Roland KR-3 Notes

KR-3 – Tones, Drum Sets, Music Styles

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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