Roland FR-5, FR-7 Using the orchestral sounds, Orchestral sounds for the Treble section

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Using the orchestral sounds

Using the orchestral sounds

Your FR-7/FR-5 also contains PCM sounds (samples) of various instruments that are not related to accordion sounds. Those sounds allow you to expand your musical endeavours without using external MIDI devices. Of course, you are free to add external MIDI tone generators to your setup and to control them from your FR-7/FR-5. See page 79 for details. Let us first look at how to use the on-board orchestral sounds, however.

The FR-7/FR-5’s Orchestra functionality actually com-	(2) Press one of the registers to select the desired
prises four sections: one for the Treble keyboard (called	orchestral sound (see the names below the Treble
“Orchestra”) and three for the Bass buttons (called	registers).
“Orchestra Bass/Orchestra Chord/Orchestra Free Bass”).	This activates the Orchestra part. The display now
You can specify for each keyboard whether the orches-	changes (the sound name may be different on your
tral sounds should be used alongside the accordion	instrument):
sounds (so that each note or chord you play results in a
combination of accordion + instrument sound) or in
isolation (no accordion).

Orchestral sounds for the Treble section

Note: Only one orchestral sound can be selected at any one time.

(1) Press the [ORCHESTRA] register.

The display now responds with:

The arrow moves from the TREBLE to the ORCH line. By pressing a register, you therefore select an orches- tral sound.

Let us quickly analyze the information you get on this page:

•“SOLO” means that the mode of the same name is currently selected (there are four different modes, see below).

•“CANCEL” means that the Orchestra part is not active. When you play on the Treble keyboard, you only hear the Treble accordion sound.

To activate the Orchestra part at this stage, you need to select a sound (see below).

•The TREBLE field contains a keyboard icon. It means that the Treble keyboard is assigned to the Treble accordion part. The ORCH field, on the other hand, contains no keyboard icon, which confirms the “CAN- CEL” message.

•The sound name (“Celeste”) refers to the register that was selected for the TREBLE section’s accordion part.

Compare the information discussed above with what you see now:

•A sound name is displayed next to the ORCH field (“Ac Guitar”). That’s the sound you’ll hear when you play on the Treble keyboard.

•The keyboard icon has moved from the TREBLE to the ORCH field.

The 22 available orchestral sounds and associated registers are:

Orchestral Treble sounds

1A	Trombone	7A	HighLand*
1B	Trumpet	7B	Zampogna*
2A	Tenor Sax	8A	PercOrgan
2B	Alto Sax	8B	JazzOrgan
3A	Clarinet	9A	RotOrgan
3B	Oboe	9B	TremOrg
4A	Harmonica	10	ScatVoice
4B	Mute Harm	11	Mandolin
5A	Violin	12	AcGuitar
5B	Pizzicato	13	AcPiano
6A	Flute
6B	Pan Flute

[*]See “About the ‘HighLand’ and ‘Zampogna’ sounds” on p. 26.

The first nine registers allow you to select two sounds (“A” and “B”). To select a “B” sound, press the corre- sponding register again.

If you select a “B” sound (5B “Pizzicato”, for example), then press another register (12 “AcGuitar”), and again the previous register (5), the FR-7/FR-5 automatically recalls the “B” sound (“Pizzicato”). This “configura- tion” is retained until you switch the FR-7/FR-5 off. If you need the 5A “Violin” sound at this stage, press register [5] once more.

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