Changing octave range of outboard MIDI keyboard

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Changing octave range of outboard MIDI keyboard

I would LOVE to know how to change the octave range of my outboard bare-bones MIDI keyboard (i.e. I wish to shift the entire keyboard's active range –4 octaves–down or up in octave-by-octave steps). An Apple store person suggested "Command-k" which initiates a display of the screen keyboard, and then using the blue-tinted "slider" displayed thereon, but moving that has no effect whatsoever on the result, at least in my setup.

Powerbook G4 Titanium Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Powerbook G4 Titanium, Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Mar 20, 2006 11:59 AM

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xs4is

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Mar 20, 2006 12:03 PM in response to Jared Hoke

Hello fellow Minnesotan...

I would like to know which keyboard you are using. Most have an octave selecter (shown at least by "+ and -").

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Jared Hoke Author

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Mar 20, 2006 1:34 PM in response to xs4is

My keyboard is a "Master Keyboard Studio 490" by Fatar, and it is "bare bones", 4 octaves of keys. a power input port, an on-off switch...and that's it.

I also have a far more capable Yamaha "XG" device that has all the functionality in the world, but also, an almost unusable keyboard (three octaves, and much smaller keys, and thus, very hard to play). There are DIN midi in/midi out ports on this thing. Maybe I should route my full size keyboard thru it, and use all of its functions thereby (IF they'll work that way)

It's a brave new world!

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