Roland RD-600 Owner's Manual

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OWNER'S MANUAL
Introduction
Thank you for purchasing the Roland RD-600 Digital Piano.
In order to take full advantage of the RD-600's superior functionality and enjoy
long and trouble-free use, please read this owner's manual carefully.
Features
¢ A total of 128 different types of high quality Tones are built-in, including the
great piano sounds of the past. In addition to grand piano and electric piano, the
RD-600 provides a wide variety of keyboard sounds such as organ, strings and
synth, and also sounds such as bass and percussion.
¢ The hammer action keyboard provides a touch that is close to that of a grand piano.
* Two sets of output jacks (FIXED OUT / LINE OUT) are provided. On stage you can
connect separate output feeds to the main console and to the monitors. °
* Digital reverb/chorus, analog 3-band equalizer, and multi-effect EFX are built-in.
¢ You can edit the envelope and velocity sensitivity etc. of the Tones to create orig-
inal sounds.
¢ The RD-600 provides INT Parts to control the RD-600 itself and TX Parts to con-
trol external MIDI devices. Transmitting program change or volume messages to
an external MIDI device is easy. The RD-600 is designed for superb operability.
* For the two Parts of the internal sound source, you can select either Split or
Layered key modes. You can create sophisticated settings by independently
specifying volume balance and transpose for each Part.
© The RD-600 provides a full array of MIDI master keyboard functionality, includ-
ing a bender / modulation lever.
¢ The MIDI THRU connectors can be used as MIDI OUT.
* The setup memories allow up to 64 different panel settings to be stored. You can
also store internal part settings or settings for the external sound source.
* The RD-600 can be controlled by an external sequencer as a 16-part multi-timbral
sound source.
© Light-weight and compact design, ideal for on-stage use.
You can take advantage of these features in the following ways.
Select and play various Tones
Play different Tones simultaneously (Layer)
Play different Tones
in different halves of the keyboard (Split)
Transpose without changing
your keyboard fingering (Transpose)
Try out the multi-effect EFX
Select a Setup memory
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