Roland HP 236 - Recording and Playback; Creating Your Recordings; Listening to Recordings; Playing with Key Transposition

Owner’s Manual
Try Recording What you play
How to Create Recordings
Use whatever Voice you like to play whatever song you wish
to record. When completed, you will be able to listen to the
results, and check how well you played the song.
1. Select the Voice you wish to use for the recording, then
make any other selections you wish, such as for Chorus
and Reverb.
When ready, press the REC button (its indicator will light).
This means that the instrument is in stand-by, waiting for
recording to begin.
Rec
* Ifyou want to exit, at this point, from the REC mode,
simply press PLAY button.
2. Start playing. (Recording will start the moment the first
note is played.)
3. When finished, press the REC button again to stop record-
ing. The indicator will go out.
Rec
* During recording, you can change to any other Voice you
wish to use.
* You can record up to approximately 2,000 notes.
When the unit starts running low on memory space, the
indicator on the REC button will start flashing.
Once you reach the stage where the unit cannot record
any more, the indicator on the REC button will go out,
and recording stops automatically.
* Once you begin a new recording, all of the performance
data previously recorded will be erased. Once erased,
performance data cannot be recovered.
Now try listening to what you just recorded
Press the PLAY button (its indicator will light).
Play
The unit stops automatically after the song has played
through. The indicator will then go out.
(Press the PLAY button to stop playback at any point.)
* The performance data that you record will disappear
about 8 hours after power has been turned off. If you need
a more permanent form of storage for your songs, you will
need to connect an external sequencer and record onto
that unit.
* To manually erase all recorded performance data, simul-
taneously press the REC and PLAY buttons.
Playing with the Key Transposed
If you wish, you can play the instrument with the key ‘trans-
posed.’ This conveniently allows you to play in a key that
matches a vocal accompaniment, without changing your fin-
gering on the keyboard. Transposition is also useful when you
are going to play a piece in a key other than C, and wish to
play it as if it were in the key of C. This makes it easier to play.
While holding down the FUNCTION button, press either
PIANO (b) or HARPSICHORD (#) (or using the keyboard
keys from C7 to B7) enough times to obtain the amount of
transposition you wish.
Harpsi-
Function Piano chord
b i
CRETE |
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# With each press, the sound is raised by 1 semitone. (Max.
of 5 semitones.)
With each press, the sound is lowered by 1 semitone.
(Max. of 6 semitones.)