Editing The Tone Track; Simple Sound Editing - Roland Groovebox MC-707 Reference Manual

Editing the TONE Track

A tone track is a track that provides PCM/VA synthesis and sample
playback functionality.
Use a tone track when you want to play pitched phrases.

Simple Sound Editing

1 .
In the home screen, use the cursor buttons to select the
tone track that you want to edit .
* If the sound source is Clip, select the clip that you want to edit.
2 .
Hold down the [SHIFT] button
button .
The TONE EDIT screen appears.
3 .
Use the cursor buttons to select an icon, and use the [C1]–
[C4] knobs to edit .
Press the [FUNC] button to access the second page of the editing
items.
CTRL
Here you can make settings related to voicing.
Parameter Value
OCT
-3–+3
(Octave Shift)
VOICE
MONO, POLY
(Mono/Poly)
PORTAMENT
OFF, ON
(Portamento Switch)
P.TIME
0–127
(Portamento Time)
*1 Portamento is an effect that smoothly changes the pitch from
one key to the next key that you press. Applying portamento
when Mono/Poly is set to
reminiscent of the slide performance technique on a violin.
OSC 1–4
Here you can make settings for the oscillators of each partial.
Parameter Value
OFF, PCM, VA, PCM-
OSC Sync, SuperSAW,
(OSC Type)
Noise
and press the [SOUND]
Explanation
Specifies the pitch of the tone in octave
units (maximum of ±3 octaves).
Specifies whether the tone plays
polyphonically (POLY) or monophonically
(MONO).
MONO: Only the note of the last-played
key is played, one note at a time.
POLY: Multiple notes can be played
simultaneously.
Specifies whether the portamento (*1)
effect is applied (ON) or not applied (OFF).
Specifies the time over which the pitch
changes when using portamento. Higher
settings will cause the pitch change to the
next note to take more time.
"MONO" will produce an effect
Explanation
Specifies the oscillator type.
PCM: Sound is produced by PCM. This
sounds the wave specified by Wave Group
and Wave Number L/R.
VA:
Sound is produced by an analog-
modeled wave generated by calculation.
This sounds the wave of the number
specified by Waveform.
PCM-Sync:
Sound is produced by the wave
specified by the PCM-Sync Wave Number.
SuperSAW:
Sound is produced by
SuperSAW.
Noise: White noise is produced.
Parameter Value
GROUP TYPE
INT, SAMP
(Wave Group Type)
BANK A, B, C
(Wave Bank)
Specifies the wave number within the group specified by Wave
Group.
WAVE
(Wave Number L/R)
Specifies the sample number when TYPE is SAMP.
* In EASY MODE, the same waveform is specified for L and R.
SAW, SQR, TRI, SIN,
FORM RAMP, JUNO, TRI2,
TRI3, SIN2
PW 0–127
PWM -63–+63
OSC (PCM-SYNC)
Parameter Value
Specifies the wave that sounds when OSC Type is PCM-Sync.
WAVE
The PCM-Sync oscillator is effective when Structure is SYNC and
(PCM-Sync Wave No.)
set to Slave (the sync-modulated Partial 1, 3).
OSC (SuperSAW)
Parameter Value
DETUNE
0–127
(SuperSAW Detune)
OSC (common to P2)
Parameter Value
SW OFF, ON
COARSE -48–+48
FINE -50cen–+50cen
VOL 0–127
Explanation
INT:
When OSC TYPE is PCM, the internal
waveforms of the MC-707 are used.
SAMP: When OSC TYPE is PCM, the
waveforms loaded into the project are
used.
Specifies the bank (A–C) that is sounded
when OSC Type is INT.
Specifies the wave that is sounded when
OSC Type is VA.
SAW:
Sawtooth wave
SQR:
Square wave
TRI:
Triangle wave
SIN: Sine wave
RAMP: Ramp wave
JUNO: Modulated sawtooth wave
TRI2: Triangle wave variation
TRI3: Triangle wave variation
SIN2:
Sine wave variation
This is an effect obtained by varying the
pulse width duty cycle to modify the
waveform.
It is available when OSCType is VA, and also
allows you to create effects with other than
SQR (square wave).
Specifies the amount (depth) of LFO
applied to PW (pulse width).
LFO follows the settings of LFO2.
Explanation
Explanation
Specifies the width of pitch variance
between the seven sawtooth waves that
are layered within one oscillator.
Higher values produce greater pitch
variance. (When doing this, OSC Detune
changes the pitch for each of the seven
sawtooth waves by the same width.)
Explanation
Turns the partial on/off.
Specifies the pitch in semitone units
(maximum ±4 octaves).
Specifies the pitch in one-cent units
(maximum ±50 cents).
Specifies the volume of the partial.
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