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Roland RA-800 Player's Manual (173 pages)

Brand: Roland | Category: Recording Equipment | Size: 6 MB

Safety Instructions
2
Main Features
3
Unpacking
5
Useful Options
6
Precautions
7
Table of Contents
8
Setting up
13
Connections
13
MIDI Sets and Other Points Specific to the Product
14
Functions Exclusive to Basic Channel Control
16
Demo Songs
16
Front Panel Facilities
18
Rear Panel Facilities
21
User Interface
23
F5 Exit
23
Master Page
23
Navigating through the Display Pages
25
Function Keys and SHIFT Button
25
Knobs, Tone and Volume Buttons
25
Reversed/Positive Value Display
26
PAGE and Part Select Buttons
26
Realtime Display
27
Realtime Parts
28
Selecting Realtime Parts for Playing - Via the Basic Channel
28
Layering and Selecting Upper 2
29
Selecting the Lower and M. Bass Parts
29
W Right - Whole Right
29
W Left - Whole Left
29
Split and Split Point
30
Upper2 Split
30
Selecting the Manual Drums Part
31
Lower Hold (Lwr Hold)
31
Selecting Tones for the Realtime Parts
32
Roll
32
Selecting Tones Using the Tone Buttons
33
Selecting Tones Using the Knobs
34
Tone Selection for Other Parts
34
Display Symbols
34
Selecting Drum Sets for the M.drum Part
35
Who Selects the Tones? - Tone Change
35
General Notes
36
Realtime Performance Functions
36
Pitch Bend and Modulation
36
Transpose and Octave Up/Down
37
Setting the Transposition Interval in Realtime
37
Setting the Transposition Interval Via the Display
37
Sustain Pedal - Hold
38
Assignable Footswitch
38
Octave Up/Down
38
Expression Pedal
39
Metronome
39
Master Tune
39
Playing with Accompaniment - Arranger
40
Arranger and Music Styles
40
Selecting the Chord Recognition Area
41
Arranger Parts
41
Selecting the Arranger Chord Mode
42
Standard
43
Piano Style
43
Intelligent
43
External Keyboard Cancel
44
Chord Inversion
45
Basic Channel Vs Multiple Channel Control
45
Music Style (Arranger) Functions
46
Hold
46
Starting a Music Style
46
Stopping a Music Style
46
Selecting Another Style Division
47
Basic and Advanced
47
Major, Minor, Seventh
47
Fills: to Original and to Variation
48
Complementary Fill Functions: Fill in Half Bar and Fill in Rit
48
Intro and Ending
49
Realtime Changes of the Drum Accompaniment
50
Other Useful Style Playback Functions
50
One Touch Program
50
Melody Intelligence
50
Selecting Music Styles
51
Reset
51
Using External (User) Styles
52
Autoload
52
Loading User Styles
52
Style Tempo
53
Selecting User Styles
53
Tempo Dial and Indicators
53
Tap Tempo
54
Auto Tempo and Tempo Lock
54
Tempo Rit and Tempo Acc
54
Customizing Music Styles
55
Assigning Other Tones to the Arranger Parts
55
Tone Change
55
Working with User Style Sets
56
Compiling and Saving Your Own Style Sets
56
Loading User Style Sets
58
Saving and Loading Registrations - Performance Memories
59
Saving a Performance Memory Set to Disk
59
Writing Your Settings to a Performance Memory
60
Memory Protect
60
Performance Name
61
Writing a Performance Memory
61
Selecting Performance Memories
62
Selecting 00 Freepnl
62
Resume Function
62
Selecting a Performance Memory (Group, Bank, Number)
63
Automated User Style Access
63
Selecting a Performance Memory Using the Down/Up Buttons
64
Selectively Loading Performance Memory Settings
64
Chord Sequencer
66
Recording the Accompaniment of an Entire Song
66
Two Chord Sequencer Modes
66
NTA - Note to Arranger
66
"Realtime" Chord Sequencing
67
Style Change
67
Playing Back a Chord Sequence
68
Recorder - GM/GS Mode
69
How to Record a Song
69
Formatting a Disk
69
Before Recording
70
You're On...
70
Song Playback
71
Song Name
71
Useful Recorder Playback Functions
72
All Song Playback
72
Playback at a Specific Song on Disk
72
Lyrics Function
72
Fast Forward, Rewing and Reset
73
Markers and Playback Loops
73
Live Performances with Standard MIDI File Backing - Minus One
74
Changing the Song Tempo
74
Soloing and Muting Parts on Disk
75
Overriding Song Settings
76
Song Part Volume (Balance)
76
Song Master Volume
77
Tone Change: Old and New
77
Link
78
Easy Editing
79
Part Balance - Volume
79
Grouped and Buss Faders
79
Section Balance
80
Mixer Mode: Modifying the Volume of the Buss Members
81
Muting Parts
81
Effects and Equalizer
82
Panpot (Stereo Position)
82
Applying Reverb, Chorus or Delay to a Part
82
Effect Settings
83
Equalizer
84
Choosing the Parts to be Processed by the Equalizer
84
Source: Your Settings or those of the Arranger/Song?
85
Realtime (Rtime) Source
85
Arranger (Arrng) Source
86
Effect Source
86
Part Editing
87
Editing the Part Parameters
87
Modulation (Vibrato)
88
Timbre (Filter)
88
Envelope
89
Another Source Switch: Tone Edit
90
Upper2 Settings
91
Tuning Upper2: Coarse and Fine
91
Intelligent Melodies Played by Upper2
92
Upper2 Tune Source
92
Advanced Features
93
Settings Relating to the Arranger
93
Fill Rit Value
93
Rit/Acc Value: Tempo Change
93
Major, Minor or Seventh Accompaniment? - Chord Family Assign, Alterath
94
Musical Style Playback: Wrap
95
Dynamic Arranger: Velocity Sensitivity of the Arranger Parts
95
Settings Relating to the Realtime Parts
96
Footswitch Function
96
Velocity Switching (Min and Max)
96
Roll Resolution for the M.drums Part
97
Monophonic/Polyphonic, with or Without Portamento (Upper1 and Upper2)
97
Pitch Bend Range
98
Portamento Time
98
Expression Pedal: Blending Effects or Just Plain Volume
99
Playing in Other Scales: Keyboard Scale
99
Metronome Function
100
Source Switches
100
Song Sets
101
Compiling a Song Set
101
Playing Back a Song Set
102
Programming User Styles
103
Patterns
103
Tracks
104
Looped Vs One-Shot
104
Looped Divisions
105
One-Shot Divisions
105
Recording User Styles from Scratch
106
Selecting the User Style Mode
106
Selecting the Track, the Mode, the Type and the Division
107
Working with Clones
107
Record Mode
107
Specifying the Key
108
Quantize
109
Tone Selection
109
Time Signature
110
Length: Specifying the Pattern Length
110
Tempo
112
Recording
112
Playback, and then Keep or Redo?
113
Saving Your Style to Disk
113
Naming Your User Styles
113
Programming Other Parts and Divisions
114
Muting Parts While Recording Others - Status
114
Remarks
115
Working from Top to Bottom - Programming Hints
115
Empty Tracks
115
Playback in Arranger Mode
115
Copying Existing Styles
116
Copying Entire Style Divisions Using Load
116
Copying Individual User Style Tracks
117
Editing User Styles
119
Editing on the Fly by Recording
119
Adding Notes in Realtime
119
Adding Controller Data in Realtime
120
Tone/Drum Set Selection
120
Customizing Drum Sounds - Drum Set Note Pitch
121
Expression, Panpot, Reverb, Chorus
122
Programming User Style Using an External Sequencer
123
Setting the Preset Tempo
123
Data that Can be Recorded
123
Connection and Synchronization
124
Preparation of Your Sequence
125
Preparations on the RA-800
125
MIDI Channels
125
Recording Using "Dedicated" Controllers
126
Where to Go from here - Editing User Styles
127
User Style Edit Mode
127
Example: Using Erase to Remove Panpot Settings
128
Track Erase - F1
128
Track Delete - F2
129
Track Insert - F3
129
Track Transpose - F4
129
Track Velocity Change - SHIFT+F1
129
Editing in Micro Mode
130
Track Quantize - SHIFT+F2
130
Track Change Gate Time - SHIFT+F3
130
Track Shift - SHIFT+F4
130
Example: Recording in Step Time
131
Specifying the Pattern Length
131
Step Time Record
132
Deleting a User Style from a User Style Memory
134
MIDI
135
Requirements for Receiving and Transmitting MIDI Data
135
MIDI Connectors
135
Channels
136
MIDI Data
136
MIDI Channels and RX Parts
137
MIDI Connections
138
Receiving MIDI Data from External Instruments
138
Sending MIDI Data to External Instruments or Computers
138
Receiving MIDI Data
139
Receive Channels (RX) and Switches
139
Realtime Sections - Rtime
139
Arranger and Song Sections/Nta Channel
139
Basic Channel
140
Recorder and MIDI Inputs
141
Style Select Channel
141
Transmit (TX) Channels and Transmit Switches
142
Other MIDI Settings
142
Switching off MIDI Reception/Transmission
142
MIDI Receive/Transmit Filters
142
Shift and RX Octave
143
Zones - Low/High Limits
144
Local Function
145
More MIDI Settings
146
Rx Velo, TX Velo
146
Soft Thru - for Digital Pianos
146
MIDI Synchronization
147
MIDI Sets
147
Writing a MIDI Set
148
Selecting a MIDI Set
148
Saving MIDI Sets to Disk
148
Writing Your Settings to a MIDI Set
148
Loading a MIDI Set from Disk
149
Housekeeping
150
Disc Copy - Backups
150
Disk Management
150
Renaming Files on Disk
152
Deleting Files on Disk
152
Initializing the Arranger - Load Factory Setup
153
Compatibility
153
Song Data that Can be Read
154
Song Write
154
Writing GM/GS Compatible Standard MIDI Files
154
User Styles that Can be Loaded
155
Performance Memories that Can be Loaded
155
Performance Memory Format
155
MIDI Sets that Can be Loaded
155
Song Set Format
156
Style Sets that Can be Loaded
156
Style Set Format
156
Chord Sequencer Format - Read and Write
156
Tone Lists
157
RA-800 Tone Map - Banks a and B
157
SC-55 Tone Map - Banks C and D
159
SC-55 Map - CM-64 Tones
160
GM Tones
161
GS Tones
162
Preset MIDI Sets
163
MIDI Set 1: Acoustic Piano
163
MIDI Set 2: Digital Piano and Synth
163
MIDI Set 3: Master Keyboard
164
MIDI Set 4: Accordion 1
164
MIDI Set 5: Accordion 2
165
MIDI Set 6: MIDI Guitar
165
MIDI Set 7: Organ 1 - Roland
166
MIDI Set 8: Organ 2 - Other Brands
166
Index
167

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