KR103 Digital Intelligent Piano r

Basic song playback

7.Playing back songs

The KR103 allows you to play back commercially available music data files (called Standard MIDI Files) or your own songs you saved to disk. Your own songs are saved as Standard MIDI Format 0 files and can also be played back using any other SMF compatible sequencer (or software).

Basic song playback

 

Songs on floppy disk (D01~…): This area refers to a

 

 

floppy disk you insert into the KR103’s drive. The

The KR103 comes with more than 50 internal songs,

 

number of available songs depends on the floppy

you can listen to right away.

 

 

 

disk, of course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1) Press the [Song] button (its indicator lights) to

 

 

Jamming

 

 

 

 

switch to Song mode.

 

 

 

 

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Music Style

 

 

 

 

 

Note: The KR103 can also read Roland “i” format files.

Pop

Ballad

Oldies

Big Band

Latin

Trad

Count Metronome

Song

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rock

Acoustic

Country

Swing

Gospel

Kids

(3)

Use [+][–]to select a desired song within the

 

 

 

 

 

User

Marker

 

 

 

 

 

Intro

Start

 

 

 

selected group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

To Variation To Original

Ending

Stop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assistant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fill In

 

 

Sync

 

Tempo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The display now shows the name of the first song in

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the KR103’s internal memory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• If you want to play back a song from floppy disk,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exit

 

Enter

insert the disk into the drive (front right).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(2) Use [√][®] to select the memory area that contains

 

This is only necessary for the internal songs (numbers

the song you wish to play back.

 

 

1~…) or a floppy disk (songs D01~…). There is only

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

one USR memory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After selecting memory 1 (internal area) or D01 (first

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

disk memory), the display shows a flashing Ent mes-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sage. You can ignore this if you like, and proceed with

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the next step (or you can press [Enter] to load the

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exit

Enter

 

song into the USR area).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: If you forgot to insert a floppy disk into the drive,

The KR103 provides three memory areas for songs:

 

the display shows “No Disk” when you attempt to

USR: This where the song data you record, or the

 

select a file on disk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

data of the last disk song you loaded are temporarily

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After making sure that the correct song has been

stored. The data in this RAM memory are erased

 

selected, you can press [Play÷Stop¥®÷ª] to load it and

when you switch off the KR103.

 

 

immediately start playback.

 

 

 

 

 

• Internal memories: This is the memory area inside the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KR103 that contains more than 50 songs when the

 

one

 

 

 

Record/Playback

 

 

KR103 is shipped.

 

 

 

 

Sax

Others

Disk

Menu

Rhythm Whole

Bass

Lower

Upper

 

 

 

 

Strings Brass

Drum/Sfx

Accomp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1

2

3

4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Melody

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liebestr = Ent

 

 

Split

Layer

Intelligence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lower

 

 

Reset

Play/Stop

Rec

Bwd

Fwd

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After a while, the entire song name starts scrolling

 

The [Play÷Stop¥®÷ª] indicator lights and the Count/

through the display.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Metronome indicators flash to indicate the tempo

Note: If the selected song does not contain an “internal

 

 

and beats.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

song name”, the display shows the file name (which is usu-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can already select a new song while the current

ally shorter).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

one is still playing. If you want to listen to it before

the current song is finished, stop playback by pressing [Play÷Stop¥®÷ª], then press that button again. Otherwise, wait until the current song is finished, then press the [Play÷Stop¥®÷ª] button to start playback of the new song.

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