Roland KR-11 Music Assistant, Pad buttons, pedals, Music Assistant registering panel settings

KR-11 – Basic screen functions

Chord Tone Setting

After stopping Style playback (or before starting the Arranger), you can play chords with your left hand that will sound the way you play them (without the automatic accompaniment). The Tone being used for sounding the chords is appropriately called “Chord Tone.” Along with the Chord Tone, the KR-11 will also play a bass note with (you guessed it!) the “Bass Tone”.

Ordinarily these Tones are preset, but they can be changed through the following procedure.

1.Press <Chord>.

2.Select the Bass Tone using the buttons to the left of the display, and the Chord Tone with the buttons to the right of the display.

If you don’t want the Bass Tone or Chord Tone to sound, select “OFF.”

Note: Some Tones allow you to sustain the notes you play until you play other notes (Hold function), thus freeing up your left hand for other tasks between the changes.

Note: When the power is turned on, <Chord Tone> is set to “Soft E.Piano” and <Bass Tone> is set to “Fretless Bs”.

Note: See also “Volume of the Rhythm, Bass, Accomp, and Chord/Bass Tones” on page 27.

11. Music Assistant, Pad buttons, pedals

11.1Music Assistant: registering panel settings

The KR-11 is equipped with 32 Music Assistant mem- ories that allow you to store almost all settings (or reg- istrations) you make on the front panel. So far, we have only discussed the easy part of changing the pre- set settings. Later on, you will discover that you can also carry out a lot of in-depth programming. Those settings can also be saved to a Music Assistant mem- ory.

1.Make the settings that you want to register.

2.Press the [Music Assistant] button.

The display responds with:

3.While holding down <Write>, use the buttons to the side of the display to choose a memory number. After a few seconds, the display returns to the previous page.

Note: You cannot store settings to the <Manual> memory.

Note: The KR-11 comes with a number of Music Assistant settings you can use as starting points for your own settings. Feel free to overwrite them when you run out of internal Music Assistant memories. Otherwise save your own set- tings to disk.

Note: You can also name your settings (see below).

Loading a Music Assistant memory

1.Press the [Music Assistant] button

The Music Assistant screen (see above) is displayed.

2.Use the buttons to the side of the display to select a Music Assistant memory.

Note: Choosing <Manual> changes the panel settings to the ones in effect before the settings were recalled.

Note: You can also decide when the settings relating to the Arranger are loaded. See “Music Assistant Arranger Update” on page 51.

Naming (or renaming) a Music Assistant memory

Here is how to name or rename a Music Assistant memory:

1.On the Music Assistant screen, hold down the [Music Assistant] button and select a memory.

2.Use <√> and <®> below the display and <▲> and <▼> to the left of the display to enter the name. See page 34 for a list of available characters.

3.Press <Execute>.

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