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Programming Styles (Style Composer)
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G-70 Music Workstation
To keep things easy, let’s start with the drums of the
MAIN [1] pattern.
(9) Press the [REC¥TRACK] field and use the
[DATA÷ENTRY] dial to select the track you wish to
record to.
Select “ADrums”. This causes the display to change as
follows (because there are more options for drum
parts):
Now select a pattern. Let’s start with MAIN [1]:
(10) Press the [REC¥DIVISION] field and use the
[DATA÷ENTRY] dial to select “Main 1”.
■Working with clones
On this page, you can use two clone functions that
allow you to record one part and copy it to up to four
divisions and three modes each. The “=” sign means
that more than one pattern will be recorded.
(11) Use the [REC¥DIVISION¥MODE] field to select the
mode(s).
This parameter allows you to specify whether you are
about to record the accompaniment for major, minor
or seventh chords. If you listen to the Music Styles
prepared by Roland, you will notice that there are
slight differences in the looped patterns – and some-
times striking differences for Intros and Endings, with
completely different phrases. Such variations can be
prepared using the REC DIVISION MODE parameter.
Let us use the following settings, which mean “record
the major pattern and copy it to all MAIN Divisions”.
Thus, by programming one pattern, you will obtain 3
(Major, minor, 7th) x 4 (MAIN 1, 2, 3, 4) = 12 identical
drum patterns!
Another important aspect is Tone selection because
the addresses of the sounds and Drum Set you select
are recorded at the beginning of each division.
(12) Press the [TRACK¥INSTRUMENT] field and select a
Drum Set.
• Use the TONE buttons on the front panel and press
the field of the desired sound. If you don’t like it,
press another field.
• If you are still not happy with the Tone, use the
[PAGE¥1]~[PAGE¥5] and [˚] fields to select the corre-
sponding page (if available).
Note: The [SRX¥EXPANSION] and [HARMONIC¥BAR] buttons
are not available for Music Style tracks. The ADrums track can
only use Drum Sets (so that only the [DRUMS] button of the
TONE pad is available).
Play a few notes on the keyboard to check whether
the sounds of the selected Drum Set are suitable for
the accompaniment you are going to record. Try
other Drum Sets until you find the one that sounds
“right”.
Note: See “Drum Instrument & Pitch” on p. 189 for details
abut the NRPN DRUM and PITCH parameters. These are only
available for ADrum tracks.
If you want to use the accompaniment in a musically
meaningful way, you need to tell the G-70 what key
you are recording in. This is to ensure that the chords
you play during everyday use of your Style with the
G-70’s Arranger lead to the correct realtime transpo-
sitions of the selected Division.
The G-70 allows you to record Styles in any key. But
do set the KEY parameter to the right value before
recording.
Note: The key of the ADrums part cannot be set (because that
doesn’t make sense).
(13) Press the [KEY] field and use the [DATA÷ENTRY] dial
or the [DEC]/[INC] buttons to set the key.
If you want to record in F#, set this value to “F#”; to
record in A, you must set this value to “A”, etc.
■Octave
The field next to [KEY] allows you to transpose the
keyboard in octave steps, which may be convenient
for extremely high or low notes – or for using the
special “noises” of certain sounds.
Selecting the track, the Mode, and the Division Tone selection
Specifying the key (for melodic parts)