Table Of Contents; Contents - Roland PhraseLab MC-09 Owner's Manual

Contents

IMPORTANT NOTES ...............................................................................4
Saving data .................................................................................................................................................. 5
About the display ....................................................................................................................................... 5
Restoring the factory settings (Factory Reset)........................................................................................ 5
About the included CD.............................................................................................................................. 5
Contents ..................................................................................................6
Names of things and what they do........................................................8
Main features and uses ........................................................................11
Main features............................................................................................................................................. 11
Ways to use the MC-09 ............................................................................................................................ 11
Making connections .............................................................................12
Turning the power on/off....................................................................................................................... 13
Using the MC-09 as a synthesizer .......................................................14
What is a pattern?..................................................................................................................................... 14
Playing ....................................................................................................................................................... 15
Modifying the sound................................................................................................................................ 20
Creating a phrase (Recording)................................................................................................................ 23
Saving a pattern ........................................................................................................................................ 30
Creating and playing a loop.................................................................31
What is a loop?.......................................................................................................................................... 31
The process of creating a loop ................................................................................................................ 32
Recording (capturing).............................................................................................................................. 33
Playback ..................................................................................................................................................... 35
Changing the settings of part 1............................................................................................................... 37
Combining several parts into one (Loop Merge)................................................................................. 38
Erasing the contents of a part ................................................................................................................. 39
Saving the steps by which you created a loop (Process Patch).......................................................... 39
Applying an effect.................................................................................41
Specifying the effect routing ................................................................................................................... 41
Turning the effect on/off......................................................................................................................... 42
Selecting an effect pattern ....................................................................................................................... 42
Using the knobs to adjust the effect settings ........................................................................................ 43
Changing the effect type.......................................................................................................................... 44
Creating consecutive changes in an effect (Effect Control)................................................................ 45
Saving your effect settings ...................................................................................................................... 48
Changing the way in which a loop plays (Loop Control) ..................49
What is Loop Control?............................................................................................................................. 49
Using loop control for realtime performance....................................................................................... 51
Playing back a loop with Loop Control ................................................................................................ 53
Making loop control settings .................................................................................................................. 54
Saving your loop control settings .......................................................................................................... 56
About the tempo ...................................................................................57
Checking the standard tempo ................................................................................................................ 57
Setting the tempo manually .................................................................................................................... 57
Setting the tempo with the [TAP] button.............................................................................................. 57
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