Style Composer - Roland KR-75 Manual

Owner's Manual
To cancel the operation, press <Cancel> shown on
the screen, or the [EXIT] button.
* Never remove a disk that is being formatted. Doing so
may damage both the disk and the floppy drive.
9.5. Style Composer
The KR-75 has a function called "Style Composer"
that lets you compile new Music Styles from exist-
ing Style parts. Thus, you could take the bass part
from the "Slow Waltz 1" Style, add the drums of
the "Waltz" Style and use the melodic accompani-
ment of the "Vienna Waltz" Style. Music Styles you
create with the Style Composer (or the Style Con-
verter, see page 37) are called "User Styles".
Every Music Style of the KR-75 is made up of five
parts that are assigned to Arranger tracks (see
below).
¢ The User Style is deleted when the power is turned off.
Do not forget to save it to disk (see "Saving User Styles"
on page 38).
1. On the Composer Menu screen, press <Style Composer>.
The rhythm part of the currently selected Music
Style is played back, and a screen like the one
below appears on the display.
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The part names are displayed at the center of the
screen. The part that appears in reverse video is
currently selected.
The Track buttons correspond to the parts as fol-
lows.
Track button
[Rhythm]
[Bass/Accomp]
[Lower]
[Upper]
[Whole]
Arranger track Display
Rhythm R
Bass Bass
Accompaniment1 At
Accompaniment2 A2
Accompaniment3 A3
The tempo of a "composed" Style is determined by
the tempo of the "R" track. You can change it, how-
ever, with the TEMPO [+]/[-] buttons.
* You cannot use Arranger parts of a User Style because
the KR-75 has only one User Style memory — the one
you are copying Style parts to.
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. Use the MUSIC STYLE buttons and the buttons next to the
display to select the Style that contains the desired rhythm
part.
Every time you select another Music Style, the
rhythm that is played back changes. After several
seconds, the display returns to the Style Composer
screen.
After choosing the rhythm, use <<4> and <b> at the lower
right of the display to select another part.
You can also choose a Part by pressing the Track
buttons (see above). The selected part will be
played along with the "R" and any other part you
have already copied.
Repeat steps 2 and 3 to make the settings for the remaining
parts.
You can use <VOL+> and <VOL-> to the left of the
display to set the volume level for each track.
Press the <EXEC> button or the Composer [REC] button to
confirm your settings.
The User Style is temporarily saved in the memory
assigned to the [DISK/USER] button (indicator
lights) and can be selected by pressing this button
(see also "Using Style disks (User Styles)" on page
24).
You can also use the Composer [REC] button to end
your programming session. To stop the operation,
press the [Exit] button.
* You can press <Advnc ®Basic> (or <Advnc <Basic>)
at the lower left of the display to change the Style Level.
* Please note that Rhythm parts can only be assigned to
"R", while bass parts can only be assigned to "Bass".
The "A" parts, on the other hand can be freely assigned
to memories A1~A3.
As stated earlier, not all Music Styles use all avail-
able Arranger tracks (R, Bass, and A1~A3). If a giv-
en track is empty, select another one. Likewise, you
don't have to copy Style parts to all available
Arranger tracks.
Editing your User Style
See the above chart for the correspondences
between Track buttons and Arranger parts.
. On the Composer Menu screen, press <Style Composer>.
The User Style is played back and the indicators of
all Arranger tracks that contain data light.
. Use <> and <P> at the bottom of the display to select
the part on screen that you wish to change.
You can also select it by pressing the corresponding
Track button (indicator must light).
. Use the MUSIC STYLE buttons and the buttons next to the
display to select the desired Style.
Every time the Style is changed, the parts that are
played back change.
. Use <> and <P> at the bottom of the display to select
another part.