Roland KF-7 Troubleshooting, 161, No sound is heard, Sound is strange, Case Cause/Remedy

Appendices

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. 16)
The button doesn’t	Is the panel locked? (p. 152)
work.	Turn the power off, then back on.
Nothing appears	The KF-7 uses a liquid-crystal screen, so text
	may not be displayed when the ambient tem-
on screen.
	perature is below freezing.
Vertical lines ap-	These occur due to the nature of a liquid crys-
pear in the screen/
	tal display, and do not indicate a malfunction.
Color is “washed
	They can be minimized by adjusting the
out” at the edges of
	brightness of the screen (p. 19).
the screen
	The positioning of the touch screen may be-
The touch screen	come displaced if some time has passed since
doesn’t respond	it was last used. Take a look at “Calibrating
correctly.	the Touch Screen (Touch Screen)” (p. 151) to
	correct the positioning.
	Is the pedal connected correctly?
	Make sure the pedal cord is securely connect-
	ed to the pedal connector on the rear of the
	unit (p. 16).
Depressing a ped-
	Has a different function been assigned to the
al has no effect, or	pedal?
the pedal effect	See “Assigning Functions to Pedals and Per-
doesn’t stop.	formance Pads (Pedal Setting/User Func-
	tions)” (p. 143).
	Normal pedal operation is automatically en-
	abled when the One Touch Program [Piano]
	button is pressed (p. 20).
The926 volume level	Could you be using a connection cable that
of the instrument	contains a resistor?
connected to Input	Use a connection cable that does not contain a
jacks is too low.	resistor.

Case	Cause/Remedy
No sound is heard
	Is the volume level of the KF-7 (p. 18) or con-
	nected device turned all the way down?
	Are headphones plugged in? (p. 18)
	Has the Balance knob been moved all the way
	to the right or left?
No sound is heard.	Has the volume been set to “0” using the Part
	Balance? (p. 63)
	Are all sliders in the Equalizer screen at the
	minimum level? (p. 30)
	Has the footage been adjusted so that all fre-
	quency components aren’t sounded? (p. 15 in
	the Quick Start)
	Have all devices been switched on?
No sound is heard	Are the MIDI cables connected correctly? (p.
	154)
(when a MIDI in-
	Does the MIDI channel match the connected
strument is con-
	instrument? (p. 156)
nected).
	Is the Computer switch on the rear panel set
	to “MIDI”? (p. 159)
	The MIDI connectors and the computer con-
You cannot use a	nector cannot be used at the same time.
connected MIDI	Confirm that the computer switch is set to
device and com-	“MIDI” when a MIDI device is connected to
puter simulta-	the MIDI connector, and to either “MAC,”
neously	“PC-1,” “PC-2,” when a computer is connect-
	ed to the Computer connector (p. 159).
No sound is heard	Has Local Control been set to “Off”?
	When Local Control is set to Off, no sound is
when the keyboard
	produced by playing the keyboard.
is played.
	Set Local Control to On. (p. 156)
	The maximum number of notes that the KF-7
	can play simultaneously is 128. Frequent use
Not all played	of the damper pedal during automatic accom-
notes are sound-	paniment or when playing along with a song
ed.	on floppy disk may result in performance
	data with too many notes, causing some notes
	to drop out.
The sound is strange
Sounds are heard	Is the KF-7 in layer play? (p. 24)
	When the KF-7 is connected to an external se-
twice (doubled)
when the keyboard	quencer, set it to the Local OFF mode
		Appendices
	(p. 156). Alternatively, the sequencer could be
is played.
	set so its Soft Thru feature is OFF.

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