Roland E-50, E-60, E-60, E-50 owner manual

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Owner’s Manual

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Main WARNING To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose this device to rain or moisture. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE STATEMENT For EU Countries Owners Manual ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Features Rolands most comprehensive arranger instru- ment ever D Beam controller (E-60) Play List function Guitar mode and so much more Page Page Contents Page Page Important notes Power supply Placement Maintenance Repairs and data Memory Backup Before using memory cards Memory cards usable with the E-60/E-50 Electromagnetic radiations Liability and copyright 1. Panel descriptions Front panel Page Page Page Rear panel A FGHI BC DE 2. Setting up and demo songs Connections Switching the E-60/E-50 on/off Internal Memory Protect Switching off the E-60/E-50 Setting the display contrast Switching on the E-60/E-50 Interactive demo of the E-60/E-50 The main page General note about the E-50s menu 3. Quick Start The general idea Playing to an automatic accompa- niment Professional transitions: Fill In Intro & Ending Changing the tempo Selecting Music Styles Using the Keyboard parts Playing with an Upper and/or the Lower part Alternating between sounds Selecting sounds for the Keyboard parts Drumming on the keyboard Playing realistic guitar parts (Guitar mode) First steps Additional ARPEGGIO functions Leaving the E-60/E-50s Guitar mode Selecting guitar sounds About the chord indications Using the available STRUMM techniques Playing question and answer phrases Guitar Mode Options Working with the Music Assistant If the desired registration is not displayed To save time Using the Finder Playing back songs (Standard MIDI Files) Quick location of the song you need Starting playback Other practical playback functions Page Using the Song Cover function Minus One Displaying Lyrics and chord information Displaying scores Page Recording your music Recording with Style backing Listening to your song Recording without accompaniment Adding more parts Page Saving your song 4. About the Keyboard modes Arranger, Piano, Organ and Guitar modes Split and Whole modes Using the SPLIT Keyboard Mode Using WHOLE mode Switching parts on and off 5. Using the performance functions Pitch Bend and Modulation Transposition Global Transpose Octave Key Touch (velocity sensitivity) Velocity switching (Min and Max) Master Tune Using the D Beam Controller (E-60) D Beam functions Page Using optional footswitches Sustain Footswitch (HOLD) Foot Switch Expression (Foot Pedal) Scale Tuning Page Metronome Metronome settings 6. Additional Arranger/Style functions Playback functions (Style Control) Starting a Music Style Stopping Style playback About Sync Start & Stop Selecting other Style divisions Other ways of selecting Arranger patterns Bass Inversion Melody Intelligence Linking MELODY INTELL type selection to the Styles (Style Melody Intell Link) Using the Style Cover function Freeze Data Saving a Style with a COVER alteration One Touch Ignoring certain One Touch settings (Hold) Programming your own One Touch settings (WRITE) More refined Arranger settings Chord recognition area (ZONE) Arranger Type (chord mode) Arranger Hold Intro & Ending Alteration Dynamic Arranger Tempo-related settings (Arranger Options) Style Tempo TEMPO CHANGE (RITARD and ACCELER) Working with external Styles Using the CUSTOM memories Programming CUSTOM assignments Page Disk User Style Finder: quickly locating Styles Quick location of the Style you need Editing the Style Finder information Page Page 7. Advanced Keyboard part functions Tuning Upper2: Coarse Tune and Fine Tune Portamento for UP1 and UP2 Portamento Time Portamento Mode: Mono/Poly Lower Hold Tone Edit: editing Keyboard parts Page 8. Using the mixer functions & effects About the E-60/E-50s effects Mixing Keyboard parts Volume and status of the Style parts Editing the Keyboard effects processors Reverb for Keyboard parts Chorus for Keyboard parts Using the multi-effects processor (Multi-FX) Selecting another MFX type and editing it Linking Multi-FX type selection to the Upper1 part (Upper 1 M-FX Link) Effects for Songs and Styles Reverb for Style/Song parts Chorus for Style/Song parts Digital Bass Enhancer function 9. Working with User Programs Saving your settings to a User Program Selecting User Programs Cancel Choosing User Programs manually Selecting User Programs with [DOWN][UP] Working with the User Program Finder Quick location of the User Program you need Selectively loading User Program settings (User Program Hold) Bypassing the AUTO FILL function (Fill In On User Program Change) Automatic functions for User Programs Song Link Linking a MIDI Set to a User Program User Program Recall Editing User Program Finder information Editing the User Program Finder information Editing an Index Page Music Assistant functions Creating new Music Assistant registrations Editing Music Assistant registrations Saving a Music Assistant entry Page 10. Song and Style Makeup Tools Mixing Song or Style parts Using the Makeup Tools General procedure PALETTE SOUND EDIT for sounds SOUND EDIT for Drum Sets DRUM INSTR EDIT Before saving your settings COMMON Saving your modified song or Style 11. More refined song functions Programming MARK & JUMP locations Working with the Song Finder Locating files with the Song Finder Editing the Song Finder information Page Editing an Index Page Play List function Programming Play Lists Editing Play Lists Page Using Play Lists Managing Play Lists Page 12. Editing Lyrics Adding Lyrics to a song Page Exporting Lyrics data as text file 13. Using the 16-track sequencer About the sequencers main page General considerations Tracks and MIDI channels Example 1: Recording a song from scratch Preparations g Page Example 2: Adding tracks Saving your song Editing 16-track songs Easy editing and useful functions Editing one or several tracks (TRACK EDIT) Page Fine-tuning the note range q RESOLUTION (1/4, 1/8, 1/8T, 1/16, 1/16T, 1/32, 1/32T, 1/64) STRENGTH (0%~100%) _ q &cqq ERASE DATA TYPE FROM NOTE (0 C-~127 G9) TO NOTE (0 C-~127 G9) FROM CC (0~127) TO CC (0~127) SRC TRACK (ALL, 1~16) COPY MODE (Replace, Mix) COPY TIMES (1~999) DATA TYPE DST TRACK Page Page Page Page INC/DEC To correct the timing of notes recorded via MIDI without quantizing them. TRACK (ALL, 1~16) SHIFT CLOCK Page Page Page Page Editing song data using Microscope Edit General notes about MICRO EDIT Editing events Other edit operations Style Converter General considerations Using the Style Converter Auditioning the tracks Page Page 14. Programming Styles (Style Composer) Concept Patterns (Divisions) Tracks Looped vs. one-shot patterns Recording Styles from scratch Starting the Style Composer Clearing the RAM memory (Initialize Style) Important remark Getting ready for the first track Page Page Recording Auditioning your Style and adding more tracks Saving your Style Recording other tracks and divisions Muting tracks while recording others Remarks Using existing Styles Starting with all tracks of an existing Style Copying individual Style tracks Editing Styles on the fly via additional recordings Adding notes in realtime Adding controller data in realtime Adding or changing settings of existing parts Expression, Panpot, Reverb, Chorus Changing the preset tempo Style Track Edit functions Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Editing individual Style events (Style Micro Edit) General notes about STYLE MICRO EDIT Page Editing events Other edit operations Page 15. Disk/Media functions The how-tos Loading data Saving data Page Rename functions Delete Copy Format Import User Program function Page 16. Archiving data using a computer (USB) Page Backing up all of the E-60/E-50s data Just in case 17. MIDI The how-tos Accessing the MIDI functions Working with presets Editing procedure + SMF +Style Editing MIDI parameters Keyboard, Style, Song parts MIDI System parameters Page Page MIDI Sets Writing a MIDI Set Using MIDI Sets MIDI Set selection at power-on 18. Miscellaneous Using V-LINK General settings Song/Arranger Start Priority Flashing Exit Flashing Metronome Info Initializing the E-60/E-50 (Factory Reset) 19. Specifications Page 20. MFX types and parameters Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Appendix 21. MIDI Implementation Chart [Music Workstation] Date: May 2006 Model: E-60/E-50 Version: 1.00 22. Chord Intelligence Page 23. Index Numerics A B C E F G H I K L M N O Q R S T U V W Z Page As of August 1, 2006 (ROLAND) Information distributor in your country as shown below. NORTH AMERICA MIDDLE EAST ASIA FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE STATEMENT