Playing Your Own Music; Selecting Sounds E E Raros; Layering Two Instrument Sounds S; E E - Roland HP 237e Owner's Manual

Owner's Manual
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4. Playing your own music
4.1 Selecting sounds
The HP-237e allows you to play using eight different
sounds including piano.
Use the eight Tone buttons to select the desired
sound. When the HP-237e is turned on, it automati-
cally selects the "Piano 1" sound.
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Press the button corresponding
to the desired Tone.
Press any Tone button.
When you play the keyboard, the selected Tone is
played. —
Piano 1: Full-sized concert grand piano. Rich stereo
sound, providing 32 polyphonic notes.
Piano 2: Full-sized concert grand piano. 64 polyphon-
ic notes.
Electric Piano 1: Sound of a Rhodes (electric) piano.
Electric Piano 2: A synthesizer's electric piano.
Harpsichord: Harpsichord sound
Vibraphone: Vibraphone sound
Pipe Organ: Pipe organ sound
Strings: the sound of a string instrument ensemble
4.2 Layering two instrument
sounds
Playing with two different Tones on the keyboard
simultaneously is called a "Layer".
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1. While holding down the [Piano 1] button, press the
[Strings] button.
When you play the keyboard, both the Piano 1 and
Strings Tones are layered. This is only an example,
though: you can hold down any Tone button and
press another Tone button to layer two sounds.
2. To cancel the Layer function, press any Tone but-
ton.
Now, only the sound of the button you pressed will be
heard.
4.3 Different sounds for the
right and left hands - Split
The HP-237e allows you to divide the keyboard into
two sections and to play two different sounds. Divid-
ing the keyboard is called "Split" and the key where
the keyboard is split is called the "split point". The
split point is at "F#3" when the power is turned on.
1. Hold down the Tone button for the sound that you
wish to use for the Split, and press the Metronome
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and press
The indicator of the Tone button you preset will
flash.
2. Play the keyboard. Your left and right hands now
play two different sounds.
The second sound that is added to the split is preset.
Here are the available combinations:
Note: Chorus (see page 11) cannot be applied to the tones
with Acoustic Bass.
Note: The pedals do not apply to the sound played in the
left part of the keyboard.
3. To cancel split, press a Tone button whose indica-
tor is dark.
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