Roland 2 manual

Typically, you’ll want to set all of the style tracks in a style to the same key.

7Count In sets the number of beats, if any, you’ll hear when you start recording your style track. You can set it to

•OFF—for no count-in.

•1MEAS—for a four-beat count-in.

•2MEAS—for an eight-beat count-in.

•WAIT NOTE—so recording begins as soon as you play a note.

8The GW-8 can automatically transpose your notes downward or upward in octaves when the style is played. Set the Octave parameter to the desired amount of transposition—if you don’t want the track transposed, set the parameter to 0.

9The GW-8 can automatically correct any timing errors you make as you record with its Input Quantize feature. If you’d like to use it, select a beat value to which your notes will be moved as you record.

10Set Length to the number of measures you want the style track to be, or set it to Off if you’d like your playing to determine its length.

Length sets the number of measures a style track plays before it loops back to the start. While normally all style tracks have the same length, this parameter allows you to play a short repeating phrase—for example a drum pattern—over and over beneath other, longer tracks as what’s often called a “nested loop.”

Now you’re ready to record. What you hear at the next step depends on how you’ve set Count In. If you’ve set it to

•OFF—recording will start immediately.

•1MEAS or 2MEAS—your count-in beats will play, and then recording will begin.

•WAIT NOTE—the GW-8 will wait for you to play, and

when you do, recording will begin.

11 Press the START/STOP button to begin recording.

12If you’ve set Length to

•Off—press START/STOP to halt recording when you’re done playing.

•something other than Off—recording stops at the time you’ve selected.

13To hear your recording, press the START/STOP button.

While you’re on the STYLE COMPOSER screen, you can audition any of your style’s divisions by selecting them and hitting START/STOP.

To listen to your new style from the Main screen, turn on SYNC START and play a lower-part key to let the GW-8 know the chord you want to use for playback.

14To record additional style tracks in realtime, press the SONG REC button and repeat Steps 1-13 above.

Setting Length to a specific number of measures allows you to “loop- record” a style track. When you first record the style track, it stops at the location you’ve set, as described above. However, if you press SONG REC again, set Rec Mode to Mix, and then press START/STOP, you’ll be able to add more material to the track as it plays over and over again, until you press START/STOP once more to end recording.

Once you’ve recorded all the divisions for a chord type, you can finish up a new style quickly using the new EZ Convert feature, described on Page 13.

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