Roland F-100 owner manual Playing the Keyboard, Selecting the Instrument Sound You Wish to Play

Playing the Keyboard

Selecting the Instrument Sound You

Wish to Play

Since the organ tones

reproduce the sound of a

The F-100 allows you to play using twenty different tones including piano.

traditional organ, in certain

You can select the tones using the five Tone buttons; four tones are assigned

registers you may be able

to perceive that they exhibit

to each button. You can switch the tones assigned to each button by pressing

a certain amount of

the [Variation] button.

harmonic foldback.

Tone button

Piano

E. Piano

Harpsichord

Organ

Strings

Tone number 1

Grand Piano

Stage Rhodes

Harpsichord

Pipe Organ

Strings

[Variation] OFF (dark)

Tone number 2

Bright Piano

Electric Piano

Organ Flute

Rotary Organ

Choir

[Variation] lit in red

Tone number 3

Grand Piano/

Vibraphone

Clavi

Pipe Organ/

Strings+Brass*

[Variation] lit in green

Acoustic Bass*

Strings*

Tone number 4

Grand Piano/

Stage Rhodes/

Harpsichord/

Jazz Organ/

Flute/

[Variation] lit in orange

Strings*

Electric Bass*

Strings*

Rotary Organ*

Strings*

*

Strings+Brass: lets you play a combination of strings and brass tones

*

A/B: dividing the keyboard into right-hand and left-hand areas, then playing different tones

A, the right-hand tone; and B, the left-hand tone

When you select A/B

fig.02-01

tones, the damper pedal

F

3(included in left-hand areas)

will be applied only to the

right-hand area of the

keyboard.

B

A

A/B tones have settings

optimized for playing with

When the F-100 is turned on, the tone is reset to Grand Piano.

the keyboard divided into

fig.02-01

right-hand and left-hand

Harpsi-

Recorder

zones. With some tones, the

Reverb

Strings

Variation

Song

Play

Rec

Track

Piano E.Piano chord Organ

octave (pitch) settings may

Dual Balance

Key Touch

1

2

differ on opposing sides of

the border between the

keyboard zones.

1

2

1.

Press any Tone button.

Dual play (p. 16) can be

used when tone numbers 1

The indicator on the selected button lights up.

or 2 are selected.

2.

Press the [Variation] button to select the Tone.

If you use Dual play with a

Tone button for which tone

Each time you press the [Variation] button, the button’s indicator will

number 3 or 4 is selected,

tone number 1 will be

change color, and the four sounds will be selected successively.

selected for that Tone

The Tone you’ve selected is heard when you finger the keyboard.

button.

The next time you choose this Tone button, the tone you’ve selected here is played.

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