Roland HP-7/3 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. 10)
The button doesn’t	Is the panel locked? (p. 35)
work	Turn the power off, then back on.
	Is the volume level of the HP-7/3 turned all the
	way down? (p. 12)
	Are headphones plugged in? (p. 11)
	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. 38)
	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 in-
ment is connected)
	strument? (p. 38)
Sounds are heard	Is the HP-7/3 in Dual performance? (p. 16)
	When the HP-7/3 is connected to an external
twice (doubled)
	sequencer, set it to the Local OFF mode (p. 38).
when the keyboard
	Alternatively, the sequencer could be set so its
is played
	MIDI Thru feature is OFF.
	If you use Dual performance or Split perfor-
	mance with a Tone button for which tone num-
The tone has	ber 3 or 4 is selected, tone number 1 will be
changed in the Split	selected for that Tone button (p. 15).
or Dual perfor-
	Some tones assign the tone that had been se-
mance	lected before you pressed the [Split] button to
	the left hand area of the keyboard. Please refer
	to “Tone List” (p. 41).
	Is the panel locked? (p. 35)
	Turn the power off, then back on.
Tone doesn’t	Are the indicators for the [Game] and [Key
	Touch] buttons flashing?
change
	Setting of functions is in progress. Press the
	[Game] or [Key Touch] button to exit function
	mode (p. 33, p. 37).
	The maximum number of notes that the HP-7/
	3 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. 22)
The tuning or pitch
	Are the settings for the “Temperament” and
of the keyboard or	“Stretch Tuning” correct? (p. 34)
song is off
	Is the setting for the “Master Tuning” correct?
	(p. 34)
Song doesn’t play	Are the indicator for the Track buttons ([1] and
back/ Only the	[2] buttons) extinguished? (p. 26)
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.
	It is not possible to sound the rhythm while a
Rhythm doesn’t	built-in song is playing back or recording.
	A performance that was recorded without us-
sound
	ing rhythm cannot be played back with the
	rhythm.
Metronome doesn’t	A performance you’ve recorded using rhythm
sound	cannot be played back with the metronome.
Can’t record	Has one of the track buttons for recording been
	selected? (p. 29–p. 31)
	If you select an built-in song in which the tem-
	po changes during the song, and then record,
	the tempo will change in the same way for the
Tempo of recorded	performances. The tempo of the metronome
	will also change in the same way.
song or metronome
	If you record additional material without eras-
is off
	ing 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. 32)
The recorded per-	Any performance that has been recorded is de-
	leted when the power to the HP-7/3 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. 10).
	Adjust the adjuster underneath the pedal so
The pedal rattles	that the pedal presses firmly against the floor
	surface (p. 12).
	Since the HP-7/3’s piano sounds faithfully re-
Reverberation still	produce the sense of spaciousness and reverber-
audible even with	ation 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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