Cme U-KEY User Manual

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This product utilizes batteries or an external power supply (adapter). Do NOT connect this product to any power supply or adapter other than one described in the manual, on the product, or specifically recommended by CME.

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1. IMPORTANT NOTICE: DO NOT MODIFY THIS UNIT!

This product, when installed as indicated in the instructions contained in this manual,

meets FCC requirements. Modifications not expressly approved by CME may void

your authority, granted by the FCC, to use the product.

2. IMPORTANT: When connecting this product to accessories and/or another product

use only high quality shielded cables. Cable(s) supplied with this product MUST be

used. Follow all installation instructions. Failure to follow instructions could void your

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Digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to

provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential

environment. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency

energy and, if not installed and used according to the instructions found in the users

manual, may cause interference harmful to the operation of other electronic devices.

Compliance with FCC regulations does not guarantee that interference will not occur

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be determined by turning the unit “OFF” and “ON”, please try to eliminate the

problems by using one of the following measures:

Relocate either this product or the device that is being affected by the interference.

Utilize power outlets that are on different branch (circuit breaker or fuse) circuits or

install AC line filter(s).

In the case of radio or TV interference, relocate/reorient the antenna. If the antenna

lead-in is 300 ohm ribbon lead, change the lead-in to co-axial type cable.

If these corrective measures do not produce satisfactory results, please contact the

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PRECAUTIONS

IMPORTANT

Always follow the basic precautions listed below to avoid the possibility of serious injury

or even death from electrical shock, damages, fire or other hazards. These precautions

include, but are not limited to, the follows:

1. Read and understand all the instructions.

2. Always follow the instructions on the instrument.

3. Before cleaning the instrument, always remove the electric plug from the outlet as

well as the USB cable. When cleaning, use a soft and dry cloth. Do not use gasoline,

alcohol, acetone, turps or any other organic solutions; do not use liquid cleaner, spray

cleaner or too wet cloth.

4. Do not use the instrument near water or moisture, such as bathtub, washbasin,

washing poor in the kitchen or similar places.

5. Do not place the instrument in an unstable position where it might accidentally fall

over.

6. Do not jam sinks or holes of the instrument; those sinks of holes are used for air

circulation to prevent the instrument from overheating. Do not place the instrument

near heat sink or any places with poor air circulation.

7. Do not place anything on the power cord. Make sure the power cord is set on a safe

place, so nobody will step on it and no body will trip over it.

8. Do not overload the outlet and the AC cable to avoid fire or electrical shock.

9. Do not insert anything in the instrument, which may cause fire or electrical shock. Do

not splash any kind of liquid to the instrument.

10. Do not disassemble the instrument in case of accidental electrical shock.

11. Always take the instrument to a qualified service center in need of repair. You will

cause yourself in danger if you open or remove the cover, and improper assembly

may cause electrical shock in the future use.

12. Unplug all the connectors and take the instrument to a qualified service center if

anything in the below listed happens:

A. The power cord or connector get hurt or worn out.

B. Any liquid get in the instrument.

C. The instrument gets rain or water splash.

D. The instrument dose not work properly after following all the instructions

regarding to the troubleshootings.

E. The instrument falls down or gets broken.

F. The instrument functions poorly.

13. Do not use the instrument when thundering; otherwise the thundering may cause

long-distance electrical shock.

14. Do not use the instrument when there is a gas leak nearby.

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Always follow the instructions carefully when setting up the instrument.

WARNING:

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Other precautions:

z Keep the instrument away from electrical interface sources, such as fluorescent light

and electrical motors.

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the instrument.

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improper operation to the instrument.

z All the pictures and the LED display in the manual are used for demonstration; they

may be different from the real instrument.

Features

z 49 notes ultra thin full action semi-weighted keyboard, portable and beautiful

z 1 x Programmable Joystick

z 8 x programmable trigger pads, velocity sensitive

z 8 x programmable knob controllers (endless encoder) for any kinds of MIDI control

z 1 x endless encoder for data entry of fast data changes

z “PadStyle” MIDI song and style help you to play live music easily

z Interactive test mode and game to improve the skillof your performance

z Multi-scaled keys to fit more kinds of ethnic music

z U-CTRL function lets you work with music software perfectly

z Music software control templates

z Clear 3-digit LED display

z Firmware, data and songs upgradable via USB

z USB MIDI class-compliant with Windows XP and Mac OS X

z Universal pedal connector, full compatible with switch and continuous pedals

z 1 x stereo line output, 1/8” phone jack and 1 x stereo headphone output, 1/8” phone

jack

z 1 x MIDI IN and MIDI OUT

z USB bus-powered and DC IN

z Built-in 64-polyphony tone generator and speakers

z Full MIDI functions including SEQ transport with fast operation access

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Content

1 General View .............................................................................................................11

1.1 Front Panel ...............................................................................................................11

1.2 Rear Panel ................................................................................................................12

2 Connection................................................................................................................ 13

2.1 Power Switch............................................................................................................14

2.2 DC In..........................................................................................................................14

2.3 Headphone Jack ......................................................................................................14

2.4 Line Out Jack............................................................................................................14

2.5 Pedal Jack.................................................................................................................14

2.6 MIDI Out Port............................................................................................................14

2.7 MIDI In Port...............................................................................................................14

2.8 USB Port ...................................................................................................................15

3 Basic Operation ........................................................................................................ 15

3.1 Turn On The Power (Power) ..................................................................................15

3.2 Function Switch (Switch) ........................................................................................15

3.3 Change Voice (Program Change) .........................................................................16

3.4 Factory Setup (Reset) .............................................................................................16

3.5 Key Function.............................................................................................................17

3.6 Joystick......................................................................................................................17

3.7 Pedal Jack.................................................................................................................17

3.8 Octave Shift / Transpose.........................................................................................18

4 Song Mode................................................................................................................ 19

4.1 Use Pads To Play Songs (Pad Style Songs) .......................................................19

4.2 Use Knobs For Volume Control (Part Volume)....................................................20

4.3 Song Related Functions..........................................................................................20

4.3.1 Select A Song By Song Number.................................................................. 20

4.3.2 Select Performance Mode............................................................................ 21

4.3.3 Mute Melody (Melody On/Off)......................................................................21

4.3.4 Pad Hold On/Off.............................................................................................21

5 MASTER Mode......................................................................................................... 22

5.1 Use Pads For Drum Kit ...........................................................................................22

5.2 Use The Knobs To Select A Voice.........................................................................22

5.3 Use The Knobs To Edit A Voice .............................................................................22

5.4 Bank Number And Patch (Voice) ...........................................................................23

5.4.1 Bank MSB Select...........................................................................................23

5.4.2 Bank LSB Select............................................................................................23

5.4.3 Select patch (Program Change)..................................................................23

6 REMOTE Mode......................................................................................................... 24

6.1 Use The Pads To Control The Software ...............................................................24

6.2 Use The Knobs To Control The Software.............................................................24

6.3 Assign Notes & Channel.........................................................................................24

6.4 Assign Controllers & Channel ................................................................................24

6.5 Save And Recall User Bank...................................................................................25

7 SYSTEM setup ......................................................................................................... 25

7.1 Keyboard Channel ...................................................................................................25

7.2 Dual............................................................................................................................25

7.3 Split ............................................................................................................................26

7.4 Keyboard Velocity Curve (Keyboard V.Curve).....................................................26

7.5 Pad Velocity Curve (Pad V.Curve) ........................................................................27

7.6 Knob Acceleration Curve (Konb Accel.Curve) .....................................................27

7.7 Pedal Polarity ...........................................................................................................27

7.8 Local On/Off..............................................................................................................27

7.9 Data Dump................................................................................................................28

7.10 Device Number.........................................................................................................28

7.11 Select Information To DISPLAY .............................................................................28

7.11.1 Program Number ...........................................................................................28

7.11.2 Bank MSB ....................................................................................................... 29

7.11.3 Bank LSB ........................................................................................................29

7.11.4 Note number...................................................................................................29

7.11.5 Controller number ..........................................................................................29

7.12 Send RESET message ...........................................................................................29

7.12.1 All Notes Off ...................................................................................................29

7.12.2 Reset All Control ............................................................................................30

7.12.3 CME On ..........................................................................................................30

7.12.4 GM On .............................................................................................................30

8 Feature Function....................................................................................................... 30

8.1 GAME Mode .............................................................................................................30

8.1.1 Select A Game By Game Number ..............................................................31

8.1.2 Exit Game .......................................................................................................31

8.2 Select Scale..............................................................................................................31

8.3 Select Temperament................................................................................................31

8.4 Mute Pads And Knobs.............................................................................................32

8.5 Send Out Snapshot .................................................................................................32

8.6 U-CTRL Mode .......................................................................................................... 32

9 Update Program And Data ........................................................................................ 33

10 Appendix ................................................................................................................... 34

10.1 Assignable Controllers List.....................................................................................34

10.2 Scales List.................................................................................................................37

10.3 Testing Songs List....................................................................................................42

10.4 Temperament List ....................................................................................................43

10.5 Velocity Curve List ...................................................................................................44

10.6 MIDI Route................................................................................................................45

10.7 Troubleshooting........................................................................................................46

10.8 Specifications............................................................................................................47

10.9 U-KEY Tone Generator Infomation........................................................................48

10.10 MIDI Implementation Chart ...................................................................................62

1 General View

1.1 Front Panel

1. Keyboard

2. Joystick

3. 2 A & B status indicators

4. 8 drum pads

5. 2 buttons

6. SHIFT button

7. LED display

8. Data dial

9. 8 knobs

10. U-CTRL button

1.2 Rear Panel

1. Power switch(ON/OFF)

2. Power connector（DC IN）

3. Headphone jack（HEARDPHONE）

4. Line out jack（LINE OUT）

5. Pedal jack（PEDAL）

6. MIDI OUT port（MIDI OUT）

7. MIDI IN port（MIDI IN）

8. USB MIDI port (USB)

2 Connection

2.1 Power Switch

Use Power switch to turn U-Key ON or OFF, power can be supplied via USB or DC IN.

2.2 DC In

Use DC IN for power supply. You can connect an AC adaptor that meets the

specifications of the U-Key.

Please be carefull choosing an AC adaptor; make sure the adaptor meet

the specifications of the U-Key.

2.3 Headphone Jack

The Headphone jack is used to connect a stereo headphone.

2.4 Line Out Jack

The Line out jack is used to connect a mixer, an amplifier or active speakers.

2.5 Pedal Jack

The pedal jack can be used to connect either a switch pedal such as a damper pedal or a

continuous pedal such as a volume pedal.

2.6 MIDI Out Port

It is a standard MIDI Out port. All the MIDI data from the U-Key and from USB will be

send out from this port.

2.7 MIDI In Port

It is a standard MIDI In port. Via the MIDI In port, you can play the U-Key by another MIDI

keyboard.

2.8 USB Port

You can make a bi-directional connection between the U-Key and your computer via the

USB port.

If it is the first time you connect your U-Key to the computer via USB, the OS will

automatically install the device driver, and show the U-Key as “USB Audio Device” and

“USB Audio Device [2]”. If the same device name already exists, the U-Key will have a

device name with increased number.

Please do not use any other USB cable than the one included with the U-Key, for perfect data transfer.

3 Basic Operation

3.1 Turn On The Power (Power)

 Please make sure you have the right connection before turning on the U-Key.

Use the power switch on the rear panel to turn it on.。

 To protect your ears and your speaker system, please set the speaker volume to

a low level before you turn on the U-Key.

 After turning on the U-Key, you can set up your favorite volume while playing the

U-Key.

3.2 Function Switch (Switch)

 The joystick can also work as a button. Press the joystick to switch the fuction of

pads and buttons, each time you press the joystick, the function status will switch

amont status A(song), status B(master keyboard) and status A+B(remote). In

different status, the pads and buttons will work with differenct functions.

3.3 Change Voice (Program Change)

 You can dial the【DATA / SAVE】knob to change the value on the LED.  The 【DATA / SAVE】knob can also work as a button to confirm or save data  By default, the 【DATA / SAVE】knob is used to change the voice number, and

the changed number will blink until the knob is pressed to send the program

change data.

3.4 Factory Setup (Reset)

 Usually, the keyboard will automatically memorize its last settings and recover to

that setting when turned on. However, you can use the reset function to turn all

the U-Key setting to the factory setup.

 To change to the factory setup, please press 【OCTAVE -】and【OCTAVE +】

buttons while turning on the keyboard, then the keyboard will initialize to the

factory setup. During this process, the LED will blink until the initializing is

completed.

The reset process will clear everything that you have done to the

keyboard, please be careful!

3.5 Key Function

 A lot of the U-Key functions are set by the keys.

1. When the button indicator is on, the keyboard enters the key

function mode.

2. In the key function mode, those keys work as the function keys.

3. This is the number key reigon, use those keys to change values on the

LED.

4. The button is used to confirm the operation and send data.

Some operation will work right away with out confirmed by

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3.6 Joystick

The Joystick can be moved to the four directions, Up, Down, Left and Right. By default,

the joystick will send the below data:

Direction Function MIDI data

Up Modulation CC#1 Down Brightness CC#74 Left Pitch Bend Down Pitch Bend Down Right Pitch Bend Up Pitch Bend Up

3.7 Pedal Jack

 You can connect either a switch pedal (Sustain pedal) or a continuous pedal

(Volume pedal).

 By default the pedal type is a sustain pedal (Switch mode), the related MIDI data

is CC#64, 127 for ON and 0 for OFF.

 If you use a continuous pedal, please enter Key function, press F1 (Pedal setup),

change “001” （Sustain）to “002”（Expression）.

3.8 Octave Shift / Transpose

 Using the【Octave / Transpose】button, you can change the octave shift for going

up or down 3 octaves. To return to the default value, press the two buttons at the

same time.

 Using the【Octave / Transpose】button while holding the SHFIT button, you can

transpose the keyboard by semi notes for a maximum up or down of 12 semi notes.

To return to the default value, press the two buttons at the same time.

 The fig below shows the default key range of the keyboard:

 MIDI note number and pitch name map:

OCTAVE# C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B

-1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 0 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 2 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 3 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 4 5 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 6 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 7 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 8 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 9 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127

61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71

4 Song Mode

 Press the joystick until the indicator light A is on for Song mode.

In Song mode, the pads are used to play songs, and knobs are used to

control the volume of each part.

4.1 Use Pads To Play Songs (Pad Style Songs)

 There are 8 pads in the keyboard, including 【LOOP1】 to 【LOOP8】, which matches

8 phrases of the U-Key Pad Style songs. By hitting a pad, you can play the intermal

MIDI songs from the respective phrase.

 You can play an U-Key Pad Style song in the below 3 modes:

1. Single-loop play mode:

 Hit any pad, the pad light is on, and the corresponded phrase is being

played. Hit the same pad again to stop the playing.

 When one pad is triggered and being played, if no other pad is triggered, the

current pad will be played repeatedly.(Loop Mode)

 If another pad is triggered, while the previous pad is being played, after

finish one bar of the previous pad, the keyboard will continue playing the

new pad.

2. Multi-loop play mode:

 Hit two pads at the same time, the two pads and all the pads between the

two pads will light on, and the keyboard will play those pads one by one.

The current pad being played will blink

 Hit the blinking pad to stop playing.  Hit a non-blinking pad for single-loop play mode.

3. Song play mode:

 Press pad【LOOP1】 for three seconds, all the pads will light on to enter the

song mode.

 In the song mode, all the pads will be played. The current pad being played

will blink

 Hit the first pad again to stop playing.

You can find more information about pad style songs on

www.cme-pro.com !

4.2 Use Knobs For Volume Control (Part Volume)

 In the song mode, you can use the eight knobs as below:

knob Control ID MIDI data

knob1 Master volume MASTER F0 7F 7F 04 01 00 rr F7 knob2 Melody volume MELODY CH8,CC#7 knob3 Bass volume BASS CH9,CC#7 knob4 Drum volume DRUM CH10,CC#7 knob5 Chord volume CHORD CH11&12,CC#7 knob6 Pad volume PAD CH13&14,CC#7 knob7 Phrase volume PHRASE CH15&16,CC#7 knob8 Tempo TEMPO

off，20-250

4.3 Song Related Functions

4.3.1 Select A Song By Song Number

 Operation: Ö C1【Number】ÖValu e Ö

 MIDI data: none  Range: 1-15  Default: 1

You can put standard MIDI files to the keyboard with a computer.

The MIDI file size is limited to 56KB.

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