Roland R-8M Owner's Manual page 12

(DHOW TO PLAY THE SOUNDS
*When
you
playback
a
ROM
play song, the Patches
in
the
temporary area
(a-
see page
17)
will
be
restored
to their
unmodified
settings.
If
you have
modified Patch
settings,
your
changes
will
be
lost.
3.
How
to Play
Each
Instrument
Here's
how
to play each of the 68
internal instruments
(drum
sounds). Before you do
so, set the
transmit channel of
the controller to
match
the receive channel of
the
R-8M.
With
the factory
settings, the
R
-
8M
receive channel
is
set to 10,
so
set
the controller to transmit
channel
10.
Check
the receive channel
PLfiV
<PflTCH-01>
MIDI
I
111 I
1
B
2
II
3
II
4
T
To
check
the receive channel
of the
R
-
8M,
use
the
CURSOR (^[V]
to select the
left
display
in
the Play mode.
The
display will
show
the receive channel
for
each
Performance
section
1—4
section,
but
for
now, check
only the receive channel of
the Instrument
Section.
Instrument section
I Play the
internal
instruments
'
Play the
sounds
when
you play a note on
the keyboard
controller, the instrument corresponding
to each
key
(note
number)
will sound.
If
you
are playing the
sounds
using a pad
controller,
play each sound by changing
the note
number
transmitted
by
the
controller.
If
you
are playing the
sounds from
a sequencer, the musical data
in the
sequencer must match
the
instrument assignments of the R 8M.
or
the
wrong
sounds
will be played back. Before
you
playback
the sequencer
data, set
the Instrument Section of
the
R
-
8M
to the riiythm note assignments of your
sequencer,
(o-see page
25).
How
to select
Patches
The R
-
8M
can
store
32
dram-sets as Patches.
A RAM
card
(M-256E)
can
store
32 more
Patches.
While
playing,
you
can
instantly select either internal or
RAM
card Patches.
Here's
how
to select Patches
and
play
the
dram
sounds of each
Patch.
To
select
a Patch,
use the
following procedure while
in
the Play mode.
* For the factory Patch
settings, refer to
"Patch Lisf
on page
84.
*
In
the factory set Patches, the stereo positions
of
the
sounds
(pan) are
placed as seen
from the viewpoint
of a drummer.
When
playing these Patches, reverse the connections
of
theMIXOUTjacksLandR.
Q)
Use
the
CURSOR
HE
to
move
to the Patch
number
display.
Patch
name
PLflV <PflTCH-Hil>
P:
I~Bm
F:
I -SI
{
Patch
number (1—32)
I :
Internal
Patches
C
:
RAM
card
Patches
10