Quick Start
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E-80 Music Workstation
■Player (Data Update and Quick Start)
(1) Press the [MENU] button.
The display changes to:
(2) Press the [UTILITY], then the [GLOBAL] field.
(3) Use the button icon next to the [BWD÷FWD÷JUMP]
field to specify whether (on) or not (off) SysEx
messages contained in the song you play back are
updated while you fast-forward/rewind or use the
MARK JUMP buttons.
(4) Press the [SONG¥PLAY¥QUICK¥START] field and use
the [DATA÷ENTRY] dial to specify where and how
song playback should begin:
● FROM SECOND BAR—This function causes playback to
start from measure 2 of the selected Standard MIDI File.
This is often useful, because the first bar of most Stan-
dard MIDI Files contain SysEx and control change data
that “configure” the E-80’s sound source. Playing back
that measure on stage may lead to a rather long blank,
which you probably want to avoid.
● FROM FIRST NOTE—This is basically the same as the
above, except that playback is started on the first note of
the selected song.
● OFF—Playback starts at the very beginning of the song
file (and may thus contain a few silent bars).
● SONG/ARRANGER START PRIORITY—Allows you to
specify whether starting a song can (or cannot) interrupt
Arranger playback, and vice versa. See page 246 for
details.
Using the Song Cover function
The COVER function provides “masks” that change the
instrumentation of the selected song (or Music Style).
Simply by selecting another preset, you can cause a
Viennese waltz to be played back by a heavy metal
band, etc. Even though the arrangement (rhythm, riffs)
does not change, the songs’ character can be modified
beyond recognition.
(1) Press the [COVER] button once or twice to select
the display page shown below.
(2) Select the parts whose instrumentation you want
to change:
Press the [ALL] field if all instruments should be
replaced.
Press the [DRUM] field if only the drum and percus-
sion instruments should change.
Press the [BASS] field if you’re happy with everything
but the bass line’s sound.
(3) Press one of the six fields in the lower half of the
display to select another preset.
After selecting a preset, you can press [ORIGINAL]
(page 1) to return to the original orchestration.
(4) If none of the displayed presets appeal to you, use
the PAGE [ø][˚] fields at the right to jump to
another page with more presets.
(5) Try out various presets to see how (fast) this con-
cept works.
(6) If you like the new version better than the original
one, you can press the [SAVE] field to save the song
to the internal memory, a memory card or floppy
disk with this information (page 148).
Note: The COVER information is part of the data only the E-80
understands. You can still play back the newly saved version of
this song on another sequencer or SMF player, but the COVER
information will be ignored.
Note: You can also modify the COVER settings yourself (see
p. 141).
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