Filter
Top Products
Working with the Music Assistant
E-60/E-50 Music Workstation
r
33
● ADAPT CHORD—Switch this parameter on if your virtual
guitar should adapt its chord voicings to the inversions
you play in the “CHORD” area. As you know, each chord
can be played in a variety of ways on a keyboard and a
guitar. Though the Guitar mode always voices its chord
in a typical guitar fashion (even when this parameter is
off), you may need even more flexibility than this basic
system can provide. In that case, switch on this parame-
ter and try out different inversions to discover how that
affects your guitar.
● AUTO SUSTAIN—When this function is on (default set-
ting), all guitar notes you trigger using the “ARPEGGIO”
keys have a longer decay. If you switch it off, the notes
are a lot shorter.
● HOLD PEDAL—This function only works if you connect
an optional DP-2, DP-6, or BOSS FS-5U footswitch to the
HOLD FOOTSWITCH socket. The pedal’s behavior depends
on whether [AUTO¥SUSTAIN] is on or off.
When [AUTO¥SUSTAIN] is on, while [HOLD¥PEDAL] is also
on, pressing the Hold pedal temporarily bypasses the
[AUTO¥SUSTAIN] setting, and thus causes the guitar
notes to have a short decay.
If [AUTO¥SUSTAIN] is off, while [HOLD¥PEDAL] is on,
pressing the Hold pedal temporarily produces a normal
Hold/damper effect.
Note: This Hold function is added to the one that allows
you to hold notes played by the active Keyboard parts (MBS,
LWR), if they have been assigned to that footswitch (see
p. 54).
● DOUBLING—This section allows you to add a second
guitar to the main guitar part. That added guitar uses
the same sound as your main guitar. The purpose of this
added guitar is to create the impression that the guitar
part is played by two musicians.
● STEREO WIDTH—(0~50) This parameter allows you to
specify the distance between the two guitars in the ste-
reo sound field. The higher the value, the further they
are panned to the left and right sides respectively.
● STRUMM UP—These button fields are mutually exclu-
sive and only apply to the two D notes of the STRUM-
MING section. “NOTE ON” means that the strum is played
when you press one of the two D keys. “NOTE OFF”
means that the strum sounds when you release one of
the D keys. This selection does not apply to the remain-
ing STRUMMING keys.
(3) Press the [Back] field to return to the “GUITAR
MODE” page, or the [EXIT] button to return to the
main page.
Note: All GUITAR MODE settings can be written to a User Pro-
gram and recalled at a later stage. See p. 88.
Working with the Music Assistant
The E-60/E-50’s Music Assistant is also related to the
Arranger/Style section. It is a collection of registrations
for given songs that select the most appropriate Music
Style and sounds for the Keyboard parts (along with a
whole bunch of other settings).
The E-60/E-50 ships with more than 300 pre-pro-
grammed Music Assistant registrations and also allows
you to program new ones.
(1) Press the [MUSIC¥ASSISTANT] button.
The display now looks as follows:
(2) If the name of the registration you want to use is
already displayed, press its field.
The E-60/E-50 now recalls the settings for this regis-
tration.
(3) Press the [START÷STOP] button to start playback of
the automatically selected Style.
If the desired registration is not displayed…
• Press the [√][®] fields in the display or rotate the
[DATA÷ENTRY] dial to scroll through the list.
Pressing the [DATA÷ENTRY] dial will select the regis-
tration in the top line. (This only works if no registra-
tion has been selected yet.) If you select a registration
and then change any of its settings (like selecting
another sound, for example), pressing the
[DATA÷ENTRY] dial recalls the original Music Assis-
tant settings.
You can also use the DATA ENTRY [ß][†] buttons to
select a registration among the ones that are cur-
rently visible in the display (the buttons don’t allow
you to change pages).
To save time…
There are other ways of locating the registration you
are after. As you see, there are three button icons:
[NAME], [ARTIST] and [GENRE].
• Press the [GENRE] field to sort the Music Assistant
entries alphabetically by musical genre. This reshuf-
fles the list.
MUSIC
ASSISTANT
E-60_50_OM_UK.book Page 33 Thursday, June 22, 2006 10:06 AM