D I G I T A L owners manual •English K E Y B O A R D S gk360
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MANUAL INDEX Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................. 1 Power supply ................................................................................................................................................................ 1 Using the AC adaptor .............................................................................................................................
GK360 GK360 CONTROL PANEL LAYOUT Care of your keyboard Your keyboard will give you years of playing pleasure if you follow the simple rules outlined below: • Do not expose the keyboard to high temperature, direct sunlight and excessively dusty places. • Avoid physical shocks caused by dropping, bumping, or placing heavy objects on the keyboard. • Never use cleaners such as alcohol or solvents to clean the keyboard. • Always turn the power off when making any connections.
owners manual gk360 Introduction Thank you for purchasing the new GEM gk360 electronic keyboard. The gk360 offers the following features: • 61 note keyboard with Touch Response; • 178 PCM voices GeneralMidi Compatible • On-board Digital multi-effects processor with 8 Reverb and 8 Chorus effects.
owners manual gk360 Connections The Phones jack If you prefer to play with headphones for high quality personal monitoring, plug a standard stereo headphone set into the rear panel PHONES jack. The internal speakers are automatically disconnected. Use the VOLUME slider to adjust the headphone volume SUSTAIN The Sustain jack An optional footswitch can be plugged into the Sustain jack for sustain control. The footswitch operates like the Sustain pedal of an acoustic piano.
owners manual gk360 Listen to the Demo Songs You can listen to the automatic playback of your gk360 to get an idea of what the instrument is capable of doing. 1 Turn the power ON by pressing the [POWER] switch. After a short period, the display will appear showing the NORMAL playing mode with a piano sound (Piano1) ready to play across the full keyboard }ÊÎÈä 2 Turn the power ON by pressing the [POWER] switch.
owners manual gk360 Select a Voice with the numeric keypad Using the numeric keypad is the quickest way to go directly to the Voice you need, but you must know the exact number of the voice. The name and corresponding number of all the Voices in memory are silkscreened above the display on the right. You’ll see that they start from number 01 through to number 178. Two-digit voice numbers are selected by entering the two digits in sequence.
owners manual gk360 Split keyboard To play on a split keyboard with one or two voices on the right hand side (UPPER keyboard) and one voice on the left (LOWER keyboard), press the [MODE] button as many times as necessary until the left display arrowhead points to the SPLIT function. The keyboard will be split into a Lower section and an Upper section. If you play on the keyboard, you will hear one sound (01: Piano 1) on the right hand side of the keyboard and another sound (49: Strings) on the left.
owners manual gk360 Balancing the Lower and Upper sections If you are playing in Normal mode with Voices on a Split keyboard, you may at some stage want to adjust the volume of one section with respect to the other. Using the [MIXER] Volume controls, you will be able to balance your Upper and Lower voices to the levels required very easily. The MIXER consists of 5 twin buttons organized in two rows. The top row of buttons are [INCREASE VOLUME] controls while the bottom row are [DECREASE VOLUME] controls.
owners manual gk360 Add Pitch Bend to your playing While you play, you can add Pitch Bend to your keyboard sounds by using the [PITCH BEND] buttons located to the left of the control panel. You can bend the pitch 2 semitones above or below normal using these controls. Hold down the top [PITCH BEND] button to bend the notes up. Hold down the bottom [PITCH BEND] button to bend the notes down. The pitch returns to normal when you release the button.
owners manual gk360 The Octave – transposer Whether you are playing with Styles or just Voices in single, dual or split mode, you can octave-shift the current Voice down one octave (maximum) in real time. The current Voice is shown in the display by the message VOICE 1, VOICE 2 or LOWER (when the [SPLIT/LOWER] button is held down).
owners manual gk360 You can select a Style in three different ways: Use the [-] and [+] buttons to select a Style In STYLE mode, the [–] and [+] buttons of the numeric keypad step through the individual Styles one by one. 3 Press the [+] button to select the Styles in increasing numerical order 4 Press the [–] button to select the Styles in reverse order. Holding the button down scrolls rapidly forwards or backwards through all the Styles.
owners manual gk360 Changing the Style Tempo Every time you select a Style, you also recall a memorized playing speed, (TEMPO), shown in the top left hand corner of the display. You can speed up or slow down the tempo, before or after starting the Style, by pressing the [TEMPO /+] button. • Press the [TEMPO+] button to increase the Tempo value, or the [TEMPO–] button to decrease the value. Holding down either [+] or [–] end of the button changes the Tempo value at high speed continually until released.
owners manual gk360 Using the Style Auto functions The Styles provide a wide variety of automatic functions that make the gk360 very easy to play. The functions are found in the ACCOMPANIMENT CONTROL section. Select the Fill In and change Style Variation Each Style has two accompaniment patterns, NORMAL and VARIATION, which you can select at any time before or after starting to play the Styles by pressing the corresponding button.
owners manual gk360 Balancing the Style accompaniment tracks with the Mixer Playing with Styles, you can adjust the volume of one section with respect to the others using the [MIXER] Volume controls. You will be able to balance all the Style sections; Drums, Bass, Accomp as well as the Lower and Upper keyboard sections. How the MIXER controls are organized is explained on page 6.
owners manual gk360 Selecting the S.T. Play settings 1 Select a Style using the methods already described. 2 Press the [S.T. PLAY] button. The display will show a small black arrowhead pointing to the S.T. PLAY indicator in the bottom left hand corner Make sure that one of the two chord recognition modes is selected. 3 Start the Style using the methods already described (Key Start, Intro, etc.) Note: The S.T. PLAY settings change the configuration of the UPPER and LOWER sections only.
owners manual gk360 Digital Effects The gk360 contains a Digital multi-effects processor which adds realism to your playing. The Digital Signal Processor (DSP) consists of one unit which process the Performances with Reverb and Chorus effects. The buttons which control the Digital Effect are DSP button. The DSP indicators When the DSP display indicators are on, all the voices of the current Performance will play with their programmed effects.
owners manual gk360 The Sequencer Your gk360 contains a very simple and easy to use sequencer which records whatever you play and plays back the recorded sequence just as you played it. You can record in Voice mode or Style mode with one or two melody tracks. In playback, you can play along with the recorded sequence using different voices to those used in the Melody tracks. The following example explains how to record a sequence using the Accompaniments.
owners manual gk360 The Metronome At any time, you can activate the 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’. If you select the Metronome while you are playing a Style, the auto accompaniment will stop and the Metronome will take over as the provider of the beat.
owners manual gk360 Pan The PAN function allows you to change the stereo pan position of the overall sound, moving the sound at the speakers either to the left or to the right. If you press either the [+] or [-] PAN buttons once only, the display will show the normal setting corresponding to Pan at the centre (00). Press the [+] or [-] PAN buttons repeatedly to pan the overall sound to the left (max: 07) or to the right (max: 07).
owners manual gk360 GK360 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 61 keys with dynamics 64 notes max. 178, GM compatibles 6 memories, 92 albums 384 (4 x style) layer/split reverb/chorus Power on/off, volume, pitch buttons +/-, mixer (drum, bass, acc.
owners manual gk360 APPENDIX One finger chords chart fingered chords chart Page19
owners manual gk360 APPENDIX 1-VOICE LIST Display Num. SoundName Patch (ProgBankMSB) Instr. / DrumKit Display Num. SoundName Patch (ProgBankMSB) Instr. / DrumKit Display Num. SoundName Patch (ProgBankMSB) Instr. / DrumKit 1 Piano1 0-0 Instrument 61 Fr.
owners manual gk360 APPENDIX 2-STYLE LIST 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 POP1 8BeatSlow 8BtMedium 8BeatFast 8BeatLatin 8BeatPop EasyPop SmoothPop PopShuffle JAZZ BasicTrio SlowSwing BasieBand HotBigBand JazzWaltz Django Charleston Dixieland 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 POP2 LiteFunk 6/8Sweet 6/8Blues EpicBallad PopBallad PopBallad12 BlueBallad EasyBallad COUNTRY CountryPop1 CountryPop2 CountryBeat CountrySwing CountryFox ModCountry Unplugged1 Unplugged2 17 18 19 20
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Note : This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
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