Meet The Beat; Building Your Own Patterns; Setting A Song’s Tempo; To Set The Song’s Tempo - Roland JUNO-Gi Workshop

Meet the Beat

Let's listen to our new song's default rhythm.
Press RECORDER VIEW to display the RECORDER VIEW screen.
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Press the button beneath the RHYTHM PATTERN fader to light it, and
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raise the fader about three-quarters of the way up.
Press the digital recorder's PLAY button—the default rhythm plays.
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To change the rhythm, press 5 (RHYTHM) to display the RHYTHM
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PATTERN screen.
To try out some Preset patterns, highlight the pattern number.
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As the rhythm continues to play, turn the Value dial or use DEC and
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INC to try out different patterns.
Each style has a set of variations, as shown in patterns' names.
Patterns that end with "IN" are song introductions. "V1" and "V2"
signify beats for verses or choruses. Each has a fill pattern whose name
ends with "F1" or "F2," respectively. There's also an END pattern. Of
course, you can use the patterns any way and anywhere you want.
You can also switch drum kits by highlighting the Rhythm Set value
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and turning the Value dial or pressing DEC and INC to try out other
Rhythm live sets.
Setting a Song's Tempo
While a pattern's playing is a good time to set the song's tempo. The tempo
is important not just in cases where you'll use the rhythm, but it's also
important in selecting track sections for editing. Each song has its own
tempo separate from the synth section's tempo we mentioned on Page 12.
As with that tempo, the two can be locked together or run independently.
The rhythm
pattern number
It's important to set your song's tempo before recording, since
changing it after you've recorded some tracks will cause those tracks
to be out of time with the song's other elements.
To set the song's tempo:
Press the TEMPO button to open the TEMPO window.
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Highlight the Recorder Tempo value as shown above.
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Turn the Value dial or use DEC and INC to set the desired tempo. This
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is the tempo we'll use for recording in a little bit.
The setting is saved automatically in the song when you record a
track, or you can save the song now as described on Page 104 of the
Owner's Manual.

Building Your Own Patterns

Press STOP to stop the rhythm.
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Press 2 (PTN EDIT) to display the screen on which you can customize
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and therefore create your own patterns—the pattern plays while
you're on the PATTERN EDIT screen.
Press EXIT to leave the RHYTHM EDIT screen and stop the pattern.
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You can import SMF beat files from an SD card for use as a rhythm
pattern as explained on Page 126 of the Owner's Manual.
For our tutorial, select a rhythm pattern you'd like to record along
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with—it's a lot more fun and more musical than using a metronome.
To learn how to create rhythm
patterns, see Page 124 in the
Owner's Manual.
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