kidboy-firmware

• Turn the PRESETS wheel to move between four cards: SONGS, LETTERS, NUMBERS and PIANO.
• SELECT picks one of seventeen sounds, including piano, music box, marimba, organ, flute, robot, choir, kalimba, strings and pads.
• The twelve panel buttons are drums on every card, with kick, snare, hats, clap, crash, toms, congas, claves and cowbell.
• Each card has its own kit, so the same buttons sound different on SONGS, LETTERS, NUMBERS and PIANO.
• K1 sets song speed from 50 % to 150 % and the pace of the counting dots.
• MASTER sets overall volume, covering notes, speech and drums, and OCT\u2212 or OCT+ stops everything at once.
• Kidboy saves the card, sound and speed after a short quiet spell and wakes on the saved card.
• A USB computer sees KIDBOY FM-1, sends notes that play the current sound, and receives the notes you play.

Its modes

SONGS

Each of the 27 keys plays a nursery song, with the title on screen and Todo Boy bobbing along.

LETTERS

Keys show a giant letter A to Z, say its name and play a note, with the ABC song on the rightmost key.

NUMBERS

A key says its number and lights that many dots one by one, each dot with a note.

PIANO

Every key plays its real pitch across two octaves and shows the note name.