Roland 2 New Chord Detection Control, Selecting Chords Using NTA, Selecting Styles Using NTA

Selecting Chords Using NTA

To select style chords:

1Set the RX NTA channel parameter to the MIDI channel you’d like to use. The default channel is Channel 14.

2Turn the Rx NTA Switch parameter on.

3Set your external MIDI controller to transmit MIDI messages on the same MIDI channel you selected in Step 1.

To learn how to set your external controller’s MIDI channel, see its documentation.

Selecting Styles Using NTA

If you’ve got an external MIDI device that can send MIDI Program Change messages, you can use them to change style song sections and variations on the GW-8. Turn on the GW-8’s Rx Style PC Switch parameter, and then send the required Program Change messages to the GW-8 from the external device on the MIDI channel specified with the GW-8’s Rx Style PC Channel parameter. The Program Changes you’ll need to send can be found on Page

43of the GW-8 Workstation Version 2 Supplementary Manual.

Recording Division Selections Into an External Device

In Version 2, the GW-8 can send out Program Change messages as you select style song sections and variations. These can be recorded by a computer- based DAW (“Digital Audio Workstation”), which can send the data back to the GW-8, which then recreates your moves. To set this up, turn on the GW-8’s Tx Style PC Switch, and then set the external device to receive on the MIDI channel set by GW-8’s Tx Style PC MIDI Channel parameter.

Since the GW-8 also generates MIDI data as you play, you can record and play back an entire GW-8 performance with an external sequencer.

New Chord Detection Control

Version 2 adds a new performance parameter—Chord Zone—that lets you select the note range on the keyboard that the GW-8 uses for chord detection. Here’s how it works.

1 From the Main screen, press the MENU button to display the Top Menu window, and select Perform Edit.

2Press the ENTER button, and then cursor down to the new

Chord Zone parameter.

3Set it as desired to

•OFF—so that the GW-8’s Chord Detection feature’s turned off.

•LEFT—so that the GW-8 creates chords based on the notes you play to the left of the current keyboard split point.

•RIGHT—so the GW-8 creates chords based on the notes you play to the right of the current split point.

•WHOLE—so that the GW-8 generates chords based on notes you play anywhere on the keyboard.

With Version 2’s new Note to Arranger feature—see Page 6—you trigger chords with all of the notes you play on an external MIDI controller regardless of the Chord Zone setting, since Chord Zone applies only to chord detection from the GW-8’s own keyboard.

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