Roland EM-55 owner manual Selecting sounds for the right hand, Style selection via EZ Search

Style selection via EZ Search

Another easy way of selecting Music Styles goes like this:

(1)Press the [EZ SEARCH] button (indicator lights).

The display now shows the number and name of the currently selected Music Style.

(2)Look at the STYLE list in the upper left part of the front panel to select a Style bank, then press the BANK/NUMBER but- ton that corresponds to that bank.

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Example: to select a Music Style from the “POP” bank, press [3].

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(3)Use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial to select the desired Music Style from that bank.

After selecting the POP bank, that would be Pop 1A~4A, Pop 1B~4B.

Note: EZ Search only works for the “A” group (the

Styles in the EM-55’s internal memory).

Working with Music Styles on a floppy disk

Your EM-55 comes with two floppy disks, one of which contains 64 additional Music Styles for the Disk Link function. (The other floppy disk contains additional Styles that you can load via STYLE DISK.) Using those is just as easy as working with the internal Styles – and loading them from floppy is just as quick. This function is called “Disk Link”.

The Music Style referenced by the Disk Link memory you select is automatically loaded from disk and copied to the Style Disk memory (see also p. 26).

(1)Insert the “Disk Link” floppy disk into the drive (front panel, below the keyboard).

(2)Press the [STYLE] button.

(3)Press the [A/B] button to select Group B (the B appears in the upper left-hand cor- ner of the display).

(4)Use the numeric keypad to select the desired Music Style bank (1~8).

(5)Use the numeric keypad to select a Music

Style memory of that bank (x1~x8).

Note: You can also assign other Styles to the Music Style memories of group b (see p. 27).

Note: The EM-55 does not store the Music Styles for group b. You need to insert the (correct) floppy disk into the drive each time you wish to use those Styles.

Selecting sounds for the right hand

Do the following if you wish to assign a different sound to your (right-hand) melody playing:

(1) Press the [TONE] button.

The [TONE] icon appears in the display. You can now select Tones. There are two ways to select Tones on the EM-55.

In this example, we will select the Tone “B419 HeavenKey”.

(2)Press the [A/B] button to select the Tone group.

The “HeavenKey” Tone belongs to the “TONE B” group. You therefore need to press [A/B] once or twice to make the display read b.

Piano 2

Note: This is only necessary if the currently selected Tone belongs to the A group.

Note: The name (“Piano 2” in the illustration) still refers to the previously selected Tone.

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