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Roland GW-8 Release Note

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ReleaseNote
GW-8 Operating System
Version 2.00
© 2009 Roland Corporation U.S.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the
written permission of Roland Corporation U.S.
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  • Page 1 ®ÂØÒňΠ® GW-8 ReleaseNote GW-8 Operating System Version 2.00 © 2009 Roland Corporation U.S. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of Roland Corporation U.S. GW8RN200...

  • Page 2: About This Booklet

    ReleaseNote documents present important background information to help you get the most from new key The Version 2 update is for the Western Hemisphere’s GW-8 only. If you features. attempt to apply the update you’ve downloaded from RolandUS.com to another product, you may damage the instrument’s software.
  • Page 3 Press the ENTER button to display the UTILITY screen. Downloading the Version 2 Updater The GW-8 is sold all over the world, and there are a few different versions of its software, each optimized for a specific geographic area. Only the software for the region in which you purchased your GW-8 will work in your unit.

  • Page 4: What You Need

    4-5 minutes—you’ll see a progress bar as the resulting in a folder called “ROLAND. ” If you don’t see such a folder on your system is updated. When the update’s complete, the GW-8 displays: computer, you’ll need to un-zip the updater file manually.

  • Page 5: What's New In Version

    There are 16 new World-category styles. the current style: Press the STYLE button. When the STYLE button’s • You can now create your own styles, right on the GW-8. You can record • lit— you hear the entire style, with all of its pitched them from scratch, or create new ones from styles you already have.
  • Page 6 Version 2 introduces a new feature called “Note to Arranger, ” or “NTA, ” that allows you to trigger styles from an external MIDI controller such as a Roland PK-5A MIDI pedal, GR-20 guitar controller, or a Roland V-Accordion. This can provide a great way for all sorts of instrumentalists to take advantage of the The STYLE FINDER screen makes it easy to find the style you’re looking...
  • Page 7 DAW (“Digital Audio Workstation”), which can send the data back to the GW-8, which then recreates your moves. To set this up, turn on the GW-8’s Tx Style PC Switch, and then set the external device to receive on the With Version 2’s new Note to Arranger feature—see Page 6—you trigger...
  • Page 8 196—Andina Recording Styles You’ve always been able to create styles on a PC using the GW-8’s included Style Converter software, and then import them into the GW-8. Version 2 allows you to dig down deep into styles, creating new ones right on the GW-8, without a PC, and then editing styles to refine them further.
  • Page 9 GW-8. If you’ve been using the GW-8 for a while, this may ring a bell, since a division’s eight parts are shown on the PERFORM MIXER screen like so: Setting Up for a New Style To create a totally new style, you begin by clearing, or “initializing, ”...
  • Page 10 Step 14. Set the Key parameter to the style track’s key—the GW-8 needs this information for playing the style track at the correct pitch when you use the style. (With a drum track, there’s no Key setting required.)
  • Page 11 To listen to your new style from the Main screen, turn on SYNC START upward in octaves when the style is played. Set the Octave parameter and play a lower-part key to let the GW-8 know the chord you want to to the desired amount of transposition—if you don’t want the track use for playback.
  • Page 12 You can select a sound using the tone buttons and VALUE dial, or using the GW-8’s Numeric-entry feature. You can move forward or back through the event list at any time using the 6 and 5 buttons, respectively.
  • Page 13 STRINGS/SCAT•3 button to enter a rest—the GW-8 DESTINATION to the type of chord divisions you’d like the GW-8 records what you’ve entered and moves you forward in to generate.
  • Page 14 If you find the list a bit overwhelming, you can filter out things you don’t want to see. Press the MENU button to open the VIEW SELECT Muting and Soloing Style Tracks window in which you can uncheck anything you’d like the GW-8 to hide. Press EXIT to leave the window. You can •...
  • Page 15 To the left of this screen are two mixer strips for the lower (LWR) and upper Setting the Behavior of Style Parts (UPR) areas of the GW-8 keyboard. These strips allow you to mix in your live Press the STYLE button, and then press PART VIEW repeatedly until playing with a style’s parts.
  • Page 16 Track 5 Part 5 Philly Hit Track 6 Part 6 Horn Chops described on Page 29 of the GW-8 Owner’s Manual, or Page 30 of the Track 7 Part 7 R Trance GW-8 Version 2 Supplementary Manual. Track 8 Part 8...
  • Page 17 Press the START/STOP button at the end of the song. screen. The GW-8 processes your new song as an SMF, adding to the beginning of the song all of the required SMF MIDI messages that ensure proper playback. These messages are placed in the first few beats of the song, before the music begins.
  • Page 18 VALUE dial, or by using the GW-8’s Numeric-entry feature. The Punch Sw, Punch In, and Punch Out parameters are for the GW-8’s Auto Punch feature that lets you re-record just a portion of an track.
  • Page 19 1MEAS or 2MEAS— your count-in beats will play, and then recording will GW-8 records what you played and moves you forward by a specified length begin. of time, called a “step. ” Once you’ve moved forward, you can play something •...
  • Page 20 Set up NOTE, GATE, and VELOCITY as desired. Play the desired note or chord on the keyboard, or press the STRINGS/SCAT•3 button to enter a rest—the GW-8 records what you’ve entered and moves you forward in time to the next step.
  • Page 21 Press the MENU button to open the VIEW SELECT Create Event window in which you can select the type of window in which you can uncheck anything you’d like the GW-8 to event you want to create, and the location at which you want temporarily hide.
  • Page 22 SONG MAKEUP screen. Saving Songs in Version 2 Don’t forget to save a song to a USB stick before turning off the GW-8 or selecting a different song—if you don’t, the song will be permanently cleared from the GW-8’s memory. When you save a song, all of its track data, MFX settings, and SONG MAKEUP screen settings are saved with the song.
  • Page 23 New Style Track and Song Track Editing Tools Operations you perform with the editing tools are permanent, so be sure you want to proceed before you execute an operation. Version 2 comes with a comprehensive collection of editing tools you can use for editing both style tracks and song tracks.
  • Page 24 Erase of the time region in the track to be The GW-8 allows you to erase chunks of data selectively from a track, either erased wiping it completely, removing specific types of data, clearing a portion of a Range Min, The lowest and C- to G9;...
  • Page 25 Delete Copy SOURCE screen What It Sets: Range: Delete removes a specified time region from a track, moving all subsequent Parameter: data forward in time by the deleted amount. • Style— ADrum, Part The track whose data is copied ABass, Acc1-6 Delete •...
  • Page 26 DESTINATION What It Sets: Range: Insert Parameter: Parameter: What It Sets: Range: Into In measures, beats, and beginning of Time Signature The time signature of the 1-32/4, 1-32/8, ticks—the location in the destination track to new blank space when 1-32/16 destination track at which end (depending on adding blank space into all...

  • Page 27: Change Velocity

    Transpose Change Velocity Parameter: What It Sets: Range: Parameter: What It Sets: Range: From, To In measures, beats, and beginning of track Magnify Expansion or compression 0%—200%. When this ticks, the beginning and to end of the dynamic range of a is set to a value less end of the time region in recording...

  • Page 28: Global Change

    Change Gate Time Global Change This allows you to increase or reduce the length of the notes throughout an This tools allows you to adjust certain important MIDI values throughout entire track, or in a portion of it. one or more tracks. Change Gate Time Global Change Parameter:...

  • Page 29: Shift Clock

    Global Change Shift Clock Parameter: What It Sets: Range: Parameter: What It Sets: Range: • ALL— to shift all PANPOT Raising or lowering of -127 to 127 Data Type The type of data to be types of data recorded MIDI stereo Pan moved •...
  • Page 30 Exclusive Style Track Editing Tools Time Signature Parameter: What It Sets: Range: Style Part Length Time Numerator and 1-32/2-16 Signature denominator of new time You can reset the length of a track using this tool, causing it to loop back to signature the top sooner or later than it currently does.
  • Page 31 MFX. The process of setting MFX for your tracks has three steps: You can also set the amount of the MFX to be sent into the GW-8’s Selecting the MFX you want to use global chorus and reverb using the two parameters at the top of this Applying the MFX to the desired tracks screen.
  • Page 32 Mode, as shown above. Each time you tap the pedal, the bend mode toggles between NORMAL and CATCH+LAST. To learn about the GW-8’s pitch-bend modes, see Page 46 of the Owner’s Manual. The End We hope you’ve found this ReleaseNote helpful. Keep an eye out for other GW-8 information and tools available for downloading at www.RolandUS.com.