Roland KR-17, KR-15 owner manual 158, Functions that can be assigned Pedals Only

Chapter 9 Various Settings

Chapter 9

Function	Explanation
	This starts Automatic Accompaniment
Fade In/Out	with a fade-in (where the volume gets
	progressively louder), ends it with a fade-
	out (where the volume gets progressively
	softer), then stops.
Rotary	This switches the speed of the rotary effect*
Slow/Fast	when you perform with an organ Tone.
	While the pedal or Performance Pad is held
	down, the pitch of the sound drops
Glide	temporarily, returning to the original pitch
	when the pedal or Pad is released. This can
	be effective for simulating the performance
	of instruments like a Hawaiian guitar.
Composer	Performs the same function as the [
Play/Stop	(Play/Stop)] button (p. 77).
Page	Press the pedal or the Pad turns the score
	appearing on the KR display to the next
Fwd 1	page while the performance of a song is
	stopped.
Page	Press the pedal or the Pad turns the score
	appearing on the KR display to the
Bwd 1	preceding page while the performance of a
	song is stopped.
Page	Press the pedal or the Pad turns the score
	appearing on the external display to the
Fwd 2	next page while the performance of a song
	is stopped.
Page	Press the pedal or the Pad turns the score
	appearing on the external display to the
Bwd 2	preceding page while the performance of a
	song is stopped.
Punch In/	During Punch-in Recording, this starts and
Out	stops recording (p. 133).
Tap	You can set the tempo according to the
	interval at which the pedal or pad is
Tempo	pressed
	(p. 97).

* What is the leading bass function?

The function that sounds the lowest note of a fingered chord

as the bass tone is called “Leading Bass.” When this function

is turned on, the Bass Tone changes when chord inversions

are used. Usually the tonic of the chord you play sounds as

the bass tone.

* What is the rotary effect?

This adds a sort of spinning effect to the organ sound, similar

to the sound when a rotary speaker is used.

Changing the speed increases or decreases the speed of this

spinning effect.

❍Functions that can be assigned (Pedals Only)

Function	Explanation
	Pressing the pedal during playback of a song
	stops the playback. When the pedal is
	released, playback resumes from the
Replay	beginning of the measure that was playing
	when the pedal was pressed. When the pedal
	is pressed in rapid succession, the playback
	will resume backs up the same number of
	measures as the number of times the pedal is
	pressed.
Upper	The pedal functions as a soft pedal (p. 21).
Soft
Upper	The pedal functions as a sostenuto pedal
Sostenuto	(p. 21).
Lower	Applies a damper pedal effect to the sounds
Damper	in the left-hand side of the keyboard.
Bend Up	This raises the pitch of notes you play on the
	keyboard.
Bend	This lowers the pitch of notes you play on the
Down	keyboard.
	When the pedal is pressed during a layer
	performance, the Tone volume changes
	between two levels, depending on how
Pedal EX1	firmly the pedal is pressed.
	Pressing the pedal with “Pedal EX1” selected
	increases the layer Tone volume. The layer
	Tone is played at a fixed volume, regardless
	of how forcefully the keys are played.
Pedal EX2	Pressing the pedal with “Pedal EX2” selected
	increases the layer Tone volume.
	Pressing the pedal with “Pedal EX3” selected
	increases the layer Tone volume, while the
Pedal EX3	volume of the left-hand Tone is decreased.
	The layer Tone is played at a fixed volume,
	regardless of how forcefully the keys are
	played.
Pedal EX4	Pressing the pedal with “Pedal EX4” selected
	increases the layer Tone volume, while the
	volume of the right-hand Tone is decreased.

*The effect may not be applied correctly when you press a pedal if “Pedal EX1–4” is assigned to more than one pedal.

→Using the “Bend Up” or “Bend Down” function during a split performance (p. 30) changes the pitch of sounds in the right-hand side of the keyboard. Additionally, the range in which the pitch can change when the Bender effect is used is called the “bend range”; refer to “Changing the Bend Range (Pedal Setting)” (p. 159).

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