Roland 2 manual Editing Individual Style Track Events, EZ Convert

You can change the NOTE, GATE, and VELOCITY parameters at any step as you record. This lets you enter any kind of note you want.

7Set up NOTE, GATE, and VELOCITY as desired.

8 Play the desired note or chord on the keyboard, or press the STRINGS/SCAT•3 button to enter a rest—the GW-8 records what you’ve entered and moves you forward in time to the next step.

If you make a mistake, you can delete the last-entered note by pressing the PIANO 0 button.

You can add a tie to the last-entered note, extending it the length of the current step, by pressing the KBD/ORGAN•1 button. To remove a tie, press the GUITAR•/BASS•2 button.

9 Repeat Steps 7 and 8 until you’re finished recording.

10Press the START/STOP button again to stop recording.

11To record additional tracks using step time, repeat Steps 1-10 above.

EZ Convert

EZ Convert is a Version 2 feature that can help you put together the various chord types for new style quickly. Begin by creating the divisions for a single chord type—major, minor, or 7th—and then use EZ Convert to automatically generate the other-chord versions of your divisions.

Here’s how to use EZ Convert:

1Create all of the divisions you need for one type of chord in a style.

2Hold down STYLE for a few seconds to display the STYLE COMPOSER screen.

3Press the PIANO•0 button to open the

Style EZ Convert window.

4If you’d like EZ Convert to

•automatically generate the remaining divisions based on the divisions you’ve already created—set SOURCE to Auto. (DESTINATION is automatically set to Auto as well.)

•generate specific chord-form divisions manually—Set SOURCE to the type of chord divisions you’ve already created, and DESTINATION to the type of chord divisions you’d like the GW-8 to generate.

5Select EXECUTE, and then press ENTER.

You may want to use EZ Convert just for one chord type, creating the others manually.

Editing Individual Style Track Events

Version 2 provides a way to edit tracks down to the smallest details. It’s called “micro-editing.” (For details on the other Version 2 style-editing tools, see “New Style Track and Song Track Editing Tools“ on Page 23.)

A knowledge of MIDI is helpful in using micro-editing. Our InFocus An Introduction to MIDI booklet can help get you started.

Here’s how to micro-edit a style track:

1Hold down the STYLE button for a few seconds to display the STYLE COMPOSER screen.

2Select the division containing the style track you want to edit, and then press ENTER to display the STYLE COMPOSER ZOOM screen.

3Select the part whose track you want to edit microscopically, and then highlight “MICRO.”

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