Roland KR-3 Drum Sets

KR-3 Owner’s Manual—Tones, Drum Sets, Music Styles

Drum Sets

PC#	1	9	17	25	26
CC32	64	64	0	0	0
Type	STANDARD	ROOM	POWER	ELECTRONIC	TR-808
25	Bar Chime	- - - - -
26	Finger Snap	- - - - -

27High Q

28 Slap

29

Scratch Push [EXC7]

30 Scratch Pull [EXC7]

31Sticks

32Square Click

33Metronome Click

34Metronome Bell

35	Std Kick 2	Std Kick 1	Kick 2	Kick 2	Kick 2

C2 36	Std Kick 1	Room Kick	MONDO Kick	Elec BD	808 Bass Drum 1
	Side Stick				808 Rim Shot
37		Room Snr 1		Elec SD
38	Std Snr 1		Gated SD		808 Snare Drum

39Hand Clap

40	Std Snr 2	Std Snr 1	Snare 2	Gated SD	Snare 2
41	Low Tom 2	Room Low Tom 2		Elec Low Tom 2	808 Low Tom 2
41	Closed Hi-hat 1 [EXC1]		Closed Hi-hat 2 [EXC1]	Closed Hi-hat 2 [EXC1]	808 CHH [EXC1]
42	Closed Hi-hat 1 [EXC1]		Closed Hi-hat 2 [EXC1]	Closed Hi-hat 2 [EXC1]	808 CHH [EXC1]
43	Low Tom 1	Room Low Tom 1		Elec Low Tom 1	808 Low Tom 1
44 Pedal Hi-hat 1 [EXC1]			Pedal Hi-hat 2 [EXC1]	Pedal Hi-hat 2 [EXC1]	808 CHH [EXC1]
45	Mid Tom 2	Room Mid Tom 2		Elec Mid Tom 2	808 Mid Tom 2
46	Open Hi-hat 1 [EXC1]		Open Hi-hat 2 [EXC1]	Open Hi-hat 2 [EXC1]	808 OHH [EXC1]
47	Mid Tom 1	Room Mid Tom 1	Room Mid Tom 1	Elec Mid Tom 1	808 Mid Tom 1
	Mid Tom 1	Room Mid Tom 1	Room Mid Tom 1	Elec Mid Tom 1	808 Mid Tom 1
C3 48	High Tom 2	Room Hi Tom 2	Room Hi Tom 2	Elec Hi Tom 2	808 Hi Tom 2
C3 48	Crash Cymbal1				808 Cymbal
49	Crash Cymbal1	Room Hi Tom 1		Elec Hi Tom 1	808 Cymbal
50	High Tom 1	Room Hi Tom 1	Room Hi Tom 1	Elec Hi Tom 1	808 Hi Tom 1

51Ride Cymbal 1

52	Chinese Cymbal	Reverse Cymbal
53	Ride Bell
53	Tambourine
54	Tambourine

55Splash Cymbal

56

Cowbell

808 Cowbell

57Crash Cymbal 2

58 Vibra-slap

59Ride Cymbal 2

C4 60

High Bongo

61Low Bongo

62	Mute High Conga	808 High Conga
63	Open High Conga	808 Mid Conga
64	Low Conga	808 Low Conga
65	High Timbale
65	Low Timbale
66	Low Timbale

67High Agogo

68 Low Agogo

69Cabasa

70

Maracas

808 Maracas

71Short Hi Whistle [EXC2]

C5 72

Long Low Whistle [EXC2]

73Short Guiro [EXC3]

74Long Guiro [EXC3]

75

Claves

808 Claves

76High Wood Block

77

Low Wood Block

78 Mute Cuica [EXC4]

79Open Cuica [EXC4]

80 Mute Triangle [EXC5]

81Open Triangle [EXC5]

82 Shaker

83Jingle Bell

C6

84

Bell Tree

85Castanets

86Mute Surdo [EXC6]

87Open Surdo [EXC6]

88

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Contents

Page Main features ❏Three instruments in one ❏270 Tones (sounds) and 136 Styles built-in ❏Piano Tones that rely on stereo sampling ❏64-voicepolyphony Contents 1. Important notes 7. Playing with accompaniment (Arranger) 10.Function Menu 11.Music Assistant, Pad buttons, pedals Page Page 1. Important notes Before using ﬂoppy disks 2.Panel descriptions 2.1Front panel NTEMPO buttons OMUSIC ASSISTANT button RHOLD button S LCD contrast knob TTONE buttons 2.2 Connections 3. Before using the KR-3 3.1 Setting up the music rest 3.2Connecting the power cable 3.3Turning the instrument on and off 3.4 Using headphones Receiving audio signals from external sources 4. Basic operation and display 5. Overview of the KR-3 5.2 Performance functions One Touch Program: Selecting the “instrument type” Piano music — One Touch Program [PIANO] Accompaniment — One Touch Program [ARRANGER] Example: “When The Saints Go Marching In” 5.3 Playing back songs on disk Listening to all songs one after another Rewinding and fast forwarding 5.4 Pitch Bend and Transpose 6. Tones and related functions 6.1 Selecting Tones Toggling between drum sounds and sound effects Selecting Drum Set Types Reverberation (REV) Adding other effects — DSP effect Chorus effect 6.2 Keyboard modes Selecting Tones for the Upper and Lower parts Layer: using two Tones simultaneously 1.Press the TONE [PIANO] button and select the desired piano Tone 2.Press <Layer> on the Basic screen 3.Press the TONE [STRINGS] button 7. Playing with accompaniment (Arranger) 7.1 What is an Arranger Piano Style Arranger — chord recognition on the entire keyboard 7.2 Selecting Music Styles 7.3 Starting and stopping Styles Starting automatically (Sync Start) Starting manually Stopping a Style with an Ending Stopping a Music Style immediately 7.5Accompaniment and melody volume balance 7.4 Style tempo Adjust its volume with the Volume of the Drums, SFX, Lower, Upper, or Layer Tone 1.Press the Part Volume [KEYBOARD] button 7.6Switching Style arrangements (divisions) Basic/Advanced: Level Advanced— Basic— Press <Advnc√Basic> or <Advnc®Basic> on the 7.7Easy ﬁngering – Chord Intelligence 7.8 Melody Intelligence 8. Recording and Playback 8.1 Recording What is a track Cautions to take after recording Notes about correcting mistakes 8.2Playing back a Composer song Starting with a metronome count-in 8.3Track Mute: Muting speciﬁc tracks 8.4Playing back songs without tempo changes 8.5 Erasing the Composer song 9. Composer Menu Functions of the Composer Menu 9.1 16-trackSequencer Muting or playing selected tracks 9.2 Chord Sequencer Tracks vs. MIDI channels Stopping a recording (Rec Stop) 9.3 Recording Mode Recording method (Rec Mode) 9.4 Formatting disks 9.5 Style Composer Editing your User Style Muting parts of a division 9.6 Style Converter 9.7 Saving User Styles 9.8 Song Edit Steps for editing Setup: tempo and volume Quantize: timing corrections Erase: removing data from a track or song Copy(ing) measures Delete: removing measures Insert: adding blank measures Transpose: changing the key Track Exchange/Track Copy: swapping and copying tracks 10. Function Menu Operating procedure for the Function Menu 10.1 Piano screen functions Metronome volume and beat Tuning Marker function: repeatedly playing back the same section 10.2 Organ screen functions Using the Arranger Lower Tone on/off and split point 10.3 Basic screen functions Auto: changing the Arranger defaults 11. Music Assistant, Pad buttons, pedals 11.1Music Assistant : registering panel settings Loading a Music Assistant memory Saving Music Assistant settings to disk Loading a Music Assistant set from disk 11.2Performance Pad buttons: additional or frequently used functions 11.3 Pedal functions 12. Utility Menu 12.1 Operating procedure 12.2 Utility functions Master Tune Key Touch/Key Transpose Metronome Volume and Beat Expansion Tone Lyric: switching off the display of lyrics Pitch Bend Range Program Change (and Bank Select) MIDI: TX MIDI Ch./Local Control Music Assistant Arranger Update Memory Backup Factory Preset (initialization) Link to 16TRK Sequencer 13. Connecting MIDI instruments 14. Appendix 14.1 DSP effects 14.2 Speciﬁcations Tones, Drum Sets, Music Styles Internal & Disk Music Styles Drum Sets ●SFX Set Chord Intelligence Page MIDI Implementation Chart Notes Page Distributors Information