YM-718

61-Key Teaching Electronic Keyboard

YOU ARE WELCOME TO JOIN THE BIG FAMILY OF YONGMEI ELECTRIC KEYBOARDS!
Thank you for your purchase of YM-718 Multifunctional LCD Electronic Keyboard. It has a strong expressive force with a beautiful appearance. It provides you with an easy way to learn and play the keyboard. This keyboard is not only a perfect musical instrument for beginners but also an ideal instrument in musical education as well as for entertainment. Please read the guide carefully before you use our product and please keep it for reference.

PRECAUTIONS
Use the specified adapter only. Using the wrong adapter can result in damage to the instrument or overheating.If the AC adapter cord or plug becomes frayed or damaged, or if there is a sudden loss of sound during use of the instrument, or if any unusual smells or smoke appear to be caused by it, immediately turn off the power switch, disconnect the adapter plug from the outlet, and have the instrument inspected by qualified service personnel. Turn off the power and unplug from the power outlet ( do not take off the plug by pulling the cord) when not using the keyaboard so as to avoide the burning internal parts or arosing fire by the long time connection to the power. Make the safekeeping of the plastice packing bag to avoid the suffocation happening when a child ammuses itself by puttingits head into it. The keyboard surface should be kept cleanness to avoid the eyewinkers into the instrument through the small openings of the switch or gaps between the keys; Timely cleaning the appearance of the keyboard with soft cloth is needed and keep the keyboard away fromwater vapour. Do not expose the instrument in the strong sunlight for a long time. The keyboard should be stored in a dry place when it is not in use. Do be careful with the keyboard when it needs to move. Strong vibration or collision is forbidden so as to avoid the damage of the frame or the internal parts. The instrument must be kept away from the acidity or alkaline matters and do not play the instrument in an eroding gas circumstance to avoid the malfunctional connection caused by lines oxidation.The electronic keyboard belongs to precise instrument, so any of the modification will result in malfunction. Once the failure happens, do please take it to a professional after-service department or experienced technicians. Do not dismantle or assemble the components inside at will.

CHARACTERISTICS
61-Key Standard Keyboard 100 Voices/100 Styles 61-Key Percussion Keyboard/LCD Display 6 Stereo Demo Songs/Demo One/Demo All Master Volume Control/8-Grade Accom.Volume Control 32-Level Tempo Control/Transpose Control Record/Play/Program Sustain/Vibrato/Echo Metronome/Two-Teaching Mode Sync/Start/Stop/Fill-in Single Finger/Fingered/Normal 3-Minute Auto Power Off Microphone/Line Out External Power/Earphone

Accessaries: Music Stand, AC/DC Adapter, Owner s Manual, Guarantee.

CONTENT
I. Before You Begin
1.Panel Buttons 2.Power Supply 3.External Ports

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II. Operation
1.Power Supply 2.Demo Songs 3.Voice 4.Style 5.Chord 6.Percussion 7.Effect 8.Volume 9.Tempo Control 10 . Transpose Control 11 .Metronome 12.Record and Play 13.Program 14 .Teaching 15 .Auto Power Off

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III . Appendix
Table for Voices Table for Styles Table for Demo Songs S . Finger Chord Fingering Fingered Chord Fingering Circuit Diagram for YM-718

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I. Befor You Begin

1. Panel Buttons
1 ) Power Button 2 ) Master Volume 3 ) Tempo 4 ) Accomp. Volume 5 ) Chord Control 6 ) Record 7 ) Pla y 8 ) Program 9 ) Start/Stop 10 ) Demo One 11 ) Demo All 12 ) Keyboard Percussion 13 ) One Key 14 ) LCD Display
( External Ports )

15 ) Guide 16 ) Sustain 17 ) Echo 18 ) Vibrato 19 ) Numeric Keypad 20 ) Panel Percussion 21 ) Metronome 22 ) Voice 23 ) Style 24 ) Transpose 25 ) Earphone Socket 26 ) Microphone Socket 27 ) Line Out Socket 28 ) Power Socket

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2.Power Supply
To Use Batteries
Insert Batteries Turn upside the keyboard and open the battery compartment cover. Insert eight 1.5V D size R20P (Lr20) or equivalent batteries. Be sure of following the polarity marks inside the compartment. Batteries Used up When the batteries are nearly exhausted, the electronic keyboard can not work normally or the sound is distorted, replace the complete eight batteries.
+ - + -+ - + - + - + - + - + -

Fig. 1

CAUTION
Unplug the AC adapter when not using the electronic keyboard.

To Use AC Adapter
Use only the AC Adapter attached to power your instrument from the AC mains. The use of other adapters may result in irreparable damage to the electronic keyboard. The method to use AC adapter is to put one end into the jack at the side of the keyboard and the other into the outlet of AC mains.
Either AC adapter or batteries can be used in the keyboard, but AC adapter is suggested because it is propitious to environmental protection.

3.External Ports
Insert the plug of the microphone into MIC socket at the rear panel of the keyboard and you can enjoy private playing and singing. Insert the plugs of the amplifier into LINE OUT at the rear panel of the keyboard and the performance effect will be enhanced. EARPHONE Insert the plug of earphone into EARPHONE socket and you can Fig. 2 play the keyboard without disturbing others. (Fig. 2) The microphone and earphone are not included with the instrument.

MIC LINE OUT

DC12V

II. Operation
Power Supply (Fig. 3) Press the POWER button with LCD displaying LAMP on and you can start the performance. In the mode of Play and Record , the note keys will not work. Demo Songs (Fig. 4) Press DEMO ONE button or DEMO ALL button in any mode and the keyboard will start songs. Stop the playing song by pressing any one of the STOP , DEMO ONE or DEMO ALL buttons. Demo One Function Press DEMO ONE button and the keyboard starts playing song. When the song is over it will be re-played automatically. Press DEMO ALL button and the keyboard enter the demo all mode. After one song is finished, the next will go on automatically.
ONE KEY GUIDE DEMO ONE DEMO ALL PERCUSSION

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3 Voice (Fig. 5)
Press VOICE button and select one of the 100 voices through numeric keypad 0~9 or through + - .The default voice is piano when power is turned on.

4 Style (Fig.5)
In the normal mode (In the STOP mode), press STYLE button to select one of the 100 styles through the numeric keypad 0~9 and then press START/STOP button to enter or quit the mode. While the style starts, six keys (white and black) are in effect at one time during playing the keyboard. In the normal playing, there are eight keys in effect. STYLE can be altered through while the style is working on.
VOICE

METRONOME

STYLE

Fig. 5

5 Chord (Fig. 6 and Fig. 7)

In the mode of style, press S. FINGER or FINGERED button to enter the related auto chord accompaniment mode. At the time, the 19 keys on the left of the keyboard are in the chord keyboard mode and the auto chord accompaniment will be working if the keyboard chord fingering is correct. If the fingering is incorrect, there is no chord effect to be created. Please find the Appendix for fingering. S.Finger Chord in this keyboard is in the mode of S. Finger Chord Fingering . Please refer to the appendix for the fingering. In the mode of style playing, press FILL-IN button and 1~2 nodule will be filled in and then the style performance will continue as before. Keep pressing FILL-IN button and the nodule will be played without break. Press SYNC. button and at this time press STYLE button, and only is the style selected but not played. Press note key and the style as well as chord (if it has been preset) will start in synchronization. Press BASS button in the mode of chord working, the bass effect will be added into the chord
19 CHORD KEYBOARD

Fig. 6

SYNC

FILL IN

S.FINGER FINGERED BASS NORMAL

Fig.7

Percussion (Fig. 8)
Press PERCUSSION button with KDRM displaying on the LCD window and the keyboard will be shifted to percussion-keyboard and press PERCUSSION button again to quit the function.
ONE KEY GUIDE DEMO ONE DEMO ALL PERCUSSION

Effect
Effects includes vibrato, sustain and echo, which can be used to enrich the performance effect.

Fig.8

Volume (Fig.9)
Master volume control: rotate MASTER VOLUME knob and the volume will increase or decrease. The master volume will also influence the volume of the keyboard and accompaniment as well. Accompaniment volume control, which is only in effect for rhythm and chord. Press ACCOMP. VOLUME button once and the volume increases or decreases by one level. There are 8 levels in all. Press ACCOMP. VOLUME and buttons at the same time and the volume will recover its initial setting. (The default is 5 levels).

MIN MASTER VOLUME

MAX

Fig.9

Tempo (Fig.10)
Press TEMPO or button once and the tempo will increase or decrease by one level. Press TEMPO and at the same time and the tempo will recover its initial setting (32 levels). In the normal mode or in the mode of synchronization, the tempo parameter can be adjusted. To start the style after the adjustment, the style will be played in accordance with the preset tempo parameter.
TRANSPOSE

TEMPO

Fig.10

10 Transpose (Fig.10)
Transpose, which is only in effect for the normal performance. Press TRANSPOSE or button, and the playing white or black key to its related tone will be up or down by 0.5Va. Once you press the TRANSPOSE and buttons at the same time, the pitch of the whole keyboard will go back to its initial setting. 000 presents the normal pitch tone, which can be adjusted over a range of 6 semitones.

Metronome
Press METRONOME in the normal mode or in the mode of recording, there are 4 types of beat to be selected among 1/4,2/4, 3/4, 4/4. (Fig. 11)
METRONOME

Record and Play

TIMBRE

RHYTHM

Press RECORD button to enter the recording mode. Press note keys under the mode of recording, the played notes will be recorded into the keyboard. Please notice that only one note can be recorded at a time and 64 notes can be recorded at most. Press PLAY button and the recorded notes will playback in order. After the playing is over, the new recording could get started. Once the storage is full, the playing sound can be heard but not be recorded any more. The timbre can be changed while playing the recorded notes. (Fig.12) Quit the mode of recording or playing by pressing STOP button.(Fig. 12)

(Fig.11)

PLAY

RECORD

PROGRAM

Pragram
Press PROGRAM button in the mode of non-program to enter the mode of program. Press PERCUSSION button on the keyboard panel and the related drums will be programmed into the keyboard. Note that only one sound of the drums can be programmed at a time and the maximum program notes can not be over 16. Press PLAY button, and the self-programed drums will be playing in order, which forms a self-programed rhythm. Quit the program mode by pressing PROGRAM or STOP button. (Fig.13)

PLAY

RECORD

PROGRAM

(Fig.13)

Teaching (Fig. 14)

In the non-teaching mode, press ONE-KEY or GUIDE to enter the teaching mode. During the study, the song will not continue until the note keys are pressed, otherwise the current chord will be repeated automatically. After one piece of the desired songs has been practised, it will be repeated for ONE-KEY you to practise once more. Stop the playing song while playing by pressing STOP button . One-key function: Press ONE-KEY button and then press a white key to select a song and after the selection of a song, the main melody notes will be (Fig.14) performed by pressing any o f the keys and the accompaniment will be repeated. That is the mode of one key setting.. No matter whether the playing notes are correct or not, the keyboard gives you the correct sound. After the melody ends, the white key can be pressed to select another song. Press ONE-KEY button again to quit the function. Follow-me function: Press GUIDE button to enter the function. Select a demo song by pressing any of the white keys first, then listen to the song as many times as you can so that you can understand and remember the melody, rhythm and tone. Then you can start your playing on the keyboard with the main melody shielded. The keyboard will not give you the correct sound until you play the note pitch correctly, that is, only when you play the note pitch correctly, does the keyboard give out the correct sound, otherwise the non-cantus timbre will send out. If you do not play the keyboard for three seconds, the main melody will be renewed. After the song is over, press the white key to select another song. The timbre of the main melody can be altered by press the buttons +/ . Quit the mode by pressing GUIDE button again.
GUIDE

Auto Power Off

The keyboard will go to the sleeping state if the keyboard does not work for three minutes. Quit the sleeping mode and enter the working state again by pressing any of the keys.

SONG LIST
00 For Whom? 01 Butterflies in the Rain 02 Bright Spring Day 03 Silver Birch 04 Blue Love 05 Dissolute Widow

100 VOICES LIST

00 PIANO 01 EPIANO 02 HARPC 03 CELESTA 04 ORGAN 05 BELL 06 MUSICBOX 07 GUITAR 08 EGUITA 09 JASS GUITAR 10 BASS 11 VIOLIN 12 STRING 13 HARP 14 TRUMPET 15 TUBA 16 BRASS 17 CLARINET 18 BANJO 19 PIANO1 20 EPIANO1 21 HARPC1 22 CELESTA1 23 ORGAN1 24 BELL1 25 MUSICBOX1 26 GUITAR1 27 EGUITA1 28 JASSGUITAR1 29 BASS1 30 VIOLIN1 31 STRING1 32 HARP1 33 TRUMPET1 34 TUBA1 35 BRASS1 36 CLARINET1 37 BANJO1 38 PIANO2 39 EPIANO2 40 HARPC2 41 CELESTA2 42 ORGAN2 43 BELL2 44 MUSICBOX2 45 GUITAR2 46 EGUITA2 47 JASSGUITAR2 48 BASS2 49 VIOLIN2 50 STRING2 51 HARP2 52 TRUMPET2 53 TUBA2 54 BRASS2 55 CLARINET2 56 BANJO2 57 PIANO3 58 EPIANO3 59 HARPC3 60 CELESTA3 80 ORGAN4 61 ORGAN3 81 BELL4 62 BELL3 82 MUSICBOX4 63 MUSICBOX3 83 GUITAR4 64 GUITAR3 84 EGUITAR4 65 EGUITAR3 85 JASSGUITAR4 66 JASSGUITAR3 86 BASS4 67 BASS3 87 VIOLIN4 68 VIOLIN3 88 STRING4 69 STRING3 89 HARP4 70 HARP3 90 TRUMPET4 71 TRUMPET3 91 TUBA4 72 TUBA3 92 BRASS4 73 BRASS3 93 CLARINET4 74 CLARINET3 94 BANJO4 75 BANJO3 95 PIANO5 76 PIANO4 96 EPIANO5 77 EPIANO4 97 HARPC5 78 HARPC4 98 CELESTA5 79 CELESTA4 99 KEYBOARDDRUM

100 STYLES LIST

00 CLUB POP 01 EURO POP 02 8 BEAT 03 60 S8BEAT 04 16BEAT 05 16BTSOUL 06 FUSNSHFL 07 68 BLD 08 TECHNO 09 DISCO 10 TRANCE 11 FUNK 12 ROCK 13 SLW ROCK 14 ROCK WLTZ 15 BOOGIE 16 TWIST 17 R&B 18 SLWSING 19 POLKA 20 MARCH1 21 MARCH2 22 VIENWLTZ 23 BSANVA 24 SAMBA 25 CHACHA 26 RHUMBA 27 TANGO1 28 TANGO2 29 COUNTRY 30 CLUBPOP1 31 EUROPOP1 32 8BEAT1 33 60S8BEA1T 34 16BEAT1 35 16BTSOUL1 36 FUSNSHFL1 37 68BLD1 38 TECHNO1 39 DISCO1 40 TRANCE1 41 FUNK1 42 ROCK1 43 SLWROCK1 44 ROCKWLTZ1 45 BOOGIE1 46 TWIST1 47 R&B1 48 SLWSING1 49 POLKA1 50 MARCH3 51 MARCH4 52 VIENWLTZ1 53 BSANVA1 54 SAMBA1 55 CHACHA1 56 RHUMBA1 57 TANGO3 58 TANGO4 59 COUNTRY1 60 ClubPop2 61 EUROPOP2 62 8BEAT2 63 60S8BEAT2 64 16BEAT2 65 16BTSOUL2 66 FUSNSHFL2 67 68BLD2 68 TECHNO2 69 DISCO2 70 TRANCE2 71 FUNK2 72 Rock 2 73 SLWROCK2 74 ROCKWLTZ2 75 BOOGIE2 76 TWIST2 77 R&B2 78 SLWSING2 79 POLKA2 80 MARCH5 81 MARCH6 82 VIENWLTZ2 83 BSANVA2 84 SAMBA5 85 CHACHA6 86 RHUMBA2 87 TANGO5 88 TANGO6 89 COUNTRY2 90 CLUBPOP3 91 EUROPOP3 92 8BEAT3 93 60S8BEAT3 94 16BEAT3 95 16BTSOUL3 96 FUSNSHFL3 97 68 BLD3 98 TECHNO3 99 DISCO3

Fingered Chord Fingering

Single Finger Chord Fingering

The Diagram for YM-718 This diagram is for reference only. There is no notice in advance if the data of parts is subject to change.