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Features
A comprehensive arranger instrument
Professional Vocal Harmonist
Amplification
2 slots for SRX-series expansion boards
Superfast Recorder and comprehensive 16-track sequencer
and so much more
Finder functions for songs, Music Styles and User Programs
D Beam controller
Play List function
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Contents
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Important notes
Power supply
Placement
Maintenance
Repairs and data
Memory Backup
Before using memory cards
Memory cards usable with the E-80
Electromagnetic radiations
Liability and copyright
1. Panel descriptions
Front panel
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Rear panel
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Setting up and demo songs
2. Setting up and demo songs
Connections
Switching the E-80 on/off
Internal Memory Protect
Switching off the E-80
Setting the display contrast
Switching on the E-80
Interactive demo of the E-80
The main page
3. Quick Start
The general idea
Playing to an automatic accompa- niment
Professional transitions: Fill In
Intro & Ending
Selecting Music Styles
Changing the tempo
Using the Keyboard parts
Playing with an Upper and/or Lower part
Alternating between sounds
Selecting sounds for the Keyboard parts
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Drumming on the keyboard
Selecting sounds from an SRX expansion board
Using the Harmonic Bars
If you like a registration
About the MANUAL field
Using just one organ sound and bass pedals
Using effects
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Playing realistic guitar parts (Guitar mode)
First steps
Additional ARPEGGIO functions
Leaving the E-80s 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
Using the Song Cover function
Minus One
Vocal Harmonist function
Setting up
Adding harmonies to your singing
Who specifies the harmonies?
Not convinced so far?
Voice-FX
Auto Pitch
Using the Vocoder
Talk
Automatic transposition (Singer Key)
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Displaying Lyrics and chord information
Displaying scores
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Using the VIEWER function
Working with picture files (BMP Import)
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Working with text files (TXT Import)
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Recording your music
Recording with Style backing
Listening to your song
Recording without accompaniment
Adding more parts
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Saving your song
4. About the Keyboard modes
Arranger, Organ, Guitar and Piano 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
Setting the transposition interval via the display
Global Transpose
Octave
Key Touch (velocity sensitivity)
Velocity switching (Min and Max)
Master Tune
Aftertouch
(5) Press the [EXIT] button to return to the main page.
ASSIGN SW buttons
Using the D Beam Controller
D Beam functions
(4) Press the [EXIT] button to return to the main page.
Using optional footswitches
FC7 PEDAL
The E-80 allows you to connect an optional FC-7 Foot Controller to the FC7 PEDAL socket.
(1) Press the [MENU] button.
The display changes to:
Hold Footswitch (Sustain)
Foot Switch
Expression (Foot Pedal)
Scale Tuning
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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
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Disk User
Style Finder: quickly locating Styles
Quick location of the Style you need
Editing the Style Finder information
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7. Advanced Keyboard part functions
Upper 3 Split
Dynamic Split
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
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8. Using the mixer functions & effects
+ OUTPUT MAIN L/R PHONES 1/2
SONG
STYLE
Effects processors for the Keyboard parts and Song & Style instruments
Mixing Keyboard parts
Volume and status of the Style parts
Editing the Keyboard effects processors
Reverb for Keyboard parts
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Chorus for Keyboard parts
Using the multi-effects processor of the Keyboard parts (MULTI FX)
Selecting another MFX type and editing it
Linking Multi-FX type selection to the Upper1 part (Upper 1 M-FX Link)
Equalizers for the Keyboard parts
Using the Keyboard Mastering Tools
Equalizer
Compressor
Effects for Songs and Styles
Reverb for Style/Song instruments
Chorus for Style/Song instruments
Using the multi-effects processors of the Style and Song instruments
Using the Style/Song Mastering Tools
Equalizer
Compressor
Using the audio inputs
Using the Speaker Modeling settings
Mixing Vocal Harmonist signals
Reverb, Delay and Chorus effects
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9. Working with User Programs
Saving your settings to a User Program
Selecting User Programs
Default
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
TXT/BMP Link
User Program Recall
Editing User Program Finder information
Editing the User Program Finder information
Editing an Index
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Music Assistant functions
Creating new Music Assistant registrations
Editing Music Assistant registrations
Saving a Music Assistant entry
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10. Song and Style Makeup Tools
Mixing Song or Style parts
Using the Makeup Tools
General procedure
PALETTE
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SOUND EDIT for sounds
SOUND EDIT for Drum Sets
DRUM INSTR EDIT
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COMMON
Before saving your settings
Saving your modified song or Style
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11. Editing the Vocal Harmonist parts
Procedure for selecting these pages
If you press the
Singer settings
field
Voice-FX settings
Auto Pitch settings
Vocoder settings
Small settings
Press the
[COMMON]
If you press the
field to jump to the fol- lowing page.
Ensemble settings
field
[Common]
12. More refined song functions
Using the Fade-In/Out function
Programming MARK & JUMP locations
Working with the Song Finder
Locating files with the Song Finder
Editing the Song Finder information
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Editing an Index
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Play List function
Programming Play Lists
Editing Play Lists
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Using Play Lists
Managing Play Lists
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13. Editing Lyrics
Adding Lyrics to a song
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Exporting Lyrics data as text file
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14. Using the 16-track Sequencer
About the sequencers main page
General considerations
Tracks and MIDI channels
Example 1: Recording a song from scratch
Preparations
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Example 2: Adding tracks
Saving your song
Editing 16-track songs
Easy editing and useful functions
Editing one or several tracks (TRACK EDIT)
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Fine-tuning the note range
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RESOLUTION (1/4, 1/8, 1/8T, 1/16, 1/16T, 1/32, 1/32T, 1/64)
STRENGTH (0%~100%)
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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
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INC/DEC
To correct the timing of notes recorded via MIDI without quantizing them.
TRACK (ALL, 1~16)
SHIFT CLOCK
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Editing song data using Microscope Edit
General notes about MICRO EDIT
Editing events
Other edit operations
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Style Converter
General considerations
Using the Style Converter
Auditioning the tracks
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15. 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 remarks
Getting ready for the first track
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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 real-time
Adding controller data in real-time
Adding or changing settings of existing parts
Expression, Panpot, Reverb, Chorus
Changing the preset tempo
Style Track Edit functions
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Editing individual Style events (Style Micro Edit)
General notes about STYLE MICRO EDIT
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Editing events
Other edit operations
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16. Disk/Media functions
The how-tos
Loading data
Saving data
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Rename functions
Delete
Copy
Format
Import User Program function
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17. Archiving data using a computer (USB)
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Backing up all of the E-80s data
Just in case
18. 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
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MIDI Sets
Writing a MIDI Set
Using MIDI Sets
MIDI Set selection at power-on
19. Miscellaneous
Using V-LINK
General settings
Song/Arranger Start Priority
Touch Screen Beep
Flashing Exit
Flashing Metronome
Info
Initializing the E-80 (Factory Reset)
20. Specifications
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21. Appendix
Installing wave expansion boards
How to install a wave expansion board
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Accessing the Patches of SRX- series expansion boards via MIDI
MFX and IFX types and parameters
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Appendix | MIDI Implementation Chart
22. MIDI Implementation Chart
[Music Workstation] Date: May 2006 Model: E-80 Version: 1.00
Appendix | Chord Intelligence
23. Chord Intelligence
Appendix | Chord Intelligence
Index
Numerics
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