Roland HP103 owner manual Performance, Performing with a Variety of Sounds, Selecting a tone group

Chapter 2. Performance

Performing with a Variety of Sounds

The HP103 contains 20 different internal tones. The tones are organized into five tone groups, which are assigned to the Tone buttons.

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Selecting a tone group

1 Press any Tone button.

The indicator of the button you pressed will light.

When you play the keyboard, you will hear a sound in the selected tone group.

Selecting variation tones

2 Press the [Variation] button.

Four different tones (numbered 1–4) are assigned to each Tone button. Use the [Variation] button to select among them.

Each time you press the [Variation] button, the button’s indicator will change color, and the four sounds will be selected successively.

Tone number	1	2	3	4
[Variation]	Dark	Red	Green	Orange
button’s indicator

Some of the number 3 and 4 tones form pairs, which can be layered and sounded together.

The tone you’ve selected is heard when you finger the keyboard.

For more details, refer to “Tone List” (p. 44).

When Dual play (p. 23) or Split play (p. 24) is used, only sound number 1 or 2 can be selected. If you use Dual play or Split play with a Tone button for which tone number 3 or 4 is selected, tone number 1 will be selected for that Tone button.

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