Roland E-A7 Owner's Manual page 3

Using the E-A7 as a Song Player
Preparing to Use the E-A7 as a Song Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Selecting a Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Playing Back a Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Changing the Song's Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Muting a Selected Track (Track Mute) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Playing Back All Songs Consecutively . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Loop Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Using the Mark and Jump Function (SMF Songs Only) . . . . . . . . 40
Creating/Deleting Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Saving a Song that Contains Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using Markers to Perform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Center Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Recording and Playing Back a Performance
Recording Audio (WAV Format) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Saving the Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Discarding the Recorded Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Listening to the Recorded Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using File Utility
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Displaying the File List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Renaming a File or Folder (Rename). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Copying a File or Folder (Copy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Deleting a File or Folder (Delete) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Creating a New Folder (Create Folder) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Searching for a Song/Style (Finder)
Searching for a Song/Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
User Program (UPG)
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User Programs (UPG) and User Program Sets (UPS) . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Loading a UPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Recalling the UPG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Direct Selection with the UPG Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Selecting from the UPG List Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Saving Settings as a User Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Recalling My Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Saving Settings as My Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Other Functions Related to the UPS List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Renaming a User Program Set (UPS) (Rename UPS) . . . . . 46
Deleting a User Program Set (UPS) (Delete UPS) . . . . . . . . 46
Creating a New User Program Set (UPS) (Make New UPS) 46
Copying a User Program Set (UPS) (Copy UPS) . . . . . . . . . 46
Using a UPS File Created by the Roland BK Series . . . . . . . 47
Other Functions Related to the UPG List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Deleting a User Program (UPG) (Delete UPG) . . . . . . . . . . 47
Moving a User Program (UPG) (Move UPG) . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Renaming a User Program (UPG) (Rename UPG) . . . . . . . 47
Copying a User Program (UPG) (Copy UPGs) . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Saving an Edited User Program Set (Save UPS) . . . . . . . . . 48
Locking the UPG Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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Various Settings (Menu)
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Main Specifications
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Index
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USING THE UNIT SAFELY
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IMPORTANT NOTES
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