KR103 Digital Intelligent Piano

Recording your music

8.Recording your music

Your KR103’s 16-track Recorder also allows you to record your own music or versions of existing songs.

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(6) Press the [REC¥∏] button (its indicator flashes).

Recording with Arranger backing

Record/Playback

Let us first look at the most straight-forward way of

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Rhythm

Whole

Bass

Lower

Upper

Accomp

recording your renditions with Arranger backing.

 

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(1) Press the [Arranger] button.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tone

 

 

 

Reset

Play/Stop

Rec

 

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Sax

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Organ

Bass

Strings

Brass

Drum/Sfx

Disk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Melody

The display should look as follows:

 

 

 

 

Piano Arranger

Split

 

Layer

Intelligence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One Touch Program

 

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ORCHESTRATOR

 

BEAT

The

 

 

icon appears. You can now use your

 

 

 

 

 

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ARRANGER

 

 

 

 

 

BAND

 

 

 

 

INTRO

 

 

 

 

 

 

left hand for transposing the Arranger’s key in real-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Note: It is also possible to record in Piano mode while

(The [RECORD≈∏] and [1]~[16] icons flash. The indica-

using the Arranger. To do so, switch off the [Split] button.

tor of the [REC¥∏] button also flashes.) You are now in

See page 33 for details about this mode.

“New Song” mode, which means that everything you

(2) Press a [Music¥Style] button to select a Music Style

and the KR103’s Arranger play will be recorded.

(or select a Music Assistant memory).

Note: When you select “New Song”, the song in the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KR103’s USR memory is erased. You may want to save the

 

Music Style

 

 

 

 

 

 

current song first (see p. 52).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pop

Ballad Oldies

Big Band

Latin

Trad

 

Count Metronome

Song

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rock

Acoustic Country

Swing

Gospel

Kids

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

User

 

 

 

(7) Start recording in one of the following ways (the

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marker

 

 

 

 

Intro

Start

 

 

 

 

[REC¥∏] button will light steadily):

 

 

To Variation To Original

Ending

Stop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assistant

• Press the [Start÷Stop] button to start Arranger play-

 

Fill In

 

Sync

 

 

 

Tempo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

back with the selected pattern.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See page 18 or 15.

 

 

 

 

 

If you start recording without the Arranger and want

 

 

 

 

 

to bring it in at a later stage, it would be a good idea

• If you don’t want to start with the Intro pattern, that

to switch on the metronome by pressing the

is selected when you press the [Arranger] button,

[Metronome] button.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

press [Intro÷Ending] now.

 

 

 

• If you did not switch off the Sync Start function,

• Press [To¥Original] or [To¥Variation] to select the

press one or several keys to the left of the Split point

accompaniment level.

 

 

 

 

(or anywhere on the keyboard, if the [Split] button is

• If you don’t want recording to start as soon as you

off).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

play a note or chord in the left half of the keyboard,

(8) Stop recording in one of the following ways:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

switch off the Sync Start function: Simultaneously

• Press [Start÷Stop].

press the [Intro÷Ending] and [Start÷Stop] buttons (the

• Press the [Intro÷Ending] button to start the Ending

[Start÷Stop] indicator stops flashing).

phrase. As soon as it ends, Arranger playback and

(3) Press the Style Orchestrator button ([Basic],

song recording stop.

[Advanced] or [Full]) of the orchestration level you

• Press [Play÷Stop¥®÷ª].

want to use.

 

(4)Use the Tempo [+][–]buttons to set the desired tempo.

(5)Assign the desired Tone to the right half of the keyboard.

Press a Tone button and use the [√][®] and [+][–]but- tons to select a family and a sound within that fam- ily. See also page 35.

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