Roland FR-8X - Drum Sounds on the Right Hand; Drum Sounds on the Left Hand; Right Hand Keyboard Mode; Assigning a Portion of Right Hand Keyboard to each

Playing the FR-8x
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Drum sounds on the Right Hand
The Drum section can be used to play full-edged Solo or several
sounds simultaneously (which is called a “layer”).
Drum Section
Solo Mode
ACCORDION Section
Drum Section
Layer Mode
In the example above the Accordion section is in layer with the
Drum section. You can activate other section to play in layer.
To choose how to play the Drum Section (Solo or Layer) you need to
set the “MODE” parameter ( p. 95).
In addition, you can choose whether to play the Drum section
in the whole range of the keyboard or in a portion of it.
ACCORDION Section
ORCHESTRA 1 Section
Drum Section
In the example above the Drum Section is placed in the high range
of the keyboard and the Accordion and Orchestra 1 sections are
placed in the low range.
You can set the range of the keyboard for each section. See
“Assigning a Portion of Right Hand Keyboard to Each Section” (p.
38).
In most cases, you’ll need to t your desired drum instruments in
the keyboard portion of Drum section. To do this see “SHIFT” (p.
95).
Full range of available Drum Set instruments (0~127)
ACCORDION Section
Drum Section
SHIFT
parameter
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Drum Sounds on the Left Hand
You can assign up to three drum sounds to the bass buttons and up
to three drum sounds to the chord buttons.
If you assign three sounds, all three will be played simultaneously
whenever you press a bass or chord button. Note that you can
assign a drum sound when you press the button and another drum
sound when you release the button. See “11.3 Bass&Chord BASS
Link 1” (p. 95) or/and “11.6 Bass&Chord CHORD Link 1” (p. 95)
to assign drum sounds.
Right Hand Keyboard Mode
The FR-8x gives you the possibility to assign a portion of the Right
Hand keyboard to each sound section. Moreover you have the
possibility to set a keyboard mode (High or Low) that allows you to
play two or more dierent sounds depending on the way you play.
Assigning a Portion of Right Hand
Keyboard to Each Section
1. Select the “12.1 Keyboard Mode” (p. 96) and use the
knob to set the “TYPE” parameter value to “Zone”.
See “Selecting Parameters” (p. 68).
At default the “TYPE” value is “Zone”.
Now you can choose for each section a range of note.
2. Select the “12.2 Zone Accordion - Orch1/Organ” (p. 96) to
adjust the range of the sections of “ACCORDION” and/or
“ORCH1/ORGAN”.
See “Selecting Parameters” (p. 68).
3. Select the “12.3 Zone Orchestra 2 - Drum” (p. 97) to
adjust the range of the sections of “ORCHESTRA2” and/or
“DRUM”.
See “Selecting Parameters” (p. 68).
4. Use the [DATA/ENTER] knob to set the range of keyboard
for each section.
In the following example we split up the keyboard in three parts:
Accordion, Orch1 / Organ and Drum section.