Roland Piano Muting the Playback of a Specific Instrument, Changing the Playback Tempo of a Song

Muting the Playback of a Specific Instrument

If you want to silence the playback of a specific instrument, you can mute the phrase track that contains the sequencer data for that instrument.

For details on the procedure, refer to “Silencing the Playback of a Track (Mute)” (p. 137).

Changing the Playback Tempo of a Song

The tempo at which a song will play back is recorded on its tempo track, but the tempo of the entire song can be adjusted during playback. The tempo at which the song actually plays is called the playback tempo.

The playback tempo is a temporary setting. It will be lost if you switch to another song or turn off the power. If you want the song to always play back at this tempo, you must re-save the song to disk (p. 135).

1.Use [CURSOR] to move the cursor to the tempo display ( =**) in the upper part of the PLAY screen.

2.Turn the VALUE dial or press [INC]/[DEC] to set the playback tempo.

The playback tempo can be adjusted over a range from one half to double the tempo change values recorded in the tempo track.

If you want to reset the playback tempo to the tempo change values recorded in the tempo track, hold down [JUMP] and turn the VALUE dial or press [INC]/[DEC].

Using a Controller to Change the Playback Tempo

You can assign the Tempo Control function to any one of the following controllers, which then makes it easy to adjust the tempo during song playback. For details on how to make this setting, refer to the explanatory page for each controller.

•Realtime controllers (p. 163)

•D Beam controller (p. 162)

•A pedal connected to the CTL 1/CTL 2 PEDAL jack (p. 164)

Playing Back a Song

Playing a Song Back at a Fixed Tempo (Muting the Tempo Track)

If the tempo changes while a song is being played back, this is because those tempo changes have been recorded in the Tempo track. If you want to override these tempo changes and play back at a fixed tempo, you can mute the Tempo track.

For details on this operation, refer to “Silencing the Playback of a Track (Mute)” (p. 137).

Playing Back a S-MRC Format Song

The Fantom is able to play back S-MRC format songs created on the MC-50 in the same way as MRC Pro songs or Standard MIDI Files. However, S-MRC format songs cannot be Quick Played. You must first load them into internal memory and convert them to MRC Pro song format before playing them.

For details on the procedure, refer to “Loading a File from Disk	a Song
into the Fantom (Load)” (p. 188).
Playing Back a Song Repeatedly
	Back
(Loop Play)
Use the Loop function when you want to repeatedly play back an	Playing
entire song or just a specified portion of a song.
1. Use [CURSOR] to move the cursor to “LOOP” in the upper
part of the PLAY screen.
2. Turn the VALUE dial or press [INC] to turn the Loop switch
on.

Now you can perform Loop playback for the region and number of times specified in the Loop window.

For details on making settings in the Loop window, refer to

“Specifying the Area of a Song that will Repeat (Loop

Points)” (p. 139).

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