Casio Lk 280 User Guide

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Sampling Sounds and Playing Them on the Digital 
Keyboard
You can use the Digital Keyboard to sample a sound from a 
microphone, and then play the sound with keyboard keys. For 
example, you could sample the bark of your dog and then use 
the sound in a melody. The sampling feature is a great way to 
create new sounds that are highly creative.
 Turn off the microphone and the Digital Keyboard 
before connecting them.
1.Connect a microphone.
 You also could connect a commercially available...

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2.Press cr and cs at the same time.
This enters sampling standby.
The allowable sampling time (in seconds) will appear on 
the display momentarily and then the display will change 
to the following.
3.Output the sound in the direction of the 
microphone.
Sampling will start automatically.
 Sampling will not start if the volume of the sound picked 
up by the microphone is too low.
4.After the sound you want to sample is finished, 
press 
cr and...

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3.Press the button (bt to cn) that corresponds to 
the melody sampling tone number you want to 
select.
This will start looped playback of the selected sound.
4.Press the same button again to stop playback.
5.Press bs to return to the screen that was 
displayed before step 2 of this procedure.
You can use the following procedure to change the volume 
level of the looped playback of each sampled sound, if you 
want.
1.Press the button...

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You can use the procedure to change the drum sounds that 
are assigned to each keyboard key.
 You can store up to three drum sets and store them as tone 
numbers 606, 607, and 608. Simply select the tone number 
where the drum set you want is located to assign the drum 
set sounds to the keyboard.
1.Press bo (RHYTHM).
2.Press bn (TONE) and then use br (10-key) to 
enter the tone number (606, 607, or 608) for the 
drum set whose sounds you want...

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You can use the procedures in this section to copy the drum 
sound assigned to one keyboard key to another key, to 
change the pitch of a sound, and to delete a sampled sound.
1.Press bn (TONE) and then use br (10-key) to 
enter the tone number (606, 607, or 608) for the 
drum set you want.
2.Press cr and cs at the same time.
3.Press ct (FUNCTION).
This is the editing mode.
 While in the editing mode, you can copy a sound, 
change the...

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Normally when the Digital Keyboard is in sampling standby, it 
will start sampling automatically whenever it detects sound 
input. You can use the following procedure to enable manual 
sampling start, which will cause sampling to wait until you 
press a button to start it. You can use this to insert silence 
before the sampled sound.
1.Press ct (FUNCTION) and then use the br 
(10-key) [4] (o) and [6] (p) keys to display 
“SAMPLING” (page...

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You can use the following procedure to specify a sampled 
tone number and delete its data.
1.Press ct (FUNCTION) and then use the br 
(10-key) [4] (o) and [6] (p) keys to display 
“DELETE” (page E-7).
2.Press the br (10-key) [9] (ENTER) key.
3.Use the br (10-key) [–] and [+] keys to select 
the tone number of the data you want to delete.
4.Press the br (10-key) [9] (ENTER) key.
This displays a delete confirmation message.
5.Press the...

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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 along with them for practice.
 In addition to simple listening enjoyment, the built-in songs 
can be used with the lesson system (page E-30) for 
practice.
 You can increase the number of tunes using your computer 
(page E-59).
Use the following procedure to play back built-in songs.
1.Press bk and bl at the same time.
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4.Press bk again to stop playback.
Song playback will continue (repeat) until you press bk to 
stop it. You can cancel song repeat by pressing 
6.
Use the operations in this section to perform pause, skip 
forward, and skip back operations.
■Pause
1.Press 9.
This pauses song playback.
2.Press 9 again to resume playback from the 
point where you paused it.
■Skip Forward
1.Press 8.
This skips song playback forward to the next measure. 
Each press of 
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4.Pressing 6 again returns to normal playback.
Changing the song number clears the start measure and 
end measure of the repeat operation.
You can use the following procedure to change the speed 
(tempo) in order to slow down playback to practice difficult 
passages, etc.
1.Press bm.
Use y (slower) and t (faster) to change the tempo 
setting. Holding down either button changes the setting at 
high speed.
y and t at the same time will return the 
current song to its original...