KT Quick-Start Guide
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Transpose Keyboard
• Play a brief C major chord on the keyboard just to get a sense of what it sounds like.
• After you’ve played the C chord (and released it), hold down the
{TRANSPOSE_KEYBOARD} button located in the upper right corner of the KT’s front panel.
Hold This Button
and Play a Note
Transpose
Keyboard
semi
–6 –5 –4 –3 –2 –1 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5
G A B B
C
D E F
note
F
#
EA
#
b b b
• While holding down the {TRANSPOSE_KEYBOARD} button, press the D just above middle
C on the keyboard. You’ll see a small light go on to the left of the
{TRANSPOSE_KEYBOARD} button, right above the “D” printed on the KT’s front panel.
+2
D
On
• Let go of the {TRANSPOSE_KEYBOARD} button and the D on the keyboard.
• Play your C major chord again—what you’ll hear is a D major!
• Press the {TRANSPOSE_KEYBOARD} button again to turn off the
{TRANSPOSE_KEYBOARD} feature.
The KT’s Transpose Keyboard feature makes it easy to change the musical key you’re playing in
without actually having to physically change what you play at all. This makes playing music in
new keys a snap—just play what you always did and let the KT do the transposing. You can use
Transpose Keyboard regardless of whether your music is in a major or minor key.
We’ve just seen that if your original key is C, you can transpose by simply holding down the
{TRANSPOSE_KEYBOARD} button and touching the key on the keyboard with the same name
as the key you want to transpose to.
If you’re starting in a key other than C, you can transpose using the numbers and letters printed
above and below the Transpose lights as a guide.
Let’s take an Eb major chord and transpose it to the key of Ab.
• Play an Eb major chord on the keyboard.
• Count the number of semitones between Eb and Ab. Make E natural the first key you count
and Ab the last. You’ll find the number of keys to be five.
• Look at the row of small lights. The light farthest to the right has a “+5” printed above
it—that’s the distance from Eb to Ab, isn’t it?
semi
–6 –5 –4 –3 –2 –1 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5
G A B B
C
D E F
note
F
#
EA
#
b b b
We can also see that directly under the light is the letter “F.” This tells us that to raise the key of
our music by five semitones, we’ll need to play an F on the keyboard.
• Hold down the {TRANSPOSE_KEYBOARD} button and play an F on the keyboard. The light
between the “+5” and the “F” goes on.
• Now let go of the {TRANSPOSE_KEYBOARD} button and the F on the keyboard. When you
play an Eb major chord, the KT sounds an Ab major chord.
• Press the {TRANSPOSE_KEYBOARD} button again to return to normal operation.
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