selected situation Add Pitch Bend to your playing While you play you can add Pitch ...

Page 13: ...h affects the keyboard globally The GK350 keyboard is Velocity Sensitive in other words the harder you play on the keys the louder the sound becomes as occurs in an acoustic piano If you prefer to play on the keyboard without TOUCH RESPONSE you can disable the function by pressing the TOUCH button The small black arrow pointing to the Touch indicator turns off Press the TOUCH button again to resto...

Page 14: ...ard below the split point Selecting Style Mode To select the Styles you must set the GK350 to STYLE mode 1 Press the STYLE button The message STYLE appears in the top left hand corner of the display to show that the instrument is ready to accept a STYLE selection To enable the Style auto accompaniments you must select one of the two chord recognition modes ONE FINGER or FINGERED 2 Press the SINGLE...

Page 15: ...An automatic accompaniment starts to play generated by the Style sections Drums Bass and Accomp As you change chord from Major to minor or sev enth etc you will note a change of style pattern Each time you change key for example from C to F the Style pattern transposes automatically The recognized chord symbols are displayed in the bottom left hand corner For example if you play the chord of C the...

Page 16: ...NGERED and ONE FINGER The chords that you play Fingered or One Finger type must be played on the lower part of the keyboard dedicated to the Auto Bass Chords from note C2 up to and including note F 3 FINGERED mode requires that you press at least 3 notes for a chord to be recognized ONE FINGER mode requires that you press only one note for a Major chord to be recognized Other chords require more n...

Page 17: ...pattern Before starting the Style press the INTRO button to place the keyboard on intro duction start stand by The LED of the current Style pattern Fill1 Normal or Fill2 Var starts to flash to indicate that the INTRO has been preset Now press the START STOP button and play a note or chord on the lower part of the keyboard The Style starts with an introductory pattern then it proceeds with the sele...

Page 18: ...e third Harmony type 03 play the same chord and single note once again Now you will hear two notes at octave intervals for every single note played 6 Pressing the HARMONY button again turns the function off Balancing the Style accompaniment tracks with the Mixer When playing with Styles you can adjust the volume of one section with respect to the others using the MIXER Volume controls You can bala...

Page 19: ...LAY button on each Style you select recalls a panel configuration voices and volume settings for the accom paniment sections Drums Bass Accomp as well as for the Upper and Lower sec tions The S T PLAY settings are recalled using the first four buttons of the PERFORM ANCE section P1 P4 The GK350 provides a total of 96 x 4 384 different panel configurations for each Style Selecting the S T Play sett...

Page 20: ...utton to return to the previous display The new Split Point can be memorized to a Performance using the Store Per formance procedure explained further ahead in the owner s manual Digital Effects The GK350 contains a Digital multi effects processor which adds realism to your playing The Digtal Signal Processor DSP consists of two units REVERB and CHORUS which process the Performances with Reverb an...

Page 21: ... selected effect types and levels to the Performance using the STORE PERFORMANCE procedure explained afterwards Note Under the RECOMMENDED list above the display you will find some suggested Reverb Chorus settings type and level to obtain some interesting overall sound effects The Performance buttons and Store Performance You have seen that the Single Touch Play settings recall factory set configu...

Page 22: ... stored in the selected button will be erased by the new data 5 At this point you can check if your new Performance has been stored Chang ing the panel situation for example select a Voice or Style then press the PERFORMANCE button that you used to store your Performance in point 4 above Panel Reset Restore Performance A very quick and simple way of restoring all the original factory Performance s...

Page 23: ...py disk is not write protected If so remove the protection beforehand If you forget to do this the display will shown the message PROT when you attempt to save to the disk 3 Insert the disk into the drive and press the F DISK button The display shows the temporary WAIT message for a short period followed by the message NOMID no MidiFile The NOMID message appears only when the disk is empty no file...

Page 24: ...ssage When the messge disappears you know that the data has been loaded and the display returns to the Normal situation Playing Midi Files directly from disk The Direct from disk function allows you to play back standard Midi files directly from disk without loading any data to memory This useful feature also allows you to play along with the playback by means of the Melody Off function which canc...

Page 25: ...ata to the Midi File data disk If there is sufficient space on your Midi File data disks you can save GK350 Memory data to them without fear of overwriting the Midi Files Procedure 1 Insert the disk into the drive and press F DISK The WAIT message is shown for a short period After the WAIT message the display shows the name of the first available MIDI File 2 Press the F DISK button again to pass t...

Page 26: ... the drum track is triggered 5 While playing use the Fills change the Variation change Voices for the Upper and Lower sections activate deactivate Dual mode etc Whatever you do will be captured by the sequencer 6 Stop the recording with the START STOP button You can also stop the recording with an ending by press the ENDING button 7 Press the RECORD button to deactivate the sequencer At this point...

Page 27: ...METRONOME for practising purposes To play with the Metronome press the STYLE button and insert the value 00 on the numeric keypad press the 0 button twice Press the START STOP button to start the Metronome The Metronome starts beating time with a tick and an animated Metronome icon is shown in the display If you select the Metronome while you are playing a Style the auto accompaniment stops and th...

Page 28: ...ly the display shows the normal pitch setting 00 Press the INC or DEC TRANSPOSE buttons repeatedly to raise or lower the pitch in semitone steps until you reach the value required The cancel the Transpose setting and restore normal pitch press both INC and DEC TRANSPOSE buttons at the same time Tune The TUNE function allows you to fine tune the instrument in steps on one cent at a time cent one hu...

Page 29: ...ion channels to any value from 1 16 or OFF If you press the MIDI TX button the display shows the factory set MIDI Transmis sion channel If you press the MIDI RX button the display shows the factory set MIDI Reception setting in this case All channels Use the YES button of the numeric keypad to increase the Transmission or Re ception channel or the NO button to decrease it Control Change filter To ...

Page 30: ...it Lower Pan Tune Transpose Sequencer Record Play Stop Accomp Melody 1 Melody 2 Disk Drive Load 350 MEM save 350 MEM playback Midi Files direct from disk Other controls Single Touch Play settings Store Performance Per formances MIDI MIDI channel control for Transmission TX and Re ception RX with Control Change on off filter Connectors DC 9 12 V Aux Out Damper Phones jack MIDI In Out Thru ports Dim...

Page 31: ...ad All 20 Lower keyboard 6 M Melody Off 21 Memorize e Performance 17 Metronome 23 MIDI 25 MIDI channel 25 MIDI files 20 MIDI interface 2 MIDI ports 2 Mixer Volume controls 7 Music Stand 26 Muting the sections 8 Muting the Style tracks 15 N Normal mode 4 Numeric keypad 5 11 O Octave transposer 9 One Finger chords 12 P Pan 24 Panel Reset 18 Performance 17 Performances 7 Phones jack 2 Piano button 8 ...

Page 32: ...er s manual Style Tempo 12 Style Variation 13 Styles 10 T Touch Response 9 Transmission channel Midi 25 Transpose 24 Tune 24 U Using batteries 1 Utility 24 V Variation 13 Voices 4 W Write protection floppy disks 19 ...

Page 33: ...GK350 A 1 Appendix Appendice ...

Page 34: ...ella accordi One Finger C C Db D D Eb E Cm C m Dbm Dm D m Ebm Em C7 C 7 Db7 D7 D 7 Eb7 E7 Cm7 C m7 Dbm7 Dm7 D m7 Ebm7 Em7 F Fm F7 Fm7 B F Gb G G Ab A Bm F m Gbm Gm G m Abm Am B7 F 7 Gb7 G7 G 7 Ab7 A7 Bm7 F m7 Gbm7 Gm7 G m7 Abm7 Am7 A Bb A m Bbm A 7 Bb7 A m7 Bbm7 ...

Page 35: ...3 Appendix B Fingered chords chart Table 1 Appendice B Tabella 1 accordi Fingered MAJOR C MINOR Cm DOMINANT 7th C7 MINOR 7th Cm7 MAJOR 7th Cmaj7 DIMINISHED Cdim AUGMENTED Caug 6th C6 MINOR 6th Cm6 C C D Eb E F ...

Page 36: ...0 MAJOR C MINOR Cm DOMINANT 7th C7 MINOR 7th Cm7 MAJOR 7th Cmaj7 DIMINISHED Cdim AUGMENTED Caug 6th C6 MINOR 6th Cm6 F G Ab A Bb B Appendix B Fingered chords chart Table 2 Appendice B Tabella 2 accordi Fingered ...

Page 37: ...oup 65 S SAX 66 A SAX 67 T SAX 68 B SAX 69 OBOE 70 En HORN 71 BASSOON 72 CLARINET PIPE group 73 PICCOLO 74 FLUTE 75 RECORD 76 PANFLUTE 77 BOTTLE 78 SHAKU 79 WHISTLE 80 OCARINA SYN LEAD group 81 SQUARE 82 SAWTH 83 CALLIOPE 84 CHIFFER 85 CHARANG 86 SOLOVOX 87 5th SAW 88 BASSLEAD SYN PAD group 89 FANTASY 90 WARM PAD 91 POLYSYNTH 92 SPACEVCE 93 BOWEDGLS 94 METAL PAD 95 HALO PAD 96 SWEEP PAD SYN SFX gr...

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