Roland KR7/5 owner manual Performing with Two Sounds Layered Together Layer, Changing the tones

Chapter 1 Performance

Chapter 1

Performing with Two Sounds Layered Together (Layer)

Two tones sounding together when you press a single key is referred to as a “layer performance.”

For instance, it’s possible to play the Tones for both Piano and Strings simultaneously.

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Grand Piano 1

Strings

1. Touch <Layer> at the bottom of the Basic screen.

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The tone that was sounding before you switched to layer performance, plus the tone indicated in the lower part of the display, are now played together.

Here, the tone appearing in the upper part of the display is called the “right-hand tone,” and the tone appearing in the lower part of the display is called the “layer tone.”

Changing the tones

2. Touch the name of the tone to be changed.

The tone name will be highlighted in white.

3. Press a Tone button to select the new tone (p. 25).

4. When you have selected the tone, touch <Exit>.

The display returns to the Basic screen.

Cancelling the Layer

5. Touch <Layer>.

The <Layer> icon reverts to black, and the layer performance is cancelled.

Now when you play the keys, only the tone indicated on the screen is sounded.

When you select an internal song or music file that includes the lyrics data, <lyrics> appears in the Basic screen. Touch this to display the lyrics.

When you touch Octave <-><+> on the tone selection screen, the pitch of the keyboard’s sound is changed in octave units. To learn more, see “Shifting the Keyboard Pitch in Octave Steps (Octave Shift)” (p. 30).

You can vary the volume-level balance of the two tones. For instructions, see “Adjusting the Volume Balance for Each Performance Part (Part Balance)” (p. 67).

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