Roland KR7/5 owner manual KR-7, KR-5, Display Explanation Basic, Advanced, Full

Chapter 2 Automatic Accompaniment

■Changing the Instrumental Makeup of Music Styles

(Style Orchestrator)

You can change the arrangement of an accompaniment. This function is called “Style

Orchestrator.” Each Music Style has four different accompaniment arrangements.

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Chapter 2

❍<KR-7>

1.Press the [Style Orchestrator] button and watch the indicator light up.

The instrument is set to allow you to change the arrangement with the Performance Pads.

2.Press Performance Pad [1]–[4] to change the arrangement for the accompaniment.

Watch the indicator of the button you pressed light up.

Pad [1] plays the simplest arrangement, and Pad [4] gives you the most elaborate arrangement.

❍<KR-5>

1.Press the [Style Orchestrator/User Function] button and watch the indicator light up.

This enables you to change the arrangement with the Performance Pad [1] or [2] button.

A screen like the one shown below appears.

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The Style Orchestrator value assigned to the current Pad is indicated.

Display	Explanation
Basic	This is the simplest arrangement.
Advanced 1	This is a more involved arrangement.
Advanced 2
Full	This is the most elavorate arrangement.

You can change the arrangement assigned to Pad [1] or [2] by touching .

When you press the [Phrase] button or [User Function] buttons, the [Style Orchestrator] button’s indicator goes out, and the function of the Performance Pads changes. For details refer to p. 63 and p. 147.

NOTE

When simple Music Styles are selected, there may be no change in the arrangement even when you use the Style Orchestrator function.

You cannot change the orchestration of the Styles with the Performance Pad when the [Style Orchestrator/User Function] button’s indicator is not lit. Refer to “Assigning Functions to Pedals and Performance Pads (Pedal Setting/User Functions)” (p. 147).

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