Table Of Contents; Contents - Roland Studio Canvas SD-80 Owner's Manual

Contents

USING THE UNIT SAFELY....................................................... 3
IMPORTANT NOTES ................................................................ 5
Contents ................................................................................... 6
Introduction .............................................................................. 9
How to read this manual .................................................................................................... 9
Main features ........................................................................................................................ 9
Names of things and what they do....................................... 10
Front Panel............................................................................................................... 10
Rear Panel ................................................................................................................ 12
Basic operation ...................................................................... 13
Operations in the basic screen.......................................................................................... 13
Listening to the internal demo songs................................................................... 13
Auditioning the sounds (Preview)....................................................................... 14
Adjusting the brightness of the display (Contrast)............................................ 15
Using the internal sound generator ..................................... 16
About the sound generator modes.................................................................................. 16
About GM2/Native modes .............................................................................................. 17
GM2/Native mode sound sets ............................................................................. 17
About parts and sounds.................................................................................................... 18
Different types of part............................................................................................ 18
Polyphony and voices ............................................................................................ 18
Specifying the function of the MIDI connectors............................................................ 19
USB mode ................................................................................................................ 19
MIDI mode .............................................................................................................. 20
Specifying the function of the MIDI connectors............................................................ 21
Switching the sound generator mode ............................................................................. 22
Selecting a part ................................................................................................................... 23
Selecting the type of part (INST/DRUM) ...................................................................... 24
Selecting the sound set ...................................................................................................... 25
Selecting a sound................................................................................................................ 26
Selecting a drum set........................................................................................................... 27
Muting/soloing a part....................................................................................................... 28
Muting a part........................................................................................................... 28
Soloing a part........................................................................................................... 29
About parameters .............................................................................................................. 30
Editing the parameters ...................................................................................................... 31
Editing part parameters......................................................................................... 31
Editing parameters that are common to all parts .............................................. 32
About parameters that can be edited from the SD-80's panel..................................... 33
Part parameters (GM2 mode, Native mode) ...................................................... 33
Part parameters (Native mode) ............................................................................ 37
Parameters common to all parts (GM2 mode, Native mode) .......................... 38
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