Roland owner manual Instrument, Using the FR-7/FR-5’s digital effects

FR-7/FR-5V-Accordion

Setting up Touring the FR-7/FR-5’s sections

(6)Use the SET [√][®] buttons to select another Set and again play a few notes.

The number of the selected Set is shown in the upper right corner of the display. Note that you can also use the FBC-7’s SET footswitches to select Sets.

■Using the Sordina The [SORDINA] switch allows you to attenuate the sound (make it softer). On an acoustic accordion, this closes the wooden resonance chamber inside the

instrument.

The FR-7/FR-5 simulates this effect electroni- cally (it contains not a single reed!).

When you switch on the

Sordina, the display briefly confirms your selection:

	Note: The Sordina only applies to the Treble section.
	Note: If you add an organ sound (8A~9B) to the Treble register
	(using the Orchestra section), the Sordina function is no longer
	available. Organ sounds use a Rotary effect that blocks the
	Sordina function (in order to add the modulation of an organ
r	speaker cabinet). You can use aftertouch, to switch between
	the fast and slow Rotary speeds. “Aftertouch” refers to the fact
	that you press a key even further down after playing a note.

■Using the FR-7/FR-5’s digital effects

While playing on the Treble keyboard, you may have noticed that the accordion sounds were enhanced by effects (probably reverb). It may also have struck you that the effects change whenever you select a differ- ent Set. That’s because the effect settings are part of the parameters you can save for each Set indepen- dently.

The FR-7/FR-5 contains 3 digi- tal effects:

Reverb: This effect gives the impression that you are playing in a concert hall, a church or a room. It adds “depth” to the sound.

Chorus: This effect gives the impression that several instru- ments of the same type are playing at the same time (it is similar to detuning several reeds of a register).

Delay: This effect creates echoes, i.e. repetitions. Short intervals (called “slapback”) create an effect similar to reverb. Longer intervals, on the other hand, create real echoes.

The [DELAY], [CHORUS] and [REVERB] knobs allow you to set the volume of these three effects. Turn them all the way towards the left (the small dot) if you don’t need the effect in question.

Turn them towards the right (the big dot) to increase the effect volume.

Note: The settings of these knobs apply to all sections and all Sets.

After familiarizing yourself with the FR-7/FR-5’s parameters, you will realize that these knobs should only be used as a last resort (i.e. on stage). You can indeed program the effect level for each section sep- arately, so that the [DELAY], [CHORUS] and [REVERB] knobs can be left in the center position, while the effect amount changes with every Set you select.

Note: In certain cases, changing the knob position of an effect may not produce any audible result. This is due to the Send Level settings of the sections (see page 46, for example). It means that a given section was programmed not to send any signal to the effect in question. Even setting the corresponding knob to the maximum therefore produces no change.

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