Roland E-80 Getting ready for the first track

Recording Styles from scratch

E-80 Music Workstation

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This value needs to be set when you initialize the

Style RAM memory (i.e. now). All Divisions and Modes

use this time signature. You could, however, edit the

patterns at a later stage (see “TIME SIGNAT” on

p. 219) and specify that MAIN [1] should use “4/4”,

MAIN [2] “6/8”, etc.

(5) Set the time signature:

• Press the first [BEAT] field (the numerator) and enter

the desired number of beats using the [DATA÷ENTRY]

dial or the [DEC]/[INC] buttons.

• Press the second [BEAT] field (the denominator) and

enter the duration of each beat using the

[DATA÷ENTRY] dial or the [DEC]/[INC] buttons.

You can also already set the tempo (20~250) here, or

leave that for later.

‰ Continue with step (6) below.

■Preparing your own settings

If none of the templates matches the settings you

need, press the [MY¥SETUP] field.

Here, you can prepare the STYLE COMPOSER for the

work at hand by selecting the desired sounds and

setting additional parameters.

Please proceed in the order given here until you have

a firm grasp of the flexibility:

(a)Press the [TRACK] field and use the [DATA÷ENTRY] dial or

the [DEC]/[INC] buttons to select the track whose settings

you want to change.

With the exception of the tempo, all parameters shown

here only apply to the selected track. There are 8 tracks:

ADrum (the drums), ABass (the bass) and Acc1~6 (melodic

accompaniment parts).

(b)Press the [TRACK¥INSTRUMENT] field to jump to the TONE

SELECT page. (You can also press a TONE button to

assign the desired sound to the track.)

The [HARMONIC¥BAR] sounds are not available for Style

tracks. The AccDrums track can only use Drum Sets (so that

only the [DRUMS] button of the TONE pad is available).

(d)If necessary, change the CONTROLS settings by pressing

their fields and using the [DATA÷ENTRY] dial or the [DEC]/

[INC] buttons.

The four fields refer to the following aspects:

These settings may come in handy to ensure that all ACC1

parts (for example) use the same amount of reverb and are

always located in the right half of the stereo image. You

can also change these settings later (see p. 211).

(e)Repeat steps (a)~(d) for the remaining tracks, Modes and

Divisions.

(f) Press the first [BEAT] field (the numerator) and enter the

desired number of beats using the [DATA÷ENTRY] dial or

the [DEC]/[INC] buttons.

(g)Press the second [BEAT] field (the denominator) and

enter the duration of each beat using the [DATA÷ENTRY]

dial or the [DEC]/[INC] buttons.

See “Time signature” above. You can already set the tempo

(20~250) here, or leave that for later.

(6) Press the [EXECUTE] field.

The display returns to the STYLE COMPOSER page,

which only contains the sound assignments you have

just made.

Getting ready for the first track

(7) On the STYLE COMPOSER page, press the DIVISION

field and use the [DATA÷ENTRY] dial to select the

Division you want to record (“Intro”, “Main”, “Fill”

or “Ending”).

(8) Press the RECORDER [REC¥∏] button.

The display changes to:

EXPRESS Temporary volume changes (CC11).

REVERB Reverb Send (CC91), i.e. how strongly the

selected track should be processed by the

reverb effect.

PANPOT The track’s stereo placement (00[L]~64~127[R]).

8 possibilities

Can be set for

all 8 tracks

CHORUS Chorus Send (CC93), i.e. how strongly the

selected track should be processed by the cho-

rus effect.

REC

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