Roland FP-5 owner manual Performing With Two Layered Tones Dual Play, Changing the Tone variations

Chapter 1 Playing the Keyboard

Performing With Two Layered Tones (Dual Play)

You can play two different sounds from a single key at the same time. This

method of performance is called “Dual Play.”

Example: Try Layering Piano and String Tones

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1. Hold down the [Piano] button and press the [Strings/Pad]

button.

The indicators for both buttons light.

Try fingering the keyboard. Both the piano and string sounds play.

Pressing two Tone buttons at the same time in this manner activates Dual Play.

Of these two selected tones, the one for the Tone button you pressed first is called the “Upper Tone,” and the one for the Tone button you pressed after that is called the “Lower Tone.”

The Tone button’s indicator lights in red for the Upper Tone, and in orange for the Lower Tone.

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red	orange
Upper Tone	Lower Tone

Here, the piano tone is the Upper Tone and the strings tone is the Lower Tone.

2. To exit Dual Play, press either Tone button.

Now, only the tone of the button you just pressed is sounded.

Changing the Tone variations

1. Press the [-] or [+] button to change the Upper Tone.

2. Hold down the Tone button for the Lower Tone, and press the [-] or [+] button to change the Lower Tone.

You can change the pitch of the Lower Tone an octave at a time. Refer to “Changing the Pitch of the Lower Tone in Octave Steps (Octave Shift)” (p. 44).

You can vary the volume- level balance of the two tones. Take a look at “Changing the Volume Balance for Dual Play and Split Play” (p. 21).

NOTE

When the Tone Wheel is selected, you cannot enable the dual mode (p. 15).

Although when you press the pedal while in Dual Play, the effect is applied to both tones, you can set the FP-5 so that the effect is not applied to the Lower Tone. Refer to “Changing How the Pedal Effects Are Applied” (p. 43).

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