Roland KR-11 Playing back songs on disk, Selecting and playing back Songs, Listening to all songs

KR-11 Owner’s Manual—Overview of the KR-11

5.3 Playing back songs on disk

The KR-11 is fitted with a floppy disk drive. It allows you to listen to commercially available music data (Standard MIDI Files) or play back songs you create and save to disk. Here is how to listen to such music data:

Note: Before using disks, please carefully read “Before using floppy disks” on page 5.

1.Insert the music data disk into the floppy disk drive.

2.Press the [SONG] button.

The “Song Select” function will be displayed.

Every song you play back from disk is automatically copied to the KR-11’s internal Composer memory. (You can remove the music data disk after listening to the song only once.) If the KR-11’s memory already contains a song, the following message appears:

If you don’t want to lose the song in the KR-11’s inter- nal memory, press <CANCEL> and see “Saving a song to disk” on page 34. Otherwise, press <OK>.

Selecting and playing back Songs

3.Use the buttons next to the display to select the song you want to listen to.

If all songs of the disk won’t fit on one page, use <√√PAGE> and <PAGE®®> to jump to the desired Song Select page.

4.Press <Play®> or the [PLAY] button.

The performance will begin. After several seconds, the display returns to the previous screen.

Note: For songs that do not begin on the downbeat of the first measure, “PU” (Pickup) will be displayed when the song begins. After that, measure numbers will be displayed.

5.Playback stops automatically at the end of the song. You can stop playback at any time by pressing <STOP■> or the [STOP] button.

If you press the [RESET] button, playback stops and the song is rewound to the beginning of the first mea- sure.

Listening to all songs

6.Press <All Song>.

The entire group of songs will begin playing in order. The set will repeat if you do not stop the performance.

7.To stop playback, press <STOP■> or the [STOP] button.

If you press the [RESET] button, playback stops and the song is rewound to the beginning of the first mea- sure.

Rewinding and fast forwarding

By pressing the [FWD] and [BWD] buttons, you can advance to later measures or return to previous ones. Doing so allows you to start playback from the desired measure.

Each press of one of the buttons moves you either ahead or back one measure at a time, and when you hold the button down, the movement is continuous.

Note: Depending on the size of the song data, rewinding and fast forwarding may take some time.

Note: It is also possible to mute one of the song parts and

play it yourself. See “Track Mute: Muting specific tracks” on page 33.

Note: The KR-11 provides a function for practicing difficult passages. Such passages can be marked and played back repeatedly. See “Marker function: repeatedly playing back the same section” on page 43.

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