Main
Owners Manual
Main Features
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IMPORTANT NOTES
Power Supply
Handling CD-ROMs
Maintenance
Placement
Contents
Creating Your Own Settings (Patches)
Panel Descriptions
Front Panel
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Rear Panel
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Preparations to Make Before Performing
Items to Have On Hand
Installing the Divided Pickup on the Guitar or Bass
Guitars That Cannot Be Used with the GK-2A/GK-2B
About MIDI
Connection Examples
Selecting the Guitar or Bass
Chapter 1 Try Playing Some Sounds
Playing Sounds from a Sound Module
Connections
Turning On the Power
Turning Off the Power
Selecting Patches
What is a Patch?
System Parameters and Patch Parameters
System Parameters
Patch Parameters
How to Switch Patches
When Not Switching Patches
About the Display
Setting the MIDI Channel (MIDI CHANNEL)
Setting the Transmission Mode (MONO/POLY)
MONO (MONO MODE)
POLY (POLY MODE)
Setting the MIDI Transmit Channel (BASIC CH)
Setting the Control Channel (CTL CH)
Control Change
Program Change
Performing on the Guitar
Connecting to a Computer
Setting the MIDI Port
Roland GI-20 MIDI IN
Roland GI-20 MIDI OUT
Setting the MIDI Data Path (MIDI PLAYBACK)
Chapter 2 Creating Your Own Settings (Patches)
Calling Up the Input Sensitivity Settings
Setting the Feeling of the Performance (PLAY FEEL)
The PLAY FEEL settings and their effects Setting the Pedal and Switch
Functions (ASSIGN)
Functions That Can Be Selected With ASSIGN
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Shifting the Pitch of the Sound (TRANSPOSE)
Setting the Range in Which Pitches Are Changed (BEND RANGE)
About messages that notify the external MIDI instrument of the Bend Range and prompt change
Setting the Bend Range
Settings That Can Be Selected With BEND RANGE
Switching Sounds on External Devices (PRG CHANGE)
Muting Specific Strings (STRING MUTE)
Storing the Settings (WRITE)
Copying Patches
Chapter 3 Convenient Functions Featured by the GI-20
Tuning (TUNER)
Preventing Transmission of Program Change Messages (PC MASK)
Saving the Patches and System Parameters to an External Device
(BULK DUMP)
Receiving Saved Data Using MIDI (BULK LOAD (MIDI))
Receive Saved Data Through USB (BULK LOAD (USB))
Reducing the Size of a MIDI Pitch Bend Message (BEND DATA THIN)
The Bend Data Thin Function
Reducing the Amount of Control Change Data Transmitted
(RECEIVE CONTROL CHANGE DATA THIN)
Receive Control Change Data Thin Function
Limiting the Extent of the Bend Range (BEND RANGE MAX)
Selecting the Type of USB Driver
Chapter 4 Other Functions
Reset to Default Factory Settings (Factory Reset)
Installing the Rack Mount Adaptor
Attaching the Rubber Feet
Chapter 5 Appendices
Troubleshooting
The volume fluctuates from one string to another
Pitch doesnt rise when using Pitch Glide (or the expression pedal Pitch function)
Pitch doesnt change smoothly
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Error Messages
Roland Exclusive Messages
1. Data Format for Exclusive Messages
MIDI status: F0H, F7H
Manufacturer ID: 41H
Data set 1: DT1 (12H)
Example of Message Transactions
Transfer of a DT1 message is all that takes place.
MIDI Implementation
Model: GI-20 Date: Dec. 28, 2002 Version: 1.00
1. USB
2. Receive Data (MIDI IN)
Channel Voice Messages
3. Transmit Data
Channel Voice Messages
Note Off
Note On
Control Change
4. Exclusive Communications
Data Set 1 DT1 (12H)
Decimal and Hexadecimal table
Model GI-20 Date: Dec. 26, 2002
: All sound off :
MIDI Implementation Chart
GK-MIDI INTERFACE
Specifications
GI-20: GK-MIDI Interface
Patches
Display
Connectors
Installing & Setup the Driver
Installing & Setting Up the Driver (Windows)
Driver Installation
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Click [OK] to close the System Properties dialog box.
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If you changed What action do you want Windows to take?
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In the dialog box that appears, input the following into the Open field, and click [OK].
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Click [OK].
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Input the following into the Copy files from field, and click [OK].
If File signature verification is set to Warn,
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Restart Windows.
If you changed File signature verification
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Input the following into the Copy files from field, and click [OK].
Settings
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Installing & Setting Up the Driver (Macintosh)
Installing the driver
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Setting the driver
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Troubleshooting
Problems related to the USB driver
Cannot install the driver correctly
GI-20 is not detected when making OMS or FreeMIDI settings
Find new hardware wizard does not execute automatically
Found unknown device appears even though you installed the driver
An Unknown driver found dialog box appears, and you are unable to install the driver
Device Manager shows ?, !, or USB Composite Device
Driver is not installed correctly
<Deleting incorrect device information>
Deleting the driver
Windows XP/2000 users
7. Disconnect the USB cable from the GI-20. 8. Restart Windows.
Windows Me/98 users
Macintosh users
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