Roland FP-3 owner manual Troubleshooting, If you think there’s a problem, read this first

Troubleshooting

If you think there’s a problem, read this first.

Case	Cause/What to do
No Power	Is the power cord properly connected? (p. 8)
No Sound	Is the volume level of the FP-3 (p. 11) or con-
	nected device turned all the way down?
	Is the power to all devices turned on? (p. 10)
No Sound (With a
	Is the MIDI cable connected and plugged in
MIDI Device Con-	correctly? (p. 42)
nected)
	Does the MIDI channel match the connected
	instrument? (p. 43)
No Sound, Even	Is Local Off selected? When Local Control is
	set to OFF, no sound is produced by playing
When Key is
	the keyboard. Set Local Control to “ON”
Pressed
	(p. 43).
The Volume of the	Is the volume balance for the keyboard
Keyboard is Too
	turned all the way down? (p. 32)
Low
	Is the [Split] button’s indicator on? (p. 31)
No Sound From	No sound from the left side is produced if the
the Left Side	[Split] button’s indicator is on while the
	Chord part is playing.
Two Sounds are	Is the FP-3 in Dual Play? (p. 15)
	When the FP-3 is connected to an external
Produced When
	sequencer, set it to the Local OFF mode (p.
the Keyboard is
	43). Alternatively, set SOFT THRU on the
Played
	sequencer to “OFF.”
	The FP-3 has a maximum polyphony of 64
	voices. When playing together with a song or
Not All Sounds Are	Rhythm along with heavy use of the damper
	pedal, the performance data may exceed the
Played
	number of available voices, and as a result,
	some notes or sounds played on the key-
	board may not sound.
	Have you set Transpose? (p. 22)
The Keyboard or
	Are the settings for the Temperament (p. 40)
Song Register or	correct?
Pitch is Off
	Is the setting for Master Tuning correct?
	(p. 40)
Rhythm Does Not	Is the volume balance for the Rhythm turned
Sound	all the way down? (p. 32)
Chords Not Rec-	Is the [Split] button’s indicator off (p. 31)
ognized in the Left	When the [Split] button’s indicator is off
Side When Playing	while the Chord part is playing, the chord
Rhythms	progression then proceeds automatically.

Case	Cause/What to do
	Is the [Song] button indicator lit in green?
	(p. 12)
	Songs cannot be played back when the [Song]
	button’s indicator is on. Press the [Song] but-
Song Doesn’t Play	ton, getting its indicator to light.
Back
	Does “dEL” appear in the display? (p. 13)
	The internal songs cannot be played back
	while recorded performance data remains in
	the FP-3’s memory. Try playing back the song
	after deleting the performance data.
The Volume of	Is the volume balance for the Rhythm (and
Internal Song is	internal song) turned all the way down?
Too Low	(p. 32)
Only the Sound of	Is Track Mute on? (p. 13)
	If the button’s light is out when you hold
a Particular Instru-
	down the [Play] button, the music on that
ment in a Song
	track is not heard. Press the track button so
Does Not Play
	the light is illuminated.
	Is the [Song] button indicator flashing in red?
Cannot Select	When the [Song] button indicator flashes in
	red it means that setting of functions is in
Tone or Rhythm
	progress. Press the [Song] button once more,
	then select the tone or Rhythm.
Cannot Record	Have you selected which of the Track Buttons
	to be recorded? (p. 36)
	When you select for recording an internal
	song that features tempo changes, the tempos
	of Performances recorded on other tracks are
	altered along with these changes. In addition,
Tempo of	the Metronome tempo is also changed the
Recorded Song or	same way.
Metronome is Off
	When you record additional material
	without erasing the previously recorded
	sounds, the song is recorded at the ini-
	tially recorded tempo. (p. 37)
	Performances that have been recorded are
Recorded Perfor-	erased when the power for the FP-3 is turned
mance is Erased	off or when a song is selected. Once erased,
	Performances cannot be recovered.

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