Recording The Performance; Exiting Rec Mode; About The Local Switch - Roland RD-700SX Owner's Manual

Connecting External MIDI Devices

Recording the Performance

Use the following procedure when recording to an external
sequencer.
1.
Turn on the external sequencer's Thru function.
For details, refer to the following section "About Local Switch."
Refer to your sequencer owner's manual for instructions on
how to carry out this procedure.
2.
Select the Setup for the performance to be recorded.
For instructions on selecting the Setup, refer to p. 56.
3.
Set the Rec Setting.
Use the procedure described in the previous section "Settings
for Recording" to make the following settings.
Rec Mode: ON
Local Switch: OFF
4.
Begin recording with the external sequencer.
5.
Bulk Dump the Setup.
Using the Utility Bulk Dump Temporary in Edit mode, transmit
the contents of the selected Setup to the external sequencer.
For instructions on carrying out this operation, refer to
"Transferring the RD-700SX's Settings to an External MIDI
Device (Bulk Dump)" (p. 98).
6.
Perform on the RD-700SX.
7.
When the performance is finished, stop recording with the
external sequencer.
Recording is now complete.
You can then listen to the recorded performance by playing it
back on the external sequencer.

Exiting Rec Mode

When Rec Mode is set to ON, you cannot change the EXTERNAL
settings. When you have finished recording the performance, use the
procedure described in the previous section "Settings for Recording"
to set Rec Mode to OFF.
The settings made in Rec Setting cannot be saved. Rec Setting
automatically switch to "Rec Mode: OFF, Local Switch: ON"
when the power is turned on.
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About the Local Switch

The switch that connects and disconnects the MIDI connection
between the keyboard controller section and the sound generator
section (p. 28) is called the Local switch. Since essential information
describing what is being played on the keyboard won't reach the
sound generator if the Local switch is set to OFF, the Local switch
should normally be left ON.
However, if while performing you want to send that performance
data to an external sequencer as MIDI messages to be recorded, you
then perform with the externally connected MIDI sequencer set to
MIDI Thru (whereby data received from MIDI IN is then output
from the MIDI OUT with no changes made to the data).
fig.06-05e
Sequencer
Recording
MIDI Thru: On
MIDI IN MIDI OUT
MIDI OUT MIDI IN
Local Switch: Off
Keyboard Controller
Section
In this case, the data sent over two paths, i.e., the data sent directly
from the keyboard controller section and the data sent from the
keyboard controller section via the external sequencer, ends up
being sent to the sound generator section simultaneously. Thus, for
example, even when you play a "C" key only once, the note "C"
cannot be sounded correctly, as the sound is played by the sound
generator section twice.
Sound
Generator
Section
RD-700SX