Roland RG-3 - Manual (Page 55)

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Chapter 3. Performance
Performing with a Variety of Sounds
The RG-3 contains 20 different internal tones. The tones are organized into
five tone groups, which are assigned to the Tone buttons.
fig.03-010
Selecting a Tone Group
1.
Press any Tone button.
The indicator of the button you pressed will light.
When you play the keyboard, you will hear a sound in the selected tone
group.
Selecting Variation Tones
2.
While holding down the Tone button and the [ ] (Value -) or
[ ] (Value +) button to select the tone.
The tone name appears in the display.
fig.03-020d
The tone you’ve selected is heard when you finger the keyboard.
Some tones are assigned a pair of tones, which allow you to perform with
two tones layered together.
Piano 1 Piano 2 Harpsichord
1 Superior Grand 1 Natural Grand 1 Harpsichord
2 Superior Grand + Str 2 Natural Grand + Str 2 Coupled Harpsichord
3 Superior Grand + Pad 3 Natural Grand + Pad 3 Harpsichord + Choir
4 Piano + FM E.Piano 4 Piano + Bell 4 Harpsichord + Str
Vibraphone E.Piano
1 Vibraphone 1 Electric Piano
2 Bell 2 FM E.Piano
3 Harp 3 ’60s Electric Piano
4 Electric Piano + Pad 4 Electric Piano + Str
The factory settings have
tone demos registered in
the “Favorites” (p. 25).
You can check and confirm
the internal tones.
You can delete tone demos
in the “Favorites” and
overwrite them by saving
other songs in their place.
If you want to play back
tone demos after they have
been deleted, initialize the
User Memory to restore the
factory settings (p. 93).
Songs on VIMA CD-ROMs
(VIMA TUNES)
are
programmed with
“recommended tones”
suitable for each song.
When you select a song, the
recommended tones are
assigned to the RG-3’s Tone
buttons, and those Tone
buttons then flash.
When you press a flashing
Tone button, the
recommended tone is
selected, enabling you to
perform the selected song
using a tone matched to that
song as it plays back.
You can also switch the
Split function (p. 67) on and
off by holding down a tone
button and pressing the
[Song] button.
The Tone screen appears as
shown below when the
Split function is on.
Pressing a tone button
once more cancels the Split
function.