Tone Mix; Combining/Layering Two Sounds (Tones); Determining Which Tones Will Be Sounded (Layer); Applying Detune (Subtle Pitch Shift) - Roland GR-30 Manual

TONE MIX

Combining/Layering Two Sounds (Tones)

Determining Which Tones
Will Be Sounded (LAYER)
Assembly of the first and second tones is performed
with TONE MIX LAYER. Here you can elect to have
only the first tone, only the second, or both tones
sound.
LAYER combined with STRING SELECT allows you to
make settings to each string separately (p. 35). For
example, you can do something like dividing strings 1 to
3 and strings 4 to 6, and then assign them different
tones.
First, using the following procedure, let's change the set-
ting of all the strings at one time.
<Procedure for Changing the Layer Settings
of the First and Second Tones>
1. Select patch A43, which you used in selecting the
first tone in the section on tone numbers (TONE#),
then press [EDIT/PLAY] to enter Edit mode.
2. Set the EDIT TARGET dial to TONE MIX, and the
PARAMETER SELECT dial to "A" (LAYER).
3. Set the STRING SELECT knob on the top panel to
"ALL."
4. Pressing the [+] and [-] buttons switches the set-
tings of all the strings simultaneously.
Status of these settings is indicated in the display
as shown below. The first (left) place of the dis-
play shows the string number, and "A" for "All" is
shown here.
<<fig. 5-2>>
Silent (Mute)
1st only
2nd only
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Both tones
Detune (weak)
Detune (strong)
Period lit
5. When you have set a sound you like, switch the
PARAMETER SELECT dial to "WRITE PATCH?",
and press the [+] and [-] buttons simultaneously to
wrote the patch.
When saving to another patch number, before step 5,
turn the PARAMETER SELECT dial to "WRITE
TO...", and use the [+] and [-] buttons to designate a
patch number as the destination.

Applying Detune (Subtle Pitch Shift)

In step 4 of the previous (LAYER) section's settings
procedure, when you select either "d" (weak detune)
or "d." (strong detune), both the first and second
tones are played, and a detune effect that slightly
"puts off" the pitch of both tones is added. Strong
detune creates much more of a difference in the tones
pitch than does weak detune, and giving a deeper
detune effect.
Using detune can add thickness to sounds. By apply-
ing detune to the same number tones as before, and
then using the COMMON "PAN" (p. 39) to split the
two tones and pan them, one each to left and right,
you can give a feeling of breadth to the sound. Since
detune is one of the LAYER settings, used in combi-
nation with the STRING SELECT dial, different set-
tings can be made to each string (p. 35).
Transposing by Semitones
(TRANS 1ST/2ND)
Ordinarily, with the GR-30, the pitch of the synth
sound is the same as the guitar's. When the need aris-
es, you can change this pitch relationship, altering by
semitones. This is called transpose. By transposing,
you can change the synthesizer's sound by different
intervals — an octave, fifth, or the like — and then
layer the synth sound with the sound of the guitar.
Also, with the built-in transpose setting, you can sep-
arate the transposition of the first ("TRANS 1ST") and
second ("TRANS 2ND") tones. Thus, you can achieve
a big, fatter sound by for example either transposing
both of the synthesizer sounds together, or by lower-
ing one tone by an octave, and raising the other by a
fifth on your guitar sound.