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Rolands most comprehensive arranger instru- ment ever
D-Beam controller
Play List function
Professional Vocal Harmonist
and so much more
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Contents
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Important notes
Power supply
Placement
Maintenance
Repairs and data
Memory Backup
Before using memory cards
Memory cards usable with the G-70
Liability and copyright
1. Panel descriptions
Front panel
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Rear panel
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Setting up and demo songs
2. Setting up and demo songs
Connections
Switching the G-70 on/off
Internal Memory Protect
Switching on the G-70
Setting the display contrast
Switching off the G-70
Interactive demo of the G-70
The main page
3. Quick Start
The general idea
Playing to an automatic accompa- niment
Professional transitions: Fill In
Intro & Ending
Selecting Music Styles
Changing the tempo
Using the Keyboard parts
Playing with an Upper and/or Lower part
Alternating between sounds
Selecting sounds for the Keyboard parts
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Drumming on the keyboard
Selecting sounds from an SRX expansion board
Using the Harmonic Bars
If you like a registration
About the MANUAL field
Using just one organ sound and bass pedals
Using effects
Using a beat box with the organ
Working with the Music Assistant
If the desired registration is not displayed
To save time
Using the Finder
Playing back songs (Standard MIDI Files)
Quick location of the song you need
Starting playback
Other practical playback functions
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Using the Song Cover function
Minus One
Vocal Harmonist function
Setting up
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Adding harmonies to your singing
Who specifies the harmonies?
Not convinced so far?
Voice-FX
Auto Pitch
Using the Vocoder
Talk
Automatic transposition (Singer Key)
Displaying Lyrics and chord information
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Displaying scores
Recording your music
Recording with Arranger backing from start to finish
Listening to your song
Recording without accompaniment
Adding more parts
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Saving your song
4. About the Keyboard modes
Arranger, Piano and Organ modes
Split and Whole modes
Using the SPLIT Keyboard Mode
Using WHOLE mode
Switching parts on and off
5. Using the performance functions
Pitch Bend and Modulation
Transposition
Setting the transposition interval via the display
Global Transpose
Octave
Key Touch (velocity sensitivity)
Velocity switching (Min and Max)
Master Tune
Aftertouch
(5) Press the [EXIT] button to return to the main page.
ASSIGN SW buttons
(3) Press the [EXIT] button to return to the main page.
Using the D Beam Controller
D Beam functions
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(4) Press the [EXIT] button to return to the main page.
Using optional footswitches
FC7 PEDAL
The G-70 allows you to connect an optional FC-7 Foot Controller to the FC7 PEDAL socket.
(1) Press the [MENU] button.
The display changes to:
Hold Footswitch (Sustain)
Foot Switch
Expression (Foot Pedal)
Scale Tuning
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Metronome
Metronome settings
6. Additional Arranger/Style functions
Playback functions (Style Control)
Starting a Music Style
Stopping Music Styles
About Sync Start & Stop
Selecting other Style divisions
Other ways of selecting Arranger patterns
Bass Inversion
Melody Intelligence
Using the Style Cover function
Saving a Music Style with a COVER alteration
One Touch
Ignoring certain One Touch settings (Hold)
Programming your own One Touch settings (WRITE)
More refined Arranger settings
Chord recognition area (ZONE)
Arranger Type (chord mode)
Arranger Hold
Intro & Ending Alteration
Dynamic Arranger
Tempo-related settings (Arranger Options)
Style Tempo
TEMPO CHANGE (RITARD and ACCELER)
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Working with external Music Styles
Using the CUSTOM memories
Programming CUSTOM assignments
Disk User
Style Finder: quickly locating Styles
Quick location of the Style you need
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Editing the Style Finder information
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7. Advanced Keyboard part functions
Upper 3 Split
Tuning Upper 2: Coarse Tune and Fine Tune
Portamento for UP1 and UP2
Portamento Time
Portamento Mode: Mono/Poly
Lower Hold
Tone Edit: editing Keyboard parts
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8. Using the mixer functions & effects
About the G-70s effects
Mixing Keyboard parts
Volume and status of the Style parts
Editing the Keyboard effects pro- cessors
Reverb for Keyboard parts
Chorus for Keyboard parts
(7) Press the [EXIT] button to return to the main page.
Chorus 1~3 and Flanger parameters
GM2 Chorus parameters
Delay parameters
Using the multi-effects processor (Multi-FX)
Selecting another MFX type and editing it
Linking Multi-FX type selection to the Upper part (Upper 1 M-FX Link)
Effects for songs and Styles
Reverb for Style/Song parts
Chorus for Style/Song parts
Using the individual outputs and audio inputs
Output assign (PART OUTPUTS)
Using the audio inputs
Using the Mastering Tools
Equalizer
Compressor
Voice and Vocal Harmonist part mixing
Reverb, Delay, and Chorus effects
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9. Working with User Programs
Saving your settings to a User Program
Selecting User Programs
Cancel
Choosing User Programs manually
[DOWN]
Selecting User Programs with
[UP]
Quick location of the User Program you need
Selectively loading User Program settings (User Program Hold)
Automatic functions for User Programs
Song Link
Linking a MIDI Set to a User Program
User Program Recall
Editing User Program Finder infor- mation
Editing the User Program Finder information
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Editing an Index
Music Assistant functions
Creating new Music Assistant registrations
Editing Music Assistant registrations
Saving a Music Assistant entry
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10. Song and Style Makeup Tools
Mixing Song or Style parts
Using the Makeup Tools
General procedure
PALETTE
SOUND EDIT for Tones
SOUND EDIT for Drum Sets
DRUM INSTR EDIT
COMMON
Saving your modified song or Style
11. Editing the Vocal Harmonist parts
Procedure for selecting these pages
If you press the
Singer settings
field
Voice-FX settings
Auto Pitch settings
Vocoder settings
Small settings
Press the
[COMMON]
If you press the
field to jump to the fol- lowing page.
Ensemble settings
field
[Common]
12. More refined song functions
Using the Fade-In/Out function
Programming MARK & JUMP loca- tions
Working with the Song Finder
Locating files with the Song Finder
Editing the Song Finder information
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Editing an Index
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Play List function
Programming Play Lists
Editing Play Lists
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Using Play Lists
Managing Play Lists
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13. Editing Lyrics
Adding Lyrics to a song
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Exporting Lyrics data as text file
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14. Using the 16-track sequencer
About the sequencers main page
General considerations
Tracks and MIDI channels
Example 1: Recording a song from scratch
Preparations
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Example 2: Adding tracks
Saving your song
Editing 16-track songs
Easy editing and useful functions
Editing one or several tracks (TRACK EDIT)
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Fine-tuning the note range
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RESOLUTION (1/4, 1/8, 1/8T, 1/16, 1/16T, 1/32, 1/32T, 1/64)
STRENGTH (0%~100%)
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ERASE
FROM NOTE (0 C-~127 G9)
TO NOTE (0 C-~127 G9)
FROM CC (0~127)
TO CC (0~127)
Fine-tuning the setting range
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COPY TIMES (1~999)
INSERT
DST TRACK
INTO
FOR
TRANSPOSE
VALUE (127~0~127)
FROM NOTE (0 C-~127 G9)
TO NOTE (0 C-~127 G9)
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To correct the timing of notes recorded via MIDI without quantizing them.
VALUE (CPT) (4800~4800)
SHIFT CLOCK
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Editing song data using Microscope Edit
General notes about MICRO EDIT
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Editing events
Other edit operations
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15. Programming Styles (Style Composer)
Concept
Patterns
Tracks
Looped vs. one-shot
Recording User Styles from scratch
Starting the Style Composer
Clearing the RAM memory (Initialize Style)
Important remark
Getting ready for the first track
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Recording
Auditioning your Style and adding more tracks
Saving your Style
Programming other parts and divisions
Muting parts while recording others
Remarks
Copying existing Styles
Starting with all tracks of an existing Style
Copying individual Style tracks
Editing on the fly by recording
Adding notes in realtime
Adding controller data in realtime
Adding or changing settings of existing parts
Expression, Panpot, Reverb, Chorus
Changing the preset tempo
Style Track Edit functions
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Editing individual Style events (Style Micro Edit)
General notes about STYLE MICRO EDIT
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Editing events
Other edit operations
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16. Disk/Media functions
The how-tos
Loading data
Saving data
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Rename functions
Delete
Copy
Format
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17. Archiving data using a computer (USB)
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Backing up all data of the G-70
18. MIDI
The how-tos
Accessing the MIDI functions
Working with presets
Editing procedure
+ SMF +Style
Editing MIDI parameters
Keyboard, Style, Song Parts
MIDI System parameters
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MIDI Sets
Writing a MIDI Set
Using MIDI Sets
MIDI Set selection at power-on
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19. Miscellaneous
Using V-LINK
General settings
Touch Screen Beep
Info
Initializing the G-70 (Factory Reset)
20. Specifications
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21. Appendix
Installing a wave expansion board
How to install a wave expansion board
Accessing the Patches of SRX- series expansion boards via MIDI
MFX and IFX types and parameters
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Appendix | MIDI Implementation Chart
22. MIDI Implementation Chart
[Music Workstation] Date: November 2004 Model: G-70 Version: 1.00
Appendix | Chord Intelligence
23. Chord Intelligence
Appendix | Chord Intelligence
Index
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