Roland Piano Inserting Sequencer Data Create, Erasing Sequencer Data Erase, Editing Songs

Editing Songs

4.Turn the VALUE dial or press [INC]/[DEC] to edit the value.

If you want to add data between “F0:” and “:F7,” move the cursor to that location and press [5 (Insert)]. A value of “00” will be inserted. Change this to the desired value.

To delete data, move the cursor to the relevant location and press [6 (Delete)].

5.When you are finished editing, press [8 (OK)] to finalize the values of the system exclusive message.

•If you decide to discard the changes you made to the system exclusive message and return to the Microscope window, press [EXIT].

•In the case of a Roland type IV system exclusive message, the checksum can be calculated automatically when you finalize the values. If you do not want to calculate the checksum automatically, press [1 (Checksum)] to remove the check mark (✔) from “Auto Calculate Checksum.”

Inserting Sequencer Data (Create)

You can insert new sequencer data into a desired location of a phrase track or pattern.

For details on the sequencer data that can be inserted, refer to “Sequencer Data Handled by a Phrase Track/Pattern” (p.

154).

1.Access the Microscope window for the track or pattern into which you want to insert sequencer data (p. 153).

2.Press or to move the cursor to the location at which you want to insert sequencer data.

If the location at which you want to insert sequencer data is not shown in the display, move the cursor to the appropriate location (measure-beat-clock), and then specify the insert location for the sequencer data.

3.Press [1 (Create)].

The Create Event window appears.

4.Press or to select the sequencer data that will be inserted.

If you want to insert a system exclusive message, select “Sys.Excl (Default).” However, if you want to insert a General MIDI System On message or General MIDI 2 System On message in order to initialize the sound generator to the GM default state, select “Sys.Excl (GM ON)” or “Sys.Excl (GM2 ON),” and to exit the GM state select “Sys.Excl (GM OFF).”

5.Press [8 (Execute)] to insert the sequencer data.

Once the sequencer data has been inserted, you’ll be returned to the Microscope window.

6.The sequencer data that was inserted will have the default parameter values, so edit them as necessary.

If you are not satisfied with the results of executing this operation, press [MENU], and from the Menu window that appears, select “Undo Micro Edit” to return to the state prior to execution (Undo).

Erasing Sequencer Data (Erase)

If desired, you can erase just an individual event of sequencer data. You can also use the same operation to erase individual items of data from the tempo track or beat track.

It is not possible to erase the tempo change located at the beginning of the tempo track, the beat change and key signature located at the beginning of the beat track, or the pattern beat.

1.Access the Microscope window for the track or pattern from which you want to erase sequencer data (p. 153).

2.Press or to move the cursor to the sequencer data that you want to erase.

To erase a multiple consecutive data, hold down [SHIFT] and

press to select the sequencer data.

3.Press [2 (Erase)] to erase the sequencer data.

If you are not satisfied with the results of executing this operation, press [MENU], and from the Menu window that appears, select “Undo Micro Edit” to return to the state prior to execution (Undo).

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