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

5.3 Playing back songs on disk

The KR-3 is fitted with a floppy disk drive. Among other things, it allows you to listen to commercially available music data (Standard MIDI Files) or to play back songs you created and saved onto disk. Here is how to listen to such music data:

Note: Before using disks, please carefully read “Before using floppy disks” on page 5.

1.Insert the music data disk into the floppy disk drive.

2.Press the [SONG] button.

The “Song Select” function will be displayed.

Every song you play back from disk is automatically copied to the KR-3’s internal Composer memory. (The advantage of that is that you can remove the music data disk after listening to the song once.) If the KR-3’s memory already contains a song, the following message appears:

If you don’t want to lose the song in the KR-3’s internal memory, press <CANCEL> and see “Saving a song to disk” on page 32. Otherwise, press <OK>.

Selecting and playing back Songs

3.Use the buttons next to the display to select the song you want to listen to.

If not all songs of the disk fit on one page, use <√√PAGE> and <PAGE®®> to jump to the desired Song Select page.

4.Press <Play®> or the [PLAY] button.

The performance will begin. After several seconds, the display returns to previous screen.

Note: For songs that do not begin on the downbeat of the first measure, “PU” (Pickup) will be displayed when the song begins. After that, measure numbers will be displayed.

5.Playback stops automatically at the end of the song. You can stop playback any time by pressing <STOP■> or the [STOP] button.

If you press the [RESET] button, playback stops and the song is rewound to the beginning of the first mea- sure.

Listening to all songs one after another

6.Press <All Song>.

The entire group of songs will begin playing in order. The set will repeat if you do not stop the performance.

7.To stop playback, press <STOP■> or the [STOP] button.

If you press the [RESET] button, playback stops and the song is rewound to the beginning of the first mea- sure.

Rewinding and fast forwarding

By pressing the [FWD] and [BWD] buttons, you can advance to later measures or return to previous ones. Doing so allows you to start playback from the desired measure.

Each press of one of the buttons moves you ahead or back one measure at a time, and when you hold the button down, the movement is continuous.

Note: Depending on the size of the song data, rewinding and fast forwarding may take some time.

Note: It is also possible to mute one of the song parts and

play it yourself. See “Track Mute: Muting specific tracks” on page 31.

Note: The KR-3 provides a function for practising difficult passages. Such passages can be marked and repeated over and over. See “Marker function: repeatedly playing back the same section” on page 41.

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