Roland E-80 Using the Style Converter, Auditioning the tracks

Using the 16-track Sequencer

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E-80 Music Workstation

Using the Style Converter

(1) Select and load a (different) song.

This is not necessary if you want to use the song you

have just recorded or played back. Otherwise, see

“Working with the Song Finder” on p. 159 (or

page 42) for how to load a song.

In any case, you should listen to it and try to isolate

the eight tracks whose parts should be included in

your new Music Style.

(2) Press the RECORDER [16-TRK¥SEQ.] button.

The display changes to:

(3) Press the [STYLE¥CONVERTER] field in the right col-

umn.

(4) You may also have to press the [SETUP] button icon

to select the page shown above (if “CONVERT” is

currently active).

This page allows you to select the song tracks that

should become Style tracks. Remember that a song

may contain up to 16 tracks, while a Music Style

“only” provides eight.

The default assignments of song tracks to the Style

tracks (see the illustration above, last column in the

list) are made automatically. Though based on com-

mon sense, they may not yield the desired accompa-

niment pattern. As a rule, you should always listen

carefully.

(5) To correct one or several of the default assign-

ments, proceed as follows:

• Press one of the green fields to select the Style track.

Those are the tracks that make up your Music style to

be.

• Next, use the [DATA÷ENTRY] dial or the [DEC]/[INC]

buttons to select a song track in the list to the left.

Note: See “Arranger parts” on p. 82 if you’re not sure what the

abbreviations in the “Trk” fields stand for.

Note: If you assign several song tracks to the same Style track,

a bullet (“●”) appears next to the Style track name in the table

to indicate that the Style track in question is already assigned

to another song track. (Though this is perfectly possible, the

result is usually not convincing.)

If necessary, press the [INIT¥VALUE] field to return to

the default assignments if that produces the best

result after all.

Auditioning the tracks

Press the [Jump≈to≈1st≈note] field to jump to the first

note of the selected song track (the one that appears

on a blue background). Playback starts automatically

from that point and you will hear all song tracks.

Press the RECORDER [PLAY÷STOP¥®÷ª] button to stop

playback (or to start it again).

Note: If the selected track contains no data at all, playback is

started from the very first song measure.

■Muting tracks

Sometimes, it may be necessary to mute certain parts

so as to concentrate on what the other tracks do, and

to decide which tracks should be converted into a

Music Style. To do so, press the [MUTE] field and then

the lines of the song tracks you don’t want to hear.

Such tracks are flagged with an “M”.

Press the [MUTE] field again to switch off the func-

tion of the same name.

■Solo

To listen to one track in isolation, press the [SOLO]

field and the field of the track you want to solo, then

start playback. This mutes all other tracks, while the

selected track is flagged with an “S”.

Press the [SOLO] field again to switch off the func-

tion of the same name.

(6) Press the [CONVERT] field to jump to the following

page.

Commercially available Standard MIDI Files are pro-

tected by a copyright. Please note that the Style

Converter should only be used to create Music Styles

for private use. Roland assumes no responsibility for

use of the Style Converter.

16-TRK

SEQ.