ROLAND E-500 OWNER'S MANUAL Pdf Download

Important Safety Instructions

Main Features

Contents

Floppy Disk Drive

Maintenance & Placement

Repairs and Data Backup

Additional Precautions & Power Supply

Handling Floppy Disk

Panel Descriptions

Front Panel

Rear Panel

Before Using the E-500

Setting up the Music Rest

Using Headphones

Connecting the Power Cord & Turning the Instrument on and off

Connecting External Amplifiers and Other Devices

Sending Audio to External Equipment

Basic Operation and Display

Typographic Conventions Used in this Owner's Manual

The Basic/Home Screen

Navigating through the Display Pages

Overview of the E-500

Introduction of the E-500'S Main Functions-[DEMO] Button

Tone and Style Demo - Sound/Style

Choosing the Display Language

Using-Game

Performance Functions

One Touch Program: Selecting the "Instrument Type"

Piano Music-One Touch Program [PIANO]

Adjusting the Piano Tone

Using the Metronome

Using Footswitches

Organ Music-One Touch Program [ORGAN]

Accompaniment-One Touch Program [ARRANGER]

Selecting an Organ Type

Adjusting the Rotary Effect

Simple Explanation of How to Use the Arranger

Example: "When the Saints Go Marching In"

Playing Back Songs on Disk

Selecting and Playing Back Songs

Listening to All Songs One after Another

Rewinding and Fast Forwarding

Using a Microphone

Caution When Using a Microphone

Pitch Bend, Modulation, and Transpose

Tones and Related Functions

Selecting Tones

Selecting "Normal" Tones

Selecting Expansion Tones

Drum Sounds and Sound Effects-[DRUM/SFX]

Toggling between Drum Sounds and Sound Effects

Selecting Drum Set Types

Adding Effects to Tones

Reverberation-[REVERB] Slider

Adding Other Effects-DSP Effect

Chorus Effect

Octave Shift: Changing the Pitch by Octaves

Keyboard Modes

Whole: One Tone for the Entire Keyboard

Split: Different Tones in the Left and Right Hand

Selecting Tones for the Upper and Lower Parts

Layer: Two Tones

Playing with Accompaniment (Arranger)

What Is Arranger?

Piano Style Arranger-Chord Recognition on the Entire Keyboard

Settings

Selecting Music Styles

Using Style Disks (User Styles)

Starting and Stopping Styles

Starting a Music Style

Starting Automatically (Sync Start)

Starting Manually

Stopping a Music Style

Style Tempo

Accompaniment and Melody Volume Balance

Adjusting the Volume of each Part-Part Volume

Global Balance

Volume of the Rhythm, Bass, Accomp, and Chord/Bass Tones

Volume of the Drums, SFX, Lower, Upper, or Layer Tone

Switching Style Arrangements (Divisions)

Basic/Advanced: Level

Original/Variation: Accompaniment Pattern

Fill-Ins (Transitions between Original and Variation)

Easy Fingering-Chord Intelligence

Melody Intelligence

Recording and Playback

Normal Recording

Let's Record Something

What Is a Track?

Cautions to Take after Recording

Recording Minus-One Performances

Correcting Minor Mistakes

Playing Back a Composer Song

Track Mute: Muting Specific Tracks

Playing Back Songs Without Tempo Changes

Erasing the Composer Song

Saving a Song to Disk

Saving Songs in SMF Format (as SMF)

Functions of the Composer Menu

16-Track Sequencer

Muting or Playing Selected Tracks

Tracks Vs. MIDI Channels

Chord Sequencer

Recording Mode

Formatting Disks

Stopping a Recording (Rec Stop)

Style Composer

Muting Parts of a Division

Editing Your User Style

Style Converter

Saving User Styles

Song Edit

Steps for Editing

Setup: Tempo and Volume

Quantize: Timing Corrections

Erase: Removing Data from a Track or Song

Copy(Ing) Measures

Delete: Removing Measures

Transpose: Changing the Key

Insert: Adding Blank Measures

Track Exchange/Track Copy: Swapping and Copying Tracks

Function Menu

Key Touch (Velocity Sensitivity) & Metronome Volume and Beat

Operating Procedure for the Function Menu

Piano Screen Functions

Tuning

Marker Function: Repeatedly Playing Back the same Section

Temperament

Organ Screen Functions

Using the Arranger

Lower Tone On/Off and Split Point

Basic Screen Functions

Auto: Changing the Arranger Defaults

Chord Tone Setting

User Programs, Pad Buttons, Pedals

User Program: Registering Panel Setting

Loading a User Program & Saving User Programs to Disk

Naming (or Renaming) a User Program

Loading a User Program Set from Disk

Pad Buttons: Additional or Frequently Used Functions

Pedal (Footswitch) Functions

Utility Menu

Operating Procedure

Utility Functions

Master Tune & Key Touch/Key Transpose

Metronome Volume and Beat

Selecting a Different Reverb And/Or Chorus Effect

Lyric: Switching off the Display of Lyrics

LCD Contrast

Pitch Bend Range

MIDI: TX MIDI Ch./Local Control

Program Change (and Bank Select)

User Program Arranger Update

Memory Backup

Factory Preset (Initialization)

Link to 16TRK Sequencer

Connecting MIDI Instruments

Troubleshooting

Error Messages

DSP Effects

Demo Songs

Profiles of the Composers

Specifications

Tones, Drum Sets, Music Styles

Normal Tones

Expansion Tones

Internal Music Styles & Disk Styles

Drum Sets

Chord Intelligence

MIDI Implementation Chart

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