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Using the orchestral sounds

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Using the orchestral sounds

Your FR-7/FR-5 also contains PCM sounds (samples) of various instruments that are not related to accordion sounds.
Those sounds allow you to expand your musical endeavours without using external MIDI devices. Of course, you are free
to add external MIDI tone generators to your setup and to control them from your FR-7/FR-5. See page 79 for details. Let
us first look at how to use the on-board orchestral sounds, however.

The FR-7/FR-5’s Orchestra functionality actually com-
prises four sections: one for the Treble keyboard (called
“Orchestra”) and three for the Bass buttons (called
“Orchestra Bass/Orchestra Chord/Orchestra Free Bass”).

You can specify for each keyboard whether the orches-
tral sounds should be used alongside the accordion
sounds (so that each note or chord you play results in a
combination of accordion + instrument sound) or in
isolation (no accordion).

Orchestral sounds for the Treble section

Note: Only one orchestral sound can be selected at any one time.

(1) Press the [ORCHESTRA] register.

The display now responds with:

The arrow moves from the TREBLE to the ORCH line.
By pressing a register, you therefore select an orches-
tral sound.

Let us quickly analyze the information you get on this
page:

• “SOLO” means that the mode of the same name is

currently selected (there are four different modes,
see below).

• “CANCEL” means that the Orchestra part is not active.

When you play on the Treble keyboard, you only hear
the Treble accordion sound.
To activate the Orchestra part at this stage, you need
to select a sound (see below).

• The TREBLE field contains a keyboard icon. It means

that the Treble keyboard is assigned to the Treble
accordion part. The ORCH field, on the other hand,
contains no keyboard icon, which confirms the “CAN-
CEL” message.

• The sound name (“Celeste”) refers to the register that

was selected for the TREBLE section’s accordion part.

(2) Press one of the registers to select the desired

orchestral sound (see the names below the Treble
registers).
This activates the Orchestra part. The display now
changes (the sound name may be different on your
instrument):

Compare the information discussed above with what
you see now:

• A sound name is displayed next to the ORCH field

(“Ac Guitar”). That’s the sound you’ll hear when you
play on the Treble keyboard.

• The keyboard icon has moved from the TREBLE to the

ORCH field.
The 22 available orchestral sounds and associated
registers are:

The first nine registers allow you to select two sounds
(“A” and “B”). To select a “B” sound, press the corre-
sponding register again.

If you select a “B” sound (5B “Pizzicato”, for example),
then press another register (12 “AcGuitar”), and again
the previous register (5), the FR-7/FR-5 automatically
recalls the “B” sound (“Pizzicato”). This “configura-
tion” is retained until you switch the FR-7/FR-5 off. If
you need the 5A “Violin” sound at this stage, press
register [5] once more.

Orchestral Treble sounds

Trombone

HighLand*

[*] See “About the ‘HighLand’ and ‘Zampogna’
sounds” on p. 26.

Trumpet

Zampogna*

Tenor Sax

PercOrgan

Alto Sax

JazzOrgan

Clarinet

RotOrgan

Oboe

TremOrg

Harmonica

ScatVoice

Mute Harm

Mandolin

Violin

AcGuitar

Pizzicato

AcPiano

Flute

Pan Flute