Playing Multiple Tones With The Keyboard - Roland FR-8X Owner's Manual

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Playing Multiple Tones with the Keyboard

You can perform with up to three layered tones applied to the
entire keyboard .
To do this you can select more than one section simultaneously
by pressing the desired RIGHT HAND buttons at the same time and
by assigning one tone to each of these layers. See
tones of the selected sections" (p.
ACCORDION Section
ORCHESTRA 1 Section
ORCHESTRA 2 Section
ORGAN Section
MEMO
You have the possibility to change the key range of each
section.
In this way you can play the Accordion + Orchestra 1 section in
the left part of the keyboard and the Orchestra 2 section in the
right part. See
"Assigning a Portion of Right Hand Keyboard to
Each Section" (p.
38).
ACCORDION Section
ORCHESTRA 1 Section
The following combinations are possible:
What you want to play
ACCORDION + ORGAN
ACCORDION + ORCHESTRA 1
ACCORDION + ORCHESTRA 2
ACCORDION + ORGAN +
ORCHESTRA 2
ACCORDION + ORCHESTRA 1 +
ORCHESTRA 2
ORCHESTRA 1 + ORCHESTRA 2
ORCHESTRA 2 + ORGAN
NOTE
The Organ section and the Orchestra 1 section cannot be used
at the same time.
1.
Press and hold simultaneously two or three RIGHT HAND
buttons to select the section combination that you want
to play.
The combination of the RIGHT HAND sections are shown in the
table just above.
"How to change
33).
ORCHESTRA 2 Section
Press and hold simultaneously
• [ACCORDION] and [ORGAN] button
• [ACCORDION] and [ORCH 1] button
• [ACCORDION] and [ORCH 2] button
• [ACCORDION], [ORGAN] and [ORCH
2] button
• [ACCORDION], [ORCH 1] and [ORCH
2] button
• [ORCH 1] and [ORCH 2] button
• [ORCH 2] and [ORGAN] button
Selecting Tones and Playing with the Right Hand
The buttons of the selected sections light.
NOTE
When you select a combination of sections, the last RIGHT
HAND button pressed is active for changing tone.
2.
Play the keyboard.
You'll hear a sound in relation to the sections you selected earlier.
The active sections play in relation to the selected Keyboard Mode.
At default the Keyboard Mode parameter value is set to "Zone" and
all sections play on the whole extension of the keyboard. For more
detail about the Keyboard Mode see
(p. 38)
.
3.
If you want to play an accordion solo, press the master
bar. Push again to restore the previous condition.
How to change tones of the selected sections
You can have more than one active section but only one of them is
active for changing the tone.
4.
Press and hold the button of one active section where
you want to change the tone, as long as it starts flashing.
The display highlights the section selected for changing tone.
In the above example the "ACCORDION" section is active for
changing tone.
5.
Use the right registers [1]~[14] to select other sounds
belonging to the selected section.
"Right Hand Keyboard Mode"
33

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