Contents
G-70 Music Workstation
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Style Finder: quickly locating Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Quick location of the Style you need. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
Editing the Style Finder information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
7. Advanced Keyboard part functions . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Upper 3 Split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Tuning Upper 2: Coarse Tune and Fine Tune . . . . . . 90
Portamento for UP1 and UP2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Portamento Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Portamento Mode: Mono/Poly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92
Lower Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Tone Edit: editing Keyboard parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
8. Using the mixer functions & effects . . . . . . . . . . 95
Mixing Keyboard parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Volume and status of the Style parts . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Editing the Keyboard effects processors . . . . . . . . . . 97
Reverb for Keyboard parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
Chorus for Keyboard parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
Using the multi-effects processor (Multi-FX). . . . . 100
Selecting another MFX type and editing it. . . . . . . . . . .100
Linking Multi-FX type selection to the Upper part
(Upper 1 M-FX Link) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Effects for songs and Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Reverb for Style/Song parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Chorus for Style/Song parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Using the individual outputs and audio inputs . . .103
Output assign (PART OUTPUTS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Using the audio inputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Using the Mastering Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Equalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Compressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
Voice and Vocal Harmonist part mixing . . . . . . . . . 107
Reverb, Delay, and Chorus effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
9. Working with User Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Saving your settings to a User Program . . . . . . . . . 111
Selecting User Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Choosing User Programs manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Selecting User Programs with [DOWN] [UP]. . . . . . . . . .113
Working with the User Program Finder. . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Quick location of the User Program you need. . . . . . . .114
Selectively loading User Program settings
(User Program Hold) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
Automatic functions for User Programs . . . . . . . . . 116
Song Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Linking a MIDI Set to a User Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
User Program Recall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117
Editing User Program Finder information. . . . . . . . 117
Editing the User Program Finder information . . . . . . . .118
Editing an Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120
Music Assistant functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Creating new Music Assistant registrations . . . . . . . . . .121
Editing Music Assistant registrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
Saving a Music Assistant entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
10. Song and Style Makeup Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Mixing Song or Style parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Using the Makeup Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
General procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
PALETTE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
SOUND EDIT for Tones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
SOUND EDIT for Drum Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128
DRUM INSTR EDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128
COMMON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Saving your modified song or Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
11. Editing the Vocal Harmonist parts . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Singer settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Voice-FX settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Auto Pitch settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Vocoder settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Small settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Ensemble settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
12. More refined song functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Using the Fade-In/Out function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Programming MARK & JUMP locations . . . . . . . . . 139
Working with the Song Finder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Locating files with the Song Finder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Editing the Song Finder information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Editing an Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Play List function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Programming Play Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Editing Play Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Using Play Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Managing Play Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
13. Editing Lyrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Adding Lyrics to a song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Exporting Lyrics data as text file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
14. Using the 16-track sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
About the sequencer’s main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
General considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Example 1: Recording a song from scratch . . . . . . 155
Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Example 2: Adding tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Saving your song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Editing 16-track songs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Easy editing and useful functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Editing one or several tracks (TRACK EDIT) . . . . . . . . . . 160
Editing song data using Microscope Edit . . . . . . . . 175
General notes about MICRO EDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Editing events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Other edit operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
15. Programming Styles (Style Composer) . . . . . . . .179
Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Recording User Styles from scratch . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Starting the Style Composer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Clearing the RAM memory (Initialize Style) . . . . . . . . . 180
Getting ready for the first track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Auditioning your Style and adding more tracks . . 184
Saving your Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Programming other parts and divisions . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Muting parts while recording others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Remarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Copying existing Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Starting with all tracks of an existing Style . . . . . . . . . 186
Copying individual Style tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Editing on the fly by recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Adding notes in realtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Adding controller data in realtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Adding or changing settings of existing parts . . . . . . . 188
Expression, Panpot, Reverb, Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Changing the preset tempo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Style Track Edit functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190