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Topic: Piercing feedback sound from Roland KR-7 - Headphones

I just acquired a used high end in it's day Roland KR-7 Digital piano. The good news, I won it on e-Bay. The bad news, I won it on e-Bay. It was 'local pick-up' only - in Ramona California - but I live in Houston Texas. Incredibly, I was the only bidder and won it for the opening bid. So, I had to fly to Orange county, and go pick it up in the California desert in a rented mid-sized car - which was really a pitifully small compact car taking into consideration inflation.

It was a quite a performance breaking down 180 lbs of kit and squeezing it into the passenger seat and trunk.  Last night, I had it all reassembled and ready for prime. Unfortunately, by that time, time was past it's prime and the family were all in bed. So, I did what any considerate and loving husband and father would do....I plugged in a pair of nice Sony studio headphones and turned on the power to find out what she could do.

I would not be at all surprised if the original owner back in Ramona heard the horrendous piercing feedback schreech that came out of that thing. So, any ideas what might be causing it? I risked it one more time with the volume turned way way down - with the exact same result.

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Re: Piercing feedback sound from Roland KR-7 - Headphones

I figured it out for myself. I had th headphones plugged into the Microphone Jack. All's well now.

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Re: Piercing feedback sound from Roland KR-7 - Headphones

Tigrtony:

I think you will grow to really like this DP - and don't put it down in my presence - it's what I have.

The only thing I find out of date about the KR7 is the use of a floppy disk for saving midi files - fortunately I have two computers with 3 1/2" floppy drives - and my DAW is running Win XP (apparently Win 7 won't address these old drives).

What is a bit unusual about most Rolands is that the damper pedal generates midi values from zero to 127; very few other DPs do this.  Many generate half-pedalling:  zero, 64 and 127 midi values, and quite a few DPs only put out zero and 127 (off or on).

I simply cannot imagine how you put this DP in a mid-size car.  I had a Pontiac Bonneville and I didn't try to use that (full sized car).

I have my KR7 hooked to my soundcard and Pianoteq Pro, so when I play I don't have to listen to the thin treble sounds of the Roland (this is their weakness IMO).  And I always use headphones because I'm not convinced that the speakers are all that great.

Since acquiring Pianoteq, I won't likely ever be spending on another DP.

I think you're going to enjoy the KR7

Glenn

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