Roland KR-15, KR-17 Introduction, Main Features, Pursuing the Playing Feel of a Grand Piano

Introduction

Thank you, and congratulations on your choice of the Roland KR Intelligent Piano.

While the KR Intelligent Piano certainly allows you to achieve authentic piano performances, it also features easy-to-use Automatic Accompaniment and numerous other useful functions. In order to enjoy reliable performance of your new keyboard for many years to come, please take the time to read through this manual in its entirety.

Main Features

❍Piano Sounds with Rich Resonance and Wide-Ranging Expressiveness

The stereo sampling piano sound generator realistically reproduces even the sound of the hammers striking the strings, producing the tones of a high-quality concert grand piano.

Maximum polyphony of 128 notes ensures that you can use the pedal freely without running out of notes.

The KR features a new speaker system, “grand piano presence system,” to provide sounds with depth and spatial realism.

❍Pursuing the Playing Feel of a Grand Piano

These instruments feature a progressive hammer action keyboard, which duplicates the touch of a grand piano, with a heavier touch in the lower register, and a lighter touch in the upper register. In addition, even the distinctive “click” that you feel when pressing a key on a grand piano has been faithfully simulated (escapement mechanism).

The pedal is designed for good-feeling response, and allows subtle performance nuances to be expressed.

❍Get Easy Results with the Main Buttons

You can play songs, display scores, play the Automatic Accompaniment, select Tones, and perform other main KR functions easily by pressing the main buttons found on both sides of the screen.

With the [Select/Listen to a Song] button, you can select over 150 internal songs, from songs for piano practice to the latest hits. Pressing the [Score Display] button lets you display not only the score for any of the internal songs, but for your own recorded songs and songs on floppy disks.

With the [Music Assistant] button you can select a song you want to play, call up Automatic Accompaniment settings that match that song, and while looking at the chord score, perform with accompaniment added.

Thanks to the [Select Various Tones] button, which is used to select suggested Tones from the more than 600 internal Tones; the [Song Stylist] button, which allows you to listen to a variety of arrangements of the internal popular songs, and transform them into rock, jazz, or other forms of music; and the [Session Partner] button, which lets you leave the chords and rhythm to the backing band, and give your performances the feel of a group session, you can enjoy playing the KR in a great variety of creative ways.

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