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Recording short drum patterns
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■Adding drum sounds to your bass notes and chords
(1) Briefly press the [PAD] G button.
(2) Press and hold the [PAD] button until it starts flashing.
(3) Use Treble registers [1]~[8] to select the desired PAD set
(i.e. a collection of 5 sounds).
See the table above.
(4) Press and hold Treble register [1] F until it starts flash-
ing.
(5) Start playing bass notes and chords.
Each button press also triggers the “3” sound (bass rows) or
the “2” sound (chord rows) of the selected PAD set.
(6) Press and hold Treble register [1] again to “remove” the
drum sounds from the bass and chord buttons without
leaving PAD mode.
The PAD sounds can still be played using the Bass registers.
(7) Press the [PAD] button again to leave PAD mode.
■Playing only drum sounds via the bass and chord but-
tons
(1) Briefly press the [PAD] G button.
(2) Press and hold the [PAD] button until it starts flashing.
(3) Use Treble registers [1]~[8] to select the desired PAD set
(i.e. a collection of 5 sounds).
See the table on p. 16.
(4) Press and hold Treble register [2] F until it starts flash-
ing.
(5) Start playing bass notes and chords.
Each button now only triggers the “3” sound (bass rows) or
the “2” sound (chord rows) of the selected PAD set.
(6) Press and hold Treble register [2] again to “remove” the
drum sounds from the bass and chord buttons without
leaving PAD mode.
The buttons can now again be used to play the bass and
chord sections. The PAD sounds can still be played using
the Bass registers.
(7) Press the [PAD] button again to leave PAD mode.
Recording short drum patterns
The FR-2/FR-2b allows you to record a drum pattern by play-
ing it in one of the ways described above. The recorded pat-
tern is repeated over an over (“Loop” function).
(1) Briefly press the [PAD] G button (it lights green).
The recording function is only available in PAD mode. See
p. 16 for how to select a different PAD set, if necessary.
Note: The metronome is not available while the PAD function is used.
(2) Press and hold the [REC÷LOOP] I button until it starts
flashing.
(3) Press a Bass register or button in the bass or chord but-
ton row (if the Bass buttons are set to play two drum
sounds).
Recording starts automatically.
(4) Press [REC÷LOOP] when it’s finished.
The [REC/LOOP] I button lights steadily and your pattern
is played back automatically in a loop.
(5) Use the Treble and Bass keyboards to play a song to the
drum pattern.
(6) Press [REC÷LOOP] again to stop the drum pattern.
Press it yet again to restart the drum pattern.
(7) Switch off the [PAD] button to leave the FR-2/FR-2b’s
PAD mode.
Note: The pattern is preserved until you replace it with another pat-
tern. It is lost when you switch off the FR-2/FR-2b.
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