Playing The Keyboard; Performing With A Variety Of Sounds - Roland DP-900 Owner's Manual

Playing the Keyboard

Performing with a Variety of Sounds

The DP-900 contains 20 different internal tones. The tones are organized into
five tone groups, which are assigned to the Tone buttons.
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Selecting a tone group
1.
Press any Tone button.
The indicator of the button you pressed will light.
When you play the keyboard, you will hear a sound in the selected tone
group.
Selecting variation tones
2.
Press the [Variation] button.
Four different tones (numbered 1–4) are assigned to each Tone button. Use
the [Variation] button to select among them.
Each time you press the [Variation] button, the button's indicator will change
color, and the four sounds will be selected successively.
Tone number
[Variation] button's indicator
Some of the number 3 and 4 tones form pairs, which can be layered and
sounded together.
The tone you've selected is heard when you finger the keyboard.
16
1 2
1
Dark
2 3 4
Red Green Orange
For more details, refer to
"Tone List" (p. 40).
When Dual play is used,
only sound number 1 or 2
can be selected.
If you use Dual play with a
Tone button for which
tone number 3 or 4 is
selected, tone number 1
will be selected for that
Tone button.
The sound can tend to
distort easily with certain
tones and at certain
volume levels.