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Chapter 5 Recording and Saving the Performance

Chapter 5

Selecting the tone compatibility format (when saving to floppy disks)

8. Touch <KR> or <MT>.

Some Tones are unique to the KR. Data that is recorded using these tones may not

play back correctly on other Roland Digital Pianos or Music Players. When you want

to save data so that it can be played back on another devices, save the data with

“MT” set as the Tone compatibility format.

Display	Explanation
KR	The song is saved as data capable of reproducing performances with
	richness of expression using this unit’s special Tones.
	Data is saved in a form that can also be played on the Roland Digital
MT	Pianos or Music Players other than this unit.
	You can listen to songs saved in this format on the Roland HP-G/R
	series and KR series keyboards as well as on Roland MT series devices.

<Note>

When data saved with “MT” as the Tone compatibility format is played back on this

instrument, some of the nuances that were part of the performance at the time the

data was recorded may be altered.

Even with data saved with “MT” as the Tone compatibility format, an exact

reproduction of the original performance may be unobtainable when using GS

devices other than Roland Pianos and Music Players.

Save

9. Touch <Save> or <As SMF> to start saving.

The resulting file format will be different depending on whether <Save> or <As

SMF> is chosen, as described below.

Display	Explanation
	Saves the song in this unit’s format. You can listen to songs saved
Save	in this format on the Roland HP-G/R series and KR series
	keyboards as well as on Roland MT series devices. This format is
	called “i-format”.
	Saves the song as an SMF (Standard MIDI Files). Songs saved in
Save As SMF	this SMF format can be listened to on many instruments that can
	play SMF music files (p. 201).
	A song recorded using commercial music files can’t be saved in
	“Save As SMF” format for reasons of copyright protection.

The time required for saving ranges from several seconds to half a minute or more. Don’t take the floppy disk out of the disk drive until the saving process is finished. Touch <Exit> to return to the Song File screen.

NOTE

You can only save songs in one

format on a single floppy disk.

NOTE

Never turn off the power while the saving operation is in progress. Doing so will damage the KR’s internal memory, making it unusable.

It’s a good idea to get into the habit of moving the write- protect tab on the floppy disk to the “Protect” position when you’ve finished saving your data. Keeping the tab at “Protect” prevents operations that could erase your songs by mistake.

NOTE

Depending on the playback instrument, some notes may drop out or sound different.

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