Roland FR-8X - Table of Contents

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Contents
1. Using the Unit Safely ........................................ 4
2. Important Notes ............................................6
3. Look at What you Can Do! ...................................8
4. A rst look at your FR-8x ...................................12
The Sections of Your FR-8x ...................................12
About Dynamic Bellows Behaviour Technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
5. Panel Description ..........................................14
Right Hand Control Panel ....................................14
Left Hand Control Panel .....................................16
Display, Master Bar and Chin Switches .......................16
Connection panel ...........................................17
Battery compartment .......................................17
6. Before you Start Playing ...................................18
Power Supply FR-8x by the Battery Pack ......................18
How to Install the Battery Pack .........................18
How to Charge the Battery Pack .......................18
When the Battery Pack has to be charged ..............19
How to Replace the exhausted Battery Pack with a
New One ..............................................20
Connecting the AC Adaptor ...........................20
Connecting the FR-8x to an Amplication System ......21
Connecting Headphones ..............................22
Connecting a MIDI Device .............................22
Connecting FR-8x to FC-300 MIDI Foot Controller .......23
Connecting the FR-8x to Your Computer ...............23
Straps .......................................................24
Attaching the Straps ...................................24
Adjusting the Bass strap ...............................24
Securing the AC Adapter cable .........................25
About Button Type Keyboard ................................25
How to Replace a Right Hand Button of your FR-8x
Keyboard .............................................25
Bass & Chord Button Board ..................................26
How to Remove and Insert Reference Caps ............26
Turning the Power On/O ...................................27
Turning the Power On .................................27
Turning the Power O .................................27
Real-time Adjustments ......................................28
Adjusting the Sound Volume ..........................28
Volume Balance Between the Right Hand and Left
Hand Sections .........................................28
Adjusting the eects ..................................28
Listening to the demo songs ................................28
7. Basic Operation of the FR-8x ...............................30
About the Display and Cursor Operation .....................30
Main Screen Page .....................................30
Moving Between Windows and Setting Parameter
Values ................................................30
How to type a name in FR-8x ..........................31
8. Playing the FR-8x ..........................................32
Selecting Tones and Playing with the Right Hand .............32
About Organ Sounds (VTW) ...........................32
Playing Multiple Tones with the Keyboard ..............33
Playing the Bass Section with your Right Hand Like a
Bassoon (BASS TO TREBLE) .............................34
Selecting Tones and Playing with the Left Hand ..............34
Bass and Chord System (BASS & CHRD) ................34
Free Bass System (F.BASS) .............................35
Playing Orchestral Sounds ............................35
How to Play dierent Accordion and Orchestral
Sounds Together (Layer) ...............................37
Playing Drum sounds ........................................37
Drum sounds on the Right Hand .......................38
Drum Sounds on the Left Hand ........................38
Right Hand Keyboard Mode .................................38
Assigning a Portion of Right Hand Keyboard to Each
Section ...............................................38
Playing Chords and a Solo Line Using Dierent
Sections (High and Low) ...............................39
9. Other Important Function ..................................40
Transposing to a Dierent Key ...............................40
Musette Detune .............................................40
Scale (Tuning) ...............................................41
Guitar Mode for the Orchestral Chord Section ................41
10. Using Sets ................................................42
How to Select Sets ..........................................42
How to Save a Set ...........................................42
Export and Import Sets to/from the Optional USB memory ...44
Export Sets to the Optional USB memory ...............44
Import Sets to the Optional USB memory ..............45
Import FR-7x Sets from the Optional USB memory ...........45
Import All FR-7x Sets from an Optional USB memory ...46
Import a Single FR-7x Set from an Optional USB
memory ..............................................46
Factory Sets .................................................47
11. Using the FR-8x USB Audio Player .........................48
Getting Ready to Use the FR-8x as a USB Audio Player ........48
Selecting a Song on a USB Memory ..........................48
Playing Back a Song from a USB Memory .....................49
Operations on USB Memory .................................49
Play List Function ...........................................50
Programming your Play List ............................50
How to Load Play List ..................................51
Editing an Existing Play List ............................51
Editing a Play List Starting from an Existing One. .......52
Using Play List .........................................52
12. Recording your Performance as Audio Data ................54
Recording ...................................................54
Listening Your Recording ....................................55
13. Real-Time Audio Looper (Loop) ...........................56
14. Working with User Programs ..............................57
About the User Program Memory Structure ..................57
Saving an User Program .....................................57
Recalling a User Program ....................................57
Recalling a User Program from the Main Page ................58
About the User Program List .................................59
Preparing a New User Program List ..........................59
Loading a User Program List .................................60
Recalling a User Program in the User Program List ...........60
Editing a User Program List ..................................60
Adding User Program in the List .......................61
Inserting User Program in the List ......................61
Moving up or down a User Program in a Dierent
Position the List .......................................62
Deleting a User Program from the List ..................62
Deleting All User Programs from the List ...............62
How to rename a User Programs List ........................62
How to remove a User Programs List ........................63
How to duplicate Your User Programs List (Save as) ...........64
Export and Import User Programs to/from the Optional
USB memory ................................................64
Export User Programs to the Optional USB memory ....64
Import User Programs to the Optional USB memory ....66
15. Menu Options ............................................68
Selecting Parameters ........................................68
Selecting Parameters Via the Menu ....................68
Select Parameters using Jump Function ................68
Available Parameters List ..............................69