Disk User Styles (Em-50 Only) - Roland EM-50 Owner's Manual

desired "B" Style using the MUSIC STYLE/USER
PROGRAM buttons. This selection will also be writ-
ten to a User Program.
Please be aware of the following when selecting a "B"
Style:
You can only select Styles that have the same time sig-
nature as the "A" Style. Example: you cannot morph a
waltz (3/4 time signature) and an 8-beat Style (4/4).
* Style Morphing also works with new Styles you trans-
fer to the Custom memories (page 57).
* Style Morphing also works with Disk User Styles (see
below). This is only available on the EM-50 (the
EM-30 doesn't have a floppy disk drive). The result of
this operation depends on the Disk User Style that is
currently in the EM-50's memory. Though this may
seem obvious, you should bear this in mind when you
write your settings to a User Program: next time you
select that User Program, the EM-50's RAM memory
may contain a different Disk User Style (or even no
Style at all).
10.4 Disk User Styles (EM-50
only)
The EM-50 comes with a floppy disk drive that can be
used for playing back Standard MIDI Files (see page
36), for saving your settings, etc., to disk, and for load-
ing new Music Styles.
There are two ways of using new Music Styles (the
first is also available on the EM-30):
New Styles can be transferred to the Flash ROM
memories (1~8), in which case they replace the Styles
that resided in these memories when you purchased
the EM-50/30. See page 57 for details and "Selecting
Custom Styles" on page 16 for how to use Custom
Styles;
You can load one Music Style to the EM-50's Disk User
memory and use it as if it were a 73rd Music Style,
The Style data in this memory are only available until
you switch off your EM-50 or load another Style.
Here, you will learn how to use the Disk User memo-
ry.
1. Insert a disk containing MSA or MSD series Music
Styles for the EM-50 into the disk drive.
Note: See your Roland dealer for MSA and MSD series
Style Disks. You can use Music Styles that were for the fol-
lowing (and probably also other) Roland instruments:
E-86, E-68, E-96.
2. Press the [DISK USER] button.
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The message appears in the upper right cor-
ner of the display, while the mode arrow (€) jumps
to the "STYLE" message.
Note: Let us agree to use the term RAM memory for the
memory area that contains a single Style you load from
disk. "RAM" is short for "Random Access Memory". lt
refers to a memory that only works while the instrument is
switched on. As soon as you switch it off, the RAM memo-
ry is erased.
3. Use the MENU A V buttons to select a Music Style
on the inserted floppy disk.
The number of the selected Disk User Style alternates
with the "Ent" message, while the message line con-
tains the name of the selected Disk User Style.
5. Now do one of the following:
a) Press the [ENTER] button to load the selected Disk
User Style into the EM-50's RAM memory. —or—
b) Press the [START/STOP] button to load the Disk
User Style and to start playback of that Style.
6. Press the [CANCEL] button to leave the Disk User
function.
When you press [ENTER] (see step (5) a), the Disk
User Style in the EM-50's RAM memory is automati-
cally selected and can be started in one of the usual
ways (see page 13). If you pressed [START/STOP], the
freshly loaded Style is already playing at this point.
7. To return to an internal Style after working with a
Disk User Style, use the MUSIC STYLE/USER PRO-
GRAM number buttons. To once again use the Disk
User Style, press [DISK USER]. To work with another
Disk User Style, return to step (1) above.
Note: The selection of the Disk User memory will be writ-
ten to a User Program (see page 43). This, however refers
to the memory address rather than its contents. Next time
you recall such a User Program, the EM-50 will therefore
use the last Disk User Style you loaded after switching it
on. If the Disk User Style is empty at that time, the EM-50
will go on using the last internal Style you selected.
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