GP 50
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English
CONNECTIONS
The GP 50 digital piano is equipped with the following connections in the control panel under the keyboard:
OUTPUTS:2 Right and Left audio stereo outputs, to which external amplifiers, mixer consoles or PA systems can be connected.
INPUTS:2 Right and Left audio stereo inputs to which keyboards, compact disk drives or other equipment complete with linear
signal output can be connected.
PEDAL:Socket for the connection of the Sustain pedal to the console of the GP 50.
MIDI In/Out/Thru: MIDI sockets. The MIDI unit is a digital interface used to communicate and exchange musical data between electronic
instruments equipped with MIDI.
HEADPHONES:There are two stereo headphones on the left hand side of the instrument under the keyboard. The headphones are used
to practice on your own or to play right through the night without disturbing anybody.
The built-in speakers amplification system is automatically disabled when the headphones are connected.
AMPLIFICATION SYSTEM
The GP 50 is equipped with a built-in stereo amplification system that includes a 2 x 25 W RMS amplifier and a set of wide band speakers
MASTER VOLUME
The volume cursor controls the total sound level of the instrument. To adequately reproduce the sound of the piano, you are recommended not
to exceed 50-70% of the total volume, since this value allows you to obtain a sound level comparable with that of a traditional acoustic piano.
KEYBOARD / PEDALS
The GP 50 is equipped with a keyboard of 88 high quality weighed keys, sensitive to the touch.
It also avails of
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pedal that works just like the typical Sustain pedal on the acoustic piano and extends the notes played (Soft, Sostenuto,
Sustain pedal optional).
PRESETS
The GP 50 is equipped with
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, namely pre-selected voices, which however cannot be programmed. There are 18 keys used to select the
Voices and they are situated on the right hand side of the display. 2 Voices are assigned to each of the 18 keys. When the LED of the
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key is switched off, the 18 keys are used to select the sounds written under the keys (Grand, Rock etc.); when the
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key is lit, they are
used to select the sounds variations.
The names written on the panel only refer to the Presets (and not to the Programs ). The potentiometer
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controls the brightness of
the GP 50’s voices. To select a Preset, check if the LED of the Program key is switched off first.
The list of Presets and Variations is displayed at the end of the manual.
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VOICE / DUAL MODE
The Dual Mode is used to select two Preset Voices simultaneously. If, for example, you wish to play Piano and Strings together, press and hold
the Grand key down and then press the Strings key too. In this case the Strings Voice is denominated 2nd Voice. If a Preset Voice amongst the
first 18 locations is to be played in Dual Mode with another amongst the second 18, such as Grand and Slow String for example, press the Grand
key first and hold it down, then press Variation and then, holding both keys down, press the key relative to the Slow String Voice too. The Dual
mode works exclusively with the Presets (and not with the Programs ).
The
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potentiometer controls the volume of the 2nd Voice.
BASS
Apart from the preset voices the GP 50 also has a BASS section with 6 Bass tones: Acoustic, Finger, Picked, Subbass, Bourdon, Full.
As soon as a Bass tone is inserted the keyboard is automatically split on G2 (default split). This split point may be changed in the following manner:
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Press the Split key.
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Play the key relative to the new split point on the keyboard.
The Bass may also be controlled with the external Midi pedalboard (KETRON Pmk8), on the Midi channel 03. This application is obviously excel-
lent in cases of liturgical music where the pedalboard plays the main bass while the keyboard plays the rest of the harmony.
SPLIT
In Preset mode, the keyboard of the GP 50 can be split-up into two zones in the following manner:
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Press and hold the Split key down.
