User Manuals: Roland RODGERS Digital Synthesizer

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Roland RODGERS Owner's Manual (127 pages)

Brand: Roland | Category: Synthesizer | Size: 13 MB

Features
4
Concerning Symbols Used in the Manual
4
Power Supply
5
Placement
5
Maintenance
5
Memory Backup
5
Before Using Disks
6
Handling Floppy Disks
6
Handling the Drive
6
Table of Contents
7
Front Panel
8
Side Panel
10
Rear Panel
10
How to Use
12
About the AC Adaptor
12
About the Output Jacks
12
Turning on the Power
13
Demo Song Playback
14
Song Names/Composer Profiles
14
Overview
15
About Parts
16
Playing
16
Selecting the Part to be Played on the Keyboard
16
About Tones
17
Preset Tones
17
Capital Tones
17
Variation Tones
17
Selecting Preset Tones
18
User Tones
19
Preset and User Drum Sets
20
Preset and User Organ Tones
22
Selecting Organ Parts
22
Selecting Organ Tones
23
Convenient Performance Features
24
Effects (Part)
24
Transpose
24
Playing Notes Beyond the Keyboard's Range
24
Solo/Portamento (Parts)
25
Setting the Amount of Transposition
25
Bender/Modulation Lever
26
Setting the Portamento Time
26
Performances
27
About each Key Mode
27
Turning Key Modes On/Off
27
Changing Tones
27
Split
28
Setting the Split Point
28
Concerning Use of Key Modes
29
Creating Original Tones
30
Tone Editing
30
About the Parameters that Can be Edited
31
Vibrato Editing
31
Filter Editing
31
Envelope Editing
31
Storing Edited Tones
32
Creating Your Own Drum Sets
33
Storing Edited Drum Sets
34
Altering the Unit's Setting
35
Making Changes in Settings Common to the Unit as a Whole
35
Buttons/Parameters/Setting Ranges
35
Parameters Called up Using Level
35
Parameters Called up Using Tune
36
Parameters Called up Using Effects
36
Parameters Called up Using MIDI
38
Parameters Called up Using Control
40
Altering Settings for Individual Parts
41
The Part Assigned for the GS Sound Generator
41
Velocity Sens Depth
43
Velocity Sens Offset
43
Voice Reserve
43
The Part Assigned to the Organ Sound Generator
44
Note on Using the Organ Sound Generator
45
Coarse Tune
45
Fine Tune
45
Organ Voice Reserve
45
Instantly Changing the Unit's Settings
46
Selecting Performances
46
Storing Performances
46
Lessons Using Music Data
47
Selecting the Part to Play While Using Minus-One
47
Sound Selection Messages
48
Obtaining Real-Time Control over an External Device
49
When Using Desktop Music Systems
50
About Local Control
50
About the Settings for each Part
51
Setting the Sound Used for each Part
51
Setting the MIDI Receive Channel for each Part
51
Setting the MIDI Transmit Channel for each Part
51
Recording What You Play
52
Saving the Settings Used While Recording
52
Recording the Unit's Settings at the Beginning of Song Data
52
Recording Data for the Performance
52
Playing Live
53
Are You Using a Key Mode?
53
Changing Tones Quickly
53
About Maximum Polyphony and Part Priority
54
Concerning Part Priority Ordering
54
Restoring the Original Settings
55
Saving the Unit's Data
56
Making the Connections
56
Types of Bulk Dump
56
Saving Settings for the GS Sound Generator
57
How to Perform Bulk Dumps
57
How the MIDI Connectors Are Configured
58
Using MIDI to Select Sounds
59
Tone Change Data Transmitted When Buttons Are Pressed
59
Using an External MIDI Device to Select Tones
60
About the SMF Player
61
Disk Playback
62
All Tempo Shift
63
Program Playback
64
Selecting a Song
64
To Cancel Program Settings
64
Playing Individual Songs (Single Playback)
65
Single Play Mode
65
Playing Songs Many Times (Repeat Playback)
66
Repeat a Specified Section (Block) of a Song (Block Repeat Playback)
66
Setting and Using Block Repeat (During Playback)
66
How to Cancel Block Repeat Settings
66
Setting and Using Block Repeat (While Stopped or Paused)
67
Jumping to the First Bar or the Last Bar in the Repeat Block
67
Playing Your Own Song Data
68
Before You Begin Recording
69
If You Are Using a New Disk
69
If You Wish to Use Other Types of Disks
69
Selecting the Time Base
69
Recording Song Data from Another Device into the Unit
70
How to Record
70
How to Re-Record (Clear Song Data)
70
Setting the Playback Functions
71
Copying Song Data
72
Copy Only One Song
72
Copy All Songs
72
Other MIDI Devices
73
Synchronize Other Devices to the Unit
73
Synchronize the Unit to Other Devices
73
Synchronized Playback
73
Controlling Play/Stop from an External MIDI Device
74
MIDI Clock Select
74
MIDI Clock out On/Off
74
Set MIDI Clock to "Remote"
74
Conversion Processing for High-Speed Forward/Backward
75
Converting Only One Song
75
Converting All Songs on a Disk
75
MIDI Update
76
On/Off for Auto Send of All Note off Messages
77
On/Off for Active Sensing Message Send
77
The General MIDI System and GS Format
80
Troubleshooting
81
Synthesizer Section Troubles
81
No Sound/Sound too Low
81
The Pitch Is Not Right
81
The Disk Drive will Not Work
82
Cannot Use Block Repeat Playback
82
Error Messages
83
Tone Chart
86
Drum Set Chart
88
Parameter List
89
Parameters Common to All Parts
89
Tone Edit Parameters
90
Parameters for Individual Parts
90
Drum Tone Edit Parameters
90
MIDI Controller Features Parameters
91
Exclusive Messages
92
MIDI Implementation
94
Receive Data (SMF Player Section)
94
Transmitted Data (SMF Player Section)
95
Receive Data (GS Sound Generator Section)
96
Transmit Data (GS Sound Generator Section)
100
Useful Information - Decimal and Hexadecimal
114
MIDI Implementation Chart
117
Topical Index
120
Index
122
Specifications
124

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