Roland KR-3 Accompaniment — One Touch Program [ARRANGER], ■Selecting an organ Type, ■The Function menu —<Func, ■Adjusting the Rotary Effect

KR-3 Owner’s Manual—Overview of the KR-3

Organ music — One Touch Program [ORGAN]

Press the One Touch Program [ORGAN] button.

A picture of an organ will appear on the screen, with the keyboard being split at F#3 into Lower (left hand) and Upper (right hand) parts.

Switching the	Metronome
Rotary Speed	ON/OFF

Selecting another organ Type Function

The Tones currently assigned to the left (Lower) and right (Upper) halves of the keyboard are called “Lower Organ 1” and “Jazz Organ 1”. These Tones make up the Jazz Organ type. See below for how to choose another organ Type.

■Adjusting the Rotary Effect

The Jazz Organ has a rotary effect added to it. This simulates the effect obtained with those famous rotary speakers that are indispensable for a true organ sound.

To change the rotation speed, press of the soft button assigned to this function. Each press toggles the rotation speed between S (Slow) and F (Fast).

■Selecting an organ Type

Use <√Type> and <Type®> to make your selection. The selected organ Type is memorized until power is turned off. In other words, if you select another One Touch Program mode and then press [ORGAN] again, the KR-3 will use the last organ Type you selected.

Note: When the power is switched off, the KR-3 reverts to “Jazz Organ”.

■The Function menu —<Func...>

This feature is used to make settings for the various functions related to organ performances. For more detailed information, please refer to “Function Menu” on page 40.

Accompaniment — One Touch Program [ARRANGER]

The KR-3 comes with an “Arranger” function that provides an automatic, yet interactive, accompaniment you can use as backing for your melodies and solos. 111 accompaniments (called Music Styles) covering all popular musical genres are built-in. Other Styles can be loaded from the supplied floppy disk, while you can also create your own Styles.

The Arranger is interactive: it always adapts the key of the accompaniments to the chords you play (see “What is an Arranger?” on page 22).

■Simple explanation of how to use the Arranger Here’s what you need to do to be able to use the KR-3’s

Arranger:

1.Press the One Touch Program [ARRANGER] but- ton.

The keyboard is now split at F#3 into a Lower (left half of the keyboard) and an Upper section (right half).

	F#3
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accompanimentaccompaniment	melodymelody

2.Select a Music Style (see “Selecting Music Styles” on page 23).

3.Play a chord in the Lower section to start the accompaniment.

Style playback starts with an introduction. Wait until the Intro is finished before you start playing the mel- ody in the Upper section. If the accompaniment is too fast, you can slow it down with the TEMPO [–] but- ton.

The KR-3 has a number of features that make playing with the Arranger even easier:

•For major chords, you only need to press the key of the root note (see “Easy fingering – Chord Intelligence” on page 27).

•You can release the keys in the Lower section after playing the desired chord. The Arranger will go on playing in that key until you play another chord.

4. At the end of your song, press the [INTRO/ ENDING] button.

How about trying using the Arranger in a real-life sit- uation? We’ve prepared a little piece you probably know. Here’s what to do to play it:

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