Roland Piano Changing How a Rhythm Tone Is Sounded WMT, Tips on Creating a Rhythm Tone

BEND UP: Raises the pitch in semitone steps (up to 4 octaves

higher).

BEND DOWN: Lowers the pitch in semitone steps (up to 4 octaves

lower).

AFTERTOUCH: Aftertouch

NOTE: Play the sound of the most recently pressed key.

OCT UP: Raises the key range in octave steps (up to 3 octaves

higher).

OCT DOWN: Lowers the key range in octave steps (up to 3 octaves

lower).

START/STOP: Starts/Stops the sequencer.

TAP TEMPO: Tap tempo (a tempo specified by the interval at which you move your hand over the D Beam controller).

PTN SWITCH: Switch Rhythm pattern playback on/off.

PTN ACCENT: Rhythm Pattern Accent Rate

PTN SHFFLE: Rhythm Pattern Shuffle Rate

Polarity (D Beam Polarity)

Switch the polarity of the D Beam controller.

With a setting of “REVERSE,” the direction of control for the D Beam controller will be inverted.

Range: STANDARD, REVERSE

Range Lower (D Beam Range Lower)

Specify the lower limit of the range of the D Beam controller. Values below this setting will not be output.

Value: 0–UPPER

Range Upper (D Beam Range Upper)

Specify the upper limit of the range of the D Beam controller. Values above this setting will not be output.

Value: LOWER–127

Setting Effects for a Rhythm Set (Effects/MFX/MFX Control/Chorus/ Reverb)

For details regarding effect settings, refer to the pages shown

below.

•“Applying Effects in Patch Mode” (p. 165)

•“Making Multi-Effects Settings (MFX/MFX Control)” (p. 174)

•“Making Chorus Settings (Chorus)” (p. 176)

•“Making Reverb Settings (Reverb)” (p. 177)

Creating a Rhythm Set

Changing How a Rhythm Tone Is Sounded (WMT)

Creating a Rhythm Set

For details on the setting, refer to “How to Make the Rhythm Set Settings” (p. 69).

With rhythm tones, sounds are created by combining up to four Waves (eight for stereo).

Tips on Creating a Rhythm Tone

The Waves for the bass drum, snare, hi-hat, toms, and other percussion instruments are each assigned to one rhythm tone. When adding 3D effects to the sound, make the Pan settings for each rhythm tone individually.

WMT

Wave Group

Select the groups containing the Waves comprising the rhythm tone.

Value

INT: Waveforms stored in internal memory

XP-A:Waveform stored in a Wave Expansion Board (SR-JV80 series) installed in EXP-A slots.

XP-B:Waveforms residing on a Wave Expansion Board (SRX series) installed in the EXP B slot

XP-C:Waveforms residing on a Wave Expansion Board (SRX series) installed in the EXP C slot

You cannot select a waveform group of a Wave Expansion Board that is not installed.

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