Roland KR-17 Creating and Editing Songs, Modifying the Settings of Each Part, 128, What’s Panpot?

Chapter 7 Creating and Editing Songs

Icon	Explanation	4. Touch	for the corresponding item to change
Tone Set	The Tone Set screen appears. For details refer	the setting.
	to p. 129.
		You can also change the values by touching each

Chapter 7

■Modifying the Settings of Each Part

You can change the Tones and volume, as well as mute the playback, for each individual part in songs recorded with the 16-track Sequencer and the internal songs.

→Because commercially available Roland SMF music files are also made up of 16 Parts, you can change the settings for the individual Parts and play them back in the same way.

First, select the song for which the settings are to be made (p. 77).

1.Display the 16-track Sequencer screen (p. 127).

2.Touch the screen to choose the Part for which you want to make settings.

Change the settings for the selected Part.

Display	Function
Solo	Only the selected Part is played back.
Mute	Toggles playback of the selected Part to on
	or off.
Clear	The performance data for the selected part is
	deleted.

*When you touch <Clear>, a message asking you to confirm the deletion appears. To erase the recorded sound, touch <OK>. If you don’t want to erase the recorded sound, touch <Cancel>.

Once a performance has been erased, it can’t be restored.

*You cannot touch <Clear> during playback of the song.

3.Touch <Options> to make more detailed settings for the selected part.

A screen like the one shown below appears.

You can change the Tone for the selected Part by pressing a Tone button while this screen is displayed. When selecting Part 10 or 11, you can touch <Drum Set> to select the drum set or effect sound.

The Part name and tone name are displayed at the top of the screen.

parameter slider and then using the [-] [+] buttons and

the dial.

Display	Explanation
Volume	Changes the volume level.
Reverb	Changes the amount of reverb effect
	applied to the sound.
Chorus	Changes the amount of chorus applied.
	Shifts the direction from which the sound is
	heard between left and right.
Panpot	Touch	to shift the sound to the right,
	or touch	to shift it to the left.

What’s Panpot?

Panpot is the control that determines the placement of the sound in the stereo sound field between left and right speakers. By altering the Panpot setting, you can change the perceived location of the sound between the left and right speakers.

When you press the [ (Play/Stop)] button, you hear what the song sounds like as you change the

settings. When you press the [ (Play/Stop)] button, playback of the song stops.

5.Touch to make settings for other parts. The Part name appears at the upper part of the screen. Change the settings for other parts as needed.

6.Hold down the [ (Rec)] button and press the [ (Reset)] button.

This operation set the changes in the settings.

The song can then be saved to a floppy disk or to user memory.

If you do not want to delete a song after changing the settings for the individual parts, save the song to a floppy disk or to user memory (p. 116).

*You cannot save the settings that determine whether sounds for each individual part are played or not (solo and mute).

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