Roland KR-3 - Manual (Page 17)

KR-3 Owner’s Manual—Overview of the KR-3
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5.3 Playing back songs on disk
The KR-3 is fitted with a floppy disk drive. Among
other things, it allows you to listen to commercially
available music data (Standard MIDI Files) or to play
back songs you created and saved onto disk. Here is
how to listen to such music data:
Note: Before using disks, please carefully read “Before using
floppy disks” on page 5.
1. Insert the music data disk into the floppy disk
drive.
2. Press the [SONG] button.
The “Song Select” function will be displayed.
Every song you play back from disk is automatically
copied to the KR-3’s internal Composer memory.
(The advantage of that is that you can remove the
music data disk after listening to the song once.) If the
KR-3’s memory already contains a song, the following
message appears:
If you don’t want to lose the song in the KR-3’s inter-
nal memory, press and see “Saving a song
to disk” on page 32. Otherwise, press .
Selecting and playing back Songs
3. Use the buttons next to the display to select the
song you want to listen to.
If not all songs of the disk fit on one page, use
<√√PAGE> and to jump to the
desired Song Select page.
4. Press ®> or the [PLAY] button.
The performance will begin. After several seconds, the
display returns to previous screen.
Note: For songs that do not begin on the downbeat of the
first measure, “PU” (Pickup) will be displayed when the
song begins. After that, measure numbers will be displayed.
5. Playback stops automatically at the end of the song.
You can stop playback any time by pressing
■>
or the [STOP] button.
If you press the [RESET] button, playback stops and
the song is rewound to the beginning of the first mea-
sure.
Listening to all songs one after another
6. Press .
The entire group of songs will begin playing in order.
The set will repeat if you do not stop the performance.
7. To stop playback, press ■> or the [STOP]
button.
If you press the [RESET] button, playback stops and
the song is rewound to the beginning of the first mea-
sure.
Rewinding and fast forwarding
By pressing the [FWD] and [BWD] buttons, you can
advance to later measures or return to previous ones.
Doing so allows you to start playback from the desired
measure.
Each press of one of the buttons moves you ahead or
back one measure at a time, and when you hold the
button down, the movement is continuous.
Note: Depending on the size of the song data, rewinding
and fast forwarding may take some time.
Note: It is also possible to mute one of the song parts and
play it yourself. See “Track Mute: Muting specific tracks” on
page 31.
Note: The KR-3 provides a function for practising difficult
passages. Such passages can be marked and repeated over
and over. See “Marker function: repeatedly playing back the
same section” on page 41.