Sound Generator (Transpose); What To Do If An External Module Doesn't; Produce Sound As Expected; Transposing Performance Data For An External Sound Generator (Transpose) - Roland GR-30 Manual

Pedal Effect 4 (CTRL ARP/HAR)
Arpeggiator and Harmonist can be turned on and
off in the same was as for the built-in sound gener-
ator.
<About Expression Pedal Effects>
When an expression pedal is used to apply some sort
of effect to the built-in sound generator, the pedal's
action is output from MIDI OUT. This output is usu-
ally made with Control Change No. 4 (foot type), but
other numbers can be used by changing the "EXP
PEDAL" setting (p. 49) as follows.
"VoL" (Volume)
Control Change No. 7
"PIt" (Pitch)
MIDI Pitch Bend messages
"Mod" (Modulation)
Control Change No. 1

Transposing Performance Data for an External Sound Generator (TRANSPOSE)

When using an external sound generator, notes in the
bass (or treble) range not on the guitar can be sent by
changing the MIDI "TRANSPOSE" setting to trans-
pose the output from MIDI OUT.
What to do if an External Module Doesn't Produce Sound as Expected
If the external sound generator doesn't play as expect-
ed, double-check the following items.
• Make sure the sending and receiving MIDI channels
match (p. 71).
• Make sure the volume level on the external sound
generator has not been lowered by sending a MIDI
Volume message been sent because of operation of
expression pedal volume on the GR-30.
• Make sure the volume on the GK-2A or the expres-
sion pedal has not been turned down too low.
• Make sure that a sound generator which cannot
simultaneously receive six MIDI channels is receiv-
ing data from the GR-30 in the Mono mode (p. 72).
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"L-r" (Total Pan)
Control Change No. 10
"rE.L" (Reverb Level)
Control Change No. 91
"t.n.P." (Tempo and Pitch)
MIDI Pitch Bend messages and Control Change
No. 4
In addition to these, when a value from "#1" to "#32"
or from "#64" to "#95" has been selected for the "EXP
PEDAL" setting (p. 49), the Control Change message
of the corresponding number follows the operation of
the expression pedal and is output only from MIDI
OUT. This makes it possible to use the pedal to con-
trol only the external MIDI sound generator.
When the GR-30 receives Control Change No. 4, the
synth sound of the GR-30's internal sound generator
changes according to the function assigned to the expres-
sion pedal at that time. However, when a function using
a specific Control Change message such as the foregoing
No. 7, No. 1, or No. 91 has been assigned, No. 4 is
ignored.
The settings can be made by using a procedure that is
exactly the same as transposition for the built-in
sound generator (TRANS 1ST/2ND → p. 34), except
that the EDIT TARGET dial is set to "MIDI" and the
PARAMETER SELECT dial is set to "B".
If the pitch sounds out of tune with the guitar, check
"BEND RANGE" (p. 71).
If "BEND RANGE" has been set to "0," the pitch will
change in semitone.
When transmitting in the Poly mode, pitch changes dur-
ing chord performances are in semitone (p. 72).