ROLAND FP-4 Instruction Manual

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Settings
Display TemperamentDescription
Adjusting the Tuning (Temperament)
This is an improvement of the Mean
You can play classical music such as baroque pieces using Tone and Just tunings that provides a
4Kirnbergerhigh degree of freedom of
their original tuning.
modulation. Performances are
Most modern songs are composed and played with the
possible in all keys (third method).
assumption that equal temperament (the most common tuning
This scale makes some compromises
in use today) will be used, but when classical music was
5 Mean Tonein just intonation, enabling
composed, there were a wide variety of other tuning systems
transposition to other keys.
in existence. Playing a composition with its original tuning lets
This tuning, devised by the
you enjoy the sonorities of the chords that the composer
philosopher Pythagoras, eliminates
originally intended.
dissonance in fourths and fifths.
6Pythagorean
Dissonance is produced by third-
1.Press the [Function] button.interval chords, but melodies are
euphonious.
2.Press the [Piano] button.This temperament combines the Mean
Tone and Pythagorean tunings.
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Performances are possible in all keys
3.Hold down the [Piano] button and use the [-]
(first method, number three).
[+] buttons to get OtmP� to appear in the
display.
Specifying the Keynote
fig.d-Temperament.eps
When playing with tuning other than equal temperament, you
need to specify the keynote for tuning the song to be
performed (that is, the note that corresponds to C for a major
key or to A for a minor key).
4.Use the [-] [+] buttons to change the
If you choose an equal temperament, thereOs no need to select
temperament setting.a keynote.
fig.d-TempKey-e.eps
5.Hold down the [Piano] button and use the [-]
[+] buttons to get OtmP� to appear in the
display.
TemperamentKeynote
fig.d-Temperament.eps
You can choose from among the seven tunings
described below.
Display TemperamentDescription
In this tuning, each octave is divided
6.While holding down the [Piano] button, press
into twelve equal steps. Every interval
1Equalproduces about the same amount of the key that you want to specify as the
slight dissonance. This setting is in keynote.
effect when you turn on the power.fig.d-TempKey-e.eps
This tuning eliminates ambiguities in
the fifths and thirds. It is unsuited to
2Just Majorplaying melodies and cannot be
transposed, but is capable of
beautiful sonorities.TemperamentKeynote
fig.Chart-note.eps
The Just tunings differ from major and
DisplayCCdE_ EFFGA_ Ab_ b
minor keys. You can get the same
3Just Minor
effect with the minor scale as with the KeyCCDEEFFGAABB
major scale.
When performing in ensemble with other
NOTE
instruments, be aware that depending on the key,
there may be some shifting of the pitch. Tune the FP-4
to the fundamental pitch of the other instruments.
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