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7.6. Switching Style
arrangements (divisions)
For each Style, you can select the particulars of the
orchestration (arrangement) and accompaniment
pattern type. You can do this before starting a Style,
or during playback of the Style.
Note: There are other Arranger functions you can use by
assigning them to a PAD button. See "Pad buttons:
additional or frequently used functions" on page 45 for
details.
Basic/Advanced: Level
See "What is an Arranger?". At power on, the
"Advanced" level is selected.
Advanced: ....... more complex arrangement
with more accompanying
instruments.
Basic: ........... simple arrangement with fewer
accompanying instruments.
Here is how to select the desired level:
Press <Advnc-4Basic> or <AdvncP Basic> on the Basic
screen,
The correspondence between the levels and what is
shown on the display is as follows:
<Advne<4Basic> .Appears when Basic Arrange-
ment is selected. Press
<Advnc<Basic> to switch to the
Advanced level.
<Advnc® Basic> Appears when Advanced
Arrangement is selected. Press
<Advnc®
Basic> to switch to
Basic level.
Original/Variation: Accompaniment
pattern
There are two kinds of accompaniment patterns:
Original and Variation. The accompaniment pattern
type is set to "Original" when power to the instru-
ment is turned on. See "What is an Arranger?" for
details.
Press <To Variation> or <To Original> on the Basic screen.
Fill-Ins (transitions between Original
and Variation
Fill In To Original and To Variation are two fills (or
transitions) you can use at the end of a musical
phrase (verse, chorus, bridge). The two buttons do
two things at a time:
In Variation mode
In Original mode
Plays the Original Fill.
Plays the Original Fill and
selects the Original pattern.
HSIONa
TO
Plays the Variation Fill and
selects the Variation pattem.
Plays the Variation Fill.
Press these buttons now. Start with [TO VARIATION], next
press [TO ORIGINAL].
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To Variation
To Original
Sync
intro
Start
Fill In
Ending
Stop
Think of a Fill as the moment in a song when the
drummer is allowed to play a roll and the bassist
and keyboard players vary their accompaniment by
adding a few notes here and there.
Fill-Ins last one bar, but you can produce shorter
fills by proceeding as follows: press [TO VARIA-
TION] or [TO ORIGINAL] on the first through the
penultimate beat of a bar (i.e. the 1st, 2nd or 3rd
beat of a 4/4 bar, or the 1st or 2nd beat of a 3/4 bar)
to start the fill right away. lt will then last until the
end of the current bar. If you press the [TO VARIA-
TION] or [TO ORIGINAL] button on the last beat
of the current bar, the fill will start on the following
downbeat and last an entire bar.
Note: Every time you stop a Music Style in One Touch
Program ARRANGER mode, the KR-75 will select the
Original pattern again.
7.7. Easy fingering - Chord
Intelligence
As stated before, the Arranger relies on the chords
you play for choosing the key of the accompani-
ment. Playing chords isn't always easy, especially
when you need to concentrate on your melody.
That is why the KR-75 features a function called
Chord Intelligence.
It is intelligent in that it allows you to play major
chords by pressing just one key (the root note),
while minor chords can be played with two keys,
and complex chords with only three keys. Unlike
other brands, Roland uses a musical system for
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