Roland FR-4X - Playing the Bass Section with Your Right Hand Like a Bassoon (BASS to TREBLE); Selecting Tones and Playing with the Left Hand; Bass and Chord System (BASS & CHRD)

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Performing
Playing the Bass Section with Your Right Hand Like a Bassoon
(BASS TO TREBLE)
The FR-4x provides a mode in which it can be used like a bassoon
accordion. In this mode, the bass part is played with the right hand
(BASS TO TREBLE mode).
The bass and chord buttons on the left hand are inactive (a real
bassoon accordion doesn’t have bass / chord buttons and can only
be played with one hand).
1. Hold down the [SHIFT] button and press the right-
hand register button [4/11] (BASS TO TREBLE).
2. Use the right registers [1]–[14] to select the
desiderate bass-to-treble sound.
The first seven registers [1]–[7] recall accordion sounds and the
other seven register [8]–[14] recall orchestral sounds.
For right hand register buttons 1–7
For right hand register buttons 8–14
MEMO
If you want to select one of the [8]–[14] buttons, press the
[A/B] button to select the 8–14 group.
NOTE
Bass-to-Treble mode uses the F.BASS (accordion sounds) and
ORCH BASS (orchestral sounds).
The bass orchestral sounds assignments can be different for
each Set.
3. Start playing the bass part with your right hand.
4. Once again, hold down the [SHIFT] button and
press the right-hand register button [4/11]
(BASS TO TREBLE) to exit this mode.
Selecting Tones and Playing with the Left Hand
The left hand section can be played using the bass button board.
These 120 buttons are used to play bass notes and chords.
With the left hand you can play accordion, orchestral sounds and
organ sounds (You can select the organ sounds by the orchestra
tone list). You can play drum sounds also.
&
“Playing Drum Sounds” (p. 27)
MEMO
The FR-4x only produces sound if you move the bellows.
When you don’t move the bellows, you hear nothing at all (as
on an acoustic accordion).
When “Bel Curv (Bellows Curve Type)” (p. 72) is set to “FIX.L
(Fixed Low),” “FIX.M (Fixed Med),” or “FiX.H (Fixed High),”
you don’t need to move the bellows.
Bass and Chord System (BASS & CHRD)
The bass button board in this system allows you to play both bass
notes and chords.
The “real” bass notes are assigned to the two highlighted rows.
The remaining buttons are used to play chords.
The button board use the “Stradella” bass standard layout.
The FR-4x give you to specify the layout of the Bass and Chord
board.
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“B&C Mode (Bass & Chord Mode)” (p. 73)
Bass
Chords
How the reed combination is shown for the bass & chord part
For the bass & chord part, the lower line of the screen shows the reed combination corresponding to the selected button, as shown in the
illustration.
Footages 16’ 8’ 8-4’ 4’ 2’ ALL
Footage diagram
Corresponding segment
in the screen