Roland RD-700 Recording the Performance, About the Local Switch, Connecting External Midi Devices

Connecting MIDI Devices

Connecting External MIDI Devices

Recording the Performance

Use the following procedure when recording to an external sequencer.

1.Turn on the external sequencer’s Thru function.

For details, refer to the following section “About Local Switch.”

Refer to your sequencer owner’s manual for instructions on how to carry out this procedure.

2.Select the Setup for the performance to be recorded. For instructions on selecting the Setup, refer to p. 54.

3.Set the Rec Setting.

Use the procedure described in the previous section “Settings for Recording” to make the following settings.

Rec Mode: ON

Local Switch: OFF

4.Begin recording with the external sequencer.

5.Bulk Dump the Setup.

Using the Utility Bulk Dump Temporary in Edit mode, transmit the contents of the selected Setup to the external sequencer.

For instructions on carrying out this operation, refer to

“Transferring the RD-700’s Settings to an External MIDI Device (Bulk Dump)” (p. 92).

6.Perform on the RD-700.

7.When the performance is finished, stop recording with the external sequencer.

Recording is now complete.

You can then listen to the recorded performance by playing it back on the external sequencer.

Exiting Rec Mode

When Rec Mode is set to ON, you cannot change the MIDI TX settings. When you have finished recording the performance, use the procedure described in the previous section “Settings for Recording” to set Rec Mode to OFF.

NOTE

The settings made in Rec Setting cannot be saved. Rec Setting automatically switch to “Rec Mode: OFF, Local Switch: ON” when the power is turned on.

About the Local Switch

The switch that connects and disconnects the MIDI connection between the keyboard controller section and the sound generator section (p. 31) is called the Local switch. Since essential information describing what is being played on the keyboard won’t reach the sound generator if the Local switch is set to OFF, the Local switch should normally be left ON.

However, if while performing you want to send that performance data to an external sequencer as MIDI messages to be recorded, you then perform with the externally connected MIDI sequencer set to MIDI Thru (whereby data received from MIDI IN is then output from the MIDI OUT with no changes made to the data).

Recording Sequencer

MIDI Thru: On

MIDI IN MIDI OUT

MIDI OUT	MIDI IN
		Sound
		Generator
	Local Switch: Off	Section
Keyboard Controller
	Section
		RD-700

In this case, the data sent over two paths, i.e., the data sent directly from the keyboard controller section and the data sent from the keyboard controller section via the external sequencer, ends up being sent to the sound generator section simultaneously. Thus, for example, even when you play a “C” key only once, the note “C” cannot be sounded correctly, as the sound is played by the sound generator section twice.

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