If you chose the wrong measures, press [√] to return to the “MARKER A” or “MARKER B” parameter and correct your setting(s).

(12) Press the [Play÷Stop¥®÷ª] button to stop playback.

Note: The playback tempo is reset every time the Recorder reaches the “A” measure.

Note: In certain cases, the Repeat function may not be available. This only happens with very large songs, how- ever.

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Additional playback functions

Switching off certain song parts (part 1)

You can use the buttons discussed below to switch off parts of a pre-recorded song you want to play yourself (usually the melody, or the left/right hand of piano pieces). Playing to a Standard MIDI File or Recorder song backing is called “Minus-One Play.”

(1)Select the song you want to play along to (see “Basic song playback” on page 23).

Note: Buttons whose indicator does not light at this stage refer to tracks that contain no data. Such tracks can there- fore neither be muted, nor switched on.

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(2)Press the button of the track you wish to mute (its indicator goes dark).

Record/Playback

Menu

Rhythm

Whole

Bass

Lower

Upper

Accomp

 

R

1

2

3

4

Reset Play/Stop

Rec

Bwd

Fwd

 

 

 

 

The track in question is no longer played back. You can mute several tracks, if you like. When an indicator lights, the corresponding track(s) is/are audible (i.e. not muted).

Note: The Upper part does not automatically adopt the Tone and related settings of the melody part.

■What are tracks?

The term “track” is used only for your conve- nience. We borrowed it from tape recorders that allow you to record several musical parts one by one.

In the case of the KR103, the term is only used to indicate that we are dealing with separate musi- cal parts. Here indeed (like with computer-based sequencers) what really counts are the MIDI channels.

Songs you record with the KR103, and the Standard MIDI Files you play back can consist of up to 16 tracks (i.e. MIDI channels).

The track buttons allow you to mute the following tracks:

Upper

Refers to track “4” of the selected Standard MIDI

 

File (or the melody you play while recording with

 

the [Arranger] button on). Music data for educa-

 

tional purposes (especially piano music) use this

 

track for the right-hand part. Mute this track to

 

play the right hand yourself while listening to the

 

left-hand part of the Standard MIDI File. The KR103

 

contains an excellent stereo piano Tone you could

 

use.

Lower

Refers to track “3” of the selected Standard MIDI

 

File. Music data for educational purposes (especially

 

piano music) use this track for the left-hand part.

 

See also above.

Bass/

Mutes all tracks that cannot be muted with the

Accomp

remaining track buttons, more specifically: 2, 5~9,

 

11~16.

 

This button is therefore assigned to several tracks.

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