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kids Musical Centre On Salekids Musical Centre main features:
* beautiful red and white plastic case (2 blue, round speaker covers with a yellow "F" and "Y" shaped grill on them).
* 32 mid size keys (those need to be pressed slightly harder than usual).
* 2 voice polyphony (1 when rhythm plays)
* 8 OBS instrument sounds {guitar, flute, bell, mandolin, saxophone, violin, accordion, piano} ("accordion" is the same as "organ" in "My Music Center". The mandolin doesn't ring.)
* 8 OBS rhythms (boring low- res PCM drums with switchable monophonic fixed- key accompaniment.) {twist, rock, disco, tango, waltz, rumba, bassa-nova, mash-potato} Rhythms start always with default tempo and accompaniment on, which makes the OBS selection rather useless for tekkno performances.
* 4 drum pads + selection button to switch them between drums or 4 additional instrument sounds {ghost, police car, ambulance, telephone} . The "ghost" sound is very melodic, rastered and sounds fantastic; it resembles a glass harmonica with a squarewave vibrato. (These extra instruments can not be played with rhythm.)
* monophonic sequencer for 38 notes or drum pad events exists (quite useless because contents is erased as soon anything else but "play" is pressed). It plays back in a loop, but can not be combined with the given rhythms, nor can be played to it.
* custom drummer for a 16 step rhythm pattern (Press "program", then enter rhythm by drum pads. Use "replay" for pauses. After 16 events the rhythm starts automatically.) Rhythm can not be stopped without erasing it.
* "chord" on/ off button.
* "magic" button to play the demo melodies note by note in "one key play" mode.
* digital volume control buttons
* The 4 channel sound generator synthesizes each main voice sound by layering 2 waveform samples those have a digitally switched envelope (with well audible ticking zipper noise). The waveforms on both channels are detuned to create a chorus effect. In the demo tunes the 2 subvoices of each main voice sound are split to enable the sound generator to play 4 note polyphonic musics (without chorus). Percussion and effect samples use the same 4 channels.
* The CPU contains a 1 bit pulse width modulation D/ A converter which outputted sequences of on/ off pulses get turned into analogue wave forms by a capacitor. This sample output frequency intermodulates higher notes and gives them an unusual glassy timbre.
* CPU "W-51A" (22 pin COB module) with DC voltage controllable clock oscillator
* 2 nice classic demo melodies with accordion sounds. It even can be played to them; when keys are pressed, the main voice stops for one bar. Funny is that the 2nd tune (Al Turca) seems to have a pattern bug; it repeats its final bar at a wrong place.
| SKU: |
kids Musical Centre 734-2233 |
| Dimensions: |
7.50 X 2.00 X 16.25 |
| Weight: |
8.07 |
| In Stock:: No |
Regular Price: $49.99 On Sale For: $22.15 |
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