Roland KR-15 Muting Some Parts Before Playing Track Buttons, Playing back a song, Song will stop

Chapter 4 Practice Functions

Muting Some Parts Before Playing (Track Buttons)

With commercially available music files for piano lessons, the part for each hand can be played back independently. This makes it easy to practice hands separately. For example, you can follow along with your right hand while you listen to that same right-hand part be played, or you can practice the left-hand part while the right-hand part plays.

A music file for piano lessons may be assigned to the five Track buttons as shown below.

For more on music files, refer to “Music Files That the KR Can Use” (p. 201).

Drums/SFX	Accom-	Left-handRight-hand
	paniment	Part	Part

By using these Track buttons, you can eliminate the sound of specific parts. This is referred to as “muting.”

By recording your own performances to the Track Buttons in this fashion, you can mute parts the same way. For details, refer to “Recording While Selecting the Track Buttons (Redoing Recordings)” (p. 111).

1. Select the song that you wish to play back (p. 77).

Selecting the part that you’ll be playing

2. Press any one of the Track buttons to make the button’s indicator light go dark.

The sound for the selected part no longer plays.

For example, when practicing the right hand, press the [4/Upper] button.

When you play back the song, the right-hand performance will not sound. Practice your right-hand performance along with the left-hand playback.

Playing back a song

3. Press the [ (Play/Stop)] button.

The song will begin playing back.

The part you selected in step 2 will not sound.

Once again press the button you selected in step 2. The button’s indicator will light up, and the part will be heard once again.

Even while the song is playing, you can press the track buttons to mute or un-mute the sound.

Stopping the song
4. Press the [	(Play/Stop)] button.
The song will stop.

If a single Track button includes more than one instrument and you want to mute just one of those instruments, take a look at “Modifying the Settings of Each Part” (p. 128).

When a single Part is not played, it is called “Minus One.” Using Minus One, you can mute out a particular instrument and play the part yourself.

When playing back SMF files for Roland Piano Digital series instruments, and the [3/ Lower] button and [4/Upper] button do not correctly control the left/right-hand performances, please change the “Track Assign” settings. Please refer to “Changing the Parts Assigned to the Track Buttons During SMF Playback (Track Assign)” (p. 170).

You can adjust the balance between the keyboard and song volume levels. Check out “Adjusting the Volume Balance for Each Part (Balance)” (p. 75).

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