Roland KR-11 manual

1 r KR-11 ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Owner’ s Manual Thank you for pur chasing the Roland KR -11 Digital Intelligent Piano! So that you ma y enjoy r eliable performance for years to co me, please tak e time to r ead this manual from beginning to end. Main featur es ❏ Three instruments in one The KR -11 can be used as piano, organ or “key[...]

KR-11 Owner’ s Manual — Contents 2 1. Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2. Panel descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3. Before using the KR-11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.1 Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.2 Setting up the music sta[...]

3 KR-11 – ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Using the unit safely 001 • Before using this unit, mak e sure to r ead the instructions below , and the Owner’ s Manual. ...................................................................................................... • Do not open or perform any internal modifica- tions on the unit. .......[...]

KR-11 Owner’ s Manual — Contents 4 ...................................................................................................... 015 • When the top is open, do not put your head or any other part of your body under it. The lid could be dislodged and then fall on y ou. ..................................................................[...]

5 KR-11 – ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH In addition to the it ems listed under “IMPOR T ANT SAFETY INSTR UCTIONS” and “USING THE UNIT SAFEL Y” , please read and observe the following: Power Supply • Do not use this unit on the same power circuit with any device that w ill generate line noise (such as an electric motor or variable ligh[...]

KR-11 Owner’ s Manual — Important notes 6 • Remov e any disk fr om the drive before po wering up or down. • T o prevent damage to the disk driv e’ s heads, al ways try to hold the floppy disk in a level position (not tilted in an y direction) while inserting it into the drive. ❏ Handling floppy disks • Floppy disks contain a plastic[...]

7 KR-11 – Front panel ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 2.1 Fr ont panel A UTILITY button Pr ess this button to ac cess the KR -11’ s Utility func- tions (see “Utility M enu ” on page 48). B DEMO button This button pro vides access to an on-scr een Help function with explanations of the KR -11’ s functions, games allowing you t o identify s[...]

KR-11 Owner’ s Manual — Panel descriptions 8 R HOLD button In most cases, the selected display page will disappear after a few seconds. Press this butt on to “lock” the cur - rently selected displa y page. Pr ess it again to release the Hold function, or [EXIT] to leav e it rig ht awa y . S LCD contrast knob U se this knob to change the c o[...]

9 KR-11 – Setting up the music stand ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 3.1 Connections Connecting the Pedal Cable Insert the pedal cable into the P edal connector on the panel of the KR -11. Connecting the power cor d T o prevent malfunction and/or damage to speak ers or other devices, al ways turn down the vol ume, and turn off the power on all de[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Before using the KR-11 10 T ake car e not to allow fingers t o be caught or pinched when opening and closing the lid. Make sure an adult is on hand to pro vide assistance when young c hildren are pla ying the KR -11. For safety , transpor t the KR -11 only with the lid in the closed position. 3.4 Opening and closing the [...]

11 KR-11 – T urning the power on/of f ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 3.6 T ur ning the power on/of f T urn on power to y our various devices in the order specified. By turning on devices in the w rong or der , you risk causing malfunction and/or damage t o speak- ers and other devices. T o turn the power on, turn the [V olume] knob all the way [...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Before using the KR-11 12 3.9 Connecting external amplifiers and other devices If the KR-11’ s amplification system doesn ’t deliv er enough power for y our application, you can tak e advantage of its OUTPUT jacks. Sending audio to external equipment Before co nnecting the KR -11 to another piec e of equipment, turn[...]

13 KR-11 – Connecting external ampli fi ers and other devices ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH The KR -11 features a large-sized screen that k eeps you informed about the status of your instrument and allows y ou to access functions for whic h there are (usually) no butt ons or sliders. Symbols used in this owner’ s manual This Owner’ s Manua[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Overview of the KR- 11 14 5.1 Intr oduction of the main functions — [DEMO] Let’ s take a look at the most striking featur es of your KR -11. J ust follow the instructions or items that appear on the display . 1. Press the [DEMO] b utton. A “Demo ” screen appears on the display . The Demo screen is made up of three[...]

15 KR-11 – Performance functions ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 5.2 Performance functions Brilliance knob U se the [Brilliance] knob to mak e the overall sound brighter or darker . One T ouch Pr ogram: Selecting the “instrument type” By pressing the One T ouch P rogram [PIANO], [ORGAN], or [ARRANGER] buttons, you will access suitable setting[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Overview of the KR- 11 16 Organ music — One T ouch Pr ogram [ORGAN] Press the One T ouch Program [ORGAN] bu tton. A picture of an organ w ill appear on the screen, w ith the keyboard split at F#3 int o Lo wer (left hand) and U pper (right hand) par ts. The T ones cur rently assigned to the left (L ower) and right (Upper[...]

17 KR-11 – Performance functions ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Example: “When The Saints Go Mar ching In” 1. Press the One T ouch Program [ARRANGER] button. The Basic screen is displa yed. The names of the chords you pla y in the Low er section appear on the display: 2. Press the M usic Sty le [Big Band/S wing] button. 3. Fr om the list of [...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Overview of the KR- 11 18 5.3 Playing back songs on disk The KR -11 is fitted w ith a floppy disk driv e. I t allows you t o listen to co mmercially available m usic data (Standard MIDI Files) or pla y back songs you create and sav e to disk. Her e is how t o listen to such music data: Note: Before using disks, please c[...]

19 KR-11 – Pitch Bend and T ranspose ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 5.4 Pitch Bend and T ranspose The KR -11’ s left pedal (also known as “Soft” pedal) can be used to bend the notes y ou play . T o do so, you must assign it the Pitch Bend function (see “P edal functions” on page 47 for details) and specify whether you want t o bend the[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — T ones and related functions 20 6.1 Selecting T ones The KR -11 comes with a host of instrument sounds (called T ones). These T ones are divided into eight categories, called Groups. Selecting “normal” T ones 1. Press the T ONE button of the Group that c ontains the T one you need. The button ’ s indicator light wil[...]

21 KR-11 – Pitch Bend and T ranspose ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Selecting Drum Set T ypes Press < √ T ype> or <T ype ® >. Each time you pr ess one of these buttons, the drum set ty pe will change, and the names o f the drum sounds appearing on the display will change. Note: There is one SFX set. Adding ef fects to T ones Rever[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — T ones and related functions 22 Note: Whe n using Octave Shift, you may sometimes not ice that notes to the far rig ht of the keyboard sound in the “wrong” octave. That is because all T ones have an upper limit beyond which the y cannot be transposed. Note: Y ou cannot use Octave Shift in Whole mode (s ee below). 6.2 [...]

23 KR-11 – Keyboard modes ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Layer: using two T ones simultaneously The wor d Layer is used to describe a situation where every note you pla y triggers two T ones. The most pop- ular T one combination for lay ers is piano and strings, but you ar e free to use an y T one combination you lik e. Note: La yers are only av[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Playing with accompaniment (Arranger) 24 7.1 What is an Arranger? Think of the Arranger’ s M usic St yles as your backup band. Y our KR -11 is capable of playing several “varia- tions” (called divisions) of a g iven ac companiment. All you ha ve t o do is decide what kind of music you want to pla y : salsa, rhumba, [...]

25 KR-11 – Selecting Music Styles ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH (i.e. the three notes that mak e up a chord). Y ou can play mor e than three chord not es, but remember that two notes w on ’t cause the A rr anger to change chor ds. Note: I n Piano Style A rranger mode, you cannot use the Chord I ntelligence function (s ee page 29). There, you [...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Playing with accompaniment (Arranger) 26 7.3 Starting and Stopping Styles Starting a Music Style Y ou may remember that b y pressing One T ouch Pro- gram [ARRANGER] you also select a number of set- tings, one of which is called Sync Start. Let’ s look at that function first. Starting automatically (Sync Start) ■ Star[...]

27 KR-11 – Style tempo ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Alternatives for starting and ending Music Style playback U sing a P AD button or a footswitch, you can fade in (whereby the v olume gradually increases) to the start of a Style, or fade out (wher eby the volume gradually decreases) to the e nd of a Style. Please re fer to “P erfor- mance P[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Playing with accompaniment (Arranger) 28 2. Select the part whose volume y ou w ish to adjust using the buttons belo w the display . 3. Adjust its v olume w ith the < ▲ > and < ▼ > buttons. Pr ess the < ▲ > button to incr ease the volume, and the < ▼ > button to decr ease it. V olume of the[...]

29 KR-11 – Easy fi ngering – Chord Intelligence ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Fill-Ins (transitions between Original and V ariation) T o Or iginal and T o V ariation are two fills (or transi- tions) you can use at the e nd of a musical phrase (verse, chorus, bridge). The tw o buttons do two things at a time: Press these bu ttons now . Start[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Playing with accompaniment (Arranger) 30 7.8 Melody Intelligence The A rr anger of your KR -11 not only plays chor ds but also a counter -melody based on the chords you pla y in the chord r ecognition area. This count er-melody will be added to the U pper part. 1. Press the [MEL ODY INTELLIGENCE] bu tton to switch Melody [...]

31 KR-11 – Recording ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 8.1 Recor ding Normal r ecording The KR -11 also features a “Composer” that functions like a digital tape rec order . Y ou can rec ord y our own songs, as well as play songs using c ommercially a vail- able music data. Please be awar e that the Composer reco rds instructions (called MIDI me[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Recording and Playback 32 Recor ding Minus-One performances Minus-One r efers to a technique wher eby a Standar d MIDI File is used as backup , while y ou can mut e the part you wish to play (usually the melod y). Thanks t o Minus-One, you can mute an y part of a Standard MIDI File and play (and r ecor d) it yourself. If [...]

33 KR-11 – Playing back a Composer song ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 8.2 Playing back a Composer song 1. Press the [RESET] b utton to “r ew ind” to the begin- ning of the song. By pressing [RESET], you will actually jump back to the first measure of the song, which is similar t o using the SKIP function of a CD play er . 2. Press the [PLA[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Composer Menu 34 The song in the Composer’ s memor y is erased when the power is turned off. If you don ’t want t o lose it, use the method described below . The number of songs that can be saved onto a disk depends on the amount of performance data they contain, but the maximum number of songs you can sav e is 99. No[...]

35 KR-11 – Chord Sequencer ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH The currently selected track appears in r everse video on the display . Note: Drum or SFX parts can only be recorded on the “D” or “S” tracks. 3. Get ready to pla y . Choose the T one and make the necessary settings for the performance. Note: Y ou can only assign D rum Sets to the[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Composer Menu 36 <DEL>— Deletes a single measure aft er the position of the cursor , and shifts all subsequent bars to the left. <CLR>— Deletes the information (chor ds and divi- sions) at the position of the cursor . Note: A ct ivate the Leading Bass function if you w ish to play complex chords, such as ?[...]

37 KR-11 – Style Composer ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 9.5 Style Composer The KR -11 has a function called “Style Composer” that lets you c ompile new M usic Styles from existing Style par ts. Y ou can take the bass part from the “Slow W altz 1” St yle, add the drums of the “W altz” St yle and use the melodic acco mpaniment from th[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Composer Menu 38 Muting parts of a division See “W hat is an A rr anger?” on page 24 for more infor- mation about Divisions. H ere is a brief summar y of the available di visions: Intro , Original, V ariation, Fill In T o V ar iation/T o Or iginal, Ending. The KR -11 allows you to silenc e (mute) selected parts of a S[...]

39 KR-11 – Saving User Styles ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Note: I f e ither “Fill to V ariation” or “F ill to Orig inal” has been chosen for “Division” , only one measure can be cut. Note: P reset select ions are used for divisions that are not selected. Note: Be careful to remove all data types except the follow- ing from your so[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Composer Menu 40 2. Press <Ex ecute>. The new tempo and v olume values are st ored. Note: Y ou can also change the setting by holding dow n [REC] and pressing the [RESET] button. Quantize: timing corr ections Quantize is a function that co rrects minor timing problems. It shifts notes whose timing are not exactly on[...]

41 KR-11 – Song Edit ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 3. Press the <EXEC> b utton to confirm y our settings and edit the data. Insert: adding blank measur es Insert allows y ou to make a track longer b y adding rests at the specified position. This will make room for new data and shift data that lie behind the F rom posi- tion further to t[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Function Menu 42 The Basic, Piano, and Organ screens provide acc ess to several con venient functions you can tak e advantage of to opti- mize your KR -11’ s response. 10.1 Piano scr een functions Metronome volume and beat 1. Press <M etronome>. “V olume” (1~10) and “Beat” will be displayed. 2. Adjust the [...]

43 KR-11 – Piano screen functions ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH EQU AL— The most common kind o f tuning today . In this tuning, an octa ve is di vided into twelve equal steps. PYTHA GOREAN— Uses the Pythagorean scale. The fourth and fifth intervals are kept from bec oming ambiguous in this tuning. JUST (MAJOR)— In this tuning, the third [...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Function Menu 44 10.2 Organ scr een functions For information on using mark ers, see above. Using the Arranger By pressing the [ST AR T/ST OP] or [INTR O/ENDING] button, you can start playbac k of the drum pattern of the selected M usic or U ser Style. The Organ screen does, howeve r , pro vide an Arranger function that a[...]

45 KR-11 – Basic screen functions ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Chord T one Setting After st opping Style playback (or befor e starting the Arranger), y ou can play c hords with your left hand that will sound the way y ou play them (without the automatic acc ompaniment). The T one being used for sounding the chords is ap propriately called “C[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Music Assistant, Pad buttons, pedals 46 Saving Music Assistant settings to disk Y ou can store up to 32 M usic Assistant settings, including M anual settings, on the KR -11. These 32 settings make up one set, and up to 99 sets can be sav ed on a disk. M usic A ssistant settings can only be sav ed on a disk that has been f[...]

47 KR-11 – Pedal functions ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Basic/Ad vanced— This has the same effect as pr essing <Ad vnc √ Basic> or <A dvnc ® Basic>. Simple Intro/Ending— This function allo ws you t o select the simple version of an Intro or Ending at the press of a button. Melody I ntelligence— This has the same effect as [...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Utility Menu 48 12.1 Operating pr ocedur e 1. Press the [UTILITY] b utton. The Utility M enu screen appears. Y ou can now select the function you wish to set. 2. U se < √√ P AGE> and <P A GE ®® > to jump to another U tility page. The Utility M enu is made up of 14 pages. 3. U se the buttons to the sid e [...]

49 KR-11 – Utility functions ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Metronome V olume and Beat 1. On the Utility M enu screen, press < √√ P A GE> or <P AGE ®® > t o select the following display page: 2. U se the buttons to the left and right of the display to set the desired val ues. For V olume, a higher value pr oduces a louder sound[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Utility Menu 50 Program Change (and Bank Select) “Pr ogram changes” are MIDI messages that tell the recei ving instrument to select another sound (or T one) and also contain information about which T one to select. There ma y be situations where you w ould like t o double the U pper part melody with a sound of an exte[...]

51 KR-11 – Utility functions ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Music Assistant Arranger Update Y ou can also set when the Arranger’ s settings w ill change after y ou hav e selected another M usic Assistant memor y (see page 45). 1. On the Utility M enu screen, press < √√ P A GE> or <P AGE ®® > t o select the following display p[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — Connecting MIDI instruments 52 MIDI is a language that translates every action relating to music int o binar y digits that can be transfer red via a MIDI cable. It is a univ ersal standard, which means that musical data can be sent to and r eceiv ed by instruments of different ty pes and manufacturers. MIDI allows y ou to[...]

53 KR-11 – DSP effects ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 14.1 DSP ef fects Ke y b o a r d 88 weighted keys K eyboard modes Whole, Split, Lay er , Split Arranger , Piano Style Arranger , M anual Drum/SFX V e locity sensitivit y Super Light, Light, Medium, Heavy , Fix ed Maximum polyphony 64 voices T ones 6 Groups, 124 V ar iations (T one Expansion M[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — T ones, Drum Sets, Music Styles 54 Normal T ones T ones, Drum Sets, Music Styles Piano Grand Piano1 (Soft) Grand Piano2 (Bright) E.Piano 1 Soft E.Piano Vibraphone E.Piano 2 Honky-T onk1 MIDI Piano2 Marimba 60's E.Piano Steel Drums Hard E.Piano Up rig ht Piano Rock Piano Honky-T onk2 MIDI Piano1 Celesta X ylophone Glo[...]

55 KR-11 – T ones, Drum Sets, Music Styles ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH REFERENCE Internal Music Styles P op/Rock 1 8B P op2 2S t e v i e 3 Sh Rock 4 T echno 5 16B P op1 6 Dance 7 8B P op3 8 8B P op4 9 16B P op4 10 Swingin 11 BluesBros 12 Blues 13 TR808 Ballad 14 '70s 8-Beat 15 16-Beat P op1 16 16B P op3 17 Swing P op 18 16BeatP op 19 House 20 Ro[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — T ones, Drum Sets, Music Styles 56 Drum Sets Bar Chime Finger Snap High Q Slap Scratch Push [EXC7] Scratch Pull [EXC7] Sticks Square Click Metronome Click Metronome Bell Std Kick 2 Std Kick 1 Side Stick Std Snr 1 Hand Clap Std Snr 2 Low Tom 2 Closed Hi-hat 1 [EXC1] Low Tom 1 Pedal Hi-hat 1 [EXC1] Mid Tom 2 Open Hi-hat 1 [[...]

57 KR-11 – T ones, Drum Sets, Music Styles ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH REFERENCE Kick 2 Kick 1 Brush Tap Brush Slap Brush Swirl Brush Low Tom 2 Closed Hi-hat 2 [EXC1] Brush Low Tom 1 Pedal Hi-hat 2 [EXC1] Brush Mid Tom 2 Open Hi-hat 2 [EXC1] Brush Mid Tom 1 Brush Hi Tom 2 Brush Hi Tom 1 - - - - - 27 28 29 31 33 35 30 32 34 39 40 41 43 45 47 42 44 46 [...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — T ones, Drum Sets, Music Styles 58 Chor d Intelligence Cm7 ( 5 ) C C# D E E F CM7 C#M7 DM7 E M7 EM7 FM7 C7 C#7 D7 E 7 E7 F7 Cm C#m Dm E m Em Fm Cm7 C#m7 Dm7 E m7 Em7 Fm7 Cdim C#dim Ddim E dim Edim Fdim Dm7 ( 5 ) Em7 ( 5 ) Caug C#aug Daug E aug Eaug Faug Csus4 C#sus4 Dsus4 E sus4 Esus4 Fsus4 C7sus4 C#7sus4 D7sus4 E 7sus4 E[...]

59 KR-11 – T ones, Drum Sets, Music Styles ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH REFERENCE F# G A A B B F#M7 GM7 A M7 AM7 B M7 BM7 F#7 G7 A 7 A7 B 7 B7 F#m Gm A m Am B m Bm F#m7 Gm7 A m7 Am7 B m7 Bm7 F#dim Gdim A dim Adim B dim Bdim Gm7 ( 5 ) Am7 ( 5 ) Bm7 ( 5 ) F#aug Gaug A aug Aaug B aug Baug F#sus4 Gsus4 A sus4 Asus4 B sus4 Bsus4 F#7sus4 G7sus4 A 7sus4 A7su[...]

KR-11 Owner’s Manual — T ones, Drum Sets, Music Styles 60 MIDI Implementation Chart Mode 1 : OMNI ON, POLY Mode 3 : OMNI OFF, POLY Mode 2 : OMNI ON, MONO Mode 4 : OMNI OFF, MONO O : Yes X : No Remarks Recognized Transmitted Function … Basic Channel Default Changed Note Number : After Touch Mode Velocity Pitch Bend O Prog Change : True # 0—1[...]

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63 KR-11 – T ones, Drum Sets, Music Styles ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH REFERENCE Distributors Information When you need repair service, call your nearest Roland Service Center or authorized Roland distributor in your country as shown below. As of October 16, 2002 (Roland) ARGENTINA Instrumentos Musicales S.A. Av.Santa Fe 2055 (1123) Buenos Aires ARGE[...]

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