Roland Piano Musical Instrument User Manual


 
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Contents
Playing Back a Song...........................................................................122
Playing a Song Immediately from Disk (Quick Play).......................................................................122
Playing Back Songs Consecutively (Chain Play) ............................................................................... 122
Creating a Chain.......................................................................................................................... 122
Saving a Chain to Disk (Save) ...................................................................................................123
Loading a Chain from Disk (Load)...........................................................................................124
Playing a Chain ...........................................................................................................................124
Various Playback Methods ................................................................................................................... 124
Fast-Forward and Rewind During Playback ..........................................................................124
Playing Back Correctly from the Middle of the Song (MIDI Update).................................124
Muting the Playback of a Specific Instrument........................................................................ 125
Changing the Playback Tempo of a Song................................................................................ 125
Playing a Song Back at a Fixed Tempo (Muting the Tempo Track) ....................................125
Playing Back a S-MRC Format Song ........................................................................................125
Playing Back a Song Repeatedly (Loop Play) ......................................................................... 125
Using the D Beam Controller to Start/Stop Song Playback .................................................126
Recording Songs ................................................................................127
Two Recording Methods............................................................................................................127
Before You Record a New Song ........................................................................................................... 127
Select the Sound to be Used for Recording .............................................................................127
Erasing the Song from Internal Memory (Song Initialize).................................................... 127
Specify the Time Signature........................................................................................................128
Recording Your Performance as You Play It (Realtime Recording) ...............................................129
Basic Operation for Realtime Recording .................................................................................129
Recording Tempo Changes in a Song (Tempo Recording)................................................... 130
Loop Recording and Punch-In Recording............................................................................... 130
Correct the Timing of Your Playing as You Record (Recording Quantize) .......................131
Selecting the Sequencer Data that will Be Recorded (Recording Select) ............................131
Erasing Unwanted Data While You Record (Realtime Erase)..............................................132
Auditioning Sounds or Phrases While Recording (Rehearsal Function)............................ 132
Inputting Data One Step at a Time (Step Recording)........................................................................132
Inputting Notes and Rests ......................................................................................................... 132
Assigning a Pattern to a Phrase Track ..................................................................................... 134
Saving a Recorded Song on Disk .........................................................................................................135
Editing Songs......................................................................................136
Loading the Song You Want to Edit....................................................................................................136
Using Different Sound Generators for Each Track ................................................................136
Silencing the Playback of a Track (Mute) ................................................................................137
Overall Settings for the Song ................................................................................................................ 137
Assigning a Name to a Song (Song Name) ............................................................................. 137
Assigning a Name to a Pattern (Pattern Name) .....................................................................138
Assigning Markers (Locate Positions) to a Song .................................................................... 138
Specifying the Area of a Song that will Repeat (Loop Points).............................................. 139
Editing Sequencer Data Over the Specified Range (Track Edit) .....................................................139
Basic Operation for Track Editing ............................................................................................ 139
Aligning a Songs Timing (Quantize) ......................................................................................140
Erasing Unwanted Performance Data (Erase) ........................................................................ 142
Deleting Unwanted Measures (Delete).................................................................................... 143
Copying Phrases (Copy) ............................................................................................................143
Inserting a Blank Measure (Insert Measure) ........................................................................... 145
Transpose the Key (Transpose).................................................................................................145
Changing the Velocity (Volume) (Change Velocity) ............................................................. 146
Changing the MIDI Channel (Change Channel).................................................................... 147
Modifying the Length of Notes (Change Gate Time) ............................................................ 147
Combining Two Phrase Tracks or Patterns into One (Merge) .............................................148