Creating An Original Arrangement - Roland BR-800 Owner's Manual

Creating an Original Arrangement

The BR-800 lets you place patterns in the desired order to
make an arrangement, thus creating the structure of your
entire song from intro to ending. Once you've created an
arrangement, you can save it as a song arrangement.
An arrangement can contain up to 999 measures.
Steps
You create a song arrangement by specifying
"steps." Each step consists of a pattern number and
the measure number at which that step will start.
For example, suppose you want to create a song
that has the following structure:
Section Measure length Pattern
Intro 2 measures
Melody A 16 measures
Melody B 8 measures
Break 8 measures
Ending 2 measures
To create the song structure described above, you
would place the following steps in the arrangement.
Step number Starting measure
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Step 6
The sections of even a long song's structure can be
specified using only a few steps. The BR-800 lets
you use up to fifty steps.
96
Pattern P001
Pattern S002
Pattern S003
Pattern S099
Pattern P006
Pattern number
1 P001: ROCK-1 IN
3 S002: OriginalA
19 S003: OriginalB
27 S099: OriginalC
35 P006: ROCK-1 E
37 P327: BREAK
Now let's try actually creating an arrangement.
1
Press the [RHYTHM] button.
The [RHYTHM] button will light.
2
Use the CURSOR [ ] [
cursor to "TYPE."
3
Turn the dial to select "ARRANGE."
4
Use the CURSOR [ ] [
cursor to "EDIT," and press the [ENTER] button.
* If you select a preset arrangement, you won't be able to
continue with the rest of this procedure.
5
Use the CURSOR [ ] [
cursor to "STEP," and press the [ENTER] button.
The ARRANGE STEP screen will appear.
fig.04-510-e.eps
Step Pattern number
Starting
measure
Pattern time signature
6
Use the CURSOR [ ] [
cursor to the "step" position, and use the dial to select
the step that you want to edit.
You can move to the previous step by pressing the
[REW] button, or to the next step by pressing the [FF]
button.
] buttons to move the
] buttons to move the
] buttons to move the
Tempo
Pattern name
] buttons to move the