Music Keyboard: Mixer Features Explained

One of the most important aspects of owning a an electronic keyboard is that it lets you learn how different musical instruments work together in a song.

Different Instruments in a Song

Any song would typically have the following instruments playing together. All of them may not play together throughout the song but they do play together for most part of the song.

The mixer function on an electronic music keyboard allows you to control different parameters related to the musical instruments in a song.

Mixer – How Does it work?

The auto-accompaniments and the sequencer on most music keyboards let you play up to 16 different musical instruments at the same time.

With the mixer, you can adjust various parameters of each of these parts, also known as channels or tracks. You can even mute certain tracks if you wish to.

Some of the parameters that you can control include – tone, volume, pan position, etc. for each built-in auto accompaniment part and each track recorded with the song sequencer.

Mixer – How Does it Help?

With the help of the mixer on your music-keyboard, you can study how the various built-in musical styles are created.

Play just one track at a time and see how the various tracks sound. Begin with one track and gradually add one track at a time to it. Begin with drums; add bass to it; then add the chord tracks and finally the main tone. See how all the tracks sound together finally.

Summary – Mixer on Digital Music Keyboards

The mixer is an important function on your music keyboard. Use it to learn how the various musical tracks are created. This is a great skill to have once you start creating your own melodies, since you will need to arrange the melody you composed. This skill will come in handy then.

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