Roland KR-3 - Manual (Page 47)

KR-3 Owner’s Manual—Utility Menu
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12.1 Operating procedure
1. Press the [UTILITY] button.
The Utility Menu screen appears. You can now select
the function you wish to set.
2. Use <√√PAGE> and <PAGE®®> to jump to
another Utility page.
The Utility Menu is made up of 14 pages.
3. Use the buttons to the side and below the display to
make the settings for each of the functions.
To return to the settings in effect when the power was
first turned on, simultaneously press <
▲> and <▼>.
The display automatically returns to the original
screen after a few seconds. You can also return to the
original screen by pressing the [EXIT] button.
Note: If you want to cancel the operation, press the [EXIT]
button before changing any settings.
12.2 Utility functions
Master Tune
Master Tune allows you to tune your KR-3 to acoustic
instruments that cannot be tuned. Like all electronic
musical instruments, your KR-3 is set to A4= 440Hz,
which may be flat for certain acoustic instruments.
Please note that the KR-3 will revert to A4= 440Hz
whenever you switch it on.
1. On the Utility Menu screen, press <√√PAGE> or
<PAGE®®> to select the following display page:
2. Use the buttons to the left and right of the display
to set the standard pitch (415.3~466.2Hz).
Note: This setting affects all sounds, including songs played
back from a disk.
Key Touch/Key Transpose
1. On the Utility Menu screen, press <√√PAGE> or
<PAGE®®> to select the following display page.
■ Key Touch (velocity sensitivity)
Except for the fact that there are five options here, this
function does the same as “Key Touch (velocity sensi-
tivity)” on page 40.
2. Use the buttons on the left of the display to set the
Key Touch.
For “Light”, “Medium”, and “Heavy”, see page 40.
Super Light— Playing fortissimo doesn’t require
much strength.
Super Heavy— This setting is probably only useful for
practising purposes.
■ Transpose
If you are used to playing a song in a particular key,
the Transpose function will allow you to keep playing
in that key while sounding in another one. Doing so
will allow you to accommodate the singer or musician
you play with or to play to a Standard MIDI File back-
ing that (for some inexplicable reason) was recorded
in another key than the one you normally choose.
This function has the same effect as using the TRANS-
POSE buttons, only here you see the value you set.
3. Use the buttons to the right of the display to select
the amount of transposition.
Your setting (–12~0~12) appears on the display. The
key changes in semitone steps.
Example: When you select “2”.
Note: Key Transpose affects the entire keyboard and thus
also the chords sent to the Arranger.
Note: You can also set the desired transposition interval
with the TRANSPOSE [+] and [–] buttons. Press these but-
tons simultaneously to return to normal pitch (no transpo-
sition).
12. Utility Menu
This is what you play,...
Transpose +2
...this is what you hear.
This is what you play,... ...this is what you hear.