Roland KR107 Owner's Manual page 168

Troubleshooting
Case Cause/Remedy
Is the speaker cable connected and plugged
in correctly?
No sound from the left side is V-LINK
switched on? (p. 159)
No sound is heard
When V-LINK is switched on, the twelve
keys at the left end of the keyboard are used
to control images, and no sounds are
played with these keys.
Have all devices been switched on?
No sound is heard
Are the MIDI cables connected correctly?
(when a MIDI
(p. 160)
instrument is
Does the MIDI channel match the
connected)
connected instrument? (p. 162)
Has Local Control been set to "Off"?
No sound is heard
When Local Control is set to Off, no sound
when the keyboard
is produced by playing the keyboard.
is played
Set Local Control to On (p. 162).
The maximum number of notes can play
simultaneously is 128. Frequent use of the
damper pedal during automatic
Not all played
accompaniment or when playing along
notes are sounded
with a song on external memory may result
in performance data with too many notes,
causing some notes to drop out.
The sound is strange
Is the KR in layer play? (p. 26)
Sounds are heard
When the KR is connected to an external
twice (doubled)
sequencer, set it to the Local OFF mode
when the keyboard
(p. 162). Alternatively, the sequencer could
is played
be set so its Soft Thru feature is OFF.
Have you set transpose? (p. 88)
The tuning or pitch
Are the settings for the "Temperament"
of the keyboard or and "Stretch Tuning" correct? (p. 143)
song is off
Is the setting for the "Master Tune" correct?
(p. 146)
If different effects have been selected for
the upper, lower, Layer, and other Tones,
and the effects for the Parts don't match,
only one of the effects is applied.
Effects cannot be
It's not possible to apply more than one
effect at the same time, so when a
applied to Tones
performance has been recorded on multiple
tracks or when playing along with a song as
it's played back, the desired effect may not
be applied.
Have the Chord Tone and Bass Tone been
A note doesn't stop
changed? (p. 139)
Some Chord Tone and Bass Tone notes may
playing
be sounded continuously.
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Case Cause/Remedy
During automatic accompaniment,
changing the Music Style automatically
changes the Tones and tempo of the upper
part of the keyboard to match the new
Music Style. If you want to change only the
Music Style without also altering the tempo
and Tone, check out "Changing Music
The Tone has
Styles Without Changing the Tone or
changed
Tempo (One Touch Setting)" (p. 139).
When a performance made along with a
Music Files tune has been recorded,
recording the performance to button [1/
Whole] may make the Tones for buttons [3/
Lower] and [4/Upper] change as well.
Since the KR's piano sounds faithfully
reproduce the sense of spaciousness and
Reverberation still
reverberation of an actual acoustic piano's
audible even with
sound, a certain amount of reverberation is
Reverb turned off
still perceptible, even with the reverb effect
deactivated.
Have you made the correct Advanced 3D
settings for use with headphones?
Sound from the
Changing the Advanced 3D "Mode" to
Output jacks is not
"Headphones" or "Auto" and connecting a
right
pair of headphones configures the settings
for use with headphones.
On an acoustic piano, notes in the upper
one and a half octaves of the keyboard
continue to sound until they decay
In the upper range,
naturally, regardless of the damper pedal.
the sound changes
There is a difference in the timbre as well.
Roland pianos faithfully simulate such
abruptly beyond a
characteristics of the acoustic piano. The
certain key
range that is unaffected by the damper
pedal will change depending on the Key
Transpose setting.
When listening through headphones:
Some of the more flamboyant and
effervescent piano tones feature an ample
high-end component, which may make the
sound appear to have metallic reverberation
added. Since this reverberation becomes
particularly audible when supplemented by
A High-pitched
heavy reverb, you may be able to diminish
whine is produced
the problem by reducing the amount of
reverb applied to the sound.
When listening through speakers:
Here, a different cause (such as resonance
produced by the KR) would be suspect.
Consult your Roland dealer or nearest
Roland Service Center.