Chapter 2 Playing A Song; To Save The Modified Settings; Playing A Song - Boss JamStation JS-5 Owner's Manual

Chapter 2 Playing a Song

To save the modified settings

If you modify the settings of a user song, the modified
content will be lost when you switch to another song/style.
If you wish to keep the settings, use the following procedure.
1. Press [REC], getting the button to light.
* To cancel, press [EXIT].
2. Press [STOP].
The following screen will appear, and the settings will be
saved.
fig.RE06-50
When the settings have been saved, you will return to
the previous screen.
Never turn off the power to the JS-5 or remove the memory
card from the JS-5 while the "
the display (when data is being written), as this can prevent
the data from being written properly, and may adversely
affect later operations.
If you have changed the settings for the Preset Songs, then if
you want to save the settings, copy them to a User Song (p. 82).
If you press [SHIFT] + [REC], the settings will be saved
immediately.

Playing a Song

Here we'll select and play a song from among the 200 Preset
Songs and the User Songs (in the unit or on a memory card).
1. Press [SONG], getting the button to light.
The Song screen appears.
2. Press [SONG/STYLE BANK] and select a category.
The category you selected appears.
ROCK 1. . . . . . . . Hard rock, Heavy metal
ROCK 2 . . . . . . . . Typical Rock of the sixties through nineties
ROCK 3. . . . . . . . Basic Rock
POP . . . . . . . . . . . Pops, 8-beat, and 16-beat
BALLAD. . . . . . . Ballad
BLUES. . . . . . . . . Blues
" still appears at the left of
R&B . . . . . . . . . . Rhythm and blues, funk, and soul
JAZZ. . . . . . . . . . Jazz
FUSION . . . . . . . Fusion
DANCE . . . . . . . Hip hop, techno, etc.
LATIN . . . . . . . . Salsa, bossa nova and samba, etc.
COUNTRY . . . . Country
WORLD . . . . . . . World music
USER . . . . . . . . . User Songs 1 through 100
CARD. . . . . . . . . Card User Songs 1 through 100
* If no memory card is inserted, then you can't select "CARD"
even when you press [CARD].
3. Turn [VALUE] to select a song.
The name of the song you select (the song name) appear.
fig.RE02-01
Song number
* The number of songs varies from one category to another.
* A User Song where no data is recorded will have an "*" next
to the song number.
4. Press [START] to start playing the song.
[START] flashes in time to the beat set in the selected
Style.
* If you've made the setting for count-in (p. 60), the count-in
appears on the left-hand display, and the count sound is played
at the same time. After the count-in display, the sound starts
to play.
The lighted [FORM] buttons ([INTRO] through
[ENDING]) change along with what is played, showing
the present performance pattern (form).
Also, pressing a button while play is in progress changes
what is playing to the Form of the pressed button.
5. Press [STOP] to stop playing.
Press [FWD] to move to the next measure.
Press [RWD] to go back one measure.
Press [RESET] to go back to the beginning of the song.
* When the performance reaches the end, it stops automatically.
You can start playing in the middle of a song by using [FWD]
and [RWD] to specify the measure, then pressing [START].
* If you play in the middle of a song, the count-in will not be
available.
Category
Song name
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