Roland FR-7, FR-5 owner manual My settings have changed, MIDI-related issues

FR-7/FR-5V-Accordion

Miscellaneous functions Troubleshooting

Why does the Orchestra mode change when I press a given Treble register?

Because you established a Link with the Treble sec- tion and also specified a mode using the “MODE” entry of the “2.13 Orchestra Link” parameter. Set it to “---” (page 47).

My settings have changed

■Did you establish a “Link”?

If you change the Bass, Free Bass, and/or Orchestra settings without saving them, and then select another Treble register while the Link function is on, the FR-7/FR-5 selects different settings for the linked sections. Your changes are therefore lost.

■Did you save the “SET COMMON” parameters? Doing so only saves the general Set parameters, not the settings of the various registers.

■Did a “Noise” setting change?

Whenever you select “ALL” for “2.1 Reed Type”, and set a different reed type, the “2.5 Valve Noise” setting is automatically adapted to that reed type. You may have to change it afterwards if you wish to use a dif- ferent noise type.

Whenever you select “ALL” for “Reed Type” and set a different reed type, the “3.5 Reed Growl” setting is automatically adapted to that reed type. It would therefore be a good idea to first select the reed type and only then change the growl type. The same applies to “4.4 Button Noise” and “Reed Type”.

■Did the effects parameters change unexpectedly? Each effects processor (Reverb, Chorus, Delay) has a “Macro” parameter (pages 64 and 66) that not only recalls a different effect type, but also appropriate settings for that type. If you select another Macro, the settings for the previous effect type are lost.

MIDI-related issues

■I selected the “Ext. Seq. Playback” mode, yet the section in question does not respond to MIDI messages.

Does the section’s MIDI channel correspond to the transmit channel of the external device (page 81)? Do not select “Off” for a section that should receive MIDI messages.

■What MIDI channels does the FR-7/FR-5 use by default?

See the table on page 80.

r	■The MIDI channel setting is correct, yet the sec-
	tion in question does not transmit notes.
	You probably set its “Note” parameter to “Off”
	(page 87).
	■The FR-7/FR-5 seems to transmit the wrong
	bank select and program change numbers.
	This is not a malfunction. When you set the “12.2 Ext.
	Seq. Playback” parameter to “On” (see p. 82), the
	FR-7/FR-5’s registers no longer transmit the sound
	selection clusters you programmed (see p. 87).

Instead, they transmit their “Std” values. This will return to normal operation when you set “12.2 Ext. Seq. Playback” back to “Off”.

■The FR-7/FR-5 does not change sounds when my sequencer transmits program change numbers, even though I used the FR-7/FR-5 to send those numbers to the sequencer.

You can send program change numbers to an exter- nal instrument that lie outside the range of the FR-7/ FR-5’s registers (1~14 for Treble, 1~7 for Bass/Free Bass/Orch. Bass/Orch Chord/Orch Free Bass, 1~22 for Orchestra). Such “excess” program numbers are ignored by the FR-7/FR-5 when you transmit them back (from a sequencer, for example).

■I cannot find the MIDI sockets on my FR-7/FR-5. The FR-7/FR-5 does not have MIDI sockets. You need to connect it to the FBC-7 using the supplied 19-pin cable (page 79).

■The FR-7/FR-5 does not receive the MIDI mes- sages I recorded for it.

That’s because the “Ext. Seq. Playback” parameter of the sections in question is set to “Off”. You need to activate it if you wish to use the FR-7/FR-5 as MIDI tone generator (page 82).

■All the FR-7/FR-5’s settings have changed.

You probably transmitted a “Bulk” file containing 40 Sets (“ALL”) to the FR-7/FR-5. The settings of that file have replaced your own settings. We regret that your settings cannot be restored. Be sure to archive the internal settings before transmitting bulk data to the FR-7/FR-5 (page 89).

■The external sequencer keeps displaying a “MIDI buffer overflow” message

The bellows sends too many data at once (its data are transmitted on five channels simultaneously). Select a different setting (“Medium” or “Low”). This leads to a coarser resolution, and maybe to audible steps, but at least, your sequencer will be able to record the data. See “Solving MIDI buffer problems” on p. 85.

While saving data, the FR-7/FR-5 displays the following message

It means that the data could not be saved in the FR-7/FR-5’s internal memory. Press [EXIT÷JUMP] to leave this page. WARNING: this will take you to the Main page. Do not select other registers or Sets. First try to save your settings using the WRITE function (page 92). If the above message appears again, con- tact your Roland dealer to have your FR-7/FR-5’s memory checked.

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