Roland KR-17 146, Modifying the settings of each part, Finishing the settings, Style Arrangements

Chapter 8 Creating Music Styles

❍Editing the volume and effect settings for each Part

Displaying the Part settings screen

1.At the Style Composer screen, touch <Options>. A screen like the one shown below appears.

■Creating a Style from a Song You Composed Yourself

(Style Converter)

You can take a song you’ve composed yourself and extract the portions you need to create your own original Style. When you’re composing a song, there’s no need to specify all the chords. You can specify some of the chords, and the KR automatically chooses the other chords and arranges the style. This function is called the “Style Converter.”

Style Converter features an “Auto mode” that allows you to easily create Styles from songs with a single chord, and a “Manual mode,” in which you create Styles from songs with three kinds of chords–major, minor, and seventh chords.

When creating a song in order to create an music style, it’s good practice to consider the arrangement of the music style.

Modifying the settings of each part

2.Touch the to select the part with the settings to be changed.

The part name and Tone name are indicated in the upper part of the screen.

3.Touch for each parameter to change the value. You can also change the values by touching each parameter name and then using the [-] [+] buttons and the dial. Pressing the [-] [+] buttons simultaneously returns the parameter to its original value.

	Display	Explanation
	Volume	Adjusts the volume.
	Reverb	Adjusts the amount of reverb effect applied
		to the sound.
	Chorus	Adjusts the amount of chorus effect applied
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		to the sound.
Chapter
		Changes the left-right direction from which
		the sound appears to come.
	Panpot	When you touch	, the sound moves to
		the right; touch	to move the sound to
		the left.

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

Finishing the settings

4.Touch <Exit>.

The Style Composer screen appears.

Style Arrangements

A Music Style is made up of five performance parts: “Rhythm,” “Bass,” “Accompaniment 1,” “Accompaniment 2” and “Accompaniment 3.”

A song progresses in predictable a sequence, such as intro, melody A, melody B, bridge and ending.

With the KR, such changes in songs are allocated to the following six performance states. We call these six parts of a song “Divisions.”

Division	Performance division
Intro	The intro is played at the start of a song.
Ending	This is played at the end of a song.
Original	This is a basic accompaniment pattern.
Variation	This is a developmental accompaniment
	pattern. It is a variation on an Original.
Fill-In To	This is a one-measure phrase inserted at a
	juncture where the mood changes. It is used
Variation
	to make a song more lively.
Fill-In To	This is a one-measure phrase inserted at a
	juncture where the mood changes. It is used
Original
	to make a song more sedate.

You can make a song more lively or more restrained by increasing or reducing played parts by Divisions. You can also modify a song by changing the Tone of the parts in the Divisions.

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