Using Oriental Tunings; Tuning Individual Notes A Quarter Tone Down; Using Other Tuning Values; Saving And Loading Your Tunings (Scale Memory) - Roland EXR-46 OR Manuel D'utilisation

9. Using oriental tunings

Your EXR-46 OR allows you to change the tuning of the keys, which then applies to all notes of the same name. Here's an example: If you press the ORIENTAL SCALE [Bƒ] button (indicator lights), that note's tuning
is lowered by a quarter tone (–50 cents). This setting applies to all B-flat keys on the keyboard.

Tuning individual notes a quarter tone down

(1) Press an ORIENTAL SCALE button to tune the correspond-
ing notes a quarter tone down (the button must light).
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(2) If you also want to tune down other notes, press the cor-
responding button(s).
If you pressed the wrong button (indicator lights), press it
again so that its indicator goes dark again. The pitch of the
corresponding notes returns to normal.

Using other tuning values

Pressing an ORIENTAL SCALE button toggles between the west-
ern tuning of the corresponding notes and a setting that is a
quarter tone below western tuning (–50 cents).
However, you can also select other tuning values.
(1) Press and hold the ORIENTAL SCALE button of the note
whose tuning you wish to change until the display reads
Scale, followed by the note name.
You can also select this page and parameter via the Function
menu. See page 43.
(2) Use the DATA ENTRY [–][+] buttons to modify the tuning of
the selected note.
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Setting range: –64~63 cents.
Note: To return to the default value, press [+] and [–] simulta-
neously.

Saving and loading your tunings (SCALE MEMORY)

After setting the desired tunings, you can save them to one of
the three Scale Memories and recall them whenever you need
them. Here's what you need to do:
(1) Tune the notes to your liking (see above).
(2) Press and hold the SCALE MEMORY button ([1]~[3]) that
corresponds to the memory where you wish to save your
tuning settings.
(3) Wait until all three SCALE MEMORY indicators briefly
light, and release the button you pressed.
If necessary, you can select another, scale memory by briefly
pressing the SCALE MEMORY button assigned to the settings
you wish to use.
To return to the western tuning, press the SCALE MEMORY
button in question again so that its indicator goes dark, and/
or switch off all ORIENTAL SCALE buttons whose indicators
light.
In the second case, the SCALE MEMORY indicator of the last
memory you selected starts flashing to signal that the cur-
rent ORIENTAL SCALE settings no longer correspond to the
ones contained in the currently selected memory.
The ORIENTAL SCALE settings are also saved to a User Pro-
gram and therefore do not need to be saved to one of the
SCALE MEMORY areas. Whenever you select a User Program
whose scale settings differ from the ones of the last memory
you selected, the corresponding button ([1]~[3]) starts flash-
ing.
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Note: When shipped, the EXR-46 OR already contains fre-
quently used Scale Memory settings (see above).
Note: See also "Scl Mode*" (p. 43) for deciding which sections
should be affected by the Scale Tune settings.
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