Roland KR-11 Recording and Playback, Normal recording, Let’s record something, What is a track?

8. Recording and Playback

KR-11 – Recording

8.1 Recording

Normal recording

The KR-11 also features a “Composer” that functions like a digital tape recorder. You can record your own songs, as well as play songs using commercially avail- able music data. Please be aware that the Composer records instructions (called MIDI messages) rather than sounds. That explains why you cannot record your singing.

You can store one song at a time. During recording, the data is automatically separated and recorded onto five separate tracks.

		Accompaniment			Upper
Rhythm			and bass
	Whole, Layer			Lower

What is a track?

On devices like tape recorders, sounds that are played back through the left and right speakers are recorded onto separate places on tape. These places are called “tracks”. As you see, your KR-11 provides five tracks in Normal mode, i.e. five places where MIDI messages can be recorded. The advantage of working with tracks is that you can re-record or change (edit) just one part while listening to the other tracks.

Let’s record something

1.Press the [REC] button.

The Composer goes into standby mode. The [REC] indicator lights up, while the [PLAY] indicator flashes.

The tracks onto which the performance is recorded are selected automatically, and the track button’s indi- cator will flash.

In Whole Keyboard mode, you can record onto any track except the Rhythm track. In that case, the track whose button is pressed last will be the recording track.

Note: If a disk has been inserted into the disk drive, or after playing back a song on disk, you need to press the [SONG] button to bring up the Song Select screen. Select

<U: User Song> and press the [REC] button.

2.Begin recording.

•When you are ready to record the melody of a song with Arranger backup, start Style playback (see “Start- ing a Music Style”), and recording begins.

•To record a piano or organ piece without accompani- ment, press the [PLAY] button.

Note: Remember that you can use the Rhythm section when playing a piano or organ piece. If that is what you want to do, see the preceding bullet.

Two measures of count-in will sound, after which recording will begin. The [PLAY] indicator now lights.

3.When the song is finished, press the [STOP] or [RESET] button.

The indicator for the track on which the performance was recorded will light.

Note: Recording will also stop if you stop the Style (see above) by pressing either the [INTRO/ENDING] or the [START/STOP] button.

Note: It is also possible to keep the Composer from deacti- vating the Record Standby mode whenever you stop record- ing. See “Recording Mode” on page 36.

Note: If the internal memory of your KR-11 already con- tains a song, you will be unable to select songs from a disk. If that is what you want to do, first save your song to another disk (see page 34), then erase the song in the KR-11’s inter- nal memory (see “Erasing the Composer song” on page 33). Alternatively, press <OK> in response to the message “User Song will be erased. Are you sure?”

Note: Remember that there is only one DSP effect. That is why it is impossible to use different DSP types for different tracks.

Cautions

If, after recording, the power is turned off, the recorded performance will be erased. If you want to save performances you’ve recorded, please refer to “Saving a song to disk”.

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