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Roland KR105 Quick Start Manual

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Congratulations on choosing of the Roland Digital Intelligent Piano KR105!
Song/File
The KR105 features over 170
songs in its memory. Use
this button to select a song.
→p. 8
Music Assistant
Use the KR105's Automatic Ac-
companiment feature to add ac-
companiments to your favorite
songs. →p. 12

How To Use This Manual

The KR105 Owner's Manual consists of three volumes, Quick Start, the Owner's Manual, and the USB
Installation Guide.
Please start out by reading "Before You Start Playing" (p. 15) in the Owner's Manual. This explains how to
connect the KR105's power cord and how to turn on the instrument's power.
After turning on the KR105's power, please continue by reading Quick Start (this volume).
By trying out the various procedures while reading the Quick Start, you can easily learn how to play the KR105
and make use of its major functions (especially procedures that involve use of the "main buttons").
The Owner's Manual describes procedures, from basic operation to procedures for special applications (for
example, using the KR105 as an accompanist and creating songs), that will help you master the KR105's many
performance functions.
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Quick Start

DigiScore
The notation for the selected song is dis-
played on the screen. You can display no-
tations not only for the internal songs, but
for recorded songs and songs on floppy
disk as well. →p. 10
Copyright © 2005 ROLAND CORPORATION
ROLAND CORPORATION.
Super Tones
You can select specially recom-
mended Tones from the KR105's
library of sounds. →p. 16

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  • Page 1: Quick Start

    After turning on the KR105’s power, please continue by reading Quick Start (this volume). By trying out the various procedures while reading the Quick Start, you can easily learn how to play the KR105 and make use of its major functions (especially procedures that involve use of the “main buttons”).
  • Page 2 Contents About the Piano Screen ....................3 About the Key Template ....................3 A Quick Tour of the KR105 ................4 Playing in a Wonderland of Sounds.............6 Customizing the piano sound ...............7 [Song/File] Button..................8 [DigiScore] Button ..................10 [Music Assistant] Button (1) ................12 [Music Assistant] Button (2) ................15...

  • Page 3: About The Piano Screen

    The following “Piano Screen” appears when the KR105 is turned on. fig.Q_piano.j When this screen is displayed, you can change the settings that affect the KR105’s piano performances. See “Customizing the piano sound” (p. 7). Although the screen changes when you press the buttons to carry out the various operations and settings, you can bring up the Piano screen at any time by pressing the One Touch Program [Piano] button, and switch back to piano performance.

  • Page 4: A Quick Tour Of The Kr105

    A Quick Tour of the KR105 The “Quick Tour” provides visual descriptions of the KR105’s special features, characteristics and main performance functions. Touch the screen to listen to a variety of demos. Display the Quick Tour screen. Hold down the [Transpose] button and press the [Reverb] button.
  • Page 5 Touch <Exit> to return to the Quick Tour screen. Try the other categories. Touch <Exit> on the Quick Tour screen to end the Quick Tour.

  • Page 6: Playing In A Wonderland Of Sounds

    Playing in a Wonderland of Sounds “Wonderland” is an enjoyable world of sounds when you can listen to a variety of instruments, hear performances, and play game with a simple touch of the screen. Display the Wonderland screen. fig.Q_wonder.j Press the [Wonderland] button.

  • Page 7: Customizing The Piano Sound

    Customizing the piano sound You can create your own piano tones and save the tone settings you have created. Press the One Touch Program [Piano] button. Touch <Options>. A “Functions screen” like the following appears. Touch one of the fields to select the function you want to set.

  • Page 8: Song/File] Button

    [Song/File] Button Press this button to select songs. The KR105’s more than 170 internal songs are categorized by musical style, or genre. Additionally, you can file songs you like to the “Favorites” category. Saving songs to the “Favorites” makes it more convenient to play songs you are practicing and those you listen to frequently.
  • Page 9 When Listening to Songs on Disks Insert the disk containing the song you want to play in the KR105’s disk drive. Press the [Song/File] button and select <Disk> for the genre; you now can select songs on the disk.

  • Page 10: Digiscore] Button

    [DigiScore] Button You can display notations not only for the internal songs, but for recorded songs and songs on floppy disk as well. Some songs also include the fingering and chord information in the display. This information is not only useful for piano practicing, but is also handy when you want to view the chords while playing accompaniment to songs.
  • Page 11 Now play back the song. Press the [ (Play/Stop)] button. Press the [ (Play/Stop)] button to Change the tempo of the play back the song. Press it again to playback with the Tempo [– stop the song. Press the [ (Reset)] ][+] buttons.

  • Page 12: Music Assistant] Button (1)

    [Music Assistant] Button (1) What is Automatic Accompaniment? Automatic Accompaniment is a function that lets you add accompaniment using a variety of instrument sounds, such as drums, guitar and bass, simply by playing the chords. Let’s try playing a song using Automatic Accompaniment.
  • Page 13 Mark Although the scores for songs without the mark cannot be displayed on the KR105, try performing while reading commercially available chord charts or sheet music. Once you are able to play the chords in the left hand, make use of the “[Music Assistant] Button...

  • Page 14: Specifying Chords

    Specifying Chords When Automatic Accompaniment is in use, the keyboard is divided into left and right sections, and each sections is assigned a different function. Accompaniment is started and chords are switched on the left-hand side. The right-hand side is used for playing melodies.

  • Page 15: Music Assistant] Button (2)

    [Music Assistant] Button (2) Touch the preset at the points where < > and < > are indicated. When you change the preset, the Tone in the right hand is altered, the accompaniment style is different, and the entire feeling of the song is transformed. Some presets also add harmony to the sounds played with the right hand, based on the chords played in the left hand.

  • Page 16: Voice/Super Tones] Button

    [Voice/Super Tones] Button The KR105 features more than 600 internal sounds. Naturally, these include piano, but you can also play brass, woodwind, and electronic instrument tones, as well as a variety of other tones, even non-instrument sounds. Press this button to select recommended tones.
  • Page 17 Here, touch <Organ>. fig.Q_tone1.j This changes the speed of the rotary effect. This returns you to the Organ screen Touch here to select other This returns you to the A description of each When Jazz Organ is selected, you can create tones.
  • Page 20 R® 602.00.0124 RES 465-05 Printed in Italy 06-05 KR105 – QS/E...

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