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Table Of Contents - Roland RA-800 Player's Manual
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Safety Instructions
2
Main Features
3
Unpacking
5
Useful Options
6
Precautions
7
Table Of Contents
8
Setting Up
13
Connections
13
Midi Sets And Other Points Specific To The Product
14
Functions Exclusive To Basic Channel Control
16
Demo Songs
16
Front Panel Facilities
18
Rear Panel Facilities
21
User Interface
23
F5 Exit
23
Master Page
23
Navigating Through The Display Pages
25
Function Keys And Shift Button
25
Knobs, Tone And Volume Buttons
25
Reversed/Positive Value Display
26
Page And Part Select Buttons
26
Realtime Display
27
Realtime Parts
28
Selecting Realtime Parts For Playing - Via The Basic Channel
28
Layering And Selecting Upper 2
29
Selecting The Lower And M. Bass Parts
29
W Right - Whole Right
29
W Left - Whole Left
29
Split And Split Point
30
Upper2 Split
30
Selecting The Manual Drums Part
31
Lower Hold (Lwr Hold)
31
Selecting Tones For The Realtime Parts
32
Roll
32
Selecting Tones Using The Tone Buttons
33
Selecting Tones Using The Knobs
34
Tone Selection For Other Parts
34
Display Symbols
34
Selecting Drum Sets For The M.drum Part
35
Who Selects The Tones? - Tone Change
35
General Notes
36
Realtime Performance Functions
36
Pitch Bend And Modulation
36
Transpose And Octave Up/Down
37
Setting The Transposition Interval In Realtime
37
Setting The Transposition Interval Via The Display
37
Sustain Pedal - Hold
38
Assignable Footswitch
38
Octave Up/Down
38
Expression Pedal
39
Metronome
39
Master Tune
39
Playing With Accompaniment - Arranger
40
Arranger And Music Styles
40
Selecting The Chord Recognition Area
41
Arranger Parts
41
Selecting The Arranger Chord Mode
42
Standard
43
Piano Style
43
Intelligent
43
External Keyboard Cancel
44
Chord Inversion
45
Basic Channel Vs Multiple Channel Control
45
Music Style (Arranger) Functions
46
Hold
46
Starting A Music Style
46
Stopping A Music Style
46
Selecting Another Style Division
47
Basic And Advanced
47
Major, Minor, Seventh
47
Fills: To Original And To Variation
48
Complementary Fill Functions: Fill In Half Bar And Fill In Rit
48
Intro And Ending
49
Realtime Changes Of The Drum Accompaniment
50
Other Useful Style Playback Functions
50
One Touch Program
50
Melody Intelligence
50
Selecting Music Styles
51
Reset
51
Using External (User) Styles
52
Autoload
52
Loading User Styles
52
Style Tempo
53
Selecting User Styles
53
Tempo Dial And Indicators
53
Tap Tempo
54
Auto Tempo And Tempo Lock
54
Tempo Rit And Tempo Acc
54
Customizing Music Styles
55
Assigning Other Tones To The Arranger Parts
55
Tone Change
55
Working With User Style Sets
56
Compiling And Saving Your Own Style Sets
56
Loading User Style Sets
58
Saving And Loading Registrations - Performance Memories
59
Saving A Performance Memory Set To Disk
59
Writing Your Settings To A Performance Memory
60
Memory Protect
60
Performance Name
61
Writing A Performance Memory
61
Selecting Performance Memories
62
Selecting 00 Freepnl
62
Resume Function
62
Selecting A Performance Memory (Group, Bank, Number)
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Automated User Style Access
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Selecting A Performance Memory Using The Down/Up Buttons
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Selectively Loading Performance Memory Settings
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Chord Sequencer
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Recording The Accompaniment Of An Entire Song
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Two Chord Sequencer Modes
66
Nta - Note To Arranger
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"Realtime" Chord Sequencing
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Style Change
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Playing Back A Chord Sequence
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Recorder - Gm/Gs Mode
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How To Record A Song
69
Formatting A Disk
69
Before Recording
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You're On...
70
Song Playback
71
Song Name
71
Useful Recorder Playback Functions
72
All Song Playback
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Playback At A Specific Song On Disk
72
Lyrics Function
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Fast Forward, Rewing And Reset
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Markers And Playback Loops
73
Live Performances With Standard Midi File Backing - Minus One
74
Changing The Song Tempo
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Soloing And Muting Parts On Disk
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Overriding Song Settings
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Song Part Volume (Balance)
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Song Master Volume
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Tone Change: Old And New
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Link
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Easy Editing
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Part Balance - Volume
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Grouped And Buss Faders
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Section Balance
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Mixer Mode: Modifying The Volume Of The Buss Members
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Muting Parts
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Effects And Equalizer
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Panpot (Stereo Position)
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Applying Reverb, Chorus Or Delay To A Part
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Effect Settings
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Equalizer
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Choosing The Parts To Be Processed By The Equalizer
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Source: Your Settings Or Those Of The Arranger/Song?
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Realtime (Rtime) Source
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Arranger (Arrng) Source
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Effect Source
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Part Editing
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Editing The Part Parameters
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Modulation (Vibrato)
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Timbre (Filter)
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Envelope
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Another Source Switch: Tone Edit
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Upper2 Settings
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Tuning Upper2: Coarse And Fine
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Intelligent Melodies Played By Upper2
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Upper2 Tune Source
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Advanced Features
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Settings Relating To The Arranger
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Fill Rit Value
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Rit/Acc Value: Tempo Change
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Major, Minor Or Seventh Accompaniment? - Chord Family Assign, Alterath
94
Musical Style Playback: Wrap
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Dynamic Arranger: Velocity Sensitivity Of The Arranger Parts
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Settings Relating To The Realtime Parts
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Footswitch Function
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Velocity Switching (Min And Max)
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Roll Resolution For The M.drums Part
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Monophonic/Polyphonic, With Or Without Portamento (Upper1 And Upper2)
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Pitch Bend Range
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Portamento Time
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Expression Pedal: Blending Effects Or Just Plain Volume
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Playing In Other Scales: Keyboard Scale
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Metronome Function
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Source Switches
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Song Sets
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Compiling A Song Set
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Playing Back A Song Set
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Programming User Styles
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Patterns
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Tracks
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Looped Vs One-Shot
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Looped Divisions
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One-Shot Divisions
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Recording User Styles From Scratch
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Selecting The User Style Mode
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Selecting The Track, The Mode, The Type And The Division
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Working With Clones
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Record Mode
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Specifying The Key
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Quantize
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Tone Selection
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Time Signature
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Length: Specifying The Pattern Length
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Tempo
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Recording
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Playback, And Then Keep Or Redo?
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Saving Your Style To Disk
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Naming Your User Styles
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Programming Other Parts And Divisions
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Muting Parts While Recording Others - Status
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Remarks
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Working From Top To Bottom - Programming Hints
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Empty Tracks
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Playback In Arranger Mode
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Copying Existing Styles
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Copying Entire Style Divisions Using Load
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Copying Individual User Style Tracks
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Editing User Styles
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Editing On The Fly By Recording
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Adding Notes In Realtime
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Adding Controller Data In Realtime
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Tone/Drum Set Selection
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Customizing Drum Sounds - Drum Set Note Pitch
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Expression, Panpot, Reverb, Chorus
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Programming User Style Using An External Sequencer
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Setting The Preset Tempo
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Data That Can Be Recorded
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Connection And Synchronization
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Preparation Of Your Sequence
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Preparations On The Ra-800
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Midi Channels
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Recording Using "Dedicated" Controllers
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Where To Go From Here - Editing User Styles
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User Style Edit Mode
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Example: Using Erase To Remove Panpot Settings
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Track Erase - F1
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Track Delete - F2
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Track Insert - F3
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Track Transpose - F4
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Track Velocity Change - Shift+F1
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Editing In Micro Mode
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Track Quantize - Shift+F2
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Track Change Gate Time - Shift+F3
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Track Shift - Shift+F4
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Example: Recording In Step Time
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Specifying The Pattern Length
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Step Time Record
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Deleting A User Style From A User Style Memory
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Midi
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Requirements For Receiving And Transmitting Midi Data
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Midi Connectors
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Channels
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Midi Data
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Midi Channels And Rx Parts
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Midi Connections
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Receiving Midi Data From External Instruments
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Sending Midi Data To External Instruments Or Computers
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Receiving Midi Data
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Receive Channels (Rx) And Switches
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Realtime Sections - Rtime
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Arranger And Song Sections/Nta Channel
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Basic Channel
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Recorder And Midi Inputs
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Style Select Channel
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Transmit (Tx) Channels And Transmit Switches
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Other Midi Settings
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Switching Off Midi Reception/Transmission
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Midi Receive/Transmit Filters
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Shift And Rx Octave
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Zones - Low/High Limits
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Local Function
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More Midi Settings
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Rx Velo, Tx Velo
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Soft Thru - For Digital Pianos
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Midi Synchronization
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Midi Sets
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Writing A Midi Set
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Selecting A Midi Set
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Saving Midi Sets To Disk
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Writing Your Settings To A Midi Set
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Loading A Midi Set From Disk
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Housekeeping
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Disc Copy - Backups
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Disk Management
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Renaming Files On Disk
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Deleting Files On Disk
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Initializing The Arranger - Load Factory Setup
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Compatibility
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Song Data That Can Be Read
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Song Write
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Writing Gm/Gs Compatible Standard Midi Files
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User Styles That Can Be Loaded
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Performance Memories That Can Be Loaded
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Performance Memory Format
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Midi Sets That Can Be Loaded
155
Song Set Format
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Style Sets That Can Be Loaded
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Style Set Format
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Chord Sequencer Format - Read And Write
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Tone Lists
157
Ra-800 Tone Map - Banks A And B
157
Sc-55 Tone Map - Banks C And D
159
Sc-55 Map - Cm-64 Tones
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Gm Tones
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Gs Tones
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Preset Midi Sets
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Midi Set 1: Acoustic Piano
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Midi Set 2: Digital Piano And Synth
163
Midi Set 3: Master Keyboard
164
Midi Set 4: Accordion 1
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Midi Set 5: Accordion 2
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Midi Set 6: Midi Guitar
165
Midi Set 7: Organ 1 - Roland
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Midi Set 8: Organ 2 - Other Brands
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Index
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