Roland HP-2 owner manual Troubleshooting, Case Cause/Remedy

Appen dices

Troubleshooting

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

Case		Cause/Remedy
The power doesn’t	Is the power cord connected and plugged in
come on	correctly? (p. 8)
The button doesn’t	Is the panel locked? (p. 28)
work	Turn the power off, then back on.
	Is the volume level of the HP-2 turned all the
	way down? (p. 9)
	Are headphones plugged in? (p. 8)
	Has a plug remained connected to the Phones
	jack?
No sound is heard	When headphones are connected, the key-
	board’s speaker stops playing.
	Is Local Off selected?
	When Local Control is set to OFF, no sound is
	produced by playing the keyboard. Set Local
	Control to “ON” (p. 31).
	Have all devices been switched on?
No sound is heard
	Are the MIDI cables connected correctly?
(when a MIDI instru-
	Does the MIDI channel match the connected
ment is connected)
	instrument? (p. 31)
Sounds are heard	Is the HP-2 in Dual play? (p. 12)
	When the HP-2 is connected to an external
twice (doubled)
	sequencer, set it to the Local OFF mode (p. 31).
when the keyboard
	Alternatively, the sequencer could be set so its
is played
	MIDI Thru feature is OFF.
	If you use Dual play or Split play with a Tone
	button for which tone number 3 or 4 is selected,
The tone has	tone number 1 will be selected for that Tone
	button (p. 11).
changed in the Split
	Some tones assign the tone that had been se-
or Dual play
	lected before you pressed the [Split] button to
	the left hand area of the keyboard. Please refer
	to “Tone List” (p. 34).
	Is the panel locked? (p. 28)
	Turn the power off, then back on.
Tone doesn’t	Are the indicators for the [		(Metronome)]
	and [Beat] buttons flashing?
change
	Setting of functions is in progress. Press the
	[	(Metronome)] or [Beat] button to exit func-
	tion mode (p. 26, p. 30).
	The maximum number of notes that the HP-2
	can play simultaneously is 64.
Not all played notes	Frequent use of the damper pedal when play-
are sounded	ing along with a song may result in perfor-
	mance data with too many notes, causing some
	notes to drop out.

Case	Cause/Remedy
	Have you set Transpose? (p. 17)
The tuning or pitch
	Are the settings for the “Temperament” and
of the keyboard or	“Stretch Tuning” correct? (p. 27)
song is off
	Is the setting for the “Master Tuning” correct?
	(p. 27)
Song doesn’t play	Are the indicator for the Track buttons ([1] and
back/ Only the	[2] buttons) extinguished? (p. 20)
sound of a particular	If the button indicator is out, the music on that
instrument in a song	track is not heard. Press the track button so the
does not play	indicator is illuminated.
Can’t record	Has one of the track buttons for recording been
	selected? (p. 23–p. 24)
	If you select an internal song in which the
	tempo changes during the song, and then
	record, the tempo will change in the same way
Tempo of recorded	for the performances. The tempo of the
	metronome will also change in the same way.
song or metronome
	If you record additional material without
is off
	erasing the previously recorded song, the song
	will be recorded at the first-recorded tempo.
	Please erase the previously recorded song
	before you re-record (p. 25).
	When an internal song is played back, the met-
The metronome	ronome sounds the ordinary metronome
	sound.
sound doesn’t
	When a recorded performance is played back,
change
	the metronome sounds the sound that was
	selected when the recording was made.
The recorded per-	Any performance that has been recorded is
	deleted when the power to the HP-2 is turned
formance has dis-
	off. A performance cannot be restored once it’s
appeared
	been deleted.
Depressing a pedal	Is the pedal connected correctly?
has no effect, or the	Make sure the pedal cord extending from the
pedal effect doesn’t	stand is securely connected to the pedal jack on
stop	the rear of the unit (p. 8).
	Adjust the adjuster underneath the pedal so
The pedal rattles	that the pedal presses firmly against the floor
	surface (p. 9).
	Since the HP-2’s piano sounds faithfully repro-
Reverberation still	duce the sense of spaciousness and reverbera-
audible even with	tion of an actual acoustic piano’s sound, a
Reverb turned off	certain amount of reverberation is still percepti-
	ble, even with the reverb effect deactivated.

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