Roland F-50 owner manual Playing the Keyboard, Included in left-hand areas

Playing the Keyboard

Selecting the Instrument Sound You

Wish to Play

Since the organ tones

reproduce the sound of a

The F-50 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 EP

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 EP/

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

When you select A/B

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

tones, the damper pedal

will be applied only to the

F 3 (included in left-hand areas)

right-hand area of the

keyboard.

A/B tones have settings

B

A

optimized for playing with

the keyboard divided into

When the F-50 is turned on, the tone is reset to Grand Piano.

right-hand and left-hand

zones. With some tones, the

octave (pitch) settings may

differ on opposing sides of

the border between the

keyboard zones.

When Dual play (p. 16),

1

2

only tone number 1 or 2

can be selected.

1.

Press any Tone button.

If you use Dual play with a

Tone button for which tone

The indicator on the selected button lights up.

number 3 or 4 is selected,

tone number 1 will be

2.

Press the [Variation] button to select the Tone.

selected for that Tone

button.

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

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

With certain tones, the

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

sounds may seem to be

distorted.

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

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