Roland Piano owner manual Editing Songs, Loading the Song You Want to Edit

Editing Songs

This chapter explains the procedure for editing songs.

Loading the Song You Want to Edit

When you edit a song, you’re modifying a song that’s already recorded into internal memory. When you’re going to edit a song saved to disk, you have to first load it into the internal memory.

The internal song will be lost if you turn power off or load another song into internal memory. If internal memory contains a song you wish to keep, you must save that song to disk (p. 135).

1.Into the disk drive, insert the disk that contains the song you want to edit.

2.Press [MENU] to open the Menu window.

3.Press or to select “Song Edit,” and then press [8 (Select)].

The Song Edit screen appears.

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4.Press [1 (Load)].

The Load Song File window appears.

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5.Use or to select the song that you want to edit, and then press [8 (Select)].

The Load Song File window appears.

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6.Press [8 (Execute)].

When the song has finished loading, the performance data of the

loaded song will be displayed in the Song Edit screen.

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Track number

Output destination of each track

Status of each track Indicates the name of the currently selected song, the measure location,

Measure number the time signature, and the sequencer status.

Measures containing sequencer data

Measures containing no sequencer data

Locate number

Turns the RPS function on/off (RPS).

Turns Loop Play and Loop Recording on/off (LOOP).

Indicates/sets the song’s playback tempo.

If you play back the song while the Song Edit screen is displayed, the screen will scroll in keeping with the song playback location.

Using Different Sound Generators for Each Track

By specifying the output destination for each track, you can use a

variety of sound generators when playing back a song.

1.Access the Song Edit screen.

2.Use [CURSOR] to move the cursor to “Output” for the track

whose output destination you want to specify.

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