Organ Mode; Selecting Tones; Selecting Upper Tones; Selecting Lower Tones - Roland EM-50 Owner's Manual

6. Organ mode
EM-50/30
In Organ mode, the keyboard is again split into two
halves (Lower and Upper). This time, however, there is
no automatic accompaniment. As its name implies,
Organ mode is primarily intended for playing organ
music, which is why selecting this mode calls up three
organ sounds.
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Lower + Manual Bass Upper Parts (1/2)
The left half of the keyboard allows you to use one
part for chords (the Lower part) and a second one that
plays bass notes (Manual Bass, or just M. Bass; this
part must be switched on).
Just like in Arranger mode, there is a simplified chord
fingering system (called "LWR Int") for the Lower
part. See page 48 for how to switch it on if you want
to use it. Furthermore, you could release the Lower
notes immediately after playing them because they
will be held until you play new notes. The function
that takes care of this is called LWR Mem . See page 48
for how to switch it on.
The right half of the keyboard allows you to play one
or two Upper parts. Here again, you can change the
location of the split point (originally C4). See page 46
for details.
To select the Organ mode, press the MODE
[ORGAN] button.
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6.1 Selecting Tones
Selecting Upper Tones
Upper Tone selection (both for playing and Tone
selection) works exactly like in Arranger mode. See
page 20 and following for details.
Selecting Lower Tones
Whenever you select the Organ mode (by pressing
MODE [ORGAN]), the EM-50/30 automatically
assigns a Tone to the Lower part that goes well with
the Upper part. At first, this will leave you with two
organ sounds.
You can assign other Tones to the Lower part — and
those Tones need not necessarily be organ sounds. All
354 Tones are selectable. The M.Bass Tone, however, is
selected automatically and cannot be changed via the
front panel.
Here is how to assign another Tone to the Lower part:
1. Press and hold the MODE [ORGAN] button until
the LOWER icon appears in the center of the display.
2. If necessary, press the [GROUP/ONE TOUCH]
button to select a Tonc Group.
See page 21 for more information about Groups.
3. Press a TONE/ONE TOUCH number button
[1]—[8] to select a Tone bank.
4. Press another (or the same) number button to
select a Tone within that bank.
5. Press the [TONE VARIATION] button to step
through the available Variations.
See page 21 for more information about Variations.
6. Press [UPPER 1/2] to leave the Lower Tone selec-
tion function.
6.2 Playing to a drum accompa-
niment
In Organ mode (as well as in Whole Upper mode,
page 20), you can usc the drum accompaniment
(A.Drums) of the selected Music Style in much the
same way as in Arranger mode. However, since you
cannot change the key of the "melodic" Arranger parts
(A.Bass, Accomp), the latter are not available.
Arranger operation is very similar to using Music
Styles in Arranger mode. So please see pages 13 and
following. Most functions are available. Here are a few
remarks:
* Most Style Progression settings only apply to "melodic"
accompaniment parts. Using the Style Progression
function may therefore produce no audible changes.
The same applies to the Style Morphing function. You
may have to press the button in question several
times.
* Sync Start (see page 13) also works in Organ mode
and is controlled by the Lower part (i.e. the notes you
play in the left half of the keyboard).
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