Notes About Writing User Programs; Selecting A User Program - Roland EM-50 Owner's Manual

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Notes about writing User Programs
Leaving the User Program environment
Press [USER PROGRAM] to leave the User Program
environment. The User Program field in the display
will go blank again.
Mode selection
The mode (Arranger, page 13; Organ, page 25;
M.Drums, page 27, Whole Upper, page 20) is also
memorized when you write a User Program. You
could take advantage of this facility to alternate
between Arranger (song proper) and Organ (ad lib
introduction or ending without Arranger backing)
modes with suitable settings for both. This procedure
(rather than pressing the MODE [ORGAN] button,
for example) is the only guarantee that the settings
you do not want to change remain in effect.
Meaning of the dashes below the User Program
number
At some stage, you may come across four dashes
below the User Program number (see the example).
USER PROGRAM
They mean that the last User Program you selected is
still in effect but that the current settings no longer
correspond to the ones in that memory. Such changes
may include the status of the Reverb or Chorus effect,
a changed Balance value, etc.
Before selecting another User Program or switching
off the EM-50/30, you should therefore write these
settings to the same (or a different) User Program if
you want to keep them. Otherwise, you lose these
changes. Please also see page 44.
User Programs and Disk User (EM-50 only)/Cus-
tom Styles
The address of the Style you select is also memorized.
That is also the case of the EM-50's Style RAM mem-
ory that may contain a so-called Disk User Style (see
page 41) as well as of the selected Custom Style (see
page 16). The EM-50/30 only remembers the memory
address —not the name of the Style it contained when
you wrote your settings to a User Program.
Note: The EM-30 does not support the Disk User Style
facility because it has no disk drive. It does, however, use
this system for the Custom Style memories.
If, at the time you recall such a User Program, no Disk
User Style is available, the EM-50 will go on using the
last internal Music Style you selected. If the Style
RAM memory does contain a Disk User Style, it will
be used. But remember that it may be the wrong Style
(namely the last Disk User Style you loaded).
A similar system is used for Custom Style memories
1-8, These are Flash ROM memories whose contents
may be replaced (see page 57). Again, the EM-50/30
only remembers the address (C1, C2, C3...) but not
the name of the Style (no names are used internally).
This may lead to situations where recalling a User
Program (see below) does select the correct Custom
memory but the wrong Style. In that case, reload Cus-
tom Styles that were in use when you wrote the User
Program in question.
11.2 Selecting a User Program
Though the User Program you specified above is
already selected, there will be times when you need to
select another memory. In that case, here is what you
need to do:
1. Switch to User Program selection mode:
a) On the EM-50: briefly press [USER PROGRAM/
WRITE]. Do not hold this button down because
doing so will start the Write procedure (see above).
USER PROGRAM MUSIC STYLE / USER PROGRAM
WRITE ROCK DANCE SAMBA SrcA GU. EWING TW. VARIETY — ACOUSTIC
1 eio 3 a 7 []
b) On the EM-30: press [USER PROGRAM] (here, the
duration is of no importance).
MUSIC STYLE / USER PROGRAM
USERPROGRAM ^ ROCK DANCE S&GMBFAT Ns Ges SWANG — LATIN — VANISIY ACOUSTIC.
1 a 5 8 ? LJ 2 3
The User Program field now indicates the number of
the User Program you selected last, or ^11" if you have
not yet selected a User Program since switching on the
EM-50/30. The important thing to note here are the
dashes below the number:
USER PROGRAM
iB
They are meant to alert you to the fact that the
EM-50/30 is still using the last manual changes you
may have made before selecting the User Program
function. The User Program number therefore only
means "this is the last memory you selected". None of
its settings are being used for the time being. By press-
ing [USER PROGRAM/WRITE] (or [USER PRO-
GRAM!]) again, you can leave the User Program mode
without changing your manual settings. This may be
important to remember if you wcrc about to write
your settings and accidentally pressed the wrong but-
ton (or didn't press it long enough).
To actually select a User Program...
2. Press a [MUSIC STYLE/USER PROGRAM] num-
ber button.
You can perform this step a little ahead of the song
part where you want the new settings to take effect.
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