Roland FP-2 owner manual Troubleshooting, Case Cause/What to do

Troubleshooting

Case	Cause/What to do
No Power	Is the power cord properly connected?
	(p. 8)
	Is the volume level of the FP-2 (p. 10) or
	connected device turned all the way
	down?
	Are headphones plugged in?
	Has a plug remained connected to the
	Phones jack? (p. 10)
No Sound
	Is the Speaker switch to “ON”? (p. 7)
	Is Local Off selected? When Local Control
	is set to OFF, no sound is produced by
	playing the keyboard. Set Local Control to
	“ON”(p. 47).
	Is the MIDI Out mode set to “4”? (p. 48)
	Is the power to all devices turned on?
	(p. 44)
No Sound (With a
	Is the MIDI cable connected and plugged
MIDI Device
	in correctly? (p. 46)
Connected)
	Does the MIDI channel match the
	connected instrument? (p. 47)
	Is the [Chord Progression] button’s
	indicator off? (p. 31)
	No sound from the left side is produced if
	the [Chord Progression] button’s indicator
No Sound From	is off while the Session Partner is playing.
the Left Side
	Is V-LINK switched on (p. 49)? When V-
	LINK is switched on, the twelve keys at the
	left end of the keyboard are used to control
	images, and no sounds are played with
	these keys.
The Volume of the	Is the volume balance turned all the way
Keyboard is Too
	down? (p. 18)
Low
Two Sounds are	Is the FP-2 in Dual Play? (p. 15)
	When the FP-2 is connected to an external
Produced When
	sequencer, set it to the Local OFF mode
the Keyboard is
	(p. 47). Alternatively, set SOFT THRU on
Played
	the sequencer to “OFF.”
	The FP-2 has a maximum polyphony of 64
	voices. When playing together with a song
Not All Sounds Are	or Rhythm along with heavy use of the
	damper pedal, the performance data may
Played
	exceed the number of available voices, and
	as a result, some notes or sounds played on
	the keyboard may not sound.

Case	Cause/What to do
The	Is the [Chord Progression] button’s
	indicator off? (p. 31)
accompaniment
	When the [Chord Progression] button’s
sounds when the
	indicator is off, the Session Partner begins
keys are played
	if you finger a keyboard.
	Have you set Transpose? (p. 24)
The Keyboard or
	Are the settings for the Temperament
Song Register or	(p. 42) correct?
Pitch is Off
	Is the setting for Master Tuning correct?
	(p. 41)
	Does “dEL” appear in the display? (p. 13)
Song Doesn’t Play	The internal songs cannot be played back
	while recorded performance data remains
Back
	in the FP-2’s memory. Try playing back the
	song after deleting the performance data.
Only the Sound of	Is Track Mute on? (p. 13)
a Particular	If the button’s light is out when you hold
Instrument in a	down the [Play/Stop] button, the music on
Song Does Not	that track is not heard. Press the track
Play	button so the light is illuminated.
Cannot Record	Have you selected which of the Track
	Buttons to be recorded? (p. 36)
	When you select for recording an internal
Tempo of	song that features tempo changes, the
	tempos of Performances recorded on other
Recorded Song or
	tracks are altered along with these
Metronome is Off
	changes. In addition, the Metronome
	tempo is also changed the same way.
Recorded	Performances that have been recorded are
	erased when the power for the FP-2 is
Performance is
	turned off. Once erased, Performances
Erased
	cannot be recovered.
The [Split] button’s	Is the [Chord Progression] button’s
lindicator won’t go
	indicator off? (p. 31)
out
	When the part to which the effects are
Effects Not	applied is assigned to the Lower Tone, the
Applied	effects are then not applied to the Upper
	Tone (p. 41).
	As the FP-2 piano sounds faithfully
Reverb Remains	reproduce the depth and reverberation of
Even After Reverb	actual acoustic pianos, reverberation may
is Lifted	still be audible even after the reverb effect
	is removed from sounds.

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