Selecting Music Styles - Roland KR-75 Manual

Each accompaniment (or Music Style) can consist of up
to five parts:
Rhythm ........ This part takes care of the drums
and percussion.
Bass ccc ects This part plays the bass line of
the selected Music Style.
.These are the melodic accompa-
niment parts. Depending on the
Music Style you selected, only a
few of them actually play some-
thing, which can be anything
from a piano line, a guitar line,
an organ line, etc., to a synth pad
line.
Accomp. 1~3 ...
The bass and accompaniment parts rely on the
chord or note information you play in the chord
recognition area, i.e. the keyboard zone you have
assigned to the Arranger (originally the left half of
the keyboard).
Also note that you can use the drum patterns of a
Music Style in other One Touch Program modes
(Piano and Organ). These patterns can be started in
the same way as entire Music Styles (with bass and
melodic accompaniments). See "Starting and stop-
ping Styles" on page 24.
Settings
Press the One Touch Program [ARRANGER] button.
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The KR-75 now automatically makes the following
settings:
The Sync Start function is turned on. This means
that the Arranger will start as soon as you play
one or several notes with your left hand.
The Intro function is activated so that Style play-
back will start with a musical introduction.
The keyboard is split at F#3. Use your left hand
to "transpose" the accompaniment pattern(s),
and play the melody with your right hand.
It selects a suitable (preset) tempo as well as an
Upper Tone for the selected Music Style.
Additional notes
Feel free to change the split point (see "Lower
Tone on/off and split point" on page 43).
As in Split mode, the KR-75 automatically selects
the most appropriate pitch for the Tone assigned
to the Upper part. If you want to shift the pitch
of the Upper Tone in octave steps, see "Octave
Shift: changing the pitch by octaves" on page 20.
See "Auto: changing the Arranger defaults" on
page 43 if you don't want the KR-75 to change
the tempo and select another Upper Tone every
time you choose a Music Style.
Piano Style Arranger — chord recog-
nition on the entire keyboard
If you press the [WHOLE] button after pressing the
One Touch Program [ARRANGER] button, the
entire keyboard will be scanned for chord informa-
tion for the Arranger. This is probably the mode
you will select if you are a pianist. Let's agree to
call this mode Piano Style Arranger mode.
The Piano Style Arranger mode works as follows:
the Arranger decodes every chord you play — no
matter where you play it. Causing the Arranger to
play another chord requires that you play at least a
triad (i.e. the three notes that make up a chord). You
are free to play more than three chord notes but
remember that two notes won't cause the Arranger
change chords.
Note: In Piano Style Arranger mode, you cannot use the
Chord Intelligence function (see page 27). You will have
to play full chords using normal fingering.
7.2. Selecting Music Styles
The KR-75 contains 111 Music Styles. These Styles
are divided into eight Groups ~ one for each genre
(see the MUSIC STYLE buttons and list on the front
panel).
1. Press a MUSIC STYLE button.
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The button's indicator will light, and a "Music
Style" screen, like the one shown below, will be dis-
played.
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Once a Music Style Group has been selected, you
can choose a Style from that Group.
2. Select a Music Style by pressing the buttons to the side of
the display.
The name of the Music Style you select will be
highlighted on the display. The Music Style screen
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