Casio Lk230 Instruction Manual

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Using Auto Accompaniment
With Auto Accompaniment, simply select an accompaniment 
pattern. Each time you play a chord with your left hand the 
appropriate accompaniment will play automatically. It’s like 
having a personal backup group along with you wherever you 
go.
 Auto Accompaniments are made up of the following three 
parts.
(1) Rhythm
(2) Bass
(3) Harmony
You can have only the rhythm part play, or you can have all 
three parts play at the same time.
The rhythm part is the foundation...

Using Auto Accompaniment
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Playing a chord with your left hand automatically adds bass 
and harmony accompaniment parts to the currently selected 
rhythm. It is just like having your own personal back up group 
on call.
1.Start play of the Auto Accompaniment rhythm 
part.
2.Press bm.
This enables chord input on the accompaniment 
keyboard.
3.Use the accompaniment keyboard to play 
chords.
This will cause bass and harmony Auto Accompaniment 
parts to be added to the rhythm part.
4.Play other chords...

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Using Auto Accompaniment
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■FINGERED 1, 2, and 3
With these three input modes, you play chords on the 
accompaniment keyboard using their normal chord fingerings. 
Some chord forms are abbreviated, and can be fingered with 
one or two keys. See the separate “Appendix” for information 
about chords that are supported and how they are fingered on 
the keyboard.
●FINGERED 1
Play the component notes of the chord on 
the keyboard.
●FINGERED 2
Unlike FINGERED 1, 6th input is not 
possible. m7 or m7...

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Use the following procedures to play intro and ending 
patterns, to play fill-in patterns, and to play variations of basic 
Auto Accompaniment patterns.
■Auto Accompaniment Variation
Each Auto Accompaniment pattern has a basic “normal 
pattern” as well as a “variation pattern”.
1.Press 9.
This starts the variation pattern.
2.Pressing 8 again returns to normal pattern.
■Auto Accompaniment Intro
Use the following procedure to play an intro of a few 
measures.
1.Press 7.
This...

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Using Auto Accompaniment
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■Using Synchro Start
Use the following procedure to configure the Digital Keyboard 
to start Auto Accompaniment play as soon as you press a 
keyboard key.
1.Press bk.
This enters accompaniment start standby.
2.Play a chord on the keyboard.
This will start full part accompaniment (normal).
Any of the following operations can be performed while in 
synchro standby to start a non-normal pattern.
 To start with intro pattern, press 
7.
 To start with variation pattern...

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Connecting External Devices
You can connect the Digital Keyboard to a computer and 
exchange MIDI data between them. You can send play data 
from the Digital Keyboard to music software running on your 
computer, or you can send MIDI data from your computer to 
the Digital Keyboard for playback.
The following shows the minimum computer system 
requirements for sending and receiving MIDI data. Check to 
make sure that your computer complies with these 
requirements before connecting the keyboard to...

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Connecting External Devices
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5.Configure the music software settings to select 
one of the following as the MIDI device.
 For information about how to select the MIDI device, 
see the user documentation that comes with the music 
software you are using.
 Be sure to turn on the keyboard first before starting up 
your computer’s music software.
 USB send and receive is disabled during playback of a 
Song Bank song (page E-17), or while the keyboard is 
lighting during a power on alert...

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■Turning Off the Navigate Channel Sound and 
Playing the Part on the Keyboard
You can turn off the sound on one or both of the navigate 
channels and play the cancelled part on the keyboard 
yourself.
1.Press bm to select the channel setting you want 
to turn off.
Each press of bm cycles through settings (1) thorough (4) 
described below.
 If you turn off one channel, you can play the cancelled 
part on the keyboard using the same tone as the 
channel you turned off. If...

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Connecting External Devices
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This keyboard can be connected to commercially available 
stereo, amplifier, or recording equipment, to a portable audio 
player or other equipment.
Connection requires commercially available connecting cords, 
supplied by you. The connecting cords should have a stereo 
standard plug on one end and a plug that matches the 
configuration of the external device on the other end.
 Turn off the external device when making connections. 
After connecting, turn down the...

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Reference
Troubleshooting
SymptomAction
Included Accessories
I can’t find something that should be here. Carefully check inside all of the packing materials.
Power Requirements
Power will not turned on.  Check the AC adaptor or make sure that the batteries are facing 
correctly (page E-5).
 Replace the batteries with new ones or switch over to AC adaptor 
power (page E-5).
The Digital Keyboard outputs a loud sound and then 
suddenly powers down.Replace the batteries with new ones or switch over to...