User Manuals: Roland KR-977 Digital Intelligent Piano

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Roland KR-977 Owner's Manual (227 pages)

Digital Intelligent Piano

Brand: Roland | Category: Musical Instrument | Size: 13 MB

Important Safety Instructions
2
Using the Unit Safely
3
Important Notes
5
Power Supply
5
Placement
5
Repairs and Data
5
Before Using Floppy Disks
6
Handling the Floppy Disk Drive
6
Handling Floppy Disks
6
Main Features
7
Index
9
Panel Descriptions
14
Before You Start Playing
18
Opening and Closing the Top
18
Opening Only the Front Top
18
Opening both the Front Top and the Top
18
About the Topsticks and Topslip
19
Raising the Music Stand
20
Open the Top Board
20
Opening and Closing the Lid
22
Connecting the Power Cord
23
Switching the Power on and off
24
Adjusting the Sound Volume
24
Turning on the Power
24
Turning off the Power
24
About the Pedals
25
Soft Pedal
25
Sostenuto Pedal
25
Damper Pedal
25
Connecting Headphones
26
Connecting a Microphone
27
About the Touch Screen
28
Basic Screen
28
Display in Other Screens
29
The Screen Display and Icons
29
Buttons for Easy Operation
30
Tone Navigator Screen
30
Arranger Navigator Screen
31
Composer Navigator Screen
32
About the Internal Memory
33
Easy, Convenient, and Enjoyable Functions
34
About the Demo Function
34
Listening to the Demo Songs
34
Playing the Games
35
About the Help Function
36
Using the Easy Practice Functions
37
Playing the Keyboard Like a Piano
38
Changing the Piano Sound
38
Playing the Keyboard Like an Organ
39
Changing the Rotary Effect
39
Playing Drum Sounds
40
Playing Effect Sounds
41
Playing a Wide Variety of Instrument Sounds
42
Changing Tones with the Dial
43
About EX Tone
43
Combining the Sounds of Two Instruments
44
Changing the Tones
45
Playing Different Tones with the Left and Right Hands
46
Shifting the Keyboard Pitch in Octave Steps
48
Octave Shift
48
Adjusting the Sound Brilliance
49
Adding Reverberation to Sounds
49
Effects Adding Three-Dimensional Breadth to Your Performances
50
Selecting the Part to Apply Advanced 3D Effect
51
Applying Effects to the Sound
52
Sounding the Metronome
53
Adjusting the Tempo
54
Determining the Tempo with Tempo Marks
54
Changing the Beat of Metronome
54
Changing the Volume
55
Changing the Type of Sound
55
Changing the Animation
56
Changing How the Metronome Beat Pattern
56
EZ Arranger
57
Playing with Your Band
58
Playing with an Automatic Accompaniment
59
Recording a Performance
62
Listening to the Recorded Perormance
64
Using the Disk Drive
65
Listening to Music Files
65
Inserting and Ejecting a Floppy Disk
65
Listening to All Songs Continuously
67
If the Following Message Appears
67
Adding the Effects to Your Voice
68
Adjusting the Echo
68
Modifying Your Voice
69
Adding Harmony
70
Starting Song and Automatic Accompaniment by Vocal Count
71
Playing the Keyboard Notes with a Voice Scale
72
Adding the Harmony to the Song
73
Using as a Karaoke Machine
74
Automatic Accompaniment
75
Music Style
75
About Chords
76
Playing Chords with Simple Fingering
76
Displaying the Chord Fingering on Screen
77
Choosing a Music Style
78
Using a Music Style from Data Disk
79
Playing Just the Rhythm Pattern
80
Adjusting the Tempo for Automatic Accompaniment
80
Playing a Music Style
81
Starting at the Press of a Button
81
Stopping Automatic Accompaniment
82
Playing the Count Sound at the End of the Intro
83
Playing Sounds with Left Hand Along with the Automatic Accompaniment
83
Modifying an Accompaniment
84
Changing the Accompaniment Pattern
84
Adding a Fill-In Without Changing the Accompaniment Pattern
84
Changing the Arrangement of the Accompaniment
85
Playing a Short Phrase
86
Adding Harmony to the Right-Hand Part
87
Changing the Volume Balance for the Accompaniment and Keyboard
88
Adjusting the Volume of each Performance Part
88
Adding Automatic Accompaniment to Regular Piano Performance
90
Some Handy Features
91
Playing Back Songs for Practice
91
Moving to the Measure You Want to Play
92
Displaying the Score for the Performance Data
93
Setting the Tempo by Pressing the Button in Time
95
Playback with no Change in Tempo
97
Counting down before a Performance Starts
98
Preventing the Part to be Practiced from Sounding
99
Repeated Practice over the Marked Section
100
Placing a Marker Within a Song
100
Erasing a Marker
101
Playback from a Marker
101
Moving a Marker
102
Listening to the same Passage over and over
103
Transposing the Key of the Keyboard
104
Transposing a Song
105
Checking Your Performance on Screen
106
The Keyboard Screen
106
The Graph Screen
106
Specifying the Part to Display
107
Checking Your Recorded Performance on the Screen
108
Recording and Saving Your Performance
109
Recording Your Playing with Ease
109
Start Recording
110
Stop Recording
110
Listen to the Recorded Performance
111
Erasing a Song
111
Recording a Performance Using Automatic Accompaniment
112
Redoing a Recording
114
Erasing a Recorded Song
115
Erasing the Sound Recorded on Individual Track Buttons
115
Changing How Recording Stops
116
Recording Songs Starting with Pickups
117
Composing an Accompaniment by Entering Chords
118
Inputting Chords with the Chord Sequencer
119
Inputting Chords Without Playing the Keyboard
120
Creating a Rhythm Part with Ease
121
Saving Your Songs
122
Formatting Floppy Disks
122
Saving Songs on Floppy Disk or User Memory
124
What Is User Memory?
124
Deleting Data from Floppy Disks or User Memory
127
Changing the Order of Songs on Floppy Disk
128
Copying Songs from Disks to the User Memory
129
Advanced Recording Functions
130
Selecting the Recording Method
130
Recording While Erasing the Previous Recording
131
Overdubbing Without Erasing the Previous Recording
131
Repeatedly Recording over the same Location
131
Multitrack Recording with 16 Parts
132
16 Track Sequencer and Track Buttons
132
Commercially Available Music Files
132
Recording with the 16 Track Sequencer
133
The 16 Track Sequencer Screen
133
Getting the most Suitable Part Tones for the Musical Genre
134
Changing the Settings for each Part
135
Re-Recording Part of Your Performance
136
Recording a Passage Specified by Markers
137
Starting Recording from the Measure Specified by Buttons and Pedals
137
Composing a Song that Changes the Beat Partway through
138
Changing a Song's Basic Tempo
138
Changing the Tempo Within the Song
139
Adjusting the Tempo While Listening to a Song
139
Adjusting the Tempo at a Particular Measure
139
Editing Functions
140
Choosing an Editing Function
140
Canceling an Edit
141
Correcting Timing Discrepancies
141
Copying a Measure
142
Copying a Rhythm Pattern
143
Deleting a Specific Measure
143
Inserting a Blank Measure
144
Transposing Individual Parts
144
Making a Measure Blank
145
Exchanging Parts
146
Correcting Notes One by One
146
Modifying the Tone Changes in a Song
147
Using Other Functions
148
Creating an Original Style
148
Combining Styles to Create a New Style
148
Style Composer
148
Muting Parts for a Particular Division
149
Creating a Style from a Song You Composed Yourself
150
The Makeup of a Style
150
Creating a Style in Auto Mode
151
Tips on Creating a Song
151
Creating a Style in Manual Mode
152
Saving a User Style
153
Changing an Extracted Part
153
Copying the User Style
154
Deleting a User Style Saved on Floppy Disk or User Memory
154
Copying Styles from the User Memory to Disks
154
Storing the Panel Settings
155
User Program
155
Calling up User Program
156
Saving User Programs on Floppy Disk
156
Changing How Button Settings Are Called up
156
Calling up Saved User Programs from Floppy Disk
157
Erasing a User Program Saved on a Floppy Disk
157
Disabling Everything Except Piano Play
158
Panel Lock
158
Changing Various Settings
159
Changing the Settings for One Touch Piano
159
Adding Ambience from Different Venues to Songs
159
Changing the Tuning
160
Choosing the Tuning
160
Changing the Tuning Curve
160
Adjusting Resonance
161
Changing Key Touch
161
Fine Adjustment of the Piano Tone
162
Adjusting the Sensitivity of the Pedals
162
Changing the Settings for Automatic Accompaniment
163
Changing the Keyboard's Split Point
163
Changing How the Automatic Accompaniment Plays
163
Assigning Functions to Buttons and Pedals
164
Assigning a Function to a Pad Button
164
Assigning a Function to a Pedal
165
What Is the Leading Bass Function ?
165
What's the Bend Range?
165
Changing the Chord Tone and Bass Tone
166
Changing the Settings for One Touch Organ
167
Canceling the Chord Intelligence Function
167
Adjusting the Footage
167
Changing the Settings for Score Screen
169
Changing How the Left-Hand Keyboard Section Plays
169
Changing the Tone Set When Playing Back a Song
170
Changing the Settings for the Marker and the Count Sound
170
Adjusting the Standard Pitch
171
Playing the Count Sound at each Repetition
171
Placing a Marker in the Middle of a Measure
171
Changing the Type of Reverb Effect
172
Changing the Type of Chorus Effect
172
Changing the Bend Range
173
Changing the Screen Settings
173
Hiding the On-Screen Lyrics
173
Changing the Language for the Help Function
173
Changing the Screen Message When the Power Is Turned on
174
Maintaining Settings after the Power Is Turned off
174
Restoring the Factory Settings
175
Repositioning the Touch Screen
175
Connecting External Devices
176
Name and Function of Jacks and Connectors
176
Connecting MIDI Devices
176
Connecting a Computer
176
Connectors
177
MIDI out Connector
177
MIDI in Connector
177
MIDI Ensemble
178
Making the Connections
178
Connecting with MIDI Sequencer
178
MIDI Settings
179
Selecting the Transmit Channel
179
Disconnecting the Internals Sound Generator and Keyboard
179
Connecting to Audio Equipment
180
Optimizing the Sound for Connected External Speakers
181
Sound Mode
181
Troubleshooting
183
If the Message Appears on Screen
186
Tone List
188
Drum/Sfx Set List
192
Music Style List
197
Rhythm Pattern List
201
Chord List
202
Internal Song List
204
Disk Demo Song List
207
Effect List
208
Music Files
209
Glossary
210
Main Specifications
212

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