Page 3 - Owner’s manual; ENGLISH
Page 4 - Care of your keyboard; Always turn the power off when making any connections.
Care of your keyboard Your keyboard will give you years of playing pleasure if you follow the simple rules outlinedbelow: ◆ Do not expose the keyboard to high temperature, direct sunlight and excessively dustyplaces. ◆ Avoid physical shocks caused by dropping, bumping, or placing heavy objects on th...
Page 5 - GK310 Contents A; Contents
GK310 Contents A Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................... 1 The GK310 features: ........................................................................................... 1 Power supply ............................
Page 7 - Introduction; Power supply; Using the AC adaptor
GK310 1 Introduction Thank you for purchasing the new GEM GK310 electronic keyboard. The GK310 offers the following features: • 61 note keyboard with Touch Response; • 132 PCM voices + 1 keyboard percussion kit; • 96 Styles (automatic accompaniments) with 2 Variations; • Two chord recognition modes ...
Page 8 - Connections; The Phones jack; The Damper jack; Listen to the Demo Songs
2 GK310 Owner’s manual Connections The Phones jack If you prefer to play with headphones for high quality personal monitoring, plug astandard stereo headphone set into the rear panel PHONES jack. The internal speak-ers are automatically disconnected. Use the VOLUME slider to adjust the headphone vol...
Page 9 - Select a single Demo Song; Play along with the Demo Song
GK310 3 3. Press the [DEMO ALL] button to start a chained Demonstration. The display shows the first Demo Song number: Playback starts automatically from the first Demo song and continues non stopuntil you either change demo or stop the playback. 4. Press the [DEMO ALL] button again to stop the play...
Page 10 - Basic Operation; Selecting & playing Voices; Keyboard percussion
4 GK310 Owner’s manual Basic Operation This section explains all the basic operations that you can carry out when the instru-ment is in NORMAL mode. If you are uncertain how to return the instrument toNORMAL mode, press the [MODE] button as many times as necessary until the leftdisplay arrowhead poi...
Page 11 - Split keyboard
GK310 5 Dual voice (play two layered voices) To play the DUAL effect, (with two layered sounds), press the [DUAL] button. Theword “VOICE 2” appears in the display as well as the voice number assigned to thelayered section. If you play on the keyboard, you will hear two sounds for every note played. ...
Page 12 - The Performances; Balancing the Lower and Upper sections
6 GK310 Owner’s manual The Performances So far, you have learnt how to select single and combined Voices in Normal, Dualand Split modes using several panel interventions. If, every time you want to createa preferred sound combination, you have to take several steps to arrive at your goal,you would a...
Page 13 - Instant Piano Voice
GK310 7 To decrease the volume, press the bottom [DECREASE VOLUME] control. If the Upper section is playing with the DUAL effect, the [UPPER MIXER] controlsadjust both voices at the same time. Muting the sections If you want to exclude a section (mute, or turn off), you can use the MIXER controlbutt...
Page 14 - Add Pitch Bend to your playing
8 GK310 Owner’s manual Add Pitch Bend to your playing While you play, you can add Pitch Bend to your keyboard sounds by using the [PITCHBEND] buttons located to the left of the control panel. You can obtain a Pitch Bendexcursion of 2 semitones above or below normal pitch with these controls. Hold do...
Page 15 - Playing the Styles
GK310 9 Selecting the Styles using the [-/OFF] and [+/ON] buttons In STYLE mode, the [–/OFF] and [+/ON] buttons of the numeric keypad step throughthe individual Styles one by one. 3. Press the [+/ON] button to select the Styles in increasing numerical order. 4. Press the [–/OFF] button to select the...
Page 16 - Changing the Style Tempo; About the Chord Recognition Modes; Using the Style Auto functions
10 GK310 Owner’s manual 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 thetempo, before or after starting the Style, by pressing the [TEMPO] buttons. • Press th...
Page 17 - Balancing the Style accompaniment tracks with the Mixer
GK310 11 Start the Style accompaniments with Key Start The KEY START function allows you to synchronize the start of your Style with anote or chord pressed on the keyboard without using the Start/Stop button. Whenyou press the [KEY START] button, the display shows 4 flashing black dots after theword...
Page 18 - Using the Single Touch Play settings in Style mode; The Performance buttons and Store Performance; How to memorize e Performance
12 GK310 Owner’s manual Using the Single Touch Play settings in Style mode When you play the Styles with the [SINGLE TOUCH PLAY] button on, each Styleyou select recalls a panel configuration (voices and volume settings) for the accom-paniment sections (Drums, Bass, Accomp) as well as for the Upper a...
Page 20 - Listen to the playback of a recorded Song
14 GK310 Owner’s manual Cancelling the Octave Transpose setting 3. To cancel the octave transposition, press both OCTAVE buttons at the same time. Record & Play - the Sequencer Your GK310 contains a very simple and easy-to-use sequencer which records what-ever you play, and plays back the record...
Page 21 - The GK310 General functions; The Percussion function - play the Drumpads
GK310 15 Note: When you activate the PERCUSSION functionto enable the DRUMPADS, the small PERCUS dis-play pointer indicates that the function is on at all times,until you disable it again, or turn the instrument off. The GK310 General functions The GK310 features several functions which affect the k...
Page 23 - Practice using the Metronome
GK310 17 The Beat function The BEAT function allows you to set a time signature (number of beats in a meas-ure) for the Metronome. The factory setting corresponds to 4 beats for every meas-ure. If you select the BEAT function, the display will show the factory setting. Use the [+/ON] button to incre...
Page 25 - Index
GK310 Index 19 Index A AC adaptor 1Auto-Accompaniment 8Aux. Out 2 B Balancing the Lower and Upper sections 6Balancing the Style tracks 11Batteries 1Beat function 17 C Chord Recognition Mode 8Chord Recognition Modes 10Connections 2 D Damper 2Demo Songs 2Drum Pads 15Dual button 5Dual voice 5 E Ending ...
Page 27 - Appendix
Page 29 - Appendix A - One finger chords chart
GK310 A•3 Appendix A - One finger chords chart C C # D b D D #Eb E Cm C #m/ D bm Dm D #m/ E bm Em C7 C #7/ D b7 D7 D #7/ E b7 E7 Cm7 C #m7/ D bm7 Dm7 D #m7/ E bm7 Em7 F Fm F7 Fm7 B F #/ G b G G #/ A b A Bm F#m/ G bm Gm G#m/ A bm A m B7 F #7/ G b7 G7 G #7/ A b7 A7 Bm7 F #m7/ G bm7 Gm7 G #m7/ A bm7 A ...
Page 30 - Appendix B - Fingered chords chart - Table 1
A•4 GK310 Appendix B - Fingered chords chart - Table 1 MAJOR (C) MINOR (Cm) DOMINANT 7th (C7) MINOR 7th (Cm7) MAJOR 7th (Cmaj7) DIMINISHED (Cdim) AUGMENTED (Caug) 6th (C6) MINOR 6th (Cm6) C C # D E b E F
Page 31 - Appendix B - Fingered chords chart - Table 2
GK310 A•5 MAJOR (C) MINOR (Cm) DOMINANT 7th (C7) MINOR 7th (Cm7) MAJOR 7th (Cmaj7) DIMINISHED (Cdim) AUGMENTED (Caug) 6th (C6) MINOR 6th (Cm6) F # G A b A B b B Appendix B - Fingered chords chart - Table 2
Page 32 - Appendix C - Demo Songs List
A•6 GK310 Appendix C - Demo Songs List 01 SERENATA 02 SERENADE 03 RONDEAU 04 FROHLICHER LANDMAN 05 PIZZICATO POLKA 06 FORELLE 07 NOCTURNE 08 SYMPHONY NO.94 SUPRISE 09 HEIPENROSLEIN 10 NIGHT 11 TURKISH MARCH 12 SKIP TO MY SIDE 13 KAT HOISA 14 RED RIVER VALLEY 15 JESUS SAVIOUR PILOT ME 16 TPO H KA 17 ...
Page 33 - FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION; - Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class Bdigital device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules. These limits are designed to providereasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. Thisequipmen...
Page 34 - PRINTED IN ITALY
GENERALMUSIC Code 271284 Specifications are subject to change without prior notice. Specifiche soggette a cambiamento senza preavviso. Les spécifications sont sujettes à modifications sans préavis. Änderungen -auch ohne Vorankündigung- sind vorbehalten. Sales Division: I -47048 S.Giovanni in Marigna...
