Roland KR103 ユーザーズマニュアル

 Additional playback functions

KR103 Digital Intelligent Piano 

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If you chose the wrong measures, press [√] to return 
to the “MARKER A” or “MARKER B” parameter and 
correct your setting(s).

(12) Press the [Play÷Stop¥®÷ª] button to stop playback.

Note: The playback tempo is reset every time the Recorder 
reaches the “A” measure.

Note: In certain cases, the Repeat function may not be 
available. This only happens with very large songs, how-
ever.

You can use the buttons discussed below to switch off 
parts of a pre-recorded song you want to play yourself 
(usually the melody, or the left/right hand of piano 
pieces). Playing to a Standard MIDI File or Recorder 
song backing is called “Minus-One Play.”

(1) Select the song you want to play along to (see 

“Basic song playback” on page 23).

Note: Buttons whose indicator does not light at this stage 
refer to tracks that contain no data. Such tracks can there-
fore neither be muted, nor switched on.

(2) Press the button of the track you wish to mute (its 

indicator goes dark).

The track in question is no longer played back. You 
can mute several tracks, if you like. When an indica-
tor lights, the corresponding track(s) is/are audible 
(i.e. not muted).

Note: The Upper part does not automatically adopt the 
Tone and related settings of the melody part.

Songs you record with the KR103, and the Standard 
MIDI Files you play back can consist of up to 16 
tracks (i.e. MIDI channels). 

The track buttons allow you to mute the following 
tracks:

■What are tracks?

The term “track” is used only for your conve-
nience. We borrowed it from tape recorders that 
allow you to record several musical parts one by 
one.

In the case of the KR103, the term is only used to 
indicate that we are dealing with separate musi-
cal parts. Here indeed (like with computer-based 
sequencers) what really counts are the MIDI 
channels.

Upper

Refers to track “4” of the selected Standard MIDI 
File (or the melody you play while recording with 
the [Arranger] button on). Music data for educa-
tional purposes (especially piano music) use this 
track for the right-hand part. Mute this track to 
play the right hand yourself while listening to the 
left-hand part of the Standard MIDI File. The KR103 
contains an excellent stereo piano Tone you could 
use.

Lower

Refers to track “3” of the selected Standard MIDI 
File. Music data for educational purposes (especially 
piano music) use this track for the left-hand part. 
See also above.

Bass/
Accomp

Mutes all tracks that cannot be muted with the 
remaining track buttons, more specifically: 2, 5~9, 
11~16.
This button is therefore assigned to several tracks.

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