Roland FP-9 - Playing Two Layered Tones-Dual Play; Playing Different Tones with the Right and Left Keyboard Sections-Split Play

Playing Two Layered Tones—Dual Play
You can play two different sets of sounds from a single key at the same time. This method of play is called “dual play.”
Example: Let’s combine the tones for piano and strings.
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1. Press the [Pianol] button and the [Strings] button at the
same time.
Both buttons light up.
Try fingering the keyboard. The piano and strings tones play
at the same time.
In this way, pressing two Tone buttons at the same time
plays the two tones in combination. In dual play, the tone of
the right button you press is called the “upper tone,” and the
tone of the left button is called the “lower tone.” In this
example, the strings sound is the upper tone and the piano
sound is the lower tone.
2. Press either one of the Tone buttons to cancel dual play.
Now only the tone of the button you just pressed is sounded.
You can swap the upper tone and lower tone.
Example: Change the piano sound to the upper tone, and
the strings sound to the lower tone.
During dual play with the piano and strings sounds, simulta-
neously press the [Pianol] and [Strings] buttons a second
time. The piano sound becomes the upper tone, and the
strings sound becomes the lower tone.
Each time you press the [Pianol] and [Strings] buttons at the
same time, the upper tone and lower tone are swapped.
You can vary the volume-level balance of the two
MEMO tones. Take a look at “Changing the Volume
Balance for Dual Play and Split Play” (p. 19).
You can change the pitch of the lower tone by
MEMO octaves. Check out “Setting the Pitch of the Lower
Tone in Octave Steps—Octave Shift” (p. 21).
During dual play, depressing a pedal applies its
MEMO effect only to the upper tone. If you want to apply
the effect to the lower tone as well, check out
“Setting Whether to Apply Effects to the Lower
Tone” (p. 20).
Playing Different Tones with the Right and Left Keyboard
Sections—Split Play
You can divide the keyboard into right- and left-hand sections with an arbitrary key marking the division, and play different
tones with each hand. This kind of play with the keyboard divided into right- and left-hand sections is called “split play,” and the
location where the division is made is called the “split point.”
When you switch on the power, the split point is at “C4.” The split-point key belongs to the right-hand section.
The notes you play with the right-hand section are called “upper tones,” and the notes you play with the left-hand section are
called “lower tones.”
Example: Let’s try split play with the Full Grand 1 tones.
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1. Press the [Piano 1] button to make the button’s indicator
light up in orange.
Now the tones for Full Grand 1 are selected.
* Ifthe button light isn’t orange, press the [Variation] button to
make the button indicator light up in orange.
2. Press the [Split] button to make the indicator light up.
This splits the keyboard into right-hand and left-hand
sections at C4.
The right-hand section of the keyboard plays Full Grand 1
tones, and the left-hand section plays Ac. Bass (acoustic bass)
tones.
The tone that was sounded before you divided the keyboard
is chosen for the right-hand section (the upper tone), and an
optimal match for this upper tone is chosen automatically for
the left-hand section (the lower tone).
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When changing from dual play (p. 14) to split play, the upper
tone during dual play is selected as the upper tone for split play,
too.
3. Pressing the [Split] button again cancels split play.
The [Split] button indicator light goes dark and the upper
tone (Full Grand 1) becomes the tone for the entire keyboard.
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