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Roland E-500 Owner's Manual (95 pages)

Intelligent keyboard 64 voice polyphony

Brand: Roland | Category: Electronic Keyboard | Size: 5.27 MB

Important Safety Instructions
2
Main Features
4
Contents
5
Floppy Disk Drive
8
Maintenance & Placement
8
Repairs and Data Backup
8
Additional Precautions & Power Supply
8
Handling Floppy Disk
9
Panel Descriptions
10
Front Panel
10
Rear Panel
12
Before Using the E-500
13
Setting up the Music Rest
13
Using Headphones
13
Connecting the Power Cord & Turning the Instrument on and off
13
Connecting External Amplifiers and Other Devices
14
Sending Audio to External Equipment
14
Basic Operation and Display
15
Typographic Conventions Used in this Owner's Manual
15
The Basic/Home Screen
15
Navigating through the Display Pages
15
Overview of the E-500
17
Introduction of the E-500'S Main Functions-[DEMO] Button
17
Tone and Style Demo - Sound/Style
17
Choosing the Display Language
17
Using-Game
18
Performance Functions
18
One Touch Program: Selecting the "Instrument Type"
18
Piano Music-One Touch Program [PIANO]
18
Adjusting the Piano Tone
19
Using the Metronome
19
Using Footswitches
19
Organ Music-One Touch Program [ORGAN]
20
Accompaniment-One Touch Program [ARRANGER]
20
Selecting an Organ Type
20
Adjusting the Rotary Effect
20
Simple Explanation of How to Use the Arranger
21
Example: "When the Saints Go Marching In"
22
Playing Back Songs on Disk
24
Selecting and Playing Back Songs
24
Listening to All Songs One after Another
25
Rewinding and Fast Forwarding
25
Using a Microphone
25
Caution When Using a Microphone
26
Pitch Bend, Modulation, and Transpose
27
Tones and Related Functions
28
Selecting Tones
28
Selecting "Normal" Tones
28
Selecting Expansion Tones
28
Drum Sounds and Sound Effects-[DRUM/SFX]
29
Toggling between Drum Sounds and Sound Effects
29
Selecting Drum Set Types
30
Adding Effects to Tones
30
Reverberation-[REVERB] Slider
30
Adding Other Effects-DSP Effect
30
Chorus Effect
31
Octave Shift: Changing the Pitch by Octaves
31
Keyboard Modes
32
Whole: One Tone for the Entire Keyboard
32
Split: Different Tones in the Left and Right Hand
32
Selecting Tones for the Upper and Lower Parts
33
Layer: Two Tones
33
Playing with Accompaniment (Arranger)
34
What Is Arranger?
34
Piano Style Arranger-Chord Recognition on the Entire Keyboard
35
Settings
35
Selecting Music Styles
36
Using Style Disks (User Styles)
36
Starting and Stopping Styles
37
Starting a Music Style
37
Starting Automatically (Sync Start)
37
Starting Manually
38
Stopping a Music Style
38
Style Tempo
39
Accompaniment and Melody Volume Balance
39
Adjusting the Volume of each Part-Part Volume
39
Global Balance
39
Volume of the Rhythm, Bass, Accomp, and Chord/Bass Tones
40
Volume of the Drums, SFX, Lower, Upper, or Layer Tone
40
Switching Style Arrangements (Divisions)
41
Basic/Advanced: Level
41
Original/Variation: Accompaniment Pattern
41
Fill-Ins (Transitions between Original and Variation)
41
Easy Fingering-Chord Intelligence
42
Melody Intelligence
43
Recording and Playback
45
Normal Recording
45
Let's Record Something
45
What Is a Track?
45
Cautions to Take after Recording
46
Recording Minus-One Performances
46
Correcting Minor Mistakes
47
Playing Back a Composer Song
48
Track Mute: Muting Specific Tracks
48
Playing Back Songs Without Tempo Changes
48
Erasing the Composer Song
49
Saving a Song to Disk
49
Saving Songs in SMF Format (as SMF)
50
Functions of the Composer Menu
52
16-Track Sequencer
52
Muting or Playing Selected Tracks
52
Tracks Vs. MIDI Channels
52
Chord Sequencer
53
Recording Mode
53
Formatting Disks
54
Stopping a Recording (Rec Stop)
54
Style Composer
54
Muting Parts of a Division
55
Editing Your User Style
55
Style Converter
56
Saving User Styles
57
Song Edit
57
Steps for Editing
57
Setup: Tempo and Volume
57
Quantize: Timing Corrections
58
Erase: Removing Data from a Track or Song
58
Copy(Ing) Measures
58
Delete: Removing Measures
59
Transpose: Changing the Key
59
Insert: Adding Blank Measures
59
Track Exchange/Track Copy: Swapping and Copying Tracks
59
Function Menu
60
Key Touch (Velocity Sensitivity) & Metronome Volume and Beat
60
Operating Procedure for the Function Menu
60
Piano Screen Functions
60
Tuning
61
Marker Function: Repeatedly Playing Back the same Section
61
Temperament
61
Organ Screen Functions
62
Using the Arranger
62
Lower Tone On/Off and Split Point
62
Basic Screen Functions
63
Auto: Changing the Arranger Defaults
63
Chord Tone Setting
63
User Programs, Pad Buttons, Pedals
64
User Program: Registering Panel Setting
64
Loading a User Program & Saving User Programs to Disk
64
Naming (or Renaming) a User Program
64
Loading a User Program Set from Disk
65
Pad Buttons: Additional or Frequently Used Functions
65
Pedal (Footswitch) Functions
66
Utility Menu
67
Operating Procedure
67
Utility Functions
67
Master Tune & Key Touch/Key Transpose
67
Metronome Volume and Beat
68
Selecting a Different Reverb And/Or Chorus Effect
68
Lyric: Switching off the Display of Lyrics
68
LCD Contrast
68
Pitch Bend Range
69
MIDI: TX MIDI Ch./Local Control
69
Program Change (and Bank Select)
69
User Program Arranger Update
70
Memory Backup
70
Factory Preset (Initialization)
71
Link to 16TRK Sequencer
71
Connecting MIDI Instruments
72
Troubleshooting
73
Error Messages
74
DSP Effects
76
Demo Songs
77
Profiles of the Composers
77
Specifications
78
Tones, Drum Sets, Music Styles
79
Normal Tones
79
Expansion Tones
80
Internal Music Styles & Disk Styles
82
Drum Sets
83
Chord Intelligence
85
MIDI Implementation Chart
87
Roland World Distributors
88

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