Roland KR111 7.Playing back songs, Basic song playback

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Basic song playback

7.Playing back songs

The KR111 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 KR111’s drive. The

The KR111 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

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switch to Song mode.

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Music Style

Note: The KR111 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 KR111’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 KR111 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 KR111.

immediately start playback.

• Internal memories: This is the memory area inside the

KR111 that contains more than 50 songs when the

one

Record/Playback

KR111 is shipped.

Sax

Others

Disk

Rhythm Whole

Bass

Lower

Upper

Strings Brass

Drum/Sfx

Accomp

Melody

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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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