General Procedure; Selecting The 'Smf Makeup Tools' Environment; Selecting The Instrument You Want To Edit; Soloing Or Muting The Instrument - Roland VIMA JM-8 Owner's Manual

General procedure

Selecting the 'SMF MAKEUP TOOLS' environment

(1) Press the [EXIT] button repeatedly until it stops
flashing to return to the main page (if necessary).
(2) Press [MENU]‰ [ADVANCED]‰ [ SMF¥MAKEUP¥TOOLS ].
(If this page is not displayed, press the [PALETTE] dis-
play button in the upper left corner.)
All modifications on this page and the related pages
are SysEx data that alter the actual song data (with-
out replacing them).
(3) Now continue with one of the following sections:

Selecting the instrument you want to edit

(a) Use the PAGE [ø][˚] display buttons in the lower
right corner to select the instrument you want to
edit.
If you select a Drum Set, the display changes as
shown below. Drum Sets are used for the drum part
of the selected song.:
(See page 92 for an explanation of the [PERC¥MUTE]
and [DRUM¥MUTE] display buttons.)
The [OCTAVE] display field disappears (because trans-
posing the drum part in octave steps doesn't make
sense).
(b) Press the [JUMP¥TO¥1st¥NOTE] display button to
jump to the location where the instrument is used.
Playback starts automatically from that point.

Soloing or muting the instrument

(a) Select the instrument with the PAGE [ø][˚] display
buttons.
(b) If you can barely hear the Tone/Drum Set, press the
[SOLO] display button (its indicator icon must
"light"), then use [JUMP≈TO¥1st¥NOTE] to jump to
the first note of that instrument. Press [SOLO]
again to switch this function off.
(c) Use the [MUTE] display button to switch the
selected instrument off.
The corresponding part is no longer played back. (Just
as a reminder: this setting only applies to the
selected instrument and thus not necessarily to the
entire track.)
Note: In the case of the drums, you can mute two instru-
ment groups separately.

Selecting a different Tone or Drum Set

To select a different Tone or Drum Set, proceed as fol-
lows:
(a) Select the instrument with the PAGE [ø][˚] display
buttons.
(b) Press the long sound name field (next to the
instrument icon).
(c) If available, use the Family [ø][˚] display buttons to
select the Tone family.
The JM-8's Tones are grouped into 15 families: guitar,
bass, strings, etc. The name of the selected family is
displayed in the upper left corner. The Drum Sets are
all part of the same family.
Note: See page 139 for a list of available Tones and Drum
Sets.
Note: All Drum Sets belong to the same family. The Family
[ø][˚] display buttons are not available when the indication
in the upper left corner reads "Drums".
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