Features Useful When Playing - Edirol PCR-M30 Owner's Manual

Features Useful When Playing

Applying Pitch Changes to Notes
(Pitch Bend)
Modifying the Sound of Notes
(Modulation)
Changing Octaves
(Octave Shift)
Transpose the Pitch of the Keyboard
(Transpose)
While playing the keyboard, move the Bender Lever to the left to lower
the pitch of the currently selected patch, or to the right to raise its
pitch. This is known as pitch bend.
You can also apply vibrato by gently pressing the Modulation
Controller. This is known as modulation.
If you push the lever away from you and the same time move it to the
right or left, you can apply both effects at once.
* The amount of pitch change ("bend range") depends on the settings of your
sound module.
Octave Shift and Transpose can be set independently.
To switch the PCR-M30/50/80 to PLAY mode...
When you turn on the power, the PCR-M30/50/80 will start up in PLAY mode.
To return to PLAY mode from another mode (➔"Setting the MIDI Transmit Channel" (p. 48)),
press the button of the current mode (i.e., the button that is lit).
Alternatively, you can press the [CANCEL] button. In this case, the setting you had been
making will be cancelled.
Move the Bender Lever (left or right) to transmit Pitch Bend mes-
sages, and apply subtle pitch changes to notes.
* The amount of pitch change ("bend range") depends on the set-
tings of your sound module.
Push the Bender Lever away from you to transmit Modulation
messages, changing the sound in real time (usually by adding a vi-
brato effect).
* The type of change this produces in the sound depends on the set-
tings of your sound module.
You can press [OCTAVE -] or [OCTAVE +] to raise or lower the
pitch range of the keyboard (the Octave Shift function).
Press [OCTAVE -] once to lower the pitch range one octave. Press
it once again to lower the range an additional octave. Permissible
settings for this range from -4 to 5 octaves.[OCTAVE -] or [OC-
TAVE +] will light according to the current Octave Shift setting.If
you simultaneously press [OCTAVE -] and [OCTAVE +], the Oc-
tave Shift setting will be reset to 0, restoring the normal pitch range
of the keyboard.
You can press [TRANSPOSE] + [OCTAVE +] or [TRANSPOSE] +
[OCTAVE -] to transpose the keyboard in semitone steps (the
Transpose function).You can transpose the pitch in a range of -12-
12 (semitones).
* If you press and hold [TRANSPOSE], [OCTAVE -] or [OCTAVE
+] will light according to the current Transpose setting.
* If you hold down [TRANSPOSE] and simultaneously press [OC-
TAVE -] and [OCTAVE +], the Transpose setting will be reset to 0.
Use MIDI functionality
Pitch Bend
Modulation
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