Roland C-230 Video Game Keyboard User Manual


 
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Playing <Basic Operation>
By connecting an optional PK-5A MIDI pedal board to the C-230’s MIDI IN connector, you can play the bass organ part in polyphonic mode.
In that case, the left half of the C-230’s no longer triggers the Organ Bass part.
1. Press the Harpsichord button for the sound that you want to play.
The Harpsichord button you pressed lights. The ORGAN BASS,
CLASSIC ORGAN, Fortepiano and Others sections are switched off.
Now you can play the selected harpsichord sound.
2. To switch off the selected Harpsichord sound, select a sound in the
ORGAN BASS, CLASSIC ORGAN, Fortepiano and Others section.
Three harpsichord sounds can be layered and played together. See p. 31 for details.
The fortepiano is the precursor of the grand piano as we know it today, with a rather more metallic sound. The C-230 contains
two fortepiano sounds.
1. Press the Fortepiano button for the sound that you want to play.
The button you pressed lights, the ORGAN BASS, CLASSIC ORGAN,
Harpsichord and Others sections are switched off.
Now you can play the selected Fortepiano sound.
2. To switch off the selected Fortepiano sound, select a sound in the
ORGAN BASS, CLASSIC ORGAN, Harpsichord and Others
section.
Only one Fortepiano sound can be selected at a time.
Playing a harpsichord sound
Playing a fortepiano sound
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Fortepiano
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