Roland 2 manual Editing Individual Song and Track Events

Editing Individual Song and Track Events

Version 2 provides a pair of screens that let you edit a song in very precise ways. The screens operate the same way, but do different things. The

•SONG MICROSCOPE screen—allows you to edit tracks on a note-by-note, or MIDI event-by-event, level.

•SONG MASTER TRACK screen—allows you to edit the song’s tempo and time signature, or add tempo and/or time-signature changes over the course of the song.

A knowledge of MIDI is helpful in taking full advantage of these screens. See InFocus An Introduction to MIDI booklet for more information.

To display the screens, press PART VIEW to show the SONG TRACK screen, and then

•select the track/part you want to edit, highlight “MICRO,” and press ENTER—to display the SONG MICROSCOPE screen.

This screen shows you a list of all of the note events and other MIDI events on the selected track/part.

If you find the list a bit overwhelming, you can filter out things you don’t want to see. Press the MENU button to open the VIEW SELECT window in which you can uncheck anything you’d like the GW-8 to temporarily hide. Press EXIT to leave the window.

•highlight “MASTER” and press ENTER—to display the SONG MASTER TRACK screen.

This screen shows you the song’s tempo and time-signature events that are recorded—under-the-hood—on the song’s master track.

If you’re an advanced MIDI user, you may want to display the master track’s System Exclusive data—you can do this by pressing MENU.

The structure of both screens is the same:

•The left-hand column shows time locations of events in the track.

•The next column shows the event at each of the displayed time locations.

•The next column shows the event’s value. In the case of a note, for example, the note’s velocity is shown here.

•For note events, the right-hand column shows the length of each note.

Time Event Event value (Note length)

To edit an event’s value use 3, 4, 5, and/or 6 to highlight the value, and turn the VALUE dial to set the value as desired.

To change or undo an edit you make on this screen, just repeat the editing process to fix the problem.

In addition, the GW-8’s tone-selection buttons provide some additional tools. To

• create a new event—press the PIANO•0 button to open the Create Event window in which you can select the type of event you want to create, and the location at which you want it. Once you’ve created the event, you can edit as you would any other event.

• erase an event—select the event and press KBD/ORGAN•1.

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