Adjusting The Sound's Ambience And Brightness; Changing The Keyboard Touch; Practicing With The Metronome; Changing The Settings For Metronome - Roland RP701 Owner's Manual

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Adjusting the Sound' s Ambience and Brightness
You can add reverberant ambience to the sound as though you were
performing in a concert hall. You can also adjust the tonal brightness
of your keyboard performance or the song playback.
1 . Press the [ ] button.
The button is lit, and the piano is in function mode.
2 . Turn the [ ] knob to select the screen of the item
that you want to set.
3 . Press the [ ] knob to confirm, and then turn the [ ]
knob to choose the desired value.
Higher values produce deeper ambience; lower
values produce shallower ambience.
Ambience
• The reverberation effect is not applied to audio files.
0–10 (default value: 1)
You can apply a Headphones 3D Ambience
effect that creates the impression that the
sound is being heard from the piano itself even
when you're using headphones.
Headphones
3D Ambience
• The Headphones 3D Ambience effect applies only to
piano sounds; it does not apply to other sounds.
• The reverberation effect is not applied to audio files.
Off, On (default value: On)
Higher values produce brighter sounds.
Brilliance
-10–0–+10 (default value: 0)
4 . To exit the setting, press the [ ] button to exit
function mode.

Changing the Keyboard Touch

You can change the playing feel (touch) of the keyboard.
1 . Press the [ ] button.
The button is lit, and the piano is in function mode.
2 . Turn the [ ] knob to access the "Key Touch" screen.
3 . Press the [ ] knob to confirm, and then turn the [ ]
knob to choose the desired value.
This touch setting is closest to that of an acoustic
50 (default)
piano.
1–100 Higher values make the keyboard feel heavier.
The sound is heard at a fixed volume regardless of
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how strongly you play the keyboard.
4 . To exit the setting, press the [ ] button to exit
function mode.
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Practicing with the Metronome

You can practice while hearing a metronome.
& "Practicing with the Metronome" (p. 14)

Changing the Settings for Metronome

You can change various other settings of the metronome in addition
to its tempo and time signature.
1 . Press the [ ] button and [ ] button simultaneously.
The Metronome setting screen appears.
2 . Turn the [ ] knob to access the screen of the item
that you want to set.
3 . Press the [ ] knob to confirm.
4 . Turn the [ ] knob to change the setting.
2/2, 3/2, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4,
Beat 3/8, 6/8, 8/8, 9/8, 12/8 (default value:
4/4)
If this is on, the first beat (downbeat)
of the metronome is played with a
Metronome Downbeat
stronger sound.
Off, On (default value: On)
Changes the pattern of the
metronome.
Off, Eighth note, Eighth-note triplet,
Metronome Pattern
Shuffle, Sixteenth note, Quarter-note
triplet, Quarter note, Dotted eighth
(default value: Off)
Changes the metronome's volume
Metronome Volume
Off, 1–10 (default value: 5)
Changes the tone of the metronome.
Metronome Tone
Click, Electronic, Voice (Japanese),
Voice (English) (default value: Click)
5 . To exit the setting, press the [ ] button.
Reading the note name (e.g., C4)
The alphabetical indication for settings such as "split point" shows
the name of the note.
For example, the indication "C4" means "the fourth 'C' from the
left edge of the keyboard. "