Roland EM-55 Working with User Programs, Writing your settings to a User Program, Mode selection

EM-55 Owner’s Manual

14. Working with User Programs

The EM-55 is equipped with 64 User Program memories that allow you to store almost all settings (or regis- trations) you make on the front panel and via the Function menu (see p. 42).

Note: MIDI settings (see p. 49) are not saved to a User Program because the EM-55 memorizes them automatically.

Writing your settings to a User Program

It is a good idea to write your settings frequently, even if you still need to do some editing afterwards. Those intermediary saves allow you to return to the previous stage whenever you do not like your last modifications.

(1) Press and hold the [USER PROGRAM/	The number you select appears in the USER
WRITE] button.	PROGRAM field (“3” in the example below).

ENGLISH

USER

PROGRAM

WRITE

The EM-55 now displays “Write ?”.

(2)Keep holding the [USER PROGRAM/ WRITE] button while pressing one numeric button [1]~[8] to select the bank.

VALUE	Write?	120
		TEMPO
	ARRANGER CHORD		KEYBOARD
	USER PROGRAM 12		VELOCITY
			REVERB
			CHORUS
			MELODY
			INTELL
			INVERSION

(3)Keep holding the [USER PROGRAM/ WRITE] button while pressing another (or the same) numeric button [1]~[8] to select the memory.

The display now responds with the “Com- plete” message and the memory number (your settings have been stored).

(4)Release the [USER PROGRAM/WRITE] but- ton.

Notes about writing User Programs

Leaving the User Program environment Press [USER PROGRAM] to leave the User Program environment. The User Program field in the display will go blank again.

Mode selection

The mode (Arranger, p. 13, M.Drums, p. 18, Piano, p. 17) is also memorized when you write a User Program.

Meaning of the “Edit” message

VALUE	Piano 2		120
			TEMPO
	ARRANGER CHORD			KEYBOARD
	Edit	Edit	11	VELOCITY
				REVERB
	USER PROGRAM
				CHORUS
				MELODY
				INTELL
				INVERSION

At some stage, you may come across an “Edit” message next to the User Program number.

It means that the last User Program you selected is still in effect but that the current settings no longer correspond to the ones in that memory. Such changes may include the status of the Reverb or Chorus effect, a changed volume value, etc.

Before selecting another User Program or switching off the EM-55, you should there- fore write these settings to the same (or a different) User Program if you want to keep them. Otherwise, you lose these changes. Please also see p. 48.

User Programs and Disk Links & Style Disk

The address of the last Music Style you selected before writing a User Program is also memorized. This even applies to the Style RAM memory that may contain a so- called Style Disk Style (see p. 26). The EM-55 only remembers the memory address —not the name of the Style it contained when you wrote your settings to a User Program. This also applies to the Disk Link memories in group B.

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