Roland Piano owner manual Using the RPS Function While You Perform, Playback Mode, Mute Group

Playing a Phrase at the Touch of a Finger (RPS Function)

Playback Mode

Specify how the pattern will be played.

Value

LOOP1: The pattern will play back repeatedly as long as the key is held down.

LOOP2: The pattern will play back repeatedly. To stop playback, press a Stop Trigger key or press the same key once again. ONCE: The pattern will play back once.

Mute Group

This function lets you prevent patterns of the same group from sounding together. For example, a fill-in and bridge should never be played at the same time, and to ensure that this does not occur, you can set the fill-in and bridge to the same mute group number. Thirty-one mute groups can be specified. Select “OFF” if you do not want to use a mute group for a pattern.

Value: OFF, 1–31

Trigger Quantize

This parameter specifies how pattern playback is to begin when a key is pressed during song playback or recording.

Value

REAL: The pattern will begin playing at the moment you press the

key.

BEAT: If the song is being played or recorded, the pattern will begin playing at the beginning of the next beat if you press the key in the middle of the beat.

MEASURE: If the song is being played or recorded, the pattern will begin playing at the beginning of the next measure if you press the key in the middle of the measure.

Velocity Sens (Velocity Sensitivity)

Turn this “OFF” if you want the pattern to play back at the volume at which it was recorded.

If you want to vary the pattern playback volume according to the strength with which you pressed the key, select either “LOW,” “MID,” or “HIGH.”

Value: OFF, LOW, MID, HIGH

7.When you press [8 (RPS)] to assign a check mark (✔), the

RPS function will be turned on.

8.When you are finished making settings, press [EXIT] to return to the Song Edit screen.

9.To save the settings you made, press [2 (Save)] to save the song to disk (p. 135).

Using the RPS Function While You Perform

Normally, when playing patterns individually, the song containing the patterns must be loaded into internal memory. However, when using the RPS function to play back patterns, you can use Quick Play.

1.Make sure that the preparations for using the RPS function have been made correctly.

2.Access the PLAY screen for the mode in which you want to perform.

3.Use [CURSOR] to move the cursor to “RPS” in the upper part of the screen, and press [INC].

The RPS function will be turned on, and you will be able to perform using RPS.

If you save the song in MRC Pro song format when the RPS function is turned on, this state will also be saved. This means that you will always be able to perform using RPS simply by selecting that song.

4.Press [STOP/PLAY] to play back the song.

•You must play back the song if you want patterns to play back in synchronization with the song, or if you want multiple patterns to play in synchronization.

•If the song is not playing, the pattern will begin playing the instant you press the key, regardless of the Trigger Quantize parameter setting.

•The pattern will be played back according to the time signature of the song (beat track). This means that if the phrase track contains no sequencer data, the song will not play, and it will not be possible to play back patterns in synchronization. In such cases, you can insert several blank measures into a phrase track, and play them as a loop.

5.Press a key to which a pattern is assigned, making the pattern play.

If you want to stop playback midway through the pattern, press the Stop Trigger key. Alternatively if the Playback Mode parameter is set to “LOOP2,” you can stop the pattern playback by pressing the same key once again.

Up to eight patterns can play back simultaneously.

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