Playing Back A Composer Song; Track Mute: Muting Specific Tracks; Playing Back Songs Without Tempo Changes; Erasing The Composer Song - Roland KR-11 Owner's Manual

8.2 Playing back a Composer
song
1. Press the [RESET] button to "rewind" to the begin-
ning of the song.
By pressing [RESET], you will actually jump back to
the first measure of the song, which is similar to using
the SKIP function of a CD player.
2. Press the [PLAY] button.
The recorded performance will begin to play. If there
is a particular passage you want to listen to, select its
measure by pressing [FWD] and then press [PLAY].
Likewise, you could rewind to a previous measure by
pressing [BWD] and start playback.
3. Playback stops automatically when the song is
finished.
To stop while the performance is running, press the
[STOP] or the [RESET] button.
Starting with a metronome count-in
By pressing the [PLAY] button while holding down
the [STOP] button, you can have the song play back
after two metronome count-in measures.
8.3 Track Mute: Muting specific
tracks
It is also possible to temporarily switch off (mute) cer-
tain tracks. You can take advantage of this function
when adding intricate (usually syncopated) parts to a
complex accompaniment. Muting all distracting parts
helps you concentrate on the task at hand.
You can also use the Track Mute function to switch off
the part of a pre-recorded song you yourself would
like to play (usually the melody). Playing to a Standard
MIDI File or Composer song backing is called
"Minus-One Play." You can also record your Minus-
One performance. Please refer to "Recording Minus-
One performances" on page 32.
Press the button of the track you wish to mute (indi-
cator goes off).
The track in question will no longer be played back.
You can mute several tracks, if you like.
Press the track button once more to switch the
track(s) on again.
KR-11 – Playing back a Composer song
8.4 Playing back songs without
tempo changes
Some songs on music data disks contain tempo
changes. When you use these kinds of songs for
Minus-One play or recording, you may find it difficult
to follow the tempo changes. Here is how to ignore
these tempo changes.
While holding down the Composer [STOP] button,
press either the Tempo [+] or [–] button.
The tempo value will be highlighted on the display.
Note: If at this point you play back another song, or carry
out the above step once again, the Composer will revert to
the normal tempo and play back the song with tempo
changes.

8.5 Erasing the Composer song

Here is how to erase an entire song in the KR-11's
internal memory. Before doing so, you should save
songs you wish to keep to disk (see below).
1. Press the [SONG] button.
A message will be displayed, asking you to confirm
whether you want to erase the song if you have not yet
saved the song to disk.
2. If you want to erase the data, press <OK>.
To cancel the operation without erasing the song,
press <Cancel>.
After the song has been erased, the Song Select screen
will be displayed.
3. Press <U: User Song> at the upper left of the
display.
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