User Programs; Writing Your Settings To A User Program - Roland EM-50 Owner's Manual

11. User Programs
The EM-50/30 is equipped with 64 User Programs
that allow you to store almost all settings (or registra-
tions) you make on the front panel and via the Para-
meter menu (sec page 46).
Note: MIDI settings are not saved to a User Program
because the EM-50/30 memorizes them automatically.
11.1 Writing your settings to a
User Program
It is a good idea to write your settings freguently, even
if you still need to do some editing afterwards. Those
intermediary saves allow you to return to the previous
stage whenever you do not like your last modifica-
tions. In other words, you could (and probably
should) use the User Programs as "temporary memo-
ries" to be able to return to the previously edited set-
tings, discarding only the latest modifications.
Try saving your settings after...
selecting Tones for the Realtime parts;
selecting a Style, the first division, and after setting the
tempo;
editing the EM-50/30's Parameters (see page 46);
modifying the volume balance;
In short, every time you like the settings you just
made. That way, every subseguent modification can
be undone by selecting the previously saved version.
1. Activate the User Program Write function:
a) On the EM-50: press and hold the [USER PRO-
GRAM/WRITE] button.
MUSIC STYLE / U5ER PROGRAM
ton.
MUSIC STYLE / USER PROGRAM
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1 7
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The EM-50/30 now automatically jumps to the fol-
lowing parameter:
MENU
TONE A
mu ON WD LEP.
PARAMETER «4
Every time you power on your EM-50/30, the Write
Protect function is switched on. It is therefore impos-
sible to accidentally overwrite an existing User Pro-
gram memory. But since that is precisely what we
want to do here, you must proceed as follows:
EM-5030
2. Press MENU V to set Write Protect to "Off".
3. Again press and hold the [USER
PROGRAM/WRITE] (or [WRITE]) button while
pressing a MUSIC STYLE/USER PROGRAM number
button.
The number you select appears in the USER PRO-
GRAM field of the display. This is the User Program
bank. There are eight banks of 8 numbers each.
USER PROGRAM
4. Press another (or the same) number button to
specify the desired memory within the selected bank.
USER PROGRAM
Here, we selected memory "8" of bank "1". The display
now responds with the following messages (Cai
Flet- means that your settings have been stored
and can be recalled).
yne nym | mnr 6 LAF I ELE
It is perfectly possible to program several User Pro-
grams for the same song. Selecting a User Program is
a lot faster than calling up the Parameter mode, modi-
fying the settings, etc., while playing. In other words,
you could write one User Program for the first part of
a song, another for the bridge, and a third one for the
closing section. Doing so allows you to "play" with the
On/Off status and volume of the Realtime parts, for
example.
5. Release the [USER PROGRAM/WRITE] (or
[WRITE]) button.
Note: To be on the safe side, you should turn WritePrt
back on again after writing your settings to a User Pro-
gram. See page 46.
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