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Roland KR-107 Quick Start Manual

Roland KR-107 Quick Start Manual

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Congratulations on choosing of the Roland Digital Intelligent Piano KR!
Visual Lesson
Enjoy practicing along with
song data.
You can also check the
results of what you
play right in the screen.
p. 12
Music Assistant
Use the KR's Automatic
Accompaniment feature to
add accompaniments to
your favorite songs.
p. 16

How To Use This Manual

The KR Owner's Manual consists of three volumes, Quick Start, the Owner's Manual, and the USB
Installation Guide.
Please start out by reading "Before You Start Playing" in the Owner's Manual. This explains how to connect the
KR's power cord and how to turn on the instrument's power.
After turning on the KR's power, please continue by reading Quick Start (this volume).
By trying out the various procedures while reading the Quick Start, you can easily learn how to play the KR and
make use of its major functions (especially procedures that involve use of the "main buttons").
The Owner's Manual describes procedures, from basic operation to procedures for special applications (for
example, using the KR as an accompanist and creating songs), that will help you master the KR's many
performance functions.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form
without the written permission of ROLAND CORPORATION.

Quick Start

Song/File
The KR features over 190
songs in its memory.
Use this button to select
a song.
p. 8
Super Tones
You can select specially
recommended Tones
from the KR's library of
sounds.
p. 14
Copyright © 2005 ROLAND CORPORATION
DigiScore
The notation for the selected
song is displayed on the screen.
You can display notations not
only for the internal songs, but
for recorded songs and songs on
external memory as well.
p. 10
Piano Designer
You can make your
favorite piano tones.
p. 6

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  • Page 1: How To Use This Manual

    Quick Start Congratulations on choosing of the Roland Digital Intelligent Piano KR! Song/File Visual Lesson The KR features over 190 songs in its memory. Enjoy practicing along with Use this button to select song data. You can also check the a song.

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Contents About the Piano Screen... 3 About the Key Template... 3 A Quick Tour of the KR ... 4 [Piano Designer] Button ... 6 Using the Remote Control ... 7 [Song] Button... 8 [DigiScore] Button ... 10 [Visual Lesson] Button... 12 [Super Tones] Button...

  • Page 3: About The Piano Screen

    About the Piano Screen The following “Piano Screen” appears when the KR is turned on. fig.Q_piano.j When this screen is displayed, you can change the settings that affect the KR’s piano performances. Although the screen changes when you press the buttons to carry out the various operations and settings, you can bring up the Piano screen at any time by pressing the One Touch Program [Piano] button, and switch back to piano performance.

  • Page 4: A Quick Tour Of The Kr

    A Quick Tour of the KR The “Quick Tour” provides visual descriptions of the KR’s special features, characteristics and main performance functions. Touch the screen to listen to a variety of demos. Display the Quick Tour screen. Touch the category for the type of demo you want to hear. fig.Q_demo.e This opens the Piano Tone screen.
  • Page 5 About the Vocal Effect Demo When you select the Vocal Effect demo, a song is played back. If you plug in a microphone and sing along with the song, harmonies are added to the mic vocals. Listening to a Demo of the Piano Tones You can listen to the demo of the functions that can be applied to the piano tones.

  • Page 6: [Piano Designer] Button

    [Piano Designer] Button You can create your own piano tones with “Piano Designer.” You can then save the tone settings you have created. Press the [Piano Designer] button. fig.Q_demo.e Select the type here. When you touch here, the shape of the hexagon and the piano tone change.

  • Page 7: Using The Remote Control

    Using the Remote Control You can use the included remote control to easily start and stop performances and switch songs. You can also use the remote control to switch images on external displays or television and assign functions to the buttons used in operating the remote control. How to Use the Remote Control When using the remote control, aim the remote...

  • Page 8: [Song] Button

    [Song] Button Press this button to select songs. The KR’s more than 190 internal songs are categorized by musical style, or genre. Additionally, you can file songs you like to the “Favorites” category. Saving songs to the “Favorites” makes it more convenient to play songs you are practicing and those you listen to frequently.
  • Page 9 Listen to the song. Touch < fig.Q_song3.j If lyrics are displayed, touch <Exit> to return to the Song Selection screen. To stop the song, touch < fig.Q_song4.j Advanced Use of the KR Displaying Song Notations → “[DigiScore] Button” (p. 10) When Listening to Songs on External Memories Connect the external memory containing the song you want to hear to the KR’s external memory port.

  • Page 10: [Digiscore] Button

    [DigiScore] Button fig.b-main2 You can display notations not only for the internal songs, but for recorded songs and songs on external memory as well. Some songs also include the fingering and chord information in the display. This information is not only useful for piano practicing, but is also handy when you want to view the chords while playing accompaniment to songs.

  • Page 11: Practicing Along With The Song

    Practicing at Your Own Pace Try playing along to the notaion. You can concentrate on reading the notation as you perform, without worrying about turning the pages. When the bouncing ball is colored blue, the notation will scroll automatically after you start playing the song from the bouncing ball’s position.

  • Page 12: [Visual Lesson] Button

    [Visual Lesson] button fig.b-main3 You can enjoy your practices with the KR-107’s “Visual Lesson” function. Play along with the accompaniment, and a notation indicating how well you have performed appears in the display. You can select the level and practice songs to match your current abilities.
  • Page 13 Play along with the accompaniment. The notation is displayed. Now play along with the music in the notation. fig.Q-lesson4e The note heads for the notes you have played are displayed in the notation. Touch < > to check the results of the performance. You can press the [ (Play/Stop)] button to listen your performance.

  • Page 14: [Super Tones] Button

    [Super Tones] Button fig.b-main6 The KR features more than 700 internal sounds. Naturally, these include piano, but you can also play brass, woodwind, and electronic instrument tones, as well as a variety of other tones, even non-instrument sounds. Press this button to select recommended tones. Press the [Super Tones] button.
  • Page 15 The pedals function as follows when Twin Piano is selected. fig.Q-Tone2 Touch here and drag up or down to alter the tone of a footage, you can create the organ Tone you want with the footage. Refer to “What is Footage?” below. What is the Rotary Effect? This adds a sort of spinning effect to the organ sound, similar to the sound when a rotary speaker is used.

  • Page 16: [Music Assistant] Button (1)

    [Music Assistant] Button (1) What is Automatic Accompaniment? fig.b-main5 Automatic Accompaniment is a function that lets you add accompaniment using a variety of instrument sounds, such as drums, guitar and bass, simply by playing the chords. Let’s try playing a song using Automatic Accompaniment.
  • Page 17 Now display the notation. Touch < fig.Q-accomp2e Tempo Changing the preset changes the accompaniment style, right-hand tone and other settings. Moves back the playback position. Returns to the This starts and stops playback beginning of the song. of the performance. Begin performing.

  • Page 18: [Music Assistant] Button (2)

    [Music Assistant] Button (2) Touch the preset at the points where < > and < > are indicated. When you change the preset, the Tone in the right hand is altered, the accompaniment style is different, and the entire feeling of the song is transformed. Some presets also add harmony to the sounds played with the right hand, based on the chords played in the left hand.

  • Page 19: Playing In A Wonderland Of Sounds

    Playing in a Wonderland of Sounds “Wonderland” is an enjoyable world of sounds when you can listen to a variety of instruments, hear performances, and play game with a simple touch of the screen. Display the Wonderland screen. fig.Q-W1e Touch the item you want to play. fig.Q-Wonder1e/fig.Q-Wonder2e <Flash Card>...
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