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602.00.0164.01 RES 548-06 Printed in Italy 07-06 E-80 – OM/E

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Main CAUTION ATTENTION INSTRUCTIONS PERTAINING TO A RISK OF FIRE, ELECTRIC SHOCK, OR INJURY TO PERSONS. IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS Owners Manual ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 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 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-80 Electromagnetic radiations Liability and copyright 1. Panel descriptions Front panel Page Page Page Page Rear panel Page 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 Page 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 Page 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) Page Displaying Lyrics and chord information Displaying scores Page Using the VIEWER function Working with picture files (BMP Import) Page Working with text files (TXT Import) 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, 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 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 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 Page 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 Page 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 Page Page 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 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 Page SOUND EDIT for sounds SOUND EDIT for Drum Sets DRUM INSTR EDIT Page COMMON Before saving your settings Saving your modified song or Style Page 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 Page Editing an Index Page Play List function Programming Play Lists Editing Play Lists Page Using Play Lists Managing Play Lists Page 13. Editing Lyrics Adding Lyrics to a song Page Exporting Lyrics data as text file Page 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 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 Page Style Converter General considerations Using the Style Converter Auditioning the tracks Page Page 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 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 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 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 16. Disk/Media functions The how-tos Loading data Saving data Page Rename functions Delete Copy Format Import User Program function Page 17. Archiving data using a computer (USB) Page 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 Page Page 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 Page 21. Appendix Installing wave expansion boards How to install a wave expansion board B A Accessing the Patches of SRX- series expansion boards via MIDI MFX and IFX types and parameters Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page 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 A B C D E F G H I J K N O P Q R S T U V W Z As of April 1, 2006 (ROLAND) Information distributor in your country as shown below. NORTH AMERICA MIDDLE EAST ASIA FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE STATEMENT