Casio MZ-x500 Musical Toy Instrument User Manual


 
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Recording and Playback
Playback Features
* MIDI
MIDI is short for “Musical Instrument Digital Interface”. It is a universal standard that makes it possible for
musical instruments, computers, and other devices to exchange performance information (keyboard key press/
release, touch pressure, etc.) regardless of manufacturer. Performance data in this case is called “MIDI data”.
MIDI Recorder Audio Recorder
Playback plays the system track and tracks 1 through 16.
With the MIDI Recorder, the Digital Keyboard automatically
performs playback using its internal sound source in
accordance with the performance information recorded as
MIDI data.
You can play back audio data from a USB flash drive.
The Audio Recorder plays back the waveform of sound
recorded as audio data.
MIDI Recorder Audio Recorder
What you can do...
Record to one track while playing back from the other track
System Track
Keyboard play
3
While playing
back...
Track 1
Keyboard play
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What you can do...
Record performance while playing back a song recorded
with the MIDI Recorder
MIDI Recorder
song playback
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Keyboard play 3 Record
Record input of an external device connected to the LINE
IN or MIC IN terminal along with Digital Keyboard
performance and playback
AUDIO IN terminal input is not recorded.
What you can do...
Play on the keyboard along with playback of tracks
System Track 3 While playing back...
Track 1 3 While playing back...
Keyboard play
What you can do...
You can play along on the keyboard while the audio data is
playing.
Playback of a song on a
USB flash drive
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Keyboard play
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