Roland Piano Playing Back a Song, Selecting a Part to Play from the Keyboard Current Part, 108

Playing in Multitimbre Mode

Playing Back a Song

Use Multitimbre mode to play back a song stored on disk.

1.Access the MULTITIMBRE PLAY screen (p. 106).

2.Into the disk drive, insert the disk that contains the song you want to play.

3.Press [CURSOR] to move the cursor to the song file name in the upper part of the screen.

4.Turn the VALUE dial or press [INC]/[DEC] to select the song that you wish to play back.

When your cursor is located at the song file name, you can press [LIST] to open the Song List window, and select a song from a list of the songs on the disk.

5.Press [STOP/PLAY] to begin playback.

When song playback ends, it will stop automatically. To interrupt playback, press [STOP/PLAY].

Selecting a Part to Play from the Keyboard (Current Part)

In Multitimbre mode, you can play one of the parts from the keyboard. The part you select here is called the current part. For example, when you want to play along with a song, this allows you to select the part you are going to play on the keyboard.

Part 1	Part 2	Part 15	Part 16
(Rx ch.1)	(Rx ch.2)	(Rx ch.15)	(Rx ch.16)

(Tx ch.1)

Rx ch.: Receive Channel

Tx ch.: Transmit Channel

1.Access the MULTITIMBRE PLAY screen (p. 106).

2.Move the cursor to the part list, and press or to select the part to be played.

The selected part will be indicated by the” ” symbol. This symbol shows that this is the currently selected part (current part).

Selecting a Part to Play Individually (Solo)

You can have only the performance of a specific part be played when playing back a song.

1.Access the MULTITIMBRE PLAY screen (p. 106).

2.Use [CURSOR] to move the cursor to the “So” area of the part that you want to play by itself.

3.Turn the VALUE dial or press [INC]/[DEC] to assign a “●” mark.

When a song is played back, only the parts with a check mark will play back.

This setting is linked with the Solo Part Select parameter (MULTITIMBRE/Part), and can be saved as a multitimbre setting (p. 118).

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