Roland EM-55 owner manual Working with Styles on floppy disk, Selecting another B Style, Style Disk

Additional Music Style functions

Selecting another “B” Style

As stated earlier, the “B” Style is prepared automatically whenever you select an “A” Style, so that the Style Morphing function is ready whenever you are.

If you do not agree with this preset selec- tion (or want to experiment with other Styles), hold down the [STYLE] button and select the desired “B” Style using the [A/B] button and [1]~[8] keypad (the Disk Link memories are also available). This selection will also be written to a User Program.

Note: You can also select the STYLE DISK Style by pressing [VARIATION/STYLE DISK]. See below for details about the STYLE DISK function.

Note: The Intro and Ending patterns of Style A will be used in their original state for all Style Mor- phing combinations except the one where all parts are played by Style B (i.e. when no icon is displayed in the Style A column).

Note: You can also morph between Styles that use different time signatures.

Note: When you select a new Music Style with the numeric keypad, the Style Morphing function is reset to the “Style A only” status. The Style Mor- phing setting can, however, be written to a User Program. See p. 47.

Working with Styles on floppy disk

Style Disk

The EM-55 provides a special temporary memory that allows you to use one Music Style on a floppy disk as if it were an internal Style. The function in question is called STYLE DISK.

A Music Style you select via this function is not stored internally. It will be replaced when you select another Music Style on disk, or erased when you switch off the EM-55.

Note: See also page 3 for details about how to handle floppy disks.

VARIATION

STYLE DISK

!MERENG TEMPO

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ARRANGER CHORD		STYLE
	STYLE DISK

DISK

KEYBOARD VELOCITY

REVERB

CHORUS

MELODY INTELL

INVERSION

Working with Styles on disk requires that you purchase a floppy disk containing Music Styles or that you use the floppy disks supplied with the EM-55. See your Roland dealer for details about the available floppy disks (MSA, MSD, or MSE series).

(1)Insert a floppy disk with compatible Music Styles into the EM-55’s disk drive.

(2)Press the [STYLE] button (the [STYLE] icon appears).

(3)Press the [VARIATION/STYLE DISK] button. The [STYLE≈DISK] icon appears in the display, while you will also see the “Sdk” message and the name of the Music Style name that is currently in the EM-55’s RAM memory.

(4)Press [VARIATION/STYLE DISK] again.

If the display now shows the message “Err – No Disk”, you need to insert a floppy disk. If the drive contains a floppy disk with read- able Music Styles, the name of the first Style on disk will be displayed.

(5)Use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial to select the desired Music Style on the floppy disk. You can also press [STYLE DISK] to scroll through the Music Styles on disk.

!MERENG TEMPO

120

(6)Press [EXECUTE] in response to the flash- ing “EXE” message that appears after a brief interval to load the selected Music Style.

EXECUTE

Press [VARIATION/STYLE DISK] if you want to select another Music Style on disk and load that one.

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