Adjusting The Keyboard Sensitivity (Keytouch); Matching The Pitch With Other Instruments (Tuning); Adjusting The Tuning (Temprmnt); Specifying The Keynote (Tmpr Key) - Roland FP-4F Owner's Manual

Detailed Settings for Various Functions
Adjusting the Keyboard Sensitivity
(KEYTOUCH)
You can change the touch sensitivity, or response of the keys.
You can adjust the keyboard touch as appropriate for the playing
strength of the person who is performing.
Setting
FIX (Fixed)
L+ (Super Light)
L (Light)
M (Medium)
H (Heavy)
H+ (Super Heavy)
Matching the Pitch with Other
Instruments (TUNING)
When playing ensemble with other instruments and in other such
instances, you can match the standard pitch to another instrument.
The standard pitch generally refers to the pitch of the note that's
played when you finger the middle A key. For a cleaner ensemble
sound while performing with one or more other instruments, ensure
that each instrument's standard pitch is in tune with that of the other
instruments. This tuning of all the instruments to a standard pitch is
called "master tuning. "
Setting
MEMO
When the instrument is shipped from the factory, this is set to
"440.0 Hz. "
50
Explanation
The sound plays at one set volume, regardless of
the force used to play the keys.
This setting produces the lightest keyboard
touch.
You can achieve fortissimo (ff ) play with a less
forceful touch than usual, so the keyboard feels
lighter. This setting makes it easy to play, even
for children.
This sets the standard keyboard touch. You can
play with the most natural touch. This is the
closest to the touch of an acoustic piano.
You have to finger the keyboard more forcefully
than usual in order to play fortissimo (ff ), so the
keyboard touch feels heavier. Dynamic fingering
adds even more feeling to what you play.
This setting produces the heaviest keyboard
touch.
415.3 Hz–466.2 Hz

Adjusting the Tuning (TEMPRMNT)

You can play classical music such as baroque pieces using their original
tuning.
Most modern songs are composed and played with the assumption
that equal temperament (the most common tuning in use today) will
be used, but when classical music was composed, there were a wide
variety of other tuning systems in existence.
Playing a composition with its original tuning lets you enjoy the
sonorities of the chords that the composer originally intended.
Setting Explanation
In this tuning, each octave is divided into twelve
EQU
equal steps. Every interval produces about the
(Equal)
same amount of slight dissonance.
This tuning eliminates ambiguities in the fifths
MAJ and thirds. It is unsuited to playing melodies
(Just(Major))
and cannot be transposed, but is capable of
beautiful sonorities.
The Just tunings differ from major and minor
MIN
keys. You can get the same effect with the minor
(Just(Minor))
scale as with the major scale.
ARB
This tuning is suitable for the music of Arabia.
(Arabic)
This is an improvement of the Meantone and
KIRN Just tunings that provides a high degree of
(Kirnberger) freedom of modulation. Performances are
possible in all keys (III).
MEAN This scale makes some compromises in just
(Meantone) intonation, enabling transposition to other keys.
This tuning, devised by the philosopher Py-
PYTH
thagoras, eliminates dissonance in fourths and
(Pythagorean) fifths. Dissonance is produced by third-interval
chords, but melodies are euphonious.
This temperament combines the Meantone and
WERC
Pythagorean tunings. Performances are possible
(Werckmeister)
in all keys (first technique, III).

Specifying the Keynote (TMPR KEY)

When playing with tuning other than equal temperament, you need
to specify the temperament key for tuning the song to be performed
(that is, the note that corresponds to C for a major key or to A for a
minor key).
If you choose an equal temperament, there's no need to select a
temperament key.
Setting
C, C , D, E , E, F, F , G, A , A, B , B
MEMO
Instead of the sharp (#) symbol, a quotation mark will be shown in
the display.