Roland 2 manual Recording a Style Track in Realtime, Accompaniment 5 ACC5

Version 2 adds an extensive suite of style- and song-track editing tools you can use when you’re done recording. See Page 23 for details.

Realtime and step recording start the same way—they go their own ways once you get to the Style Rec Standby screen. After initializing a style, you’ll find yourself on the STYLE COMPOSER screen. (If you’re not there now, hold down the STYLE button for a couple of seconds.)

Though we’re currently discussing recording a new style’s first style track, you can also use the following procedures for adding new tracks to an existing style.

1Press the STYLE CONTROL area’s INTRO, MAIN, ENDING, or AUTO FILL- IN button to select the section, and then the VARIATION 1-4 buttons to select the division, you’d like to start with.

Here we’ve selected the first major-key,

Main-section division for recording.

2Press the ENTER button to display the STYLE COMPOSER ZOOM screen.

3 Press the SONG REC button to display the Style Rec Standby screen.

If the Style Rec Standby screen looks different for you, REC TYPE is set to STEP REC.

Recording a Style Track in Realtime

1Set REC TYPE to REALTIME if it’s not already set that way.

2Set PART to choose the style track you want to record. You can select any of the eight style tracks:

• Drums (shown as “ADRUM”)		•	Bass (ABASS)
•	Accompaniment 1 (ACC1)	•	Accompaniment 2 (ACC2)
•	Accompaniment 3 (ACC3)	•	Accompaniment 4 (ACC4)
•	Accompaniment 5 (ACC5)	•	Accompaniment 6 (ACC6)

For now, we’re going to start with the drum track, ADRUM.

3Select the TONE number parameter—it’s time to select the tone we want the selected part to use.

While your primary rhythm is recorded on the Drum part/track, Version 2 lets you to also use a rhythm set for any Accompaniment part.

4Select the sound you want the part to play using the tone buttons and the VALUE dial, or using the GW-8’s Numeric-entry feature.

5Next up is the Rec Mode parameter, which we can leave set to REPLACE for now. This parameter determines what’s to happen to any data already recorded on a track. When it’s set to

•REPLACE—new material replaces any data already on the track.

•MIX—new material is combined with what’s already on the track. This setting allows you to loop-record a style track, as described below in a tip just after Step 14.

6Set the Key parameter to the style track’s key—the GW-8 needs this information for playing the style track at the correct pitch when you use the style. (With a drum track, there’s no Key setting required.)

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