Roland EM-55 Recording your music, Listening to your song, Sion, Select a Music Style. See also

Recording your music

8. Recording your music

Your EM-55 contains a 16-track Recorder you can use for recording your own songs. Feel free to use the Arranger to add an accompaniment to the melodies you record.

Here, you will learn how to record your melody and the Arranger accompaniment.

(1)Press the [ARRANGER] button.

The indicator lights. You can now use your left hand for transposing the Arranger’s key in realtime.

(2)Press the [STYLE] button.

(3)Select a Music Style. See also page 14.

(4)Press the [START/STOP] button.

(5)Use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial to set desired tempo.

(6)Press [START/STOP] again to stop Arranger playback.

(7)Assign the desired Tone to the right half of the keyboard.

Press [TONE], and use the [A/B] and [1]~[8] buttons (or the EZ Search function). See also page 15.

Note: If necessary, you can also use the [VARIA- TION] button to select a Tone Variation. See p. 28 for details.

(8)Press the [● REC] button.

●REC

The display should look as follows (if it

doesn’t, use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial to select ALL):

ALL							120	001
							TEMPO	MEASURE
ARRANGER CHORD						TONE		KEYBOARD
								VELOCITY
								REVERB
								CHORUS
RECORD								MELODY
								INTELL
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	INVERSION
9	10 11 12 13 14 15 16

(The [RECORD≈∏] and [1]~[16] icons flash.) You are now in ALL mode, which means that everything you and the EM-55’s Arranger play will be recorded.

Note: This will erase the song that currently resides in the EM-55’s internal memory. You may want to save the current Song to floppy disk first (see p. 52).

(9)Start recording in one of the following ways:

•Press the [START/STOP] button to start Arranger playback with the selected Divi-

sion.

Note: If you start recording without the Arranger and want to bring it in at a later stage, it would be a good idea to switch on the metronome by pressing the [METRONOME] button.

•Activate the SYNC START function and press one or several keys to the left of the Split

point.

Note: It is also possible to record in PIANO, and M.DRUMS modes (after pressing the buttons of the same name). In that case, you should use the met- ronome. The song’s time signature can be set with the MetroTS function. See page 17.

(10)Stop recording in one of the following ways:

• Press [START/STOP].

•Press the [ENDING] button to start the End- ing phrase. As soon as it ends, recording stops.

Listening to your song

(1)Press the [SONG] button.

(2)Press [START/STOP] to start playback.

(3)Press [START/STOP] once again to stop playback.

(4)Press [ORIGINAL √] to return to the beginning of the song.

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