Style Tempo; Accompaniment And Melody Volume Balance - Roland KR-11 Owner's Manual

Alternatives for starting and ending Music Style
playback
Using a PAD button or a footswitch, you can fade in
(whereby the volume gradually increases) to the start
of a Style, or fade out (whereby the volume gradually
decreases) to the end of a Style. Please refer to "Perfor-
mance Pad buttons: additional or frequently
used functions" on page 46 and "Pedal functions" on
page 47.

7.4 Style tempo

Every Style also contains a preset tempo value. If you
think the Style is too slow or too fast, here is how to
change it:
Press TEMPO [+] to increase the tempo and TEMPO
[–] to decrease it.
The tempo value appears in the upper left part of the
display. Additionally, you can confirm the tempo and
time signature by looking at the TEMPO indicators.
7.5 Accompaniment and melody
volume balance
Global balance
You can adjust the balance of volume of the accompa-
niment (Music Style) and the Upper Tone you use to
play the melody.
Press [UTILITY] and use the < > and < > to the
right of the display to adjust the volume balance.
Adjusting the volume of each part —
Part Volume
The BAL function adjusts the balance of the overall
accompaniment volume and that of the melody
(Upper). With the Part Volume buttons, you can
adjust the volume of individual parts, or prevent a
part from even sounding.
There are two Part Volume buttons: [ACCOMP] and
[KEYBOARD]. Press [ACCOMP] if you want to
change the volume of an accompaniment part, and the
[KEYBOARD] button to adjust the volume of a part
that can be assigned to the keyboard.
Volume of the Rhythm, Bass, Accomp, and
Chord/Bass Tones
These Tones are assigned or related to the Arranger
(the automatic accompaniment).
1. Press the Part Volume [ACCOMP] button.
For each part, a bar graph and numerical value are dis-
played on screen. The correspondence between the
parts and what is shown on the screen is as follows:
<Rhythm>— Drums
<Bass>— Accompaniment Bass and Bass Tones
<Accomp>— Accompaniment parts (1~3)
<Chord>— Chord Tone (see "Chord Tone Setting"
on page 45 for details about the Chord and Bass
Tones).
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