Table Of Contents - Roland DP-990 Owner's Manual

Contents
Introduction ................................................ 4
About the Manual.......................................................4
Conventions in this Manual......................................4
Main Features ............................................................5
USING THE UNIT SAFELY ............................. 8
Important Notes ........................................ 11
Names of Things and What They Do .......... 14
Front Panel ..............................................................14
Rear Panel ...............................................................16
Bottom Panel (Front Left) ............................................17
Bottom Panel (Front Right) ..........................................17
Before You Play ........................................ 18
Getting Ready to Play ...............................................18
Connecting the Pedal Cord ....................................18
Connecting the AC Adaptor...................................18
Opening and Closing the Lid .................................19
Turning the Power On/Off.........................................20
Adjusting the Sound's Volume and Brilliance................20
About the Pedals ......................................................21
Listening through Headphones....................................21
Using the Headphone Hook...................................22
Using External Memory .............................................22
Connecting USB Memory (sold separately) ..............22
Installing the Floppy Disk Drive (sold separately).......22
Using CD.................................................................23
Connecting a CD Drive (sold separately) .................23
Installing the CD Drive Holder (sold separately) ........23
Listening to Demo Songs............................ 24
Listening to the Tone Demo Songs...............................24
Listening to the Piano Sound Demo Songs................25
Performing................................................ 27
Performing with a Variety of Sounds ...........................27
Adjusting the Keyboard Sensitivity (Key Touch).............28
Adding Spatial Depth to the Sound (3D Sound Control).29
Adding Liveliness to the Sound
(Dynamics Sound Control) ........................................30
Adding Reverberation to Sounds (Reverb Effect) ...........31
Changing the Depth of Reverb Effect.......................31
Changing the Key of the Keyboard (Key Transpose)......32
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Dividing the Keyboard for Two-person Performance
(Twin Piano)............................................................ 33
Changing the Way in Which the Sound is Heard
(Twin Piano Mode) .............................................. 34
Performing With Two Layered Tones (Dual Play)........... 35
Changing the Tone Variations................................ 36
Changing the Volume Balance for Dual Play............ 36
Performing with Different Tones in the Left and
Right Sides of the Keyboard (Split Play) ....................... 37
Switching Tone Groups and Tone Variations............ 38
Changing the Keyboard's Split Point....................... 38
Performing with the Metronome.................................. 39
Changing the Tempo ............................................ 39
Changing the Beat ............................................... 40
Changing the Volume ........................................... 41
Sounding a Count to Keep your Timing Accurate.......... 41
Playing Back Songs ................................... 42
Listening to Songs..................................................... 42
Playing Back All Songs Continuously (All Song Play)..... 45
Listening to Each Part Separately ................................ 46
Determining the Volume of a Muted Part ................. 47
Changing the Song Playback Volume ......................... 47
Adjusting the Volume of the Audio Files and
Music CDs........................................................... 47
Changing the Tempo of a Song ................................. 48
Playing Back at a Fixed Tempo (Tempo Mute) .......... 48
Changing the Key of the Song Playback
(Playback Transpose) ................................................ 49
Minimizing the Center Sounds in the Playback
(Center Cancel) ........................................................ 50
Recording.................................................. 51
Recording Your Keyboard Performance....................... 52
Recording Your Performance Separately for Each Hand 54
Recording Your Playing Along with a Song ................. 57
Erasing Recorded Performances ................................. 59
Saving Your Performance .......................... 60
Initializing the Memory.............................................. 60
Saving the Songs...................................................... 62
Deleting a Song ....................................................... 64
Various Settings ........................................ 66
Basic Operation in Function Mode ............................. 66
Changing How Grand Space is Applied (3D Mode). 67
Keyboard Settings .................................................... 68