User manual Roland, model KR-575
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This function is called "Style Orchestrator". 1 • Press the [Style Orchestrator] button to make the button light up. Now, you can use the Pad buttons to change the arrangement. 2. Press the Pad buttons to change the arrangement of the accompaniment. The Pad [1] button produces the simplest arrangement, and the Pad [4] button produces the most florid. Some Music Styles don't change the arrangement of the accompaniment when you've followed the steps just described. 64 Automatic Accompaniment Playing a Short Phrase You can play a short phrase of effect sounds or the like. Styls Drchestiator Phrc o □ v* □ Function (ZD User Program (ZD 12 3 4 tty I t © 1 • Press the [Phrase] button to make the button light up. Now you can use the Pad buttons to play a short phrase. A screen like the one shown below appears. Phrase Setting c F'lano bliss. Harpkl Brass 1 Seashore 2« Touch ® ® to choose the type of phrase. 3. Press the Pad button to play the phrase. r—v—-v Some phrases may keep playing. If this happens, just press the Pad button a second time. MEMO Also, some phrases make Automatic Accompaniment stop while they are playing. In such cases, Automatic Accompaniment begins when the phrase ends. Playing a phrase while playing percussion-instrument sounds on the keyboard (page 26) may make the Drum Set type change. 65 Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Automatic Accompaniment Playing Chords with Simple Fingering "Chord Intelligence" is a feature that intelligently decides on accompaniment chords the moment you play a key specifying a chord during automatic accompaniment. To play a C chord, for example, you usually have to finger the three keys C, E, and G—but with Chord Intelligence, you only have to press the C key to initiate a C chord accompaniment. For more information about chord fingering, see the "Chord Fingering List” (page 147). You can cancel the Chord Intelligence function. For more information, see "Changing the Settings for Automatic Accompaniment" (page 128). ■ Displaying the Chord Fingering On Screen 1 • Touch at the left side of the screen. The Utility screen (page 22) appears. 2* On the screen, touch cChord Finder>. 3* Touch the screen to specify the root of the chord you want to check out. The chord fingering appears on screen. 4. Touch to end this function. 66 Automatic Accompaniment Adding Harmony to the Right-hand Part You can add a harmony to the notes you play with the keyboard. When the keyboard has been split into a right-hand and left-hand section while an automatic accompaniment is playing, a harmony matched to the chord you designate on the left-hand section of the keyboard is automatically added to the notes you play on the right-hand section. This function is called "Melody Intelligence." Tone . ....................vwrb 1,3 1 • Press the [Melody Intelligence] button and confirm that its indicator has lighted. When you play something on the right-hand section of the keyboard, a harmony is added to the notes you finger. A Melody Intelligence screen like the one following appears. Duet > z------------------------------------ Dfl ^ A mussel uni 2. Press the Page [ 4 ] and [ ► ] buttons and use the Touch Screen or the dial to choose a harmony type. When you play something on the keyboard, a harmony of the type you selected is added to the notes you finger. Touch to go back to the previous screen with the Melody Intelligence function still in effect. 3. Press the [Melody Intelligence] button again to make the indicator light go dark and cancel Melody Intelligence. ^The different types of harmonies include some that automatically change the Tone. Also, when you finger several keys at the same time, in some cases only one note is sounded. 67 Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Automatic Accompaniment Playing with Automatic Accompaniment Without Splitting the Keyboard-Piano Style Arranger 1. 2. 3. 4. Usually, with an automatic accompaniment performance, the accompaniment is sounded by the chords you specify on the left-hand section of the keyboard, with the melody played on the right-hand section. If you like, however, you can make the KR-575 recognize chords from the entire keyboard, and perform without splitting the keyboard. This function is called the "Piano Style Arranger." This makes it possible to add an accompaniment automatically as you play a tune by fingering chords in the ordinary way, without giving any thought to the location of a keyboard split. If you use this method to perform with automatic accompaniment, you can't use Chord Intelligence (page 66). You have to finger all the keys to specify the chord. Press the One Touch Program [Arranger] button. Press the [Whole] button. Choose a Music Style (page 58). Finger the keyboard. The accompaniment starts when you finger a chord. 68 Chapter 4 Some Handy Features Adjusting the Tempo You can change a song's tempo. Changing the tempo has no effect on the pitch o...
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