Roland KR103 Rear panel

KR103 Digital Intelligent Piano

Panel descriptions

	V				W			X
	Tone						Record/Playback
Piano	Guitar	Strings	Sax	Others	Disk	Menu	Rhythm	Whole	Bass	Lower	Upper
Piano	Organ Bass	Strings	Brass	Drums/Sfx	Disk	Menu	Rhythm	Whole	Accomp	Lower	Upper
							R	1	2	3	4
Piano	Arranger	Split		Layer	Melody						Y
Piano	Arranger	Split		Layer	Intelligence						Y
	Z		a		b
One Touch Program			Lower			Reset	Play/Stop	Rec	Bwd	Fwd

V[Tone] buttons

Press one of these buttons and use [+][–]or [√][®] to assign a sound (“Tone”) or Drum Set to the Upper, Layer or Lower part. See page 35.

W[Disk] button

Press this button to access the Disk functions. They are used for saving data to disk, and managing floppy disks. See p. 52.

XRecord/Playback section

The buttons in this section allow you to control song recording and playback as well as to select the tracks you want to hear or record. See page 23 and 28.

YDisk drive

Used for playing back material recorded on floppy disks, or saving and loading songs or settings to/from disk.

ZOne Touch Program [Piano]/[Arranger] buttons

These buttons allow you to instantly recall the appro- priate settings for the music you want to play.

a[Split] and [Layer] buttons

These buttons have several functions:

By pressing [Split], you assign the Upper part to the right half of the keyboard, and the KR103’s Arranger to the left. By pressing it together with the [Layer] button, you switch on a second part (called “Lower”) that can be played via the left half. See page 21.

b[Melody Intelligence] button

This button allows you to switch the Melody Intelli- gence function on/off. Melody Intelligence is a func- tion that adds a harmony part to your melody play- ing. See p. 34.

Rear panel

Expression Pedal

AB C

AUSB port

Use a USB cable to connect this port to your com- puter. This allows you to send and receive MIDI data to/from your computer. While a cable is connected to this port, the MIDI In and Out sockets cannot be used.

BExpression socket

This is where you can connect an optional EV-5 or EV-7 expression pedal that can be used as a volume pedal.

CPedal socket

This is where you can connect the pedal cable of the supplied stand (KRS103). The stand comes with three pedals.

			Stereo		Stereo
Out	In	R	L (Mono)	R	L (Mono)
	MIDI		Input		Output
	D		E		F

DMIDI sockets (Out, In)

Use these connectors to exchange MIDI data with external MIDI devices. Note that these sockets are not available while a cable is connected to the USB socket.

EINPUT R/L (MONO) sockets

This is where you can connect the audio outputs of another MIDI instrument, a CD or cassette player, etc. The signals of that audio source will be amplified and mixed with the KR103’s own audio signals.

FOUTPUT R/L (MONO) sockets

These sockets allow you to connect the KR103 to your HiFi amplifier, a mixer, a cassette deck, a key- board amplifier, etc. If the external amplifier is mono, be sure to connect it to the OUTPUT L/MONO socket.