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About the voices and parts, Functions of the upper/lower sound select buttons – Roland AT 5 User Manual

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Selecting and Playing Sounds

About the Voices and Parts

The Upper Register has two parts: “Organ,” “Orchestral.” You can select
one voice for each of these parts, and you can layer the voices and play them
together.

The Lower Register has the part: “Lower.”

Functions of the Upper/Lower Sound Select

Buttons

fig.02-05

Each time you press a voice button, its indicator will switch between being
lit and being turned off. Voices that have their button indicator lit can be
played.

Two voices are assigned to both of the Lower Part and Upper Part button
groups.

The [Alternate] button switches between these two voices.

Upper

Upper Organ

Upper Orchestral

Lower

Lower

Bass
(This voice is sounded only when the [Bass To Lower]
button lights up)

The [Alternate] button

Voice that will be selected

The [Alternate] button is not lit.

The voice indicated on the button
is selected.

The [Alternate] button is lit.

Another voice of the same family
or the voice indicated on the
bottom half of the button is
selected.

When you press the [Bass
To Lower] button, causing
the indicator to light, you
can have the Bass voice
played as the root note (p.
74) when you play chords
in the Lower part.

NOTE

If none of the voice buttons
are lit, playing the
keyboard will not produce
a sound.