Roland PAINO DISCOVER5

Owner’s Manual

(2) Press the [Back≈to≈Palette] field to return to

the Palette page.

If necessary, press the [SAVE] field to save your

settings. See page 89.

Contents

Main CAUTION ATTENTION INSTRUCTIONS PERTAINING TO A RISK OF FIRE, ELECTRIC SHOCK, OR INJURY TO PERSONS. IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS Owners Manual Features The ease of Standard MIDI Files Dedicated effects sections Excellent sound source D-Beam controller 128 User Programs and so much more Page Page Important notes 1. Important notes Power supply Handling floppy disks About the touch screen Before using a SmartMedia card Memory cards usable with the DisCover 5 Liability and copyright Contents r 2. Panel descriptions Page r Touring your DisCover 5 Connections You can also connect the DisCover 5 to a mixing console, of course (see below). 3. Touring your DisCover 5 Switching the DisCover 5 on/off Switching on the DisCover 5 Setting the display contrast Switching off the DisCover 5 LCD Mode Interactive demo of the DisCover 5 Overview What do you want to do first? Playing back songs Quick location of the song you need Starting playback Other practical playback functions Page Modifying songs in realtime Using the Cover function Minus One Page Vocal Harmonizer function Setting up Adding harmonies to your singing Who specifies the harmonies? Not convinced so far? Voice-FX Auto Tune Using the Vocoder Talk Automatic transposition (Singer Key) Displaying Lyrics and chord information Page Using the Keyboard parts Playing with the Upper and/or Lower part Splitting the keyboard Drumming on the keyboard Choosing other Tones (or Drum Sets) Page Page Page Using the D Beam Controller Pitch Bend and Modulation Transposition 4. Using the performance functions Setting the transposition interval via the display Keyboard Touch (velocity sensitivity) Master Tune D Beam functions Page Using optional footswitches Sustain/damper footswitch (Hold) Foot Switch Expression (Foot Pedal) Scale Tuning Page 5. Before you start editing (Menu) Page About the DisCover 5s effects Mixing Keyboard parts 6. Working with the Mixer & using effects More refined Mixer settings Editing the Keyboard (and song) effects processors Page Using the multi-effects processor (Multi-FX) Selecting another Multi-FX type Page Linking Multi-FX type selection to the Upper part (Upper M-FX) Voice and Vocal Harmonizer part mixing AB Reverb, Delay, and Chorus effects Page Page Page Editing the Keyboard parts (Sound Edit) 7. Editing the Keyboard & Vocal Harmonizer parts (7) Press the [BacktoKbdEff] field to return to the Keyboard Mixer page. you can edit the Drum Set assigned to the M.Drums part as a whole. Editing the Vocal Harmonizer parts Procedure for selecting these pages Singer settings Voice-FX settings Auto Tune settings Vocoder settings Small settings Page Ensemble settings 8. More refined song functions Using the Fade-In/Out function Programming MARK JUMP locations Working with the Song Finder Locating files with the Song Finder Editing the Song Finder information Page Page Page Song Chain function Programming Song Chains Editing Chains Using Song Chains Managing Song Chains 9. Working with User Programs Writing your settings to a User Program Selecting User Programs Cancel Using the numeric buttons and/or the display Selecting User Programs with [DOWN] [UP] Finder: selecting User Programs on SmartMedia card Selectively loading User Program settings (User Program Hold) Automatic functions for User Programs Song Link Linking a MIDI Set to a User Program Startup User Program Before you begin Instrument: selecting different sounds 10. Song Makeup Tools Volume: part balance Reverb and Chorus: effect balance Page Page Page Page Page Page Page 11. Editing Lyrics Adding Lyrics to a song Page Utility functions for Edit Lyrics Exporting the Lyrics data as text file Save without Lyrics The how-tos Accessing the MIDI functions 12. MIDI Working with Macros +SMF Editing procedure +SMF +SMF Editing MIDI parameters Editing Keyboard and Song parameters Receive parameters RX Monitor Editing the System parameters The following parameters apply to the DisCover 5 as a whole. Sync parameters Transmit Receive: RX Sync MIDI Sets Writing a MIDI Set Selecting a MIDI Set MIDI Set selection at power-on The how-tos 13. Disk/Media functions Load (from disk or SmartMedia) Save (to disk or SmartMedia) Page Delete Disk/Media Utility functions Format Copy functions Page Page Page Page DisCover 5 Realtime Orchestrator 14. Specifications [Realtime Orchestrator] Date: September 2002 Model: DisCover 5 Version: 1.00 MIDI Implementation Chart Index Index A , B C K L M N O T U V W Information As of October 16, 2002 (Roland) ARGENTINA Instrumentos Musicales S.A. BRAZIL Page NOTICE AVIS FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE STATEMENT