Playing Other Kinds Of Music (Orchestra Mode); Selecting Manual Sounds; Layering Two Manual Sounds; Using A Sustain Pedal - Roland C-180 Owner's Manual

4. Playing other kinds of music
(Orchestra mode)
The C-180's second mode is called ORCHESTRA.
When you select it, the organ sounds are no longer
available. In return, you can select from two banks of
other instrument sounds, including piano, electronic
piano, strings, harpsichord, etc. In this mode, the key-
board is velocity sensitive.

4.1 Selecting Manual sounds

Like in Organ mode (see page 9), there are two sec-
tions: the MANUAL section that can spread across the
entire keyboard, and the BASS section that allows you
to play a bass part with your left hand (in split mode).
Let us first look at how to select a MANUAL sound:
1. Press the [ORCHESTRA] button to make its indi-
cator light.
There are two Orchestra tone banks. The first contains
sounds for all 11 tabs, while the second adds another
8 sounds.
2. Use the [ORGAN BRILLIANCE] button to select
bank A (indicator dark) or B (indicator lights):
A
Celeste Coupled Nylon Violin
B
Harpsi Guitar
Orchestral sounds in bank 'B'
3. Press a MANUAL tab to select the sound whose
name is printed below the tab (indicator lights).
Example: to select the "HARP" sound, press the
[SUPER OCTAVE 2'] tab. To select a sound of the "B"
bank, be sure to press the [ORGAN BRILLIANCE]
button to make its indicator light.
Clarinet Brass 2 Oboe Flute
Additional orchestral sounds
The C-180 provides eight additional sounds that can
only be selected via MIDI (not via the front panel).
You could use an optional PC-300/180A/160A key-
board or a sequencer for doing so. Here are the
sounds we are referring to and their MIDI-addresses:
CC00 (Bank
Sound
Select MSB)
00
Trumpet
French Horn 00
Piano 1w 08
00
Fantasia
08
Church Bell
Soft Pad 00
Nylon + Steel 09
00
Whistle

Layering two Manual sounds

Unlike the Organ mode, the Orchestra mode does not
allow you to switch on all instrument sounds. You
can, however, combine one sound with another, which
is called "layering". Be aware that this reduces the
polyphony (number of notes you can play simultane-
ously) by half, though.
1. Select one instrument sound by pressing a tab (see
above). Keep holding this tab.
2. While holding the tab of the first sound, select a
second instrument sound by pressing another tab.
The indicators of both sounds light.
Note: It is not possible to combine a sound from bank A
with another one from bank B (or vice versa).
3. Set the volume of the second sound with respect to
the first:
• Hold down the tab of the second sound until its indi-
cator starts flashing.
• Use the [BASS] slider to set the volume of the layer
sound.

Using a sustain pedal

Connect an optional DP-2, DP-6, or BOSS FS-5U
footswitch to the C-180's SUSTAIN jack to be able to
hold the notes of the MANUAL section in the same
way as on an acoustic piano.
This only applies to the MANUAL sound (or layer).
The BASS notes cannot be held.
C-180
CC32 (Bank Program Change
Select LSB) number
00 57
00 61
00 01
00 89
00 15
00 90
00 26
00 79
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