Casio Lk 165 User Guide

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Playing the Digital Keyboard
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The metronome lets you play and practice along with a steady 
beat to help keep you on tempo.
1.Press 5.
This starts the metronome.
2.Press 5 again to stop the metronome.
You can configure the metronome to use a bell sound for the 
first beat of each measure of the song you are playing.
 You can specify 0, or a value from 2 to 6 as the number of 
beat per measure.
 When playing a built-in song, the beats per measure setting 
(which determines when the bell sounds)...

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Controlling the Keyboard Sounds
Your Digital Keyboard lets you select tones for a wide variety 
of musical instrument sounds, including violin, flute, orchestra, 
and more. Even the same song sound takes on a different feel 
by changing the instrument type.
1.Press bn (TONE).
2.Use bq (10-key) to select the tone number you 
want.
The corresponding tone number and tone name will 
appear on the screen. • Use the number buttons to enter the tone number. 
Specify three digits for the tone number....

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Controlling the Keyboard Sounds
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Reverb adds reverberation to notes. You can change the 
duration of the reverb.
1.Press 3 (FUNCTION) a number of times until 
“Reverb” appears on th e display (page E-4).
2.Use the bq (10-key) [–] and [+] keys to select 
the reverb setting you want.
A pedal can be used to change note s in various ways while 
playing.  A pedal unit does not come wi th the Digital Keyboard. 
Purchase one separately from your retailer. See page E-1 
for information about...

Controlling the Keyboard Sounds
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The transpose feature lets you change the pitch, in semitone 
steps. A simple operation lets you instantly change the pitch 
to match that of a singer.
 The transpose setting range is –12 to +12 semitones.
1.Press 3 (FUNCTION).
2.Use the bq (10-key) [–] and [+] keys to select 
the transpose setting you want.
Use the tuning feature when you need to adjust the pitch 
slightly to play along with anot her musical instrument. Also, 
some artists perform their music  with...

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Controlling the Keyboard Sounds
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4.Press 4 and immediately release it.
This enters record standby.
5.Output the sound in the direction of the 
microphone.
The Digital Keyboard will start sampling automatically, 
and stop after one second.
 Sampling will not start if the volume of the sound picked 
up by the microphone is too low.
 What you sample is stored as tone number 401.
6.Try playing something on the keyboard.
 You can press pad 4 or 5 (ck or cl) to sound the 
sampled sound (page E-8)....

Controlling the Keyboard Sounds
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3.Output the sound in the direction of the 
microphone.
Sampling starts automatically and stops after about 0.3 
seconds.
 Sampling will not start if the volume of the sound picked 
up by the microphone is too low.
4.Try playing something on the keyboard.
 You also can sound the sampled sound by pressing the 
voice pad you pressed in step 2.
 Sampling a new sound deletes the sound assigned to the 
same tone number and the full sampling sound (page 
E-12).Turning off...

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Controlling the Keyboard Sounds
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You can use the following procedure to apply various settings 
to the sampled tone assigned to tone number 401.
1.Use bq (10-key) to select a tone number from 
405 to 414.
Tone numbers 405 to 414 actually represent effects 
assigned to tone number 401. Selecting a tone will play 
the sampled sound in a loop, along with the applicable 
effect, as described below.Use the following procedure to replace a percussive 
instrument with a sampled sound you sampled...

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Playing Built-in Songs
With this Digital Keyboard, built-in tune data is referred to as 
“songs”. You can listen to the built-in songs for your own 
enjoyment, or you can play al ong with them for practice.
 In addition to simple listening  enjoyment, the built-in songs 
can be used with the lesson system (page E-20) for 
practice.
Use the following procedure to  play back built-in songs (001 to 
090).
1.Press bl and bm at the same time.
This will start playback of the demo songs. Demo 
playback...

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Playing Built-in Songs
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3.Press bl.
This starts playback of the song. Keyboard keys will light 
as notes are played.
4.Press bl again to stop playback.
Song playback will continue (repeat) until you press bl to 
stop it. You can cancel song repeat by pressing 
7.
Use the operations in this section to perform pause, skip 
forward, and skip back operations.
■Pause
1.Press bk.
This pauses song playback.
2.Press bk again to resume playback from the 
point where you paused it.■Skip Forward
1.Press...

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2.When song playback reaches the measure you 
want to specify as the start measure, press 
7.
This specifies the measure as the start measure.
3.When playback reaches the measure you want 
to select as the end measure, press 
7 again.
This specifies the measure as the end measure and starts 
repeat playback of the measures in the specified range.
 During repeat play you can use 
bk to pause playback, 
9 to skip forward, or 8 to skip back.
4.Pressing 7 again returns to normal...