Roland JX-8P Owner's Manual page 7

3)
Portamento
The portamento effect
will
be on by
setting
thie
Por-
tamento
Switch
to
ON
.
The
time
needed
for a
sound
to
change from
a pitch to
the other
can be
altered
by
using the
Portamento
Time Knob ®.
4)
Key
Mode
Select
The JX-8P
contains 6
sound modules. Six
dif-
ferent
key
assign
modes
are provided to
decide
how
these 6 synthesizer
modules
will
be assigned to the
keys
played.
I
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POLY
with
the Indicator lighted
This
mode
turns the
JX-8P
to a
6 voice
polyphonic synthesizer assigning
one syn-
thesizer
module
to
each key pressed. This
is
suitable for
the
sound
whose
envelope
curve
is
similar
to piano's or guitar's,
therefore
chosen
for
usual
performance.
I
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POLY
with
the
Indicator flashing
This
mode
is
very similar to
Poly
mode
above assigning only
one synthesizer
voice
to
each key
pressed.
The
primary
advantage
of this
mode
is
that only the
last
note
or
notes played together
receive
natural
release length.
This
mode
is
suitable for
the
performance with
por-
tamento
effect.
SOLO
with the Indicator lighted
This
mode
turns the
JX-8P
to a single
voice synthesizer that assigns
one module
to
each
key.
jl
SOLO
with the
Indicator flashing
This
mode
turns the
JX-8P
to
the
monophonic
synthesizer that assigns 6
modules
to
one key
pressed.
Please be sure that
you
are
not touching
any key on
the
keyboard while changing
the
key
modes. Otherwise,
JX-8P
will lose
the sound.
If
this
happens, release
the key
once, then press the
key again.
I
J
UNISON
with the Indicator lighted
In
this
mode,
two sound modules
are
assigned
to
each
key,
therefore the
created
sound
is
richer
than
in
Poly
mode.
That
is,
the
JX-8P becomes
3 voice
sy-
nthesizer.
I
j
UNISON
with the Indicator flashing
This
is
similar to
the
Unison
mode
above,
but the
one module
of
the
two modules
is
one octave lower than the other.