Roland RG-7 manual Listening to Songs, Song Button Functions, Playing Back Songs

Chapter 1. Playing Back Songs

Listening to Songs

The RG-7 features a variety of internal songs. The internal songs are categorized into “Jazz” and “Classical” genres.

You can also use the RG-7’s CD drive to play back the included CD, CD-ROMs with songs saved in SMF format, commercially available audio CDs, and player piano CDs. Moreover, you can connect USB memory to the Ext Memory port and play back SMF music file that’s been saved on the memory device.

■[Song] Button Functions

Each press of the [Song] button selects the next available song genre, in this order: “Jazz” → “Classical” → “Favorites” → “CD” → “Ext Memory” (songs in the USB memory device connected to the Ext Memory port)

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The “CD” and “USB” genres appear only when a CD is in the CD drive or when USB memory is connected to the Ext Memory port. “Favorites” is indicated only when there are songs in the Favorites genre.

What are the “Favorites?”

This is the area of memory where you can save copies of performances recorded with the RG-7, songs saved on CD-ROMs, songs stored in the USB memory connected to the RG-7’s Ext Memory port, and other songs.

After copying songs to the “Favorites,” you can then select the copied songs simply by pressing the [Song] button and selecting “Favorites” as the song genre.

The RG-7 features a User Memory (the RG-7’s memory) area where the following types of data are stored.

•Content registered in the “Favorites”

•Content set in User programs (Favorites performance settings) (p. 78)

To delete the content of the User Memory and restore the memory to the default factory settings, refer to “Initializing the User Memory or USB Memory” (p. 92). You can select and listen to tone demos (p. 26) from the “Favorites” after initializing the User memory.

You can also delete these tone demos and overwrite them with other songs, which can then be saved.

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